Hasmukh Adhia appointed Chairman, GIFT City

Hasmukh Adhia appointed Chairman, GIFT City

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: June 24 2023

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  • 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.
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