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{{Short description|Indian civil servant}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Alapan Bandyopadhyay
| honorific_suffix = Retd.[[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|5|17|df=y}}<ref>[https://easy.nic.in/civilListIAS/YrCurr/AgeListCL.asp?Slab=8&Cadre=WB&AsOnDate=01/01/2018 Civil List of IAS Officers]</ref>
| birth_place = [[Asansol]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| nationality = Indian
| office1 = [[Chief Secretary (India)|Chief Secretary of the Government of West Bengal]]
| term_start1 = 1 October 2020
| term_end1 = 31 May 2021
| 1namedata1 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister
| governor1 = [[Jagdeep Dhankhar]]
| predecessor1 = Rajiv Sinha
| successor1 = H. K. Dwivedi
| spouse = [[Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee]]
| relations = [[Anjan Bandyopadhyay]] (brother)
| office = 1st Chief Advisor to [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]]
| termstart = 1 June 2021
| 2namedata = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| 2blankname = Chief Minister
| image =
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}}

'''Alapan Bandyopadhyay''' (born 17 May 1961) is an ex-[[Indian Administrative Service]] (IAS) officer and former [[Chief secretary (India)|Chief Secretary of State]] for the [[Government of West Bengal]]. He is Chief Advisor for [[Chief minister (India)|Chief Minister]] [[Mamata Banerjee]] since 1 June 2021.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=September 29, 2020|title=Alapon Bandyopadhyay new West Bengal chief secretary, HK Dwivedi gets charge of home|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/alapan-new-bengal-chief-secy-dwivedi-gets-charge-of-home/articleshow/78373944.cms|access-date=2021-04-02|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Chief Minister's Office - Government of West Bengal|url=http://wbcmo.gov.in/cmo.aspx|access-date=2021-04-02|website=wbcmo.gov.in}}
</ref> He took over from IAS officer Rajiva Sinha, in the year 2020, starting his tenure as Chief Secretary of [[West Bengal]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-09-29|title=Alapan Bandyopadhyay is WB's new Chief Secretary|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/alapan-bandyopadhyay-is-wbs-new-chief-secretary/article32719910.ece|access-date=2021-04-02|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Career==
Alapan was an officer of [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] batch-1987 from West Bengal. He was earlier a district magistrate of [[Howrah district|Howrah]], [[North 24 Parganas district|North]] and [[South 24 Parganas]] districts. He had also served as Chief Executive Officer, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority and Kolkata Municipal Commissioner. He has also headed several departments — [[Department of Transport (West Bengal)|transport]], [[Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006|Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)]], commerce and industry, [[Ministry of Information & Cultural Affairs (West Bengal)|information and culture]], and [[Department of Home and Hill Affairs|home]] — as principal secretary. The IAS officer also served as interim state election commissioner in 2015.<ref name=":0" /> He has penned several books including ''Amlar Mon'' in 2016 and edited several other books from ''Prosongo Gorkhaland'' (1987) to ''Philosopher's Stone: Speeches and Writings of Sir Daniel Hamilton'' (2000). He retired from IAS on 31 May 2021 and was appointed as Chief Advisor of Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1 June 2021 for 3 years.
A student of Ramakrishna Mission Narendrapur (3rd rank holder in Secondary Examination, 1976, and a National Talent Search Scholar, 1978) and a student of Presidency College and Calcutta University (gold medalist in M.A. Political Science in 1983) he was a journalist with Anandabazar Patrika (ABP Group) before joining the IAS.

== Personal life ==
Bandyopadhyay was born in 1961 in [[Asansol]], [[West Bengal]].{{cn|date=July 2022}} He is married to the current [[Vice-chancellor|Vice Chancellor]] of the [[University of Calcutta]] and academician [[Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee]]. His son Milinda Banerjee is lecturer of Modern History in [[University of St. Andrews]], Scotland.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/mb419 | title=Dr Milinda Banerjee - School of History }}</ref> His younger brother, [[Anjan Bandyopadhyay]] who was a well-known journalist working in several Bengali media news channels, died on 16 May 2021 due to [[COVID-19]] and its complications.<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news |title=Television journalist Anjan Bandyopadhyay dies aged 56 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/television-journalist-anjan-bandyopadhyay-dies-aged-56/article34575078.ece |access-date=16 May 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=17 May 2021 |language=en-IN}}</ref>

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