Fakir Chand Kohli
| Faqir Chand Kohli | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Faqir Chand Kohli 28 February 1924 Peshawar, British India (now Pakistan) |
| Alma mater |
Queen's University, Canada Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Industrialist |
Faqir Chand Kohli (born 28 February 1924) popularly known as F. C. Kohli is an Indian industrialist. He is frequently referred to as the Father of the Indian Software Industry due to his significant contribution in Indian IT industry. He was the founder and first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software consultancy company. He has also worked as the deputy general manager of the Tata Power Company. He is also on the board of governors of College of Engineering, Pune.
F.C.Kohli was born in Peshawar (Present day Pakistan), British India on 28 February 1924. He did his schooling in Peshawar and did his BA and BSc (Hons) at the Government College for Men in Lahore from Punjab University, Lahore, where he was university gold medalist. Initially, he wanted to join the Indian navy, but he also applied for a scholarship to study abroad. After getting the scholarship he went to Queen's University, Canada and completed his BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering in 1948. He then worked for a year at the Canadian General Electric Company and subsequently did his MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950.
Early in 1951, Kohli joined Ebasco International Corporation, New York Connecticut Valley Power Exchange, Hartford and New England Power System, Boston for training in power system operation. He returned to India in early August 1951, and joined Tata Electric Companies where he helped to set up the load dispatching system to manage the system operations. He then became the general superintendent in 1963, and deputy general manager in 1967. In 1966, he was also appointed as senior consultant to Tata Consulting Engineers. He became director of Tata Electric Companies in 1970. During his years with Tata Electric Companies, he introduced advanced engineering and management techniques for the operation of power systems. He was also responsible for significant use of digital computers for power system design and control, using the CDC 3600 mainframe computer at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
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