K S Srinivas IAS, Principal Secretary – Fisheries, Government of Kerala has been given full additional charge of the Department of Tourism in place of Dr. V. Venu IAS, Additional Chief Secretary – Higher Education, who was holding the additional charge of Tourism since July 07, 2021.
Mr. Srinivas, a 1997 batch Kerala cadre Indian Administrative Service officer, hailing from Cuddapah in Andhra Pradesh. He graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal with an engineering degree in electronics and communications. Thereafter, Srinivas completed a Postgraduate degree in marketing, finance, economics, and management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1997.
Before qualifying to Indian Administrative Services, Srinivas started his career at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) in Hyderabad, where he worked for 7 years until 1994. Thereafter he worked as a manager in the corporate office of Unit Trust of India, Mumbai for four months in 1997.
He started his civil service carrier as a Sub Collector in Fort Kochi for 2 years, before moving to the Kannur as a District Collector from Sep 1999 to August 2001. He also served as the District Collector of Palakkad and has launched multiple initiatives E-office, an e-Governance project, National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. Later he was appointed as the Managing Director at the Malabar Cements at the Walayar, Palakkad District for the tenure of 2 years. He served as the Department’s Head of Industries & IT department, Kerala for four years. In addition to being the head of the department, also held additional charge as MD of Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd, Chavara, Kollam & Travancore Titanium Products Limited, Trivandrum. He was then appointed as joint secretary at the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India from February 2015 to Aug 2018. He implemented the Electronic National Agricultural Marketing project in the country. In August 2018, Srinivas was appointed as the chairman of the Marine Products Export Development Authority, a statutory body under the Ministry of Commerce, Govt of India located in Kochi, Kerala. He implemented the Seafood Import Monitoring Programme of the USA for the export of frozen shrimps from India to the United States.
Mr. Srinivas is a recipient of several administrative and management awards including the Corporate Leadership Award from the Department of Industries, Government of Kerala. He was also honored with the Best Award for implementing NREGA from Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and the Rajbhasha Keerti Award from Vice President Mr. M. Venkaiah Naidu for the best implementation of Hindi in MPEDA.
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