NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, AUG 19
The Tamil Nadu government, on Monday, appointed N Muruganandam as the new state Chief Secretary, replacing Shiv Das Meena. 56-year-old Muruganandam, a 1991-batch officer, succeeds Shiv Das Meena, who will now head the Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulation Authority (TNRERA) as its Chairman for five years. Meena, who shares an excellent professional rapport with Chief Minister M K Stalin, has got a post-retirement job as he is set to retire in October this year.
Muruganandam is considered one of the finest officers in Tamil Nadu and was hand-picked by the then Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiaga Rajan as the Finance Secretary in November 2021.
A native of Chennai and an alumnus of the prestigious Anna University, Tamil Nadu’s premier engineering institute, Muruganandam had served in key roles in Tamil Nadu and New Delhi. He was the Private Secretary to then Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan…
Muruganandam, as Industries Secretary, was also a key member of a Special Task Force constituted in April 2020 to attract new investments from companies that are likely to exit from “certain countries” (read China) and relocate their manufacturing bases in countries like India to “diversify” their supply chain.
His last posting was Additional Chief Secretary/Secretary to CM
