T. K. Viswanathan (born 14 October 1948) is the Secretary General of the

15th Lok Sabha Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee. Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 44 more seats than the previou ...

and Lok Sabha Secretariat,

Parliament of India The Parliament of India (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the R ...

, i.e. the House of the People in the Indian Parliament. As Secretary General, he is also the Administrative head of the Secretariat of the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-pas ...

. The post of Secretary General is of the rank of the Cabinet Secretary in the Government of India, who is the senior most civil servant to the Indian Government. The incumbent to the post is appointed by the

Speaker of Lok Sabha The speaker of the Lok Sabha ( IAST: ) is the presiding officer and the highest official of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. The speaker is elected generally in the first meeting of the Lok Sabha following general e ...

in consultation with the Prime Minister of India and the

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in the

. As per precedence, incumbents to the post of Secretary General have either been senior officers in the Lok Sabha Secretariat or senior civil servants in the Government of India. In 2017, Government of India awarded him the fourth highest

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Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is confe ...

for his work in the field of literature & education.

References

External links

Official Biographical Sketch of Secretary General – Parliament of India

External links

*http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/Secretariat/SecretaryGen.aspx *http://164.100.47.132/lss_siteupdation/member/sg.pdf * https://web.archive.org/web/20090831092354/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/sittingmember.aspx

* http://headlinesindia.mapsofindia.com/parliament-news/lok-sabha/viswanathan-assumes-charge-of-lok-sabha-secretary-general-64549.html * http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article799383.ece {{DEFAULTSORT:Viswanathan, T. K. 1948 births Living people 15th Lok Sabha Politicians from Chennai Secretaries General of the Lok Sabha Recipients of the Padma Shri in civil service