FC Kohli, TCS first CEO and father of Indian IT industry, passes away

Kohli, who studied a Master’s degree from MIT, returned to India joining Tata Electric Co in 1951 to set up the country’s first load dispatch centre. In 1969, the Tata group doyen J R D Tata asked Kohli to set up TCS, after Tata Electric installed a computer system to control the electric line between Mumbai and Pune. It was the third utility in the world to adopt computers.

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