His Excellency Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan |
|
---|---|
Governor of Andhra Pradesh | |
Assumed office 27 December 2009 |
|
Preceded by | Narayan Dutt Tiwari |
Governor of Telangana | |
Assumed office 2 June 2014 |
|
Preceded by | Office Created |
Governor of Chhattisgarh | |
In office 25 January 2007 – 27 December 2009 |
|
Preceded by | Krishna Mohan Seth |
Succeeded by | Shekhar Dutt |
Director, Intelligence Bureau (India) | |
In office January 2005 – December 2006 |
|
Personal details | |
Born | 1946 (age 71–72) Madras Presidency, British India (now Tamil Nadu, India) |
Spouse(s) | Vimala Narasimhan |
Residence | Raj Bhavan, Hyderabad |
Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan (born 1946) is the Governor of Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (Additional Charge). He assumed office of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in December 2009 and Governor of Telangana on 2 June 2014. A retired Indian Police Service officer, he previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau from January 2002 to December 2006. He served as the Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2007 to 2009.
Narasimhan was born in Tamil Nadu in 1946. After an initial two years schooling at Little Flower High School, Hyderabad, he completed his entire education from Chennai. Migrating from Physics to Political science, Shri Narasimhan is a gold medallist from the Madras Presidency College. He is also a graduate in Law from Madras Law College.
Narasimhan belongs to the 1968 batch of IPS from Andhra Pradesh cadre. He served as the First Secretary in the Embassy of India in Moscow from 1981 to 1984. He is highly respected police official.
He worked in the Intelligence Bureau for many years until retiring as the director of the bureau on 31 December 2006. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence College, New Delhi.
On 19 January 2007, Narasimhan was appointed Governor of Chhattisgarh, and took office on 25 January. On 27 December 2009, he took additional charge as acting Governor of Andhra Pradesh, from Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who resigned after a sex scandal. On 23 January 2010, he was formally appointed to the governorship of Andhra Pradesh, upon leaving office in Chhattisgarh.