Shri Padam Lal Negi – JS&FA, Government Nominee Director Shri Padam Lal Negi joined as Government Nominee Director of Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) on 27th February, 2023.
He joined Government of India as an Indian Defence Accounts Service Officer of 1992 Batch on 08.01.1993 in Defence Accounts Department. During his tenure in Defence Accounts, he worked in various capacities. From 1994 to 2003, he served in the offices of the then CDA (NC), Jammu, CDA (WC), Chandigarh, and CDA (AF), Dehradun as Assistant Controller and Deputy Controller. Between 2003 and 2005, he worked as Joint Controller in the office of Controller of Defence Accounts (Pension Disbursement) at Meerut Cantt. He later served as Additional Controller of Defence Accounts in CDA (Funds), Meerut, from 2005 to 2008.
From 2008 to 2013, Shri Negi was Director in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India, followed by a tenure as Integrated Financial Adviser (IFA) to the Andaman Nicobar Command from 2013 to 2015. He then served as Controller of Defence Accounts (Integrated Defence Staff) in New Delhi until 2018. Further, he was Integrated Financial Adviser (BR), Delhi Cantt, from 2018 to 2023. On 10th January 2023, he was appointed as Joint Secretary & Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and was given additional charge as JS&FA of the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy on 11th January 2023.
He has made remarkable contributions throughout his career. He served as Prabhari Adhikari in Balrampur and Surajpur District of Chhattisgarh during the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra (Nov 2023–Jan 2024). He participated in Mission Karam Yogi and completed all the mandatory courses and got 1st position in the Ministry of Civil Aviation He has visited all vibrant villages (around 75) of Himachal Pradesh. He received a Commendation Certificate from the Border Roads Development Board, Government of India in 2021. Further, he was honoured with Individual excellence award in all India DAD Volley Ball Tournament held at Kanpur in 1999.
Academically, Shri Negi holds a B.A. in English, Political Science, Sociology, and Urdu from Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh/Panjab University (1988). He earned an M.A. in Political Science (1990) and another M.A. in Sociology (1992), both from Panjab University, Chandigarh.