Both the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) and the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) have new faces at the helm. The two bodies, which provide key services to the township, were headless ever since Debashis Sen’s re-employment contract ended on January 31.
Sanjay Bansal, the secretary of the backward classes welfare department, has been entrusted with the additional charge of Hidco as managing director alongside being named the secretary of the urban development and municipal affairs department as well. The order was issued on February 19.
In another order that came into force on February 24, Alapan Bandyopadhyay was named as the chairman of NKDA and Naba Diganta Industrial Development Authority (NDITA). An IAS officer of the 1987 batch, Bandyopadhyay had retired from service on May 31, 2021 and was since appointed as chief advisor to the chief minister for three years. He had been named the chairman of the Heritage Commission (from November 21, 2022) and Webel.
Sen, from the IAS batch of 1985, had retired in January 2020 and got a two-year extension as chairman and managing director of Hidco along with additional charges of NDITA and NKDA. His contract was renewed twice for a year each time. He was redesignated managing director in mid-2021 when the department’s minister Firhad Hakim took over as chairman of Hidco.
