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Administrator Born: November 28, 1986 (age 35 years), Panampilly Nagar, Ernakulam, India Spouse: Renu Raj (m. 2022) Education: Harvard University, S.C.B. Medical College and Hospital cuttack, Medical College Thiruvananthapuram Real Name: Sriram Venkataraman Known Name: Sriram Profession: IAS Officer Famous for: 1. IAS Officer Kochi Political Party: None Date of Birth/DOB/Birthday: 1986 Birthplace: Kochi, Kerala, India Height (Approx): in centimeter: 183 cm in meter: 1.83 m in feet inches: 6′ 0″ Weight (Approx): in kilograms: 78 kg in pound: 171 lbs Eye Colour: Black Hair Colour: Black Zodiac Sign: Not Known Marital Status: Unmarried Marriage Date: Not Known Wife/Spouse: Not Kown Children: None Parents (Family): Father: Name Not Known Mother: Name Not Known Grandfather: Not Known Hobbies: Social Service Food Habit: Non-Vegetarian Religion: Hinduism Home Town: Kochi, Kerala, India Nationality: Indian
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Sriram Venkitaraman is an Indian bureaucrat and physician who belongs to the Indian Administrative Service in Kerala. On 3 August 2019, just two days after he was appointed as the Director of Land survey department he was suspended from government service due to his involvement in a drunken driving car crash that resulted in the death of a senior Kerala journalist K. M. Basheer. The accident happened in the early hours of 3 August 2019. Sriram and his friend Wafa Firoz were travelling in a Volkswagen Vento owned by Firoz, when he lost control over the wheels and hit Basheer near Museum Road. He was suspended for six months and in March 2020, he was reinstated into the Health Department amidst protests by Basheer’s family, and became Joint Secretary in the Department of Health and Social Justice, Kerala. Sriram Venkitaraman was born on 28 November 1986 in Panampilly Nagar, Kochi, Kerala, to father P. R. Venkitaraman, a retired zoology professor and a career consultant, and mother Rajam, a State Bank of India employee. He completed his school education at Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir-Girinagar in 2004, obtained an M.B.B.S from the Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram in 2010, and completed his M.D. at Srirama Chandra Bhanja Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack. He passed the Indian Civil Service Examination in his second attempt in 2012. He later pursued an MPH from Harvard University with a Fulbright scholarship. While Venkitaraman was the sub-collector of Devikulam, he oversaw the demolition of 92 illegally constructed buildings in Munnar and served notices to about 100 resorts and unauthorized constructions at the ecologically sensitive villages in Devikulam taluk. During his tenure, the revenue department took over the Lovedale homestay in Munnar and converted it into the Munnar village office. Venkitaraman was arrested for negligent driving in an intoxicated state after he allegedly hit and killed a journalist in a road traffic accident. Though his co-passenger said she was driving the car, eyewitnesses stated otherwise. Venkitaraman, who was appointed as the director of Survey and Land Records, was suspended from government service after the incident. Government him into service later and he got posted as Joint Secretary in health department. Later he was appointed him as District Collector of Alappuzha district. Though Pinarayi Vijayan, chief minister of Kerala justified the reinstating as a part of the process several organisations including Indian National Congress, Kerala Union of Working Journalists, Muslim Jamaat protested, following which he was transferred to the post of General manager, Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. on 1st August, 2022.
