![]() He was appointed to the ICS (on probation) on 29 September 1937, and was confirmed in his appointment on 9 September 1938 (gazetted 1 September 1938). At his father's insistence, he then sat the Indian Civil Service examinations in London, succeeding on his second attempt. After completing high school in Razole, he took a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge. ![]() Rao's son Valluri Narayan is a retired IAS officer, he retired as member secretary, Expenditure Reform Commission. He got married at the age of 18 to Nidamarthi Prabhavathi in the year 1932. His oldest brother Valluri Parthasarathi was a judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court. He had five siblings, three brothers and two sisters. Rao was born in a small village in the Godavari District of the Madras Presidency, the present-day East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. Rao was principal secretary to the President of India Neelam Sanjiva Reddy from 1981 to 1982. He later served the central government on the Planning Commission before returning to Andhra Pradesh as its chief secretary. After the founding of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 Rao became that state's first secretary of public works. He transferred to Andhra State after it was founded in 1953. ![]() After Independence Rao joined the Indian government's finance department and transferred into the newly founded Indian Administrative Service. He served in the civil service of the British Raj as a collector and magistrate. Valluri Kameswara Rao (15 July 1914 – 27 November 2018) was an Indian Civil Service officer and Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh, and the oldest living officer of the Indian Civil Service at the time of his death.
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