Hon'ble Minister Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi is a Minister of State in the Government of India for Animal Husbandry Dairying and Fisheries and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. He is a Politician from Balasore Odisha and serves as a National Executive member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He won Odisha Legislative Assembly two times: from 2004 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2014 both times from Nilagiri constituency. He revolutionalised primary education in rural areas through the innovative concept of community funded Ekal Vidyalaya or single teacher schools. The Aegis School of Business Data Science Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of the telephony Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovations in the IT Telecom SMAC domain and Exponential Technologies to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The Award is organized with support of the Niti Aayog Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) India a public-private partnership initiative of DoT with 08 Centres at premier academic institutes (06 IITs IISc and IIMA) of the country each supported by a Telecom Service Provider and Convergence India.