Amrit Abhijat

Amrit began in the Uttar Pradesh cadre of the IAS. He joined the Jt. Magistrate, Land Revenue Management & District Administration at Mathura in August 1997, and served there for nineteen months. In May 2002, he was appointed as the District Magistrate (DM) of Mirzapur.[3] Later on he served as the District Magistrate of Deoria, Hamirpur, Allahabad, Jhansi, Mujaffarnagar, Kanpur and Agra too. He has gained a lot of admiration because of his working style. As a civil servant he is known for implementation of various innovative ideas such as "hello vikas" at Mujaffarnagar, "zilaprashaasan agra" Facebook id at agra to create a common platform for public convenience. In his capacity as District Magistrate (2010-2011), and subsequently Commissioner Agra Division (2011-2012), Amrit oversaw the land acquisition, project modalities and execution of the Yamuna expressway from Agra till the end of the division. Later as Tourism Secretary 2014–2015, with an eye to promoting longer stays and greater interest in Uttar Pradesh, he conceptualized and promoted the Heritage Arc - the signature tourism product of Uttar Pradesh linking together Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi. The Tourism Policy and Heritage Tourism policy written by him during his tenure helped revitalize the tourism sector in Uttar Pradesh. Amrit Abhijat is a voracious reader and a bibliophile. He is also a capable writer and his articles have been published time to time in various newspapers and magazines like Times of India, kurukshetra, yojna etc.

In the year 2012 he also acquired a master's degree in Governance and Development from IDS SUSSEX.

Since December 2015, Mr. Abhijat is serving as Joint Secretary and Mission Director in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in the Government of India.[4] As Joint Secretary and Mission Director the Ministry has assigned him to implement the Pradhan MantriAwasYojana–(Urban). The PMAY-(U) emanates from the vision of the Hon. Prime minister of India, Sh. Narendra Modi to provide “Housing For All” by the year 2022.. He has been assigned this massive responsibility to help the states aggregate and formulate the demand of housing shortage and make them into projects as per the guidelines of PMAY. This is put before the Central committee headed by the Secretary of Housing at the Government of India level. As Mission Director the critical examination of conditionalities compliances of legal nature and the implementation plan of the project prior to approval is done at this level. The Pradhan MantriAwasYojana -Urban is one of the largest housing programmes in the world. The mission presently has a validated demand of 10 million housing units by 2022.The Government of India has already sanctioned 8 million dwelling units, of which 4.5 million are in different stages of progress while close to 2.5 million has been completed and delivered. The amount of funding required for this kind of quantum leap led the Government to create for a provision to fund it from both the Budgetary as well as Extra budgetary resources based on Governments decisions. The success of the PMAY mission can be gauged from the pace delivery of houses and the joy it has brought to millions on getting a house of their own across the country .

The Global Housing Technology challenge -India

As Joint Secretary and Mission Director of PMAY he was instrumental in fulfilling the Vision of The Prime Minister of holding a technology challenge on Construction in Delhi on March,2-3 2019.”The Global Housing Technology Challenge “-India provides for an expo and conference where all the stakeholders and exhibits in new Technology get to meet and work .This was inaugurated by the Prime Minister .Many leading countries in housing technology countries, exhibitors and delegates participated.. The challenge also will go on to support the ‘Light House Projects’ in 6 states after the recommends of evaluation committee Technologies which have participated. In addition, the Ministry will support the accelerator and Incubation support through Knowledge partners, the World Resource Institute (WRI) and the IITs. It will bring about a paradigm shift in the manner construction is perceived, and implemented in India.[5][6]