Alapan Bandyopadhyay
Alapan Bandyopadhyay Retd.IAS | |
|---|---|
| 1st Chief Advisor to Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 1 June 2021 | |
| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Chief Secretary of the Government of West Bengal | |
| In office 1 October 2020 – 31 May 2021 | |
| Governor | Jagdeep Dhankhar |
| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Preceded by | Rajiva Sinha |
| Succeeded by | H. K. Dwivedi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 May 1961[1] Asansol, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Spouse(s) | Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee |
| Relations | Anjan Bandyopadhyay (brother) |
Alapan Bandyopadhyay (born 17 May 1961) is an ex-Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and former Chief Secretary of State for the Government of West Bengal. He is Chief Advisor for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee since 1 June 2021.[2][3] He took over from IAS officer Rajiva Sinha, in the year 2020, starting his tenure as Chief Secretary of West Bengal.[4]
Career[]
Alapan was an officer of IAS batch-1987 from West Bengal. He was earlier a district magistrate of Howrah, North and South 24 Parganas districts. He had also served as Kolkata municipal commissioner. He has also headed several departments — transport, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), commerce and industry, information and culture, and home — as principal secretary. The IAS officer also served as interim state election commissioner in 2015.[2] He penned a book named Amlar Mon in 2017. He retired on 31 May 2021 and appointed as Chief Advisor Of Chief Minister Of West Bengal from 1 June 2021 for 3 years.
Personal life[]
Bandyopadhyay was born in 1961 in Asansol, West Bengal. He is married to the current Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta and academician Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee. He and his wife were sent into quarantine when they were contact-traced to the first reported case of COVID-19 in West Bengal.[5]
References[]
- ^ Civil List of IAS Officers
- ^ a b "Alapon Bandyopadhyay new West Bengal chief secretary, HK Dwivedi gets charge of home". The Times of India. September 29, 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ "Chief Minister's Office - Government of West Bengal". wbcmo.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ "Alapan Bandyopadhyay is WB's new Chief Secretary". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 2020-09-29. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-04-02.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^ "How Mother of Bengal's First COVID-19 Patient 'Sent' State Home Secretary and 10 Others Into Isolation". www.news18.com. 2020-03-18. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
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