Hasmukh Adhia appointed Chairman, GIFT City

Hasmukh Adhia appointed Chairman, GIFT City

Daily Current Affairs / Hasmukh Adhia appointed Chairman, GIFT City

Change Language English Hindi

Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: June 24 2023

Share on facebook

Senior retired bureaucrat and former Union Finance Secretary & Revenue Secretary, Hasmukh Adhia, has been appointed Chairman of GIFT City Ltd, the entity responsible for developing India’s first smart city Gujarat International Finance-Tec City in Gandhinagar.
As GIFT City Chairman, Adhia replaces Sudhir Mankad, former chief secretary of Gujarat.
Besides GIFT City, Adhia has also been appointed Director and Chairman of the boards of State public sector undertakings Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd (GACL) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (GMDC) with immediate effect.
Adhia, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer of the 1981 batch, currently serves as an advisor to the Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.
He was part of the panel appointed by the Gujarat government to recommend measures for the post-Covid economic revival of the State.
At present Adhia is a non-executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda, and also the Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat.
He serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
He also serves as Vice-President in Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI) and Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar.

Recent Post's

The Musi Riverfront Development Corporation Limited has unveiled a heritage concept map integrating monuments like Charminar and Golconda Fort into a 55-km cultural tourism corridor along the Musi River in Hyderabad.
Read More....
Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters," directed by Maggie Kang, won the Best Animated Feature at the 98th Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles.
Read More....
India won five medals — one gold, three silver and one bronze — at the World Boxing Futures Cup 2026 in Bangkok, with Chandrika Pujari clinching the gold in the women's 51 kg category.
Read More....
Phil Campbell, legendary guitarist and longest-serving member of rock band Motörhead, passed away at the age of 64 following complications from a major surgery.
Read More....
Veteran Hindi film actress Madhu Malhotra, known for her role in Subhash Ghai's "Hero" (1983) and the song "Lamhi Judaai," passed away at the age of 71 in Mumbai.
Read More....
Gauhati University botanists discovered a new plant species, "Osbeckia zubeengargiana," in Manas National Park, Assam, naming it after renowned Assamese singer Zubeen Garg.
Read More....
Renowned Tamil poet and lyricist R. Vairamuthu has been selected for the 60th Jnanpith Award for 2025, becoming the third Tamil writer to receive India's highest literary honour.
Read More....
Pi Day is celebrated globally on March 14 every year to honour the mathematical constant π, first organised in 1988 at San Francisco's Exploratorium by physicist Larry Shaw.
Read More....
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated the Samriddhi Kendra in Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, under the DoT's Samriddh Gram Phygital Services Pilot Initiative to enhance rural service delivery.
Read More....
Karnataka's KSRTC has won the Governance Now 12th PSU National Award for its "Dhwani Spandana" initiative, which provides audio-based bus identification assistance for visually impaired passengers.
Read More....