Greater Noida: The state government has appointed senior IAS officer and former Ghaziabad Development Authority vice-chairman Santosh Yadav as managing director of Noida Metro Rail Corporation, the post which till now was held by Noida Authority chairperson Rama Raman.
Yadav, who was UP's resident commissioner in Delhi, is said to be close to CM Akhilesh Yadav.
A 1995-batch IAS officer, Yadav was the vice-chairman of the Ghaziabad Development Authority till May last year, following which he was appointed secretary to the chief minister in Lucknow. The state government later transferred him to Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority as CEO on June 8.
After being kept in waiting for a while, he was posted as resident commissioner of Uttar Pradesh in Delhi.
Yadav, a BTech from IIT-Roorkee and MTech from IIT-Delhi, twice served as Gautam Budh Nagar's district magistrate in 2004 and 2006. He was made additional sales tax commissioner in Noida in 2007 and commissioner of Meerut range in 2012, before he took charge of GDA vice-chairman.
According to a source, the powerful builder lobby had been behind Yadav's sudden transfer from YEIDA last year.
Yadav was said to have some crucial information related to questionable allotment of land parcels in the YEIDA region.
Yadav was able to woo several foreign investors to YEIDA region and managed to pay back a principal amount of the loan the authority had taken from banks and Noida Authority.
Vandana Keelor is a principal correspondent at The Times of India...
Read MoreVandana Keelor is a principal correspondent at The Times of India. Her abilities encompass a flexibility to tell stories across multiple platforms. She covers general news in the Gautam Budh Nagar district, which includes the cities of Noida and Greater Noida. She reports and writes on development, crime, politics and people. She enjoys gardening, travelling, reading and listening to music.
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