Amit Mitra

Amit Mitra
Amit Mitra
	Mitra in 2011
Cabinet Minister; Government of West Bengal
	In office; 2011 - 2021
Governor	M. K. Narayanan; D. Y. Patil; Keshari Nath Tripathi; Jagdeep Dhankhar
Department	Finance; Planning and Statistics and Programme Monitoring;
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Asim Dasgupta (Finance); Tapas Roy (Planning and Statistics and Programme Monitoring); Partha Chatterjee (Public Enterprises and Commerce and Industry); Bratya Basu (Information Technology and Electronics); Shyam Mukherjee (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise and Textile);
Succeeded by	Partha Chatterjee (Commerce and Industry and Information Technology and Electronics); Subrata Mukherjee ( Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction ); Chandranath Sinha (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise and Textile); Mamata Banerjee (Finance); Tapas Roy (Planning and Statistics and Programme Monitoring);
Department	Finance (20 May 2011-9 Nov 2021); Planning and Statistics and Programme Monitoring (10 May 2021-9 Nov 2021); Information Technology and Electronics & e-Governance (2018-2021); Industrial Reconstruction (2014-2021); Public Enterprises (2014-2021); Commerce and Industry (2014-2021); Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise and Textile (2013-2021);
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	In office; 2011–2021
Preceded by	Asim Dasgupta
Succeeded by	Kajal Sinha (posthumously)
Constituency	Khardaha
Principal Advisor(Cabinet Rank); Chief Minister of West Bengal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 Nov 2021
Personal details
Born	20 December 1947; Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress
Spouse	Meera Balakrishnan
Children	1 daughter
Relatives	Bela Mitra (mother); Haridas Mitra (father)
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata (B.A.); University of Delhi (M.A.); Duke University (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Economist; Politician

Dr. Amit Mitra is an Indian economist and politician and the current Special Advisor to Chief Minister of West Bengal on Finance. Previously he was the Finance, Commerce & Industries Minister of the government of Indian state of West Bengal. He was the incumbent MLA in the West Bengal state assembly from the Khardaha state assembly constituency. Cited as a giant killer in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election defeating Asim Dasgupta, the former West Bengal Finance Minister. Mitra previously served as the Secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

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