The chief secretary of Tamil Nadu is the highest ranking officer in the Government of Tamil Nadu, who serves as the head of the state administration, and the secretariat. The chief secretary is a senior Indian Administrative Service officer, and is appointed by the Governor of Tamil Nadu on the recommendation of the chief minister. The secretary also acts as the ex-officio secretary to the council of ministers. The functions include administration and managing of the secretariat, providing secretarial assistance to the cabinet, coordination and implementation of policies and decisions of the government, providing requisite data and information to the cabinet, and organising cabinet meetings amongst others. The chief secretary ranks 23rd on the Indian order of precedence.
Chief Secretaries +List of chief secretariesNo.Name Term of officeChief MinisterAssumed officeLeft officeTime in officeChief Secretary of Madras Presidency1C. W. E. Cotton192919312 yearsP. Subbarayan B. Munuswamy Naidu2Geoffrey Bracken193119354 yearsB. Munuswamy Naidu Ramakrishna Ranga Rao3C. F. Brackenbury193519383 yearsRamakrishna Ranga Rao P. T. Rajan Kurma Venkata Reddy Naidu4G. T. Boag193819391 yearC. Rajagopalachari5S. V. Ramamurthy193919434 yearsC. Rajagopalachari Governor-general's rule6Christopher Masterman194319474 yearsGovernor-general's rule T. PrakasamChief Secretary of Madras State (post independence)1K. Ramunni Menon 15 August 194719558 yearsOmanthur P. Ramaswamy Reddiar P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja Rajaji K. Kamaraj2C. K. Vijayaraghavan 19541955K. Kamaraj3W. R. S. Sathianathan (1900-195519595 years4M. V. Subramanian (1900-5T. N. S. Raghavan (1901-195919606R. A. Gopalaswami (1902-196019627S. K. Chettur (1905-1972)19621964K. Kamaraj M. Bhakthavatsalam8T. A. Varghese (1907-196410 November 1965M. Bhakthavatsalam9C. A. Ramakrishnan (1910-10 November 196513 January 1969M. Bhakthavatsalam C.N.Annadurai Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu1C. A. Ramakrishnan (1910-14 January 196913 November 1969C.N.Annadurai V. R. Nedunchezhiyan M. Karunanidhi2E. P. Royappa (1918–1993)14 November 196912 April 1971M. Karunanidhi3P. Sabanayagam (1922–2023)12 April 197111 March 1976M. Karunanidhi President's rule4V. Karthikeyan (1924–2014)12 March 197615 February 1977President's rule5C. V. R. Panikar (1926–2020)16 February 197729 June 1977(4)V. Karthikeyan (1924–2014)30 June 197721 August 1981M. G. Ramachandran President's rule6K. Diraviam (1925-1983)22 August 198124 January 1983M. G. Ramachandran7K. Chockalingam (1926-)11 February 198331 March 19858T. V. Antony (1933–2020)1 April 198520 July 19869A. Padmanabhan (1928–)21 July 19865 February 1988M. G. Ramachandran V. R. Nedunchezhiyan V. N. Janaki Ramachandran President's rule10M. M. Rajendran (1935–2023)6 February 198818 January 1991President's rule M. Karunanidhi(8)T. V. Antony (1933–2020)19 January 199125 June 1991M. Karunanidhi President's rule11T. V. Venkataraman (1935–2018)26 June 199131 May 1994J. Jayalalithaa12N. Haribhaskar (1936-31 May 199427 May 1996J. Jayalalithaa M. Karunanidhi13K. A. Nambiar (1938-6 June 199630 June 1998M. Karunanidhi14A. P. Muthuswami (1941-30 June 199831 May 2001M. Karunanidhi J. Jayalalithaa15P. Shankar (1943–2024)1 June 20016 June 2002J. Jayalalithaa O. Panneerselvam16Sukavaneshvar (1944-10 June 20022 December 2002J. Jayalalithaa17Lakshmi Pranesh (1945–)2 December 200230 April 200518N. Narayanan (1948-)1 May 200512 May 200619L. K. Tripathy (1948–2013)13 May 200631 August 2008M. Karunanidhi20K. S. Sripathi (1951–)1 September 200831 August 201021S. Malathi (1954–2012)1 September 201015 May 201122Debendranath Sarangi (1953–)16 May 201131 December 2012J. Jayalalithaa23Sheela Balakrishnan (1954–)31 December 201231 March 201424Mohan Verghese Chunkath (1956–)31 March 20142 December 2014J. Jayalalithaa O. Panneerselvam25K. Gnanadesikan (1959–)2 December 20146 June 201626P. Rama Mohana Rao (1957–)6 June 201622 December 201627Girija Vaidyanathan (1959–)22 December 201630 June 2019O. Panneerselvam Edappadi K. Palaniswami28K. Shanmugam (1960–)30 June 201931 January 2021Edappadi K. Palaniswami29Rajeev Ranjan (1961–)1 February 20216 May 202130V. Irai Anbu (1963–)7 May 202130 June 2023M. K. Stalin31Shiv Das Meena (1964–)1 July 202319 August 202432N. Muruganandam (1969–)19 August 20248 April 2026 33M. Sai Kumar (1966–)8 April 2026Incumbent M. K. StalinC. Joseph Vijay
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See also Advocate General Director General of Police List of chief secretaries of Assam List of chief secretaries of Maharashtra List of chief secretaries of Mizoram List of chief secretaries of Uttarakhand
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