Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, The architect of India’s Information Technological revolution. Information technology has made the world smaller. The press of a
button opens before us a vast ocean of
information on innumerable subjects and domains. This dream became a
reality in India through the efforts of Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, a computer
scientist. He is the creator of India’s indigenous
super computer.
Dr. K. R. Narayanan had suggested the name of
Dr. Bhatkar for realizing the dream of the late Prime Minister of India, Rajiv
Gandhi, of indigenously building a supercomputer. Out of this inspiration was
formed the Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (CDAC) and the development of Param, India’s first supercomputer.
Dr. Bhatkar was born on 11 October, 1946 in
Muramba in Akola district to a highly educated couple. He completed his
schooling in Murtijapur in a school established by Saint Gadgebaba. He was in
the merit list of the board exams and acquired his degree in engineering at the
age of 18. He acquired his M.Tech from the Sayajirao University in Baroda and then got his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi at the age of
26.
He worked for many years in the
electronics domain as the Director of Celtron. He worked on many major
computerization projects which included the
Kolkata metro project, traffic management in metros, defense projects for
the Defense as well as several government departments, electricity control etc.
He was also a member of the scientific advisory committee for the central
government. Later, at CDAC, he
helped develop GIST, the multilingual technology because of
which software could be used in various Indian languages.
As immersed as he is in science and technology, his interests also
span diverse subjects like Indian
culture, Vedas, Upanishads and saint
literature and spirituality. Inspired by the thoughts of Swami Vivekananda,
he left CDAC to involve himself in the Education to Home project which aims to
make education more accessible to the students.
He was bestowed with many awards
while handling posts on national and international level. The central
government awarded him the Padmashri and the Maharashtra
government awarded him the Maharashtra Bhushan
award
Influenced by the ideologies of Saint Gadgebaba at a
young age, he strives today to find a
balance between science and spirituality. Wanting all the religious centers
in India to be centers of knowledge too, he has started to work on this project
from Alandi.
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