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Upendra Tripathy
Ex-Secretary of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Adviser (Trade) in the Indian Embassy in Brussels
In office 2014 - 2016
Personal details
Born	(1956-10-05) 5 October 1956 Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Residence	New Delhi

Well known for receiving the prestigious Prime Minister’s award for excellence in public administration in individual category, Mr Tripathy received several other awards for his innovations and ideas during his long career as a top civil servant. He is the first Director General of International Solar Alliance.

Awards received:

2007  Silver Award from Harmony for having brought fundamental changes in Transport system in Bangalore.

2007  International Gold Star Millennium Award under Persons of Indian Origin Conclave-Invest in India.

2008  Citizen Extraordinary Award-2008 for contribution in introducing innovative changes in Bangalore.

2009 Prime Ministers Award for Excellence in Public Administration.

About

Shri Upendra Tripathy (born 5 October 1956) is currently the Secretary of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (Since 1^st April, 2014). Mr Tripathy is also ex-offcio Chairman of Solar Energy Corporation of India, National Institute of Solar Energy, National Institute of Wind Energy, National Institute of Bioenergy and nodal secretary for Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency. He is also the Interim Director General of the newly formed International Solar Alliance. Shri Tripathy is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Karnataka Cadre, known for his innovations, ideas and hard work. He has worked with local, provincial and union government in India over the last 36 years and is the 18th secretary of Ministry of New and renewable Energy, established in 1982, one of the oldest Ministries in the world in the area of new and renewable energy.  He replaced Shri Satish Agnihotri as Secretary on 1^st April 2014. From Kahakapur, a remote coastal hamlet in the tail ends of Eastern Ghats hills, close to the Asia’s largest lagoon – Chilika, Mr Tripathy studied in Ravenshaw College, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has published one volume poetry from Writer’s Workshop - Caged. Best known for his turning around of the city transportation in Bangalore, he received the Extra-ordinary Citizen award in 2008 from Rotarians in Bangalore, usually reserved for Chief Minister and doyens of the industry. 

Career Path

Immediately before joining Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, he was Adviser (Agriculture and Marine Products) in the Indian Embassy in Brussels. He held the post of Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Joint Secretary, Minority Affairs and Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas in the Central Government. He has multi-sectoral domain expertise and has  worked in several areas — Revenue Administration, Rural Development, Petroleum Conservation, Agriculture & Horticulture, Agricultural Marketing, Education, Environment & Transportation, Minority Affairs, Cabinet Secretariat  and renewable energy. 

