Pararajasingam Nadesan

Pararajasingam Nadesan, CMG, OBE, CCS (20 December 1917 - ) was a Ceylonese civil servant. He was the Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister of Ceylon.

Educated at the Ceylon University College, he graduated with a BA from the University of London. He joined the Ceylon Civil Service in June 1941 as a cadet on appointment of the Governor. He served in the Kegalle, Kandy and Batticaloa Kachcheris. Promoted to class 2, he served as an assistant government agent, additional magistrate, additional deputy controller of labor, land officer, assistant secretary - ministry of transport and works, before appointment as additional secretary to the prime minister and director civil aviation. In 1953 he succeeded Nandasara Wijetilaka Atukorala as secretary to the prime minister.[1]

He was appointed a Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 Birthday Honours and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1955 New Year Honours.[2]

References
  1. Ceylon Civil List 1954. Colombo: Government of Ceylon.
  2. "FOURTH SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette OF FRIDAY, 3ist DECEMBER, 1954" (PDF). thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
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