15 Facts About Hasmukh Adhia

Hasmukh Adhia, IAS was born on 3November 1958 and is an Indian banker and a retired civil servant.

Hasmukh Adhia is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1981Gujarat cadre batch who served as Finance Secretary and Revenue Secretary of State.

Hasmukh Adhia previously served in several capacities for the Indian and Gujarat governments, including as Financial Services Secretary.

Hasmukh Adhia is the present Chairman of the boards of State public sector undertakings Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd, GIFT City, standing committee of Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar and former Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda.

Hasmukh Adhia is a Doctor of Philosophy in yoga from the Swami Vivekanand Yoga University in Bangalore, and is a gold medallist in oneyear post graduate programme in public management and Policy for Government and Non Government Executives from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Hasmukh Adhia has Master of Commerce and Bachelor Commerce degrees from Gujarat University.

Hasmukh Adhia was a consultant to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

Hasmukh Adhia was appointed as the Union Financial Services Secretary by the prime minister-headed Appointments Committee of the Cabinet in November 2014, he assumed office on 3November, and demitted it on 31August 2015, when he was appointed the Union Revenue Secretary.

Hasmukh Adhia was appointed as the Union Revenue Secretary by the ACC in August 2015, he assumed office on 1September 2015.

In September 2017, after the retirement of Ashok Lavasa, Hasmukh Adhia was designated as the Finance Secretary, as he became the senior-most secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

Hasmukh Adhia retired from IAS and simultaneously demitted the offices of Finance Secretary and Revenue Secretary on 30November 2018; he was succeeded as Revenue Secretary by Unique Identification Authority of India's chief executive officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey, and as Finance Secretary by Expenditure Secretary Ajay Narayan Jha, as the senior-most secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

Hasmukh Adhia is considered one of the key persons behind the architecture and roll-out of the controversial Goods and Service Tax in India.

Hasmukh Adhia is considered to be privy to another major controversial move of demonetisation of Rs500 and Rs.

Hasmukh Adhia was accused of interfering and preventing promotion of Enforcement Directorate Joint Director Rajeshwar Singh.

Hasmukh Adhia was considered to be one of the key persons in bringing controversial LTCG tax for Stocks without any indexation benefits.