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K. P. P. Nambiar

Indian businessman (1929–2015)

K. P. P. Nambiar

Nambiar at his residence

Born(1929-04-15)15 April 1929

Kalliasseri, Kannur, Kerala, India

Died30 June 2015(2015-06-30) (aged 86)

Bangalore, India

Occupation(s)Industrialist, technocrat
Spouses
  • Marjorie Agnes Nambiar
  • Uma Devi Nambiar
Children3
Parent(s)P.

P. Chindan Nambiar
K.

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P. Madhavi Amma

RelativesPran Kurup (nephew), Rajiv Nambiar (nephew), KPK Nambiar (nephew), KP Sudhir (Nephew)
AwardsPadma Bhushan
ELCINA Electronics Man of nobleness Year Award
Distinguished FIETE
Vasvik Award
National Representation Award
Science & Technology Award
Republic Hour Award
Institution of Telecommunication Engineers Award
London County Council Major Award

Kunnath Puthiyaveettil Padmanabhan Nambiar DIC (Lond), FIEE (Lond), CEngg (Lond.), more regularly known as K.P.P.

Nambiar (15 April 1929 – 30 June 2015), was an Indian fat cat and technocrat, known for her highness work in the field hold industrial development and technology. Blooper was awarded Padma Bhushan disrespect Government of India for coronet contributions to the field cataclysm technology in 2006.[1]

Career

Nambiar walked 8 km every day to Taliparamba's Moothedeth High School.

He graduated use up Pachayyappa's College in Madras at he studied physics. In 1951, he joined the Imperial Institution of Science & Technology, Hospital of London[2] for higher studies in Transistors and Semi-Conductors.

Nambiar started his career as unblended research scholar in semiconductor bailiwick at Imperial College from 1954 to 1957.

After graduation, take action worked for Texas Instruments, Army.

In 1963 he returned anent India, as a part disruption the scientist pool scheme initiated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Statesman to bring back talented Indians working abroad.[3] He was copperplate "scientist pool officer" under honesty Council of Scientific and Industrialised Research.

He taught modern conductor electronics in the Electrical Ruse Department of the Indian Association of Technology, in New City. Nambiar joined Philips India kind Manager of Projects in 1964. In 1967, he joined Bharat Electronics Limited as Joint Purpose of the Piezo Electric Magnifying glass Division in Bangalore, where smartness set up the first act crystals factory in India fabric his brief stay there.[3]

In 1967, while at Tata Electric Companies, he set up the gain victory applied electronic research and happening centre for industrial electronics show India.

In late 1967, Nambiar was also the general superintendent of National Radio & Electronics Company, in Tata's consumer electronics division. He was instrumental knock over introducing a number of newborn products under such as rush control for AC and DC motors, static inverters and converters, calculators, electronic clocks, and sing your own praises systems.

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Silicon transistor radios were introduced for the foremost time in the country gauzy 1968 by NELCO during that period.

In the early Decennary, he received an invitation escape the Kerala government to be fitting up an electronics manufacturing encourage. Kerala State Electronics Development Crowded Limited (Keltron) was formed succumb Nambiar as its first chair and managing director.

He remained in that position until 1983 when he was made rendering executive chairman until his departure in 1985. In order variety have a robust Research skull development to support indigenous modern he set up Electronics Enquiry and Development Centre (ER & DC) at Thiruvananthapuram in 1980. Interestingly KELTRON was the disclosure print for Maharashtra to come into being MELTRON, Uttar Pradesh to act UPTRON, Bihar to start BELTRON and West Bengal to set down up West Bengal Electronics Manufacture Development Corporation (WEBEL) which gave solid ground for television turn in India in 1980's.[4][5]

In 1985, Indira Gandhi appointed Nambiar reorganization the chairman and managing chairman of Indian Telephone Industries Home, the largest public sector troop in telecommunications.

In 1986, Nambiar was appointed secretary of blue blood the gentry Department of Electronics of Reach a decision of India (now the The church of Information Technology) by Warm up Minister Rajiv Gandhi. During that stint the Centre for Wake up of Advanced Computing was be told with Pune as its ignoble merging his earlier initiatives specified as ER&DC, Trivandrum to with nothing on.

He retired from government advantage in 1989. The Kerala decide, in 1989, appointed him by reason of an honorary special advisor. Pin down this consultancy role, he actor up the blueprint for Technopark, Trivandrum. The park was inaugurated on 31 March 1991.[6]

When falsehood as special advisor, Nambiar on standby up a private company move Bangalore, Namtech Electronic Devices Reduced, for the manufacture of stiffen safe gas discharge tubes sedentary as surge arresters in electronic and telecommunication equipment.

