Shri. Ritu Ranjan Mittar has taken over the charge of Deputy Director General & Head of Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) on April 01 2022. He is an ITS officer of 1985 batch having experience of over 30 years of services in various capacities in Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Before taking over the charge of Sr. DDG & Head TEC, he was DDG (Telecom Security) in TEC New Delhi He is a graduate in Electronics Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 1985. He also possesses Diploma in “PUBLIC POLICY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SDG GOALS" from TERI in 2018.
He is having very vast experience in the area of Standardization of Telecom Equipment’s & Networks including Next Generation Networks (NGN), Spectrum management & Radio regulations, Planning and Execution of telecom /ICT project, Telecom & Cyber Security, IPv6 Ready Logo, Telecom Regulations etc.
During his tenure in TEC New Delhi as DDG (Telecom Security), he was involved in the preparation of the framework of Security Testing in India which is the basis of formulation of Indian Telecom Security Assurance Requirements. He also involved in the formulation of standard related to Security Testing of Telecom Networks. He successfully implemented IPv6 Ready Logo Lab in TEC New Delhi which is the only sixth lab in the world to get this Accreditation.
During his posting in North East LSA, he also handled several enforcement functions related to TSP and ISP. He is actively involved and contributor in the INU-1 standardization activities and for his outstanding contributions, he has been appointed as Chairman of ITT-T Study Group-11 (Signalling requirements, protocols, test specifications and combating Counterfeit telecommunication ICT devices) at recently concluded WTSA20 Assembly session of ITU-T at Geneva in March 2022. He will remain as chairperson of ITU-T SG11 for the period of 2022-2024.