Sai Prasad takes over as Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh

Senior IAS serviceman G. Sai Prasad connected Saturday assumed complaint arsenic Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh astatine the State Secretariat, succeeding K. Vijayanand, who retired from work the aforesaid day.

Mr. Sai Prasad took implicit the reins astatine 11.33 a.m. aft a peculiar spiritual ceremonial and blessings from priests of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams and Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Devasthanam.

Senior officials, including Special Chief Secretaries S.S. Rawat and M.T. Krishna Babu, Ex Officio Special Chief Secretary B. Rajasekhar, and Principal Secretaries Syamala Rao, Mukesh Kumar Meena and Kanthilal Dande, were contiguous connected the occasion.

Secretaries, heads of departments, representatives of assorted worker unions, and Chairman of the State 20-Point Programme Implementation Committee Lanka Dinakar, on with heads of respective corporations, extended their greetings and presented bouquets to the caller Chief Secretary.

A 1991-batch IAS serviceman of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, Mr. Sai Prasad is an M.Tech graduate. He began his vocation arsenic Assistant Collector successful Warangal and aboriginal served successful cardinal positions, including Assistant Collector successful Paderu, Commissioner of Guntur Municipal Corporation, Joint Collector of Kadapa, and Collector of Kurnool and Chittoor districts.