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T. K. Viswanathan
Shown in 2010

Secretary General of Lok Sabha & Lok Sabha Secretariat

Personal details
Born	(1948-10-14) 14 October 1948 (age 75) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Spouse	Sudha Viswanathan
Children	2 sons
Residence	New Delhi
Awards	Padma Shri (2017)

T. K. Viswanathan (born 14 October 1948) is the Secretary General^[1] of the 15th Lok Sabha^[2] and Lok Sabha Secretariat, Parliament of India, i.e. the House of the People in the Indian Parliament. As Secretary General,^[3] he is also the Administrative head of the Secretariat of the Lok Sabha. The post of Secretary General is of the rank of the Cabinet Secretary in the Government of India, who is the senior most civil servant to the Indian Government. The incumbent to the post is appointed by the Speaker of Lok Sabha in consultation with the Prime Minister of India and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. As per precedence, incumbents to the post of Secretary General have either been senior officers in the Lok Sabha Secretariat or senior civil servants in the Government of India.

In 2017, Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri for his work in the field of literature & education.^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ Viswanathan, T. K. "Bio Profile" (PDF). Lok Sabha Secretariat. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
^ "Speaker Office". Lok Sabha Secretariat.
^ Viswanathan, T.K. "News". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
^ "Padma Awards 2017 announced". pib.gov.in.
^ "List of Padma awardees 2017". The Hindu. 25 January 2017.

External links[edit]

Official Biographical Sketch of Secretary General – Parliament of India

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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Civil Service
1950s	S. K. Dey (1954) Apa Pant (1954) Tarlok Singh (1954) S. P. P. Thorat (1954) Kewal Singh (1955) Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon (1957) Mathew Kandathil Mathulla (1959) Onkar Srinivasa Murthy (1959)
1960s	Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad (1960) Bishnupada Mukerjee (1962) Challagalla Narasimham (1962) P. K. Banerjee (1963) N. G. Krishna Murti (1963) Surinder Singh Bedi (1966) Sanganbasappa Mallangouda Patil (1966) Sardar Mohan Singh (1966) Kiran Chandra Banerjee (1967) Jehangir Shapurji Bhownagary (1968) Krishna Swaroop Mullick (1968) Chand Chhabra (1969) Kumar Nandan Prasad (1969)
1970s	Sunil Kumar Bhattacharya (1970) Jagmohan (1971) Himangshu Mohan Choudhury (1972) Brajbir Saran Das (1972) B. D. Pande (1972) Ranjit Singh Sarkaria (1972) V. Krishnamurthy (1973) Syed Zahoor Qasim (1974) Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (1975) Krishna Prasad Dar (1975) Pessie Madan (1975) Arjan Singh (1975) V. S. Wakankar (1975) Thangam Philip (1976) Rangaswamy Narasimhan (1977) Paul Pothen (1977) B. V. Raju (1977)
1980s	Madhav Gadgil (1981) Mohamed Zainuddin Juvale (1981) Narla Tata Rao (1983) Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1984) Jasdev Singh (1985) Anil Kumar Lakhina (1986) Ramesh Inder Singh (1986) Mohammad Izhar Alam (1987) Gurbachan Jagat (1987) Avinder Singh Brar (1988) Sarbdeep Singh Virk (1988) Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (1989) Ved Marwah (1989)
1990s	Achyut Madhav Gokhale (1990) Mehmoodur Rehman (1991) Prakash Singh (1991) Inderjit Kaur Barthakur (1992) M. K. Narayanan (1992) J. N. Saksena (1992) Oudh Narayan Shrivastava (1992) Chewang Phunsog (1992) Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao (1992)
2000s	E. Sreedharan (2001) Mohammad Ahmed Zaki (2001) Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar (2009)
2010s	D. R. Karthikeyan (2010) Pranab K. Sen (2011) Parveen Talha (2014) P. V. Rajaraman (2015) R. Vasudevan (2015) Kanwal Sibal (2017) T. K. Viswanathan (2017) S. S. Rathore (2018) S. Jaishankar (2019)
2020s	(Nil) (2020) (Nil) (2021) Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) (2022) (Nil) (2023)