Dayanidhi Maran

Dayanidhi Maran, the present Union Communication minister
broke all boundaries and opened gates for foreign investment in manufacturing,
making Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai manufacturing hubs. With his sheer
determination, Maran convinced some of world's large manufacturing giants to
open-up manufacturing facilities in India. As a result, India today boasts of
manufacturing units of Nokia, Motorola, Flextronics, etc.

The minister had chalked out the ten-point agenda for proper
IT implementation when he was sworn in as telecom minister two years back.

The minister introduced 'One India' plan for incumbents.
His desire is at least big villages must also have access to Internet facilities
to reap benefits of tele-agriculture, tele-health and tele-education. The
positive growth of Indian Telecom can be attributed to Maran. He is clearly not
a passive bystander like some of his predecessors, but seems to be leading from
the front.