Nalini Netto

Nalini Netto is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service. She served as State Chief Secretary and took office on 1 April 2017, from incumbent S. M. Vijayanand. She is the 42nd head and 4th women head of the state bureaucracy.[1] Before becoming the chief secretary she had been in the post of Chief Electoral Officer and Home secretary. Nalini Netto was in news when she filed a case against the Transport minister Neelalohithadasan Nadar in 2000 when she was the Transport Secretary.[2]

Nalini Netto
Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala
In office
April 2017 – August 2017
GovernorP. Sathasivam
Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan
Preceded byS. M. Vijayanand IAS
Succeeded byDr. K. M. Abraham IAS
Personal details
Born19 August 1957
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
SpouseDesmond Netto IPS
Alma materUniversity of Kerala
OccupationBureaucrat

Personal life

Nalini Netto was born in 1957[3] at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala to Professor T.S. Ramakrishnan and Chandra Ramakrishnan. Nalini's brother Mohan is an Indian Revenue Service officer. Her husband Desmond Netto is a retired IPS officer in Kerala. Her cousin Girija Vaidyanathan was Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu[4]

Netto holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Kerala.

Career
Nalini Netto(left)

In her long career, Nalini Netto has held key posts including the State, starting from 1981, as Tourism Secretary, Irrigation Secretary and District Collector of Thiruvananthapuram. She was then made the Transport Secretary in 1999. Later, Nalini became the first woman to hold the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO). Then, she served as the CEO for 11 years. Nalini Netto became the Additional Chief Secretary in 2014. She became Chief Secretary in April 2017. She retired in August 2017. After retirement, she was appointed as Chief Principal Secretary of Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan. She resigned from the post in March 2019 citing personal reasons.[5]

Sexual harassment case

In 1999, Nalini, who was the Transport Secretary then, boldly reacted to alleged sexual harassment by Transport Minister Neelalohitadasan Nadar, leading to the resignation of the latter. Though Nadar was later acquitted in the case, the IAS officer sent out a strong message by pursuing the case against the politician. T P Sundararajan, a retired Intelligence bureaucrat turned law professor, was the one who fought the case for her.[6] Before this incident Nadar was penalized for a similar case filed in by the forest officer Prakriti Srivastava.[7]

References
  1. Correspondent, Special. "Nalini Netto is new Chief Secretary". The Hindu. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  2. "Battle Of The Atoms". outlookindia.com/. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Now, Two Cousins, Nalini And Girija, Head The Bureaucracy Of Kerala And Tamil Nadu". outlookindia.com/. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  5. Staff Reporter (12 March 2019). "Nalini Netto quits as CM's Principal Secretary". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  6. "The Secret of the Temple". The New Yorker. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  7. "The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2004. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
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