He has succeeded Kapil Dev Tripathi who has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Prior to this, Luikham, a 1981 bath IAS officer, was working as Secretary, North Eastern Council, Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region.
There are 277 central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) under the administrative control of various Ministries/ Departments as on March 31, 2013.
CPSEs employed 14.04 lakh people (including contractual workers) in 2012-13 compared to 14.5 lakh in 2011-12.
The total turnover or gross revenue from operation of all CPSEs during 2012-13 stood at Rs 19,45,777 crore as compared to Rs 18,22,049 crore in the previous year, showing a rise of 6.79 per cent.