Rajasekar assumes office as Madurai district collector

MADURAI: T S Rajasekar on Monday assumed office as the 212th collector of Madurai district. Rajasekar, a 1989 batch Group I officer, joined the state government service in 1989 and was promoted as an IAS officer in 2006.
Prior to assuming office as the Madurai district collector, he was secretary to the Tamil Nadu state election commission.
His earlier assignments include roles in the rural development department in various capacities, state planning commission, World Bank Poverty Reduction Project and the chief minister’s special programme implementation department.
After assuming office on Monday afternoon, Rajasekar presided over the weekly grievances meeting and received petitions from the public and distributed supportive aid to disabled people.
Rajasekar is the fifth district collector Madurai has had in the last one year. K Veera Raghava Rao, who had been the collector since January 2016, was transferred in August 2018. He was succeeded by S Natarajan. After Natarajan’s transfer in the last week of April 2019, over the counting centre strong room controversy, S Nagarajan assumed office. Nagarajan was transferred in the first week of June. District revenue officer S Santhakumar was then appointed as the collector (in-charge).