Arun Netravali gets Padma Bhushan
New Delhi: Mr. Arun Netravali, the only Indian to be the president of world's most advanced and sophisticated research centre Bell Laboratories has been awarded Padma Bhushan for his outstanding contributions, on the eve of Republic Day.

Mr. Netravali, who holds more than 70 patents in the areas of computer networks, human interfaces to machines, picture processing and digital television thinks that the new telecommunications technologies could be used to improve the conditions of people. He is currently working on a blueprint for India in the areas of communications and information technology, leveraging the existing infrastructure with latest technical know-how.

Mr. Netravali a member of the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and the NRI Advisory Committee on Telecom is a B Tech from IIT, Mumbai. He completed his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in Houston.
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