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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>Tirupathi Raju Memorial Award
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'''Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao''' is an Indian civil servant and the former Municipal Commissioner of the [[Surat]], a large metropolitan city in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]].<ref name="Cleaning Up The Plague City">{{cite web | url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/cleaning-up-the-plague-city/202600 | title=Cleaning Up The Plague City | publisher=Outlook | date=27 November 1996 | accessdate=27 October 2015}}</ref> He is best known for his developmental efforts during the 1994 epidemic of [[Plague (disease)|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.<ref name="Not the same Surat">{{cite web | url=http://old.himalmag.com/component/content/article/2442-not-the-same-surat.html | title=Not the same Surat | publisher=Himal | date=March 1998 | accessdate=27 October 2015}}</ref> Later he became the chairman of the [[Visakhapatnam Port|Visakhapatnam Port Trust]] and during his tenure there, the port is reported to have become a major port in India.<ref name="His was a purposeful life">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/14/stories/2003041400980100.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030507062538/http://thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/14/stories/2003041400980100.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=7 May 2003 | title=His was a purposeful life | date=14 April 2003 | work=[[The Hindu]] | accessdate=27 October 2015}}</ref> He also served as the Secretary of the [[Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)|Ministry of Communications and Information Technology]] and the [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Ministry of Commerce and Industry]].<ref name="SR Rao named Union commerce secretary">{{cite web | url=http://kammasworld.blogspot.ae/2012/05/sr-rao-named-union-commerce-secretary.html | title=SR Rao named Union commerce secretary | publisher=Kammas World | date=30 May 2012 | accessdate=27 October 2015}}</ref> He was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]] by the Government of India, in 1998,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> making him one of the few civil servants to be awarded [[Indian honours system|Padma honours]] while in service.<ref name="His was a purposeful life" /> He is also a recipient of the Tirupathi Raju Memorial Award.<ref name="His was a purposeful life" />

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