Senior IAS officer Girija Vaidyanathan was appointed Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu replacing P Rama Mohana Rao.
Senior IAS officer Girija Vaidyanathan was appointed Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu on Thursday, replacing P Rama Mohana Rao whose residence and office was raided by the Income Tax department on Wednesday. "Dr Girija Vaidyanathan IAS, Additional Chief Secretary/ Commissioner of Land Administration, is transferred and posted as Chief Secretary to Government, vice Dr P Ramamohana Rao," a Public (Special A) Department order dated December 22 said. Vaidyanathan shall also hold full additional charge of the post of Vigilance Commissioner and Commissioner for Administrative Reforms, previously held by Rao, it said.
But, who is Girija Vaidyanathan who will be the 45th Chief Secretary of the state?
1. A PhD holder from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Girija Vaidyanathan is 1981 batch IAS officer. She started her career as a Sub-Collector in 1983 and is currently the Commissioner of Land Administration.
2. She was the principal secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department in the Government of Tamil Nadu, Mission Director of National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) and has also worked in health, education, agriculture, transportation and state planning departments over her 34 year long career.
3. Though she has been closer to DMK, rather than AIADMK, she was the brain behind public health and education projects during Jayalalithaa’s first regime.
4. She was the Mission Director of the State Health Society when Tamil Nadu won the award for best performance among the non-empowered action group States.
5. Her father S Venkitaramanan, was the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor from 1990 to 1992.
(With PTI inputs)
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