Gurpartap Singh Mann

Gurpartap Singh Mann (born April 11, 1968) was a member of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) from 2018 till 2024 and remained Chief General Manager of the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board of India.

Mann was born in an agricultural family from Punjab. His father, S. Bhupinder Singh Mann, is the leader of the Bharti Kisan Union, and was a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha 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 during the partition of India in 1947 from Faisalabad. Chak 207 in Faisalabad is named after S. Anoop Singh, his grandfather.

He was educated at Baring School and Baring Union Christian College in Batala and obtained his mechanical engineering degree from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Ludhiana 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 the organisation from ground up and the necessary organisational system for PIDB which creates infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships.

He quit PIDB in December 2010 from the Post of Chief General Manager after serving in the organisation for more than 11 years.

Mann was actively involved with the Indian National Congress until he was nominated as a member of the PPSC in March 2018. He remained Member of PPSC till 2024. He remained the Chief Spokesperson of the Congress till 2016. In 2015, Mann was appointed as the founder chairman of the social media cell.

• "All Roads Lead to Punjab". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.

• Malhi, Sukhwinder (23 May 2012). "Bring small farmers under MNREGA, Punjab and Haryana farmers meet Ramesh". Punjab Newsline. Archived from the original on 26 July 2012.
• Punjab-Haryana High Court. "Food Corporation Of India. vs State Of Punjab And Another on 22 June, 2009".
• "RFP for Consultants" (PDF). Punjab Infrastructure Development Board.