Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao is an Indian civil servant and the former Municipal Commissioner of Surat, a large metropolitan city in the Indian state of Gujarat.
[1] He is best known for his developmental efforts during the 1994 epidemic of plague and for transforming it from a dirty city into one of the cleanest and greenest in India, with the city being rated as the second cleanest in India, after Chandigarh, in a survey conducted by the Indian National Trust for Arts and Culture.
[4] He was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri by the Government of India, in 1998,[5] making him one of the few civil servants to be awarded Padma honours while in service.
[3] He is also a recipient of the Tirupathi Raju Memorial Award.
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