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Senior IAS serviceman Beela Venkatesan passed distant astatine her residence successful Chennai connected Wednesday. She was 55, and is survived by 2 daughters.
She was connected a agelong leave, and had been undergoing attraction for an unwellness for the past 3 months, a household subordinate said. She was serving arsenic the Secretary of the Energy Department.
She was the girl of erstwhile DGP L.N. Venkatesan and erstwhile legislator Rani Venkatesan. The 1997-batch IAS serviceman had held elder positions successful the Tamil Nadu government, and was among those who served arsenic Health Secretary during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A autochthonal of Kanniyakumari district, the IAS serviceman was besides a doctor. She initially served successful Bihar, and was aboriginal shifted to Tamil Nadu. She had besides served successful Jharkhand.
She had served arsenic Special Officer successful the Chief Minister’s Special Cell, the Directorate of Social Welfare, and the Departments of Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare, Fisheries, Commercial Taxes and Registration, Handlooms and Textiles, and Revenue and Disaster Management, among different positions.
In his condolence message, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin expressed his daze implicit her decease and recalled her work successful assorted departments. He besides recalled the challenging task she took up arsenic Health Secretary during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K. Selvaperunthagai besides condoled her decease and underlined her work during the COVID-19 pandemic. He expressed his condolences to Rani Venkatesan and the bereaved family.
