Sh. Rakesh Sharma, Deputy Director (Engg) is presently working at AIR Mathura. He has been recently awarded with the Award of "Best Trainer" for the year 2012. The Akashvani Annual Awards were conferred for 2012 & 2013 on 15.11.2016 by All India Radio. The Awards were bestowed upon by Hon'ble Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu and Hon'ble Minister of State Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. The award ceremony was graced by the presence of Senior Most officers from I & B Ministry, Prasar Bharati Board and All India Radio.
Sh. Sharma is a knowledgeable and hard working engineer, joined the department in 1978 at AIR Jalandhar as Engineering Assistant. In beginning he worked on High Power Transmitters at Jalandhar , Khampur and Nangli (Delhi). In 1988 he was promoted to the post of Assistant Engineer and posted in project wing as Installation Officer in North Zone. He also worked in Tape Recording Unit & Studio Design section of P & D Unit in AIR Directorate for about 10 years and got promoted to Assistant Director (Engg) in the year 2004. Later he served at AIR Itanagar station and thereafter got selected as faculty member for Staff Training Institute (Tech) Delhi. He joined the Institute in October 2008 and contributed in the departmental training activities, especially in the field of AIR Studio Equipment, Air Conditioning Systems and some other subjects allotted to him. The courses conducted by him and his tutorial lectures used to earn outstanding feedback from the trainees. In fact his performance was appreciated by the higher authorities of the Institute. He got promoted to the post of Deputy Director (Engg) in the year 2011 but in view of his hard work / dedication, he was retained in the Institute which is a rare phenomenon in the history of STI (T). Further in view of his devotion, Sh. Sharma was entrusted with the work of examination cell and latter he was made head-of-office. Now he is posted at AIR Mathura Station.
Contributed By: Rakesh Sharma, Deputy Director (Engg),mathura@air.org.in