make a report on tn seshan,the former chief election commissioner of India
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Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan was an administrator and public servant who worked for the Indian Administrative Service.
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- He passed the UPSC-CSE test in 1954 and entered the IAS as a trainee of the Tamil Nadu cadre in 1955.
- As a trainee of the Academy of Administration in Delhi, Seshan was employed as an apprentice administrator, as an assistant collector, for a year in Coimbatore.
- From 1958 to 1962, he worked in the Secretariat for Rural Development in Madras (now Chennai) as director of programmes and deputy secretary, where he oversaw a local government programme for panchayats.
- He was named Madras' director of transport in 1962. He was appointed collector of Madurai district in 1964. After two and a half years, he proceeded to Harvard University to study public administration, where he got a master's degree.
- In 1969, upon his return, he was named secretary to the Atomic Energy Commission. He was a joint secretary in the Department of Space from 1972 until 1976.
- He was the tenth Chief Election Commissioner, serving from December 12, 1990 until December 11, 1996. He rose to prominence as a result of his electoral reforms. He redefined the Election Commission of India's stature and prominence. He discovered over a hundred electoral flaws and improved the election process.
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