India, April 12 -- Former municipal commissioner and retired bureaucrat Praveen Pardeshi is likely to be appointed as chief economic advisor to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Pardeshi, an IAS officer of the 1985 batch, was additional chief secretary to Fadnavis, in his earlier stint as chief minister.

A few days ago, Pardeshi was appointed chairperson of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee, the civic panel that oversees the conservation of heritage structures and heritage precincts in the city. He is currently chief executive officer of MITRA, a government think tank, and will continue in that position.

Pardeshi was earlier state forest secretary, secretary to former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, and additional chief secre...