He has been Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Chief Secretary-Jammu & Kashmir, Principal Secretary-Government of Chhattisgarh, and has held positions in the Prime Minister’s Office.
[3] Subrahmanyam worked in the PMO between 2004–2008 and March 2012–March 2015, serving under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi.
This, along with his on-field approach, and a change in defensive tactics to offensive strategies, has been effective in countering the Maoist insurgency in the region.
[3] In August 2020, B. V. R. Subrahmanyam, while speaking to some journalists, had said that "J&K was a 'broken state' — the governance was broken badly, there was no system, no rules, and decay began a long time ago.
Not a single soul had cried over detention of political and separatist leaders in August last year, when Centre scrapped J&K’s status".
[10] Subramanyam, as the CEO of NITI Aayog, played a significant role in the discussions related to the G20 meetings, focusing on green and sustainable growth for the global economy.