Lucknow:

Senior IAS officer, Rakesh Bahadur, will soon join the World Bank as its advisor.

Rakesh Bahadur, who is also the president of UP IAS Association, is posted at Investment Commission in Delhi. Earlier, he was principal secretary to the CM.

Chosen by the World Bank to head its affordable housing section, Bahadur will take up the new assignment in May.

Confirming it to the TOI, Rakesh Bahadur said he would supervise construction of houses under the affordable category in Brazil and Turkey, where the World Bank is working at a very large scale.

Bahadur said that the low cost houses is the pressing need for majority of Indians, and if Government of India coordinates with the World Bank, he would certainly like to contribute for his country.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Lucknow / TNN / March 23rd, 2016