Thottuvelil Krishna Pillai Ayappan Nair (born in 1939) is a career civil servant who formerly served as Adviser to the Prime Minister of India with the rank of the Minister of State. He also previously served as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister of India. He is a 1963 batch

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from

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Cadre. He also presently serves as Member of Board of Governors of

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM Kozhikode or IIMK) is an autonomous public business school located in Calicut (Kozhikode), Kerala. The institute, set up in 1996 by the Government of India in collaboration with the State Governmen ...

and Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh. He formerly served as Chairman of

Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation Ltd. is the industrial and investment promotion agency of the Government of Kerala (India), for the promotion and development of medium and large scale units in the State of Kerala. As the Nodal ...

Early life and education

Nair was born in Ayroor,

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

to Krishna Pillai and Bharathy Amma. He graduated with

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...

(Honours) in History from the University College, Trivandrum.

Career

He later served as the Chief Secretary of

. and Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Environment & Forest. Later he served as Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office during the terms of I.K.Gujral and Atal Bihari Vajpaayee. Subsequently, he was Chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board which selects Chief Executives of India’s Public Sector Undertakings. He served as Principal Secretary and later as Advisor to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh from 2004 to 2014. Presently, he is the Managing Trustee of Citizens India Foundation – a charitable trust – and Executive Vice President of Kerala Blood Bank Society.

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The power of the small story

TKA Nair appointed as OSD to Prime Minister before becoming Principal Secretary

Sanskrit helps us identify our culture: Nair

TKA Nair: Prime Minister's messenger of peace

Civil Servants from Kerala hold key posts at Centre
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nair, T. K. A. 1941 births Living people Nair, T. K. A. Nair, T. K. A. People from Pathanamthitta district Manmohan Singh administration Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class

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Career

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