Amaravati: Nilam Sawhany appointed as Chief Secretary, orders issued
Amaravati: As expected, Nilam Sawhney, IAS of AP cadre 1984 batch was appointed as Chief Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday. The principal secretary, general administration department issued orders with this effect.
He relieved Neerabh KumarPrasad, CCLA of the additional charge in the same order.
It is worth to mention here that, Praveen Prakash transferred the former CS LV Subrahmanyam, after differences with him recently. Sawhany came to the post because of Praveen Prakash, according to sources in the secretariat.
Its known that, she was in central services took recently. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), union government approved repatriation of Sawhney, working as Secretary, Department of Social Justice & Empowerment, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment to her parent cadre on the request of AP Government.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel and Training, govt of India has issued the orders, relieving her from central services, on Monday.
The 1984 cadre IAS officer first served as Assistant Collector at Machilipatnam in Krishna district during 1985-86. Then served as Sub Collector at Tekkali between 1986-88. Between 1988-90, she rendered services as Joint Collector in Nalgoda district, presently in Telangana state.
In the year 1990, she worked as Deputy Secretary at HMA and UD department. After serving in various positions between 1990 to 1995, she was appointed as Joint Secretary in Energy department in the year 1995 and continued till 1996 on the same post.
Between 1996 to 1999, the IAS officer served as district collector in Nalgoda district.
During the period from 1999-2004, she served as Commissioner at Directorate of Family Welfare.
She worked as Secretary, Transport, Roads and Buildings for one year between 2004-05. Again she was appointed as Commissioner, sports, VC and MD for SAAP for short period in 2005, during the regime of then CM YS Rajasekhar Reddy.