Hasmukh Adhia, has been appointed Chairman of GIFT City Ltd, the entity responsible for developing India’s first smart city Gujarat International Finance-Tec City in Gandhinagar.

• He is Senior retired bureaucrat and former Union Finance Secretary & Revenue Secretary.
• As GIFT City Chairman, Adhia replaces Sudhir Mankad, former chief secretary of Gujarat.
• Besides GIFT City, Adhia has also been appointed Director and Chairman of the boards of State public sector undertakings Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd (GACL) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (GMDC) with immediate effect, the regulatory filings said.