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Power ministry's Akash Tripathi to lead Seci as MD
Mint Hyderabad
|August 27, 2025
The appointment comes after the govt sacked the former Seci chief Rameshwar Prasad Gupta in May
The Centre has appointed 1998-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Akash Tripathi as managing director of Solar Energy Corporation of India (Seci). Tripathi will hold this position in addition to his current role as the additional secretary in the Union ministry of power.
The move comes after the Union government sacked former Seci chief Rameshwar Prasad Gupta in May. Secretary to the ministry of new and renewable energy Santosh Kumar Sarangi held the additional charge since then.
This story is from the August 27, 2025 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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