Senior IAS officer SS Kumar has taken over as Chairman, DVC.
A 1998 batch IAS Sepuri Suresh Kumar has assumed charge as the new Chairman of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) today.
Originally an alumnus of IIT Madras, Kumar currently was working as Additional Chief Secretary (Power) in the Govt of West Bengal. Following his appointment later he was appointed as Director General at Netaji Subhash Administrative Training Institute, Kolkata.
Prior to this Kumar had a long stint at Centre and also held many key capacities including Director, Finance at National Aids Control Organization (from 2006 to 2008), then as Officer on Special Duty in the Election Commission of India in the year 2009 and as the Joint Secretary in the MHA from 2008 to 2014.