Alapan Bandyopadhyay (born 17 May 1961) is an ex-

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(IAS) officer and former Chief Secretary of State for the

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. He is Chief Advisor for

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since 1 June 2021. He took over from IAS officer Rajiva Sinha, in the year 2020, starting his tenure as Chief Secretary of

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Career

Alapan was an officer of

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batch-1987 from West Bengal. He was earlier a district magistrate of

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and

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districts. He had also served as Chief Executive Officer, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority and Kolkata Municipal Commissioner. He has also headed several departments —

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, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), commerce and industry, information and culture, and

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— as principal secretary. The IAS officer also served as interim state election commissioner in 2015. He has penned several books including ''Amlar Mon'' in 2016 and edited several other books from ''Prosongo Gorkhaland'' (1987) to ''Philosopher's Stone: Speeches and Writings of Sir Daniel Hamilton'' (2000). He retired from IAS on 31 May 2021 and was appointed as Chief Advisor of Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1 June 2021 for 3 years. A student of Ramakrishna Mission Narendrapur (3rd rank holder in Secondary Examination, 1976, and a National Talent Search Scholar, 1978) and a student of Presidency College and Calcutta University (Gold Medalist in M.A. Political Science in 1983) he was a journalist with Anandabazar Patrika (ABP Group) before joining the IAS.

Personal life

Bandyopadhyay was born in 1961 in

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. He is married to the current

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of the

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and academician

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. His son Milinda Banerjee is lecturer of Modern History in

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, Scotland.

References

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