Gurpartap Singh Mann (born April 11, 1968) is a member of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) and remained Chief General Manager of the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board of India.

Early life

Mann was born in an agricultural family from

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

. His father, S. Bhupinder Singh Mann, is the leader of the Bharti Kisan Union, and was a Member of Parliament in

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

from 1990 to 1996. Mann's father works to raise social and economic issues faced by farming and rural communities. Mann's family moved to

Batala Batala is the eighth largest city in the state of Punjab, India in terms of population after Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala, Bathinda, Mohali and Hoshiarpur. Batala ranks as the second-oldest city after Bathinda. It is a municipal corpo ...

during the partition of India in 1947 from

Faisalabad Faisalabad (; Punjabi/ ur, , ; ), formerly known as Lyallpur ( Punjabi, Urdu: لائل پور), named after the founder of the city, but was renamed in 1977 in honour of late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. It is the 3rd largest city of Pak ...

. Chak 207 in Faisalabad is named after S. Anoop Singh, his grandfather. He was educated at Baring School and

Baring Union Christian College Baring Union Christian College is a postgraduate college in Batala, Punjab, India. It is affiliated with Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar. The campus includes the palace of Maharaja Sher Singh Sher Singh (4 December 1807 – 15 September ...

in Batala and obtained his mechanical engineering degree from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in

Ludhiana Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest Cities in India, city in the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 Indian census, 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the ...

and MBA from UBS Punjab University. He worked in Swaraj Engines, Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation (PSIDC) and then joined the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board (PIDB). He established an organisational system which creates infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships. He quit PIDB in December 2010 as the Post of Chief General Manager after serving in the organisation for more than 11 years.

Career

Mann was actively involved with the Indian National Congress until he was nominated as a member of the PPSC in March 2018. He remained the Chief Spokesperson of the Congress till 2016. In 2015, Mann was appointed as the chairman of the social media cell.

Early life

Career

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