TSR Subramanian

Some Lesser Known Facts About TSR Subramanian

• Subramanian was born in a Tamil middle-class family.

• He was a 1961 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

• He had served as the Secretary in the Ministry of Textiles.

• In 1992, after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, he was sent to Uttar Pradesh as Chief Secretary.

• He had served as the Cabinet Secretary from August 1996 to March 1998 headed by then Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda.

• He served as Non-Executive Director at HCL Technologies Ltd. from September 1999 to November 2011.

• He also headed many government committees.

• He always gave impetus on education and environment and wrote many blogs related to it.

• As an author, he wrote books, such as – “India at Turning Point: The Road to Good Governance”, “GovernMint In India: An Inside View”, “Journeys Through Babudom and Netaland: Governance in India.”

• He had a strong stand against the interference of politicians in bureaucracy and filed a petition in The Supreme Court reguarding a fixed tenure for bureaucrats, to stop transfers of civil servants by politicians on regular intervals.

• He began as ‘The Indian Express’ columnist in 2015.

• After retiring, he lead a Committee to form national education policy which was presented to the NDA government in 2016, but was rejected.