Work Areas and Innovations

S.No	Designation / Place	Work Areas / innovative initiatives	Period of service
1	Assistant Commissioner, Puttur, Karnataka	Land administration, Rural development, Law and order management. Rehabilitation programmes, Disaster management.	To 1982 to 1984
2	District Rural Development Society, Chitradurga. Department of Rural Development	Project formulation, implementation, management and monitoring in areas Watersheds (soil, crop, water and training of farmers), afforestation employment generation, drought management, water management, anti-poverty programs.	1984 -1986
3	Dy.   Commissioner (Vigilance), Department of Commercial Taxes, Department of Finance. Bangalore	Tax compliance and tax administration, Environmental taxation.	1986-1987
4	District Magistrate & DC, Department of Revenue and Home, Hassan. Administrator, Hassan City Development Authority. President, Hassan District Cooperative Bank. Administrator, Agricultural Price Marketing Societies, Chairman, Hassan Central School, President, Hassan City Municipality.	Law and order, excise administration, rehabilitation, local governance, banking, agricultural marketing. Achievements:  Founded Hassan Kala Mandir, Officer’s club building, got land for Central School, turned around Hassan City Municipality in revenue generation from annual exhibitions,	1987-1989
5	Director, Agricultural Marketing & Secretary to the Agricultural Marketing Board, Bangalore	World Bank program to strengthen marketing infrastructure in rural Karnataka. Administration of agricultural marketing societies. Enforcement of farmer oriented policies.	1989 -1989
6	Chief Secretary (Zilla Panchayat), Gulbarga.	Rural development and administration of all field level departments in the grassroots level – education health and family welfare, agriculture, horticulture social forestry, soil conservation, minor irrigation, sericulture, social welfare, block development, anti-poverty programmes, Pancayati Raj institutions, rural electrification,	1989-1990
7	Dy Secretray, M/o Petroleum & Natural Gas, New Delhi	Petroleum exploration, petroleum conservation and global tendering of oil block both onshore and off shore.	1990-1992
8	On Foreign Training and study leave in Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada with CIDA scholarship, Indira Gandhi Scholarship and Commonwealth scholarship.	Completed Masters programme in Public Administration. Completed course work and proposal defence for Ph D thesis on India’s ozone management policy. (Incomplete)	1992 -1996
9	Director (Personnel) Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, Bangalore.	76000 employees. Introduced environmental cell in KSTRC. Planted thousands of teak trees in vacant lands of the corporation.	1996-1999
10	Commissioner  Public Instruction, Bangalore.	300000 Teachers and one crore students. Built Sikshaykar  sadan with collection of one day’s salary from employees, introduced lamination of matriculation certificates to avoid tampering, introduced Sikshyan Barte, a monthly magazine, mobile schools for slum children, computer centres for teachers’ training, and got Akshar Foundation established and registered.	1999-2001
11	Secretary Department of Agriculture and Horticulture. Bangalore.	Strengthened R&D centres in the department, new programs to promote palm oil cultivation as a climate resilient crop, measures to strengthen Lal Bagh society, and planned Lal Bagh II in Bangalore.	2001-2002
12	Chairman Karnataka Pollution Control Board.	Established the new office building in MG Road, brought in pension for employees, successful implementation of World Bank programme to strengthen infrastructure, introduction of mobile labs, multi-structural devilment.	2002-2003
13	Managing Director, Bangalore Metropolitan Transportation Corporation (BMTC) Bangalore	Made a corporate profit of more than 650 crore during his tenure. Brought in all round welfare measure for employees. Bus strength went up to 6000. Introduced Volvo buses in the city and Vayu Bajra to and from airport. Got around 1700 acres of land for future projects. Ten TTMCs were sanctioned by GoI under JNNURM. This was a period of expansion and consolidation. CiSTUP and EMPRI were established. Nrupathunga Award was instituted with a corpus grant from BMTC.	2003-2008
14	Principal Secretary, Home and Transport. Vidhan Soudha, Bnagalore	Major law and order problems tackled. In the transport front, many petroleum conservation programmes and anti-pollution measures were tackled. Home and Transport departments were combined long after.	2008-2009
15	Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs.	Spearheaded many programmes for social inclusion of minorities. Computerisation of programmes and speed of delivery.	2009-2010
16	Joint Secretary/Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. Rastrapati Bhawan. New Delhi	Assisted C.S in supervising 27 Ministries, attended to Cabinet matters, and processed matters pertaining to climate change and environment.	2010-2013
17	Advisor (Agriculture and Marine Products – trade), Embassy of India, Brussels.		2013-2014
18	Secretary, MNRE, Block 14, CGO Complex. New Delhi	175000 MW target upto 2022. New land for office after 34 years of waiting. Budget goes up from 1500 cr (14-15) to 9000 cr by 16-17. Association of Renewable Agencies of the States (AREAS) formed. International Solar Alliance launched. Officers’ long pending promotions streamlined. Nomenclature of three institutions changed to National Institutes. Solar Energy Corporation of India turns profitable. SECI’s authorised capital increased to 6000 Cr. World Renewable Energy Museum green flagged. National Renewable Energy university planned.	2014 – till date

Education & Training

He has done his Master’s Degree both in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Public Administration from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has undergone various training programme in areas of programme implementation, financial management, sustainable development, quantitative methods and operational research for public policy and management and e-governance. He has also undergone a six weeks SIDA training programme in Sweden in areas of environmental management.

Awards

Mr Tripathy was awarded Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration in individual category during 2009.^[

Sl.No	Subject	Year	Name
1	Transport	2007	Silver Award from Harmony for having brought fundamental changes in Transport system in Bangalore.
2	Urban Development	2007	International Gold Star Millennium Award under Persons of Indian Origin Conclave-Invest in India.
3	Urban Development	2008	Citizen Extraordinary Award-2008 for contribution in introducing innovative changes in Bangalore.
4	General Administration	2009	Prime Ministers Award for Excellence in Public Administration.

See also

• Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
• Piyush Goyal
• Indian Administrative Services
• Karnataka

References

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