Senior IAS officer Ameising Luikham today took over as Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises (DPE).
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.
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