NOIDA: Balwinder Kumar, the IAS officer who steered the Noida Authority through the land acquisition crisis two years ago, has been appointed vice-chairman of Delhi Development Authority. Kumar will take the reins from D Diptivilasa. Before his appointment, Kumar was development commissioner with the Union textiles ministry.
A 1981-batch IAS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, Kumar served two stints as chairman-cum-CEO of the Noida Authority in 2007 and 2011. The Mayawati-led BSP regime had sent Kumar to Noida in July 2011 when the land acquisition crisis was at its peak and agitations and legal cases lodged by farmers had plunged a slew of development and housing projects in the city into uncertainty. Kumar replaced Mohinder Singh, a close confidante of Mayawati, as the protests that erupted in Greater Noida began engulfing Noida as well.
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