- Former Cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian has passed away on 26 February 2018. He was 79.
- Mr Subramanian was the Cabinet Secretary from August 1996, to March 1998.
- He was a 1961 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
- He was part of a group of bureaucrats that filed a PIL seeking directions from the Supreme Court for insulating bureaucracy from political interference following which the Supreme Court rolled out key civil services reforms in 2013.
- The Government of India in 2015, had constituted a Committee for Evolution of the New Education Policy, under the chairmanship of Shri T.S.R. Subramanian.
- He was also a chairman of the committee that was set up by the Union Minister of Environment in 2014 to review all green laws and suggest changes.
- Subramanian was the founder member and former Chancellor of the Shiv Nadar University.
- Books: He wrote several books, some of those are; “India at Turning Point: The Road to Good Governance”, “GovernMint In India: An Inside View” and “Journeys Through Babudom and Netaland: Governance in India”.
