New Delhi
Secretary of the
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Guruprasad
Mohapatra, passed away after battling COVID-19 and its complications on
Saturday, June 19, 2021. He was admitted in the hospital for almost eight weeks.
He is well-known
for his work during the COVID-19 crisis where he coordinated with states, other
departments and the industry to scale up oxygen production to meet the rising
demand. He and his team members scaled up the oxygen supplies and even had plans
to limit access to the non-core sectors such as steel, oil and defence.
The President of
India, The Prime Minister of India, other top ministers and government
officials expressed their condolences to Mohapatra’s family.
Mohapatra was a
Gujarat cadre IAS officer. He was the joint secretary in the commerce
department before heading AAI. The 59-year-old earned goodwill among all his
colleagues and was known as a down-to-earth civil officer.
Source – The Times of India
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