Friday, November 17, 2006

M. Ramaswamy is the new Secretary of The Auroville Foundation

For the day-to-day management of the Foundation, the Central Government appoints a Secretary who is responsible to the Chairman of the Governing Board. The Secretary is a high-level officer from the Indian Administrative Service or a similar organisation. The Secretary lives in Auroville.

From November 1st 2006, a senior IAS official, Mr. M. Ramaswamy, originally from Tamil Nadu, has accepted to fulfil the function. Mr. Ramaswamy served from 1975 to 1978 as Revenue Divisional Officer, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, and got to know Auroville at the time. From then onwards he served in various Chief Executive functions in Maharashtra . Previous secretaries were:

Mr. S.R. Sharma, I.A.S.
Mr. N. Bala Baskar, I.A.S.
Dr. S.C. De, I.P.S.
Mr. L.K. Tripathy, I.A.S.

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