Brief profile of Dr. Adhia

Dr. Hasmukh Adhia is an officer of Indian Administrative Service, who retired on 30th November, 2018 as Union Finance Secretary & Revenue Secretary in Government of India. At present he is Principal Advisor to the Chief Minister of Gujarat since January 2023.

Dr Adhia is also Non-Executive Chairman of three State owned companies. These companies are GIFT (Gujarat International Finance Tech City Ltd), Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC).

Dr Adhia is associated with number of educational institutions. He is Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat and member of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is Vice-Chairman of the School of Ultimate Leadership.

Dr. Adhia has a post-Graduate degree in Accountancy. He is a gold medallist from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and holds a Ph.D. in Yoga from Swami Vivekanand Yoga University, Bangalore.  

As Finance and Revenue Secretary, he was credited with the successful implementation of GST in India.

On his superannuation in November 2018, Late Shri Arun Jaitley, the then Finance Minister of India praised Dr. Adhia’s contribution in a Facebook post. He said “Dr. Adhia was unquestionably a highly competent, disciplined, no-nonsense civil servant and of course, with impeccable integrity.”

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