Tell
us something about your company
I am
Col. N C Gupta, Founding Chairmen of BDS Education (bdseducation.in). BDS is a
subsidiary of Bharat Drone Systems Pvt Ltd (bharatdronesystems.com). We are
robotic lab providers to the nation. We have developed a solution to help
school & college faculties teach & students learn the fundamentals of
future technologies like Coding (in languages Scratch, Python & Arduino C),
Robotics, STEAM, AI, IoT, ML, App development& electronic tinkering. Our
solution is based on products from World leaders Makeblock & Zanatok
present in over a hundred countries. We also have created the required teaching
content. This content is available as power point PPT’s on a web portal, as
well as teacher’s books & grade wise student books.
Educational
and Professional Qualifications
I
did BTech Telecom in 1972 & MSc in in1978. Learnt programming & did
courses in Electronic Warfare & satellite communications in the army. I did
CCNA &CCNI in 1993. I was awarded Honorary Doctorate in 23 for my technical
contributions for the benefit of the society.
My Experience
as a Teacher
I have headed the teaching faculty of Army Training Team
at National Defense Academy Khadakvasla, & at College of Air Warfare
Secundrabad. I have been a teacher in Wireless Technology in the corporate
world to fill the demand of trained wireless technicians at the time of nationwide
roll out of GSM services in India. I have been a visiting faculty with UC
Berkley on wide area wireless networks for three years. I have been visiting
schools & colleges to speak on future technologies and why & how
children should adopt them at an early age. I am also a parent councilor on the
same. I have also converted this knowledge into world class technology books
for teachers and students.
My Core Roles and Responsibilities in BDS
In BDS I have three distinct roles. As chairman I also
head its subsidiary BDS Education Research Foundation. Consisting of senior
veterans & young graduates, his foundation develops teaching content for
faculty and students to deliver standardized teaching pan India. This content has
been converted to PPT’s, Videos and books. The second responsibility is to
identify & procure the best of the best amongst products in the world &
make them available to schools at extremely affordable prices. The third is to conceptualize
game changing projects related to education for the benefit of the nation. I
also run a technology incubator to mentor young entrepreneurs in product
development.
Proud
Moments - Reflecting on My Achievements
I
can mention two. First was in 2003 – 05. During this period, I designed a
Wireless WAN to implement the famous computer literacy Project named Akshaya of
Government of Kerala. In this one member of every family in the state was made
computer literate. In 2006, the project was awarded the Golden Nica Award
(Oscar of IT). My association with UC Berkley started as its outcome.
The
second was project Viper of Indian Army in 2007. In this I guided a team of
young engineers in an incubator at JSS Engineering College Noida to develop a
multi-sensor video cum audio streaming surveillance system for use along
Indo-Pak border in J& K. We completed the work in six months that Bharat
Electronics could not complete in two years.
We
now plan to do a nationwide repeat of Project Akshaya with Sampoorn Coding Literacy
as its aim. We plan to make one member of every rural family in India Coding
Literate. This is the best way for social upliftment of the nation. Seems
impossible, but not for BDS as our vision is “Ghar Ghar Coding, Har Ghar
Coding”.
Balancing
Professional and Personal Spheres
I
keep karma as the key driver of my life. As a man& breadwinner my profession
is karma. This guides my professional life & I am totally devoted to it. As
a man, looking after my family is also my Karma. In this, I play the second
fiddle with my wife leading the show. I ensure all the support for her and she
reciprocates for my professional life.
Beyond
Academics – My Extracurricular Journey in Education
Participate in everything that comes your way was a mantra taught at Air Force Central School. Since a small child I have participated in things as small as a fancy dress show to writing poems, to carpentry, tinkering, painting, playing games,& them migrating to heavier stuff like golf, mountaineering, sailing, photography, driving, &now para gliding at old age. From each one of these, I learnt, grew& remained young & healthy. Becoming a professional in any of these has never been my aim. That would have restricted my wholistic growth & capabilities.
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