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T. V. S. N. Prasad

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T. V. S. N. Prasad
Chief Secretary of Haryana
Assumed office
16 March 2024
GovernorBandaru Dattatreya
Chief MinisterNayab Singh Saini
Preceded bySanjeev Kaushal
Additional Chief Secretary & Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Haryana
In office
3 September 2023 – 1 August 2024
Preceded byRajesh Khullar
Home Secretary, of Haryana
In office
3 August 2022 – 4 July 2024
Preceded byRajiv Arora
Succeeded byAnurag Rastogi
Finance Secretary, of Haryana
In office
19 March 2018 – 3 August 2022
Preceded bySanjeev Kaushal
Succeeded byAnurag Rastogi
Additional Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs
In office
22 July 2017 – 18 March 2018
Joint Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs
In office
3 November 2015 – 21 July 2017
Mission Director, National Mission for Clean Ganga
In office
10 October 2014 – 6 August 2015
Personal details
Born (1964-10-14) 14 October 1964 (age 59)
Razole, Andhra Pradesh, India
SpouseDr. Sridevi Tallapragada
Alma materHarvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
OccupationSenior Indian government functionary

Dr. T.V.S.N. Prasad (Prasad V.S.N. Tallapragada) (born 14 October 1964) is an Indian Administrative Service officer, currently serving as the Chief Secretary of Government of Haryana. He earlier served as the State's Finance, Revenue and Treasury Secretary. He has several publications to his credit on economic issues related to monetary and fiscal policies. He completed his PhD in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[1] He was an Edward S. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management and a John Kenneth Galbraith Scholar in Infrastructure Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He later served as Lead Infrastructure Coordinator at the World Bank for several years, crafting its policies on power, oil and gas sectors, national economic policies, investments, and infrastructure expansion. He worked in the Government of India as Mission Director of National Mission of Clean Ganga, and later as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs. [2]

Early life and education

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Prasad was born in a Telugu family from East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. His father, Hon'ble Mr. Justice T.H.B. Chalapathi, served as a Hon'ble Judge in the Andhra Pradesh High Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court.[3] He completed his schooling from Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet. He obtained his graduation in Bacherlors in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He later went on to study at Harvard University, where he earned a Masters in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on an Edward S. Mason Fellowship. He recently completed his PhD in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Career

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Prasad joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1988, serving in the Haryana Cadre. As an IAS officer, he has held numerous positions, such as Deputy Commissioner, Rohtak and Kurukshetra, founding Chairman and Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh Central Power Distribution Company, Chief Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, and Principal Secretary, Department of Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs, Government of Haryana. During his stint in the Central Government between 2014 and 2018, Prasad served as Mission Director in the National Mission for Clean Ganga and Joint Secretary (later as Additional Secretary) in the Ministry of Home Affairs.[2]

During his career, he has been awarded Best District Collector for Efforts to make the District Achieve the Country Lowest Population Growth Rate (1998).[2] He has also been credited for turning around a loss making electric utility into profit making entity in the States of Haryana and Andhra Pradesh.[4] While at the Ministry of Home Affairs, he chaired a Committee to explore alternative solutions to the use of Pellet Guns by Indian Paramilitary Forces and was instrumental in reviving the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems project.

During his stint at the World Bank, he has served as Senior Energy Specialist and Lead Infrastructure Coordinator in the Africa Division of the World Bank, leading power, oil and gas sector national economic policies, investments, and infrastructure expansion. He has many publications in his name, notably as Lead Author of the book Monitoring Performance of Electric Utilities - Indicators and Benchmarking, which was published by the World Bank in 2009.[5] His efforts in the power and natural oil gas sector have been lauded by many experts in the African region, especially with respect to his work in distribution and generation.

References

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  1. ^ "HARYANA IAS OFFICERS GRADATION LIST". Archived from the original on 2016-11-19. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  2. ^ a b c "Complete Biodata: Shri T V S N Prasad". Executive Record Sheet Generator (IAS Officers). Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014.
  3. ^ "Former Hon'ble Judges of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana". High Court of Punjab and Haryana. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  4. ^ Pandey, Ajay. "REFORMS IN ELECTRICITY. 7.1 TARIFF POLICY IN THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR: A REVIEW" (PDF). IIT Kanpur. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
  5. ^ Prasad, Tallapragada V.S.N.; Maria, Shkaratan; Karina, Izaguirre, Ada; Jaakko, Helleranta; Saifur, Rahman; Sten, Bergman (30 December 2017). "Monitoring Performance of Electric Utilities : Indicators and Benchmarking in Sub-Saharan Africa". World Bank. Retrieved 30 December 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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