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New Delhi : Dr Madan Mohan Tripathi joined as Director General of National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) on January 31, 2022. National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT), New Delhi, is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
Before joining NIELIT, Dr Tripathi was working as Professor with Delhi Technological University (DTU), New Delhi. In DTU, he also worked as Director Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and Coordinator of Intellectual Property Rights Cell, according to a PIB release.
Dr Tripathi started his carrier as Research scientist with Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India), in 1994, and worked for 5 years on many R&D projects. In 1999, he joined Centre for Electronics Design & Technology of India, Gorakhpur, UP, as Senior Design Engineer and worked for 10 years on various design and development projects in the areas of Information, Electronics and Communication Technology (IECT).
From 2009 to 2012, he was Joint Director at NIELIT HQs, where he worked on various projects such as Digitisation and Biometric capture of usual residents of India (NPR), development of manpower in IECT Skills, and ICT based Skill Testing and Certification.