Hasmukh Adhia appointed advisor to the Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel

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Former finance secretary, Government of India Hasmukh Adhia and former retired bureaucrat SS Rathore has been appointed as the Chief advisor and advisor respectively to the chief minister of Gujarat Bhupendra Patel on 27 December 2022. SS Rathore is a former secretary of the roads and buildings department of the Gujarat government.

According to the Gujarat government order the tenure of the two new posts will last until the present chief minister is in office or until further orders.

Hasmukh Adia is a former Gujarat-cadre IAS officer. He was made the secretary in the Department of Financial Services, Union Ministry of Finance when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India in 2014 .Adhia retired from service in November 2018. 

At present, he is the non-executive chairman of the Bank of Baroda and chancellor of the Central University of Gujarat. He is also the vice chairman of the boards of Pandit Deendayal Energy University and Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI), and a member of the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.