Ravi Agarwal Gets Additional Charge as CEO, New Town Kolkata Development Authority

Ravi Agarwal has been given additional charge as CEO of the New Town Kolkata Development Authority. The 2017-batch IAS officer is currently Commissioner of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. The West Bengal government issued the order on Saturday, effective until further orders.

New Town is one of West Bengal's largest urban development projects — a satellite township on Kolkata's eastern fringe built around IT-sector office space, residential zones and public infrastructure that the development authority has managed since the township's inception. The CEO handles land allotment, infrastructure contracts and coordination with the IT companies and residents who have moved in, directly shaping how fast the area's commercial expansion continues.

Agarwal currently runs the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, which covers Salt Lake and the areas bordering New Town — giving him direct, on-the-ground familiarity with the urban planning and infrastructure issues the two areas share, from traffic to drainage networks that cross both jurisdictions.

His substantive post — Commissioner, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation — stays put. The New Town charge is additional, until further orders.

Putting Bidhannagar and New Town under one officer reflects how closely the two areas overlap geographically and functionally — shared traffic corridors and drainage systems that arguably benefit from unified oversight rather than separate administrations.

Agarwal will now run Bidhannagar's municipal administration alongside New Town's ongoing development work — infrastructure upgrades, land-allotment decisions, and coordination with IT-sector tenants on connectivity and utility needs.

The West Bengal government gave no indication of when a dedicated CEO appointment to the authority might follow.