An Odisha-born bureaucrat Guruprasad Mohapatra has been appointed the chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI).
The 1986 batch Gujarat cadre officer served as commissioner of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for over three years and was appointed Joint secretary in Union Ministry of Commerce after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister. After about two years of his tenure as Joint secretary, he was appointed the chairman of AAI.
- Mohapatra also served the Joint MD of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), Special Commissioner (Enforcement) of Sales Tax department and Commissioner of Commercial Taxes and as the Commissioner of Transport during his stint in Gujarat.
- He started in the State Electricity Sector with the erstwhile Gujarat Electricity Board in 2002 and worked with various Electricity Companies such as GSEC (generation company) and the distribution companies such as PGVCL, DGVCL & UGVCL.
- He has rich and varied experience in the chemicals & fertilizers sector as he has worked as the Managing Director of Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd. (GACL).
- Mohapatra holds an M.A. in Political Science and M. Phil in Diplomacy (International Relation) and an M.B.A.
Gujarat : –
Famous national park and wild life sanctuaries : –
- Blackbuck national park
- Gir forest national park
- Bansda national park
- Jambugodha wild life sanctuary
- Jessore wild life sanctuary
- Kutch desert wild life sanctuary
- Mitiyala wild life sanctuary
- Ramparavi vidi wild life sanctuary
