S Parthiban, an officer from the 1988 batch of the Indian Telecommunication Service, has assumed the role of chief general manager (CGM) for the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Tamil Nadu telecom circle.
Parthiban also holds the additional charge of CGM at Chennai Telephones.
Prior to this, Parthiban served as director and deputy director general and played significant role in unearthing and curbing of telecom setups being operated illegally. He has also served as assistant divisional engineering telecom in southern telecom projects at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
Parthiban was instrumental in developing a long-distance telecom network in the southern states for carrying telecom traffic. He had commissioned digital microwave route between Madurai and Thiruvananthapuram and long-distance optical fibre cable routes of different capacities in different parts of southern states.
