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India would be global economic power says Sh. T.V.S.N. Prasad, IAS
T. V. S. N. Prasad (born 14 October 1964) is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1988 Batch, who currently is serving as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. He is an Edward S. Mason Fellow in public policy and management, and a John Kenneth Galbraith Scholar in infrastructure economics at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was Lead Infrastructure Coordinator and Senior Energy Specialist in the Africa Division of the World Bank, leading power, oil and gas sector national economic polices, investments, and infrastructure expansion.
Contents
- India would be global economic power says Sh TVSN Prasad IAS
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Early life and education
T.V.S.N. Prasad was born in a Telugu family from East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. His father, Justice T.H.B. Chalapathi, served as a High Court Judge in the Andhra Pradesh High Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court. 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, (Class of 2004).
Career
Prasad joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1988, serving in the Haryana Cadre. As an IAS officer, he served in many 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, Haryana Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs. During his career, he has been awarded Best District Collector for Efforts to make the District Achieve the Country Lowest Population Growth Rate (1998). 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.
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 polices, 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. 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.