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Ramamoorthy Selvam joined IAS in 2001 and has been allotted to Himachal Pradesh cadre. Before joining IAS, he had served as Agricultural Officer in the Govt of Tamil Nadu from 1996 to 1999. Since 1999 to 2001 he completed his training in Indian Railway Traffic Service. He graduated from Agricultural College & Research Institute-Killikulam in 1993 and completed post-graduation in Plant Pathology in 1995 from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore. He completed his postgraduation in Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) in 2016 from Harvard University-USA. Recently he joined as Executive Director-Council for Leather Exports-Chennai in the month of April-2018.
He had served in various capacities in the state of Himachal Pradesh. The important postings include Deputy Commissioner (Collector) in Lahaul & Spiti district and Hamirpur district, Special Secretary, Power, MPP, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Special Secretary-PWD, Special Secretary-Revenue, Ex-officio Secretary cum Director-Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Registrar-Cooperatives, State Commissioner for Commercial Taxes and Excise.
He also served in Government of India in various capacities since 2007 to 2014. He served in the Ministry of Home Affairs and as an advisor to Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. He also served as Joint Director General of Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
He has successfully implemented several state and Government of India programs. The remotest district of Lahaul & Spiti had been selected for the Best Infrastructure Development at All India Level for his contribution in the development of the district. The state of Himachal Pradesh was declared as second Open Defecation Free state at National level in October-2016 during his tenure. He was instrumental for the same. The rural development departmentGovt of Himachal Pradesh received several National awards for his exceptional contributions in Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana, National Rural-Urban Mission and in MGNREGA. He also significantly involved in framing new pharma pricing policy, new urea investment policy and various other policy-making issues at national levels.
He is interested in serving the downtrodden, farming and in writing about several social issues. He has been writing on Dinamani, Indian Express and Financial Express.
He authored a novel “Panaiyadi” an inspirational best seller, which you dare to dream.
