tirunellai narayana iyer seshan was a retired ias officer who served as the election commissioner of india between 1990 and 1996.
tirunellai narayana iyer seshan was a retired ias officer who served as the election commissioner of india between 1990 and 1996.
this retired ias officer has served as the election commissioner of india between 1990 and 1996?
tirunellai narayana iyer seshan
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tirunellai narayana iyer seshan is a retired 1955 batch indian administrative service (ias) officer of tamil nadu cadre, best remembered as the man who cleaned up elections in india. he was the 10th chief election commissioner of india (1990–96), who reformed elections by largely ending its malpractices in the country. and redefined the status and visibility of the election commission of india. an indian administrative service officer, he earlier served as the 18th cabinet secretary of india in 1989. he won the ramon magsaysay award for government service in 1996.









































section::::early life and education.
t. n. seshan
the case was filed as a public interest civil writ petition by t. s. r. subramanian, retired indian administrative service (ias) officer and former cabinet secretary; t. s. krishnamurthy, retired ias officer and former chief election commissioner; n. gopalaswami, retired ias officer and former chief election commissioner; abid hussain, retired ias officer and former indian ambassador to the united states; ved prakash marwah, retired indian police service (ips) officer and former manipur governor; joginder singh, retired ips officer and former director of the central bureau of investigation, and 77 others in 2011. it was heard by a division bench comprising justices k. s. panicker radhakrishnan and pinaki chandra ghose from 2011 to 2013.
t. s. r. subramanian v. union of india