Anil Kumar Lakhina

Anil Kumar Lakhina is an Indian civil servant and a former Indian Administrative Service officer, known for his administrative reforms which has since come to be known as the Lakhina pattern. He is credited with the urban planning of Navi Mumbai, besides the commissioning of several other major projects. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1986.

Biography Lakhina graduated in science (BSc) from the University of Delhi after which he secured the degree of the Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and followed it with a graduate degree in law from Punjab University. After getting selected into the Indian Administrative Service, he served as the Collector and the District Magistrate of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, where he introduced many office reforms such as enhancement of office environment, simplification of procedures and betterment of customer relations which came to be known as the Lakhina pattern. His contributions are also reported behind the planning and execution of three major projects, Bandra–Worli Sea Link, Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, and the Mumbai Pune Expressway as the chairman and managing director and worked there till his 2008 move to the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation as the managing director. He is associated with Genesys International Corporation Limited, Dun & Bradstreet Tangram Advisory Services Private Limited, the SunBorne Energy group of companies and Lanco Amarkantak Power Limited as a director.

The Government of India awarded the civilian honour of Padma Shri to Lakhina in 1986. He is also a recipient of the National Real Estate Award, which he received in 2013.