GANDHINAGAR: Mr. Ajay Bhadoo, IAS officer of the 1999 batch, has assumed the charge as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB).
Having a rich experience of over 17 years in public administration, he brings to this position, the dynamism and leadership honed by working in different key State Government departments.
A graduate in Civil Engineering from the prestigious National Institute of Technology (Jaipur) and a Post Graduate in Business Law from the National Law School University (Bangalore), he began his Civil Services career as Assistant Collector (Revenue Department).
Over the years, Mr. Bhadoo has gone from strength to strength and has held top-brass positions like Secretary to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat, Municipal Commissioner and Collector for a long period. He has left his personal stamp wherever he has worked. He was the recipient of the Best Collector Award twice for his outstanding performance in the year 2008 and 2010.
He also had distinguished tenures with various important departments of the Government of Gujarat in various capacities such as the Chief Executive Officer of Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board, Dholera Special Investment Regional Development Authority, Managing Director of Gujarat Industrial Corridor Corporation Limited and Dholera International Airport Company Limited, etc. In all these positions, Mr. Bhadoo took significant regulatory, developmental and strategic initiatives for improvement in administrative efficiency and public welfare.
Mr. Bhadoo has joined GMB at a time when the port sector in Gujarat has initiated steps in laying the foundation of next generation projects like RO PAX, Maritime University, Maritime Clusters and is expected to undergo major transformation with the active participation in flagship programmes of the Government of India like SagarMala, Make In India campaign etc.
