Arup Roy Choudhury is the Chief Commissioner, Right to Public Service Commission in West Bengal, India.
He was previously the CMD of NTPC Limited, India's biggest power generating utility.Arup Roy Choudhury's ancestors came to Patna in Bihar in the 1920s.
His paternal grandfather belonged to the landowning (Zamindar) class of Taki in today's West Bengal and had to leave home under adverse family circumstances due to sudden death of his father.
Choudhury's father was a member of the Bihar Government.
His mother came from the Zamindar family of Bagerhat in Khulna, in present-day Bangladesh.