Sri B P Acharya, IAS, (Retd) was the Special Chief Secretary to Government of Telangana & Director General, Dr. Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute of Telangana. In his long stellar career in bureaucracy, he held a number of important positions and conceived and launched many new innovative initiatives. As the Secretary to Govt, Industries & Commerce Dept., he was instrumental in developing Genome Valley, and Biotech Sector in combined A.P. The fruits of his efforts on industrial development of the State are highly visible now. As Managing Director, APIIC, he was instrumental in facilitating over 20 world class clusters in the combined State of AP, such as Financial District, Mindspace IT Cluster, Sri City SEZ, APSEZ, Vizag, Brandix, Pharma City etc., thereby generating employment to over 40lakh persons directly or indirectly. As Principal Secretary for Tourism in the newly formed State of Telangana, he was instrumental in creating a brand image for Telangana Tourism and formation of Telangana State Tourism Development Corporation. As the Special Chief Secretary, Planning he was responsible for strengthening of decentralized planning in the State, Planning Department, and established the District Knowledge and Innovation Centers in each district which provide innovative and workable solutions to the district administration in implementation of critical programs. He was heading MCR HRDIT as Director General, since March 2017, and has implemented several innovative training programmes, including e-Learning for field staff, covering over 1 lakh employees in the State, in last three years. After superannuation in October, 2020, he is helping ICMR for their National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research (NARFBR) project in Genome Valley near Hyderabad. He was appointed as Advisor for Industrial cluster development in Punjab and included in the working group for Civil Services reforms by Government on India under Mission Karmayogi