Thursday, December 16, 2010

Who is Pradeep Baijal

Pradeep Baijal  has BE Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT (Roorkee) and is an IAS officer of 1966 batch of Madhya Pradesh cadre. He was the disinvestment secretary between 1999 and 2003. He was made the chairman of TRAI in 2004 and retired in 2008. After retiring from TRAI, Baijal joined Radia's firm Vaishnavi Communications in 2009. He also defended 2G spectrum pricing. Now a days pradeepa and raida is in news for 2G spectrum scam.







He partnered Radia to form Noesis Consultants in 2007 and is presently the Chairman of Noesis Consultants. He has also been on the board of many companies.

Who is Nira Radia

Nira Radia is a public relations consultant and corporate lobbyist. She heads four PR companies: Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, Neosis Strategic Consulting Services, Vitcom Consulting and Neucom Consulting.



New leaked tapes containing conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians have been published on the Outlook website. The tapping of Radia's phones was authorised by the Government in 2008 after the the Finance Ministry in 2007 received a complaint against her with the complainant suspecting that she could have connections with foreign intelligence agencies. She came in news due to phone tape by govt.

The complainant also raised questions over Radia building an empire worth Rs 300 crore over nine years and alleged that the corporate lobbyist was indulging in anti-national activities.