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In the summer of 2010, when auction was yet to become a catchword in Indian telecom, a bureaucrat was starting to become a prominent face in every gathering that discussed sale of airwaves through bidding. J S Deepak, at that point just about 50 and quite unlike a typical bureaucrat, soon came to be known as the spectrum auction man. The 50-day auction of 3G spectrum in 2010 fetched the government more than Rs 1 lakh crore in revenue, and there was no looking back for Deepak after that.
The 1982 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer, who was a
