3 ex-IAS get Padma awards: Gopalaswami, Vasudevan (posthumous), Rajaraman; but all belong to Tamil Nadu

Gopalaswami (File photo)

THE names of three former civil servants -- ex-Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami, former GoI secretary R Vasudevan (posthumous) and former secretary to Tamil Nadu government PV Rajaraman – have figured in the list of Padma award winners this year, as announced by the government on the eve of the Republic Day. Incidentally, all the three former officers happen to be from Tamil Nadu. Among them, Gopalaswami was…