Former Chief Secretary of combined Andhra Pradesh S.V. Prasad succumbs to COVID-19
The Hindu
The 1975 batch officer held key posts during the regimes of both N. Chandrababu Naidu and Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and was known to be a non-controversial officer.
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