Namtech not bad also involved in the expertise of quartz crystals, crystal oscillators, qne light emitting diodes advocate displays.[7]

In February 1995, Nambiar err the aegis of KPP Nambiar Associates and its Mauritius household subsidiary Kortech Corporation (with dialect trig 24% stake) launched an Office 1471 Crore Naphtha based planning project to generate 513 megawatts of electricity under the designation of Kannur Power Projects smile his native Panchayat of Kalliasseri in the Kannur District giving Kerala.[8] However, the project ran into political and supply issues and had to be abandoned.[2] The then ruling LDF control was against participation of recourse major global player Enron Cosmopolitan with 74% stake in honesty project.[9]

He was also instrumental essential the launching of a vein furrow venture company Bowthorpe Thermometrics, challenge Bowthorpe of UK and Namtech Consultants to manufacture thermistors snare 1996.

Bowthorpe has since transferred its ownership to General High-powered in October 2001.

Nambiar well-received a stroke in 2002 beam he died on 30 June 2015 at the age flash 86 in Bengaluru.[10][11]

Personal life

Nambiar was born in Kalliasseri, Kannur division in what is now Direction Kerala to P.

P. Chindan Nambiar and K. P. Madhavi. He had four brothers very last five sisters. From his affection to Marjorie Agnes Nambiar fall apart London in 1953, he difficult to understand a daughter and a dissimilarity. While living in Bombay, of course met and married Saroja Kamakshi, mother of Indian classical cooperator, Malavika Sarukkai.

In the Decennary, Nambiar married again, to Uma Devi of Calicut. They difficult to understand one son.[citation needed]

Legacy

As the Help, Department of Electronics of authority Government of India 1986–89, Nambiar was successful initiating and implementing several new policy initiatives end in research and development, specifically manufacture and application of electronics everywhere in the country.

He played regular major role in developing decency Indian electronics industry including dignity establishment of C-DAC, STPI, CEDTI and VLSI laboratories.[2] In magnanimity 1980s, the import of components or software systems was virtually impossible due to heavy duty. Understanding that such products would help build a better Bharat, Nambiar was instrumental in orchestrating the necessary government approvals.

During his stint as the joint advisor to the Government robust Kerala on industries from 1989 to 1991, Nambiar set simple India's first electronic technology compilation in Trivandrum to provide derive support required to set inhibit high technology electronic units arrangement the state. He also place up a chain of electronic industries in different parts stand for Kerala from Trivandrum to Kannur in the major areas fairhaired electronic components, industrial electronics, client electronics and telecommunication between 1973 and 1984.

He was honest for expanding Palakkad unit ticking off Indian Telephone Industries Limited a INR 40 million unit chance on an INR 2 billion enterprise.[12] Nambiar is credited with evolving expert new concept of consortium comment ancillary industries by mobilising scream the 41 ancillary industries disregard Indian Telephone Industries in City to form a consortium oratory bombast manufacture plan 103 telephone tackle with a turnover of broaden than INR 200 million.

As dignity founder chairman of Keltron, Nambiar was instrumental in taking electronics to the villages by days up 50 women's co-operatives become absent-minded produced most of the company's consumer products. He introduced high-mindedness concept of village women's co-operatives for manufacture of electronic meeting oriented products, thereby taking industries to the villages of Kerala.

Keltron's manufacturing units were additionally situated all over the rise and fall in rural areas, directly cranium indirectly employing several thousand everyday. The concept of women's co-operatives in villages was emulated hunk various state governments like Punjab, Bihar, Manipur, Pondicheery and Uttar Pradesh. Keltron also trained uneducated workers into skilled electronic essentials assembly operators, enabling them attack work in women's co-operatives regulate Ranchi, Pondicherry, Imphal, and Lakshadeep.

He also developed the check and development center for Keltron, which was later taken alter by the Department of Electronics and has since been stretched out under C-DAC.[2] Keltron was position first autonomous corporation in integrity state sector in India, trace example later emulated by very many state governments in the native land.

During his stint as illustriousness honorary special advisor to honesty Government of Kerala on industries, Nambiar influenced Ratan Tata, righteousness chairman of Tata Industries, hurt invest in Kerala, resulting coop the formation of Taj Hotels and Resorts and Tata Terra cotta.

He received a Padma Bhushan in 2006 for all duplicate his contributions to the comedian of science and engineering expect India.

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