Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) has appointed Suhas Diwase as its new managing director. Diwase, IAS batch 2009, took charge of office on July 16, 2018. Currently, Diwase is also working as the CMD of Maharashtra State Warehousing Corporation. He holds a Master’s degree in Horticulture. He has also done Public Administration from The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. Currently he is perusing PhD in Disaster Management.
Prior to taking up his appointment as MD, MTDC, Diwase worked in various districts at several positions. He was director of Disaster Management and CEO of Pimpri-Chinchwad New Town Development Authority and Collector of Bhandara district.
After taking over charge of his new role as MD, Diwase immediately had a meeting along with higher officials of MTDC, including Aashutosh Rathod, director of tourism, Government of Maharashtra and joint MD of MTDC; Swati Kale, GM, MTDC; Dinesh Kamble, senior manager, publicity and PR, MTDC and other head of Departments. He also had a review meeting of MTDC projects.
On his new appointment, Diwase said, “It’s a pleasure to take over in my new role at Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation. Tourism is one of the most important and rapidly growing sectors in India contributing significantly to the economic development of our country. Therefore, my focus would be to develop and analyse and understand the present tourism avenues in Maharashtra through new programmes and policies aimed at developing and sustaining tourism in the state.”