Indian officer Aprajita Sharrma has been appointed as the vice chairperson of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s Council Standing Committee on Administration and Management.

Sharrma, an Indian Post & Telegraph service official, would be the vice-chair of the ITU committee for the years 2023 and 2024 and its chairperson  for the years 2025 and 2026.

Sharrma is presently posted as Deputy Director General (DDG),  Budget and Public Enterprise Finance in the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications.

Actively involved with ITU activities, she is also a rapporteur for Study Group 2 at ITU development sector and is instrumental in writing the final report along with ITU and member countries for 2018/ 2021 period on ICTs and environment that deals with e-waste management and role of frontier technologies in climate change mitigation, AI, Big Data and earth observation.

The is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication. It is governed by the Plenipotentiary Conference and the Administrative Council. The Plenipotentiary Conference is the supreme organ of the Union. It is the decision making body which determines the direction of the Union and its activities.

The Council, on the other hand, acts as the Union’s governing body in the interval between Plenipotentiary Conferences. Its role is to consider broad telecommunication policy issues to ensure that the Union’s activities, policies and strategies, responding to today’s dynamic, rapidly changing telecommunications environment.