Uttar Pradesh government on February 05, 2015 appointed N P Singh as the new district magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar.
Shri Nagendra Prasad Singh is 2005-batch IAS officer from UP cadre. Singh replaces Chandra Kant who was shifted to Aligarh as divisional commissioner two days ago. N P Singh was district magistrate of Shamli in western UP prior to being transferred to Noida.
N P Singh was deputy chief executive officer of Noida Authority during Mayawati’s regime. He was instrumental in settling farmer issues that time. He has been brought in to help the state’s Samajwadi Party government in tackling the agitating farmers issues in the district.