Neerabh Prasad takes charge as AP chief secretary

VIJAYAWADA: Senior bureaucrat Neerabh Kumar Prasad took charge on Friday as the Chief Secretary to the Andhra Pradesh government.

The general administration department issued the orders appointing Prasad as the CS. He took charge after obtaining the blessings of Vedic scholars of the TTD and the Vijayawada Sri Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna Swamy Devasthanam (Durga temple), at the CS Chamber of the state Secretariat in Velagapudi.

Prasad thanked CM-designate Nara Chandrababu Naidu for giving him this opportunity. “I shall do my best to take the state forward in all fields,” he said.

GAD secretary Suresh Kumar, special CSs Gopala Krishna Dwivedi, Rajat Bhargava, K. Vijayanand, PCCF Y. Madhusudan Reddy, chief secretaries K. Sunitha, Praveen Prakash, Pradyumna, IT secretary K. Sasidhar, Services department secretary P. Bhaskar, secretary to mines Sridhar, civil supplies commissioner Arun Kumar, home special secretary Vijayakumar, debt commissioner Satya Narayana, EFST special secretary Chalapathi Rao were among those present.

PROFILE: Neerabh Kumar Prasad, a B.Tech Mechanical Engineering graduate started as assistant collector trainee in West Godavari district in 1988. In 1996 he functioned as the collector of Khammam and in 1998 as collector of Chittoor.

In 2005, he served as VC and MD of the state dairy development corporation and in 2007 as commissioner to the industries department. In 2012, he served as the commissioner of the state municipal administration and urban development corporation, as principal secretary of GAD in 2014 after the bifurcation of the state, and as the chief secretary of YATC in 2015.

He served as the chief commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) from November 2019 and as the special chief secretary to the state environment, forest and science and technology departments from February 23, 2022.