Hyderabad: Senior IAS officer K. Ramakrishna Rao has been appointed as the Chief Secretary of the Telangana government.
The appointment was officially announced through government orders issued on Sunday. The current Chief Secretary of Telangana Santhi Kumari is scheduled to retire on April 30, following which Ramakrishna Rao will assume the position.
Ramakrishna Rao, a 1991-batch IAS officer, is currently serving as the Special Chief Secretary for Finance in the Telangana government. Since February 2016, he has been handling key responsibilities within the Finance Department. His term is expected to conclude in August this year.
Over nearly 12 years in the Finance Department, Ramakrishna Rao has played a pivotal role in framing 14 Telangana State Budgets, which include 12 full budgets and two vote-on-account budgets. He presented the first full-fledged Telangana budget on 5 November 2014.
An officer from the 1991 IAS batch, Ramakrishna Rao previously served as the Collector of Guntur and Adilabad districts in the undivided Andhra Pradesh. He has also served as Commissioner of the Education Department and as Principal Secretary of the Planning Department.
Academically, he holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur, an M.Tech from IIT Delhi, and an MBA from Duke University in the United States. He was actively involved in the process of bifurcation of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh during 2013–14. Following the formation of Telangana, he continued as the Principal Secretary of the Finance Department and has now been appointed as the Chief Secretary.
