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Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao

Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao

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Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao is an Indian civil servant and the former Municipal Commissioner of Surat, a large metropolitan city in the Indian state of Gujarat.[1] He is best known for his developmental efforts during the 1994 epidemic of plague and for transforming it from a dirty city into one of the cleanest and greenest in India, with the city being rated as the second cleanest in India, after Chandigarh, in a survey conducted by the Indian National Trust for Arts and Culture.[2] Later he became the chairman of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust and during his tenure there, the port is reported to have become a major port in India.[3] He also served as the Secretary of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.[4] He was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri by the Government of India, in 1998,[5] making him one of the few civil servants to be awarded Padma honours while in service.[3] He is also a recipient of the Tirupathi Raju Memorial Award.[3]

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  1. [1]
    "Cleaning Up The Plague City". Outlook. 27 November 1996. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Not the same Surat". Himal. March 1998. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  3. [3]
    "His was a purposeful life". The Hindu. 14 April 2003. Archived from the original on 7 May 2003. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
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    "SR Rao named Union commerce secretary". Kammas World. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. [5]
    "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.


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