K. M. Chandrasekhar was a India

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n civil servant, who was the 29th Cabinet Secretary

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 of the Republic of India. He is presently the Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Planning Board

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He is a 1970 batch Indian Administrative Service

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 officer

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 from Kerala

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 Cadre.

Early life and education

K. M. Chandrasekhar was born in Kerala to Kesava Menon, who was Chairman of the Railway Service Commission. After graduating from St Stephens College in New Delhi, he got an MA in history from the University of Delhi. He then earned his M.A. in Management Studies from the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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Career

Chandrasekhar earlier served as the Revenue Secretary of India and also India's Ambassodor to WTO in Geneva before which he was a Joint Secretary to the Government of India

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 in the Ministry of Commerce. Chandrasekhar was the first IAS

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 officer at Director of Fisheries in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 and Managing Director(MD) of Civil Supplies in Ernakulam

Ernakulam

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He was appointed as the Vice Chairman of the Kerala State Planning Board with Cabinet rank on 15-June-2011, two days after he retired as Cabinet Secretary.

Personal life

K. M. Chandrasekhar is married to Jaya Chandrasekhar. They only have a daughter who now heads the Automotive Component Manufacturers' Association in Bangalore. She is a mechanical engineer from IIT Chennai and management graduate from IIM Bangalore.