Alapan Bandyopadhyay
Alapan Bandyopadhyay is an ex-Indian Administrative Service officer and former Chief Secretary of State for the Government of West Bengal. He is the Chief Advisor for Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, since 1 June 2021. He took over from IAS officer Rajiv Sinha, in the year 2020, starting his tenure as Chief Secretary of West Bengal.
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 Chief Executive Officer, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority and 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. He has penned several books including Amlar Mon in 2016 and edited several other books from Prosongo Gorkhaland to Philosopher's Stone: Speeches and Writings of Sir Daniel Hamilton. 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 and a student of Presidency College and Calcutta University he was a journalist with Anandabazar Patrika before joining the IAS.