Amitesh Kumar Sinha appointed new CEO of India Semiconductor Mission

Amitesh Kumar Sinha has been appointed as the new CEO of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), and is an additional secretary at the ministry of electronics and information technology ( MeitY), the ISM announced on Monday. He takes over from Sushil Pal.

He has been the CEO of ISM before. Prior to this, he was joint secretary in MeitY. He was responsible for policy formation and promotion of the electronics industry through various schemes, including production-linked incentive schemes, for mobiles, IT hardware, electronics components, and the semiconductor industry through the Semicon India Programme approved for setting up an ecosystem for design, manufacturing and packaging of semiconductor chips in India.

This comes at a crucial phase as government is readying to launch the second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission.

Sinha was appointed as Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Bengaluru Division of South Western Railway, on January 1 earlier this year. Sinha, an officer of the 1996 Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) batch, is a BE graduate of civil engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering (VRCE), Nagpur.