Alapan Bandyopadhyay (born 1967) is an Indian civil servant and the current Chief Secretary of State for the Government of West Bengal.[1][2] He took over from IAS officer Rajiva Sinha, in the year 2020, starting his tenure under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.[3]
Alapan Bandyopadhyay | |
|---|---|
| Chief Secretary of the Government of West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2020 | |
| Governor | Jagdeep Dhankhar |
| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Preceded by | Rajiv Sinha, IAS |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Spouse(s) | Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee |
Carrier
Alapan was a 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.[1]
Personal life
Bandyopadhyay was born in 1967 in Kolkata, 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.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sep 29, TNN / Updated; 2020; Ist, 07:28. "Alapan Bandyopadhyay new West Bengal chief secretary, HK Dwivedi gets charge of home | Kolkata News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
{{cite web}}:|first1=has generic name (help);|last2=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "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.
{{cite news}}: 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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