Gurugram and Faridabad Metropolitan Development authorities get new CEO

The GMDA, established to oversee the planned development of Gurugram, plays a crucial role in urban planning, infrastructure development, and managing civic amenities along the main/arterial roads in the city. It focuses on improving water supply, master road networks, and public transportation to support millenium city’s rapid urban growth.

The Faridabad body has a similar role for that city. In both the cities, the two agencies complement the respective municipal corporations in the civic upkeep of the city.

Misra, a senior Haryana cadre IAS officer of the 1996 batch, will continue to serve as the Chief Administrator of the Trade Fair Authority of Haryana, and will now also hold the position of Principal Secretary to the Government in Haryana’s Energy Department.

In June this year, under his tenure, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) had been directed to disconnect illegal and direct connections made on GMDA and MCG master water supply pipelines.

The move aims to ensure that there will be no direct water supply to households without it being rerouted through the designated MCG boosting stations that regulate pressure and flow.

Ganesan, a 2006 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer, was at the time of the latest transfer the Director-General of HARTRON (Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation) and held multiple responsibilities, including Director, Housing for All, Haryana, Chief Administration of the Haryana Housing Board, Managing Director, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited, and Secretary to the Government, Housing for All Department.

In addition to his new roles as CEO of GMDA and FMDA, he will continue to have all his earlier responsibilities save for the HARTRON DG position.

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