The Mamata Banerjee government has posted Arup Roy Choudhury, former MD of NTPC Ltd, as the state’s new principal adviser (infrastructure) with the appointment in a position that was vacant for more than a year bearing hints that the ruling establishment plans to lay special emphasis on infrastructure creation ahead of the 2021 Assembly polls.
“The position had been lying vacant for over the past one year or so. The state government brought in Roy Choudhury in the position in the midst of a pandemic even though he was serving as the chief commissioner of Public Services Act. There is a definite plan behind the move,” a senior state government official told The Telegraph.
