R. D. Pradhan

Ram D. Pradhan (27 June 1928 – 31 July 2020) was an Indian Administrative Service officer, from the 1952 batch who served as Union Home Secretary and Governor of Arunachal Pradesh during the Rajiv Gandhi government.

Pradhan played a major role in signing the Assam Accord and the Mizo Accord. He held Secretary-level positions at the international and national levels in the areas of commerce, defence and home. He was in service of the government of India for 36 years.

Pradhan was an IAS officer of the 1952 batch who served in the Maharashtra cadre. He joined as a Bombay State officer. For the next five years he worked in Gujarat. He was a Private Secretary to the Union Minister of Defence Y. B. Chavan. Later, he was an Indian representative diplomat in international trade and commerce in Geneva for ten years. He held several important positions in the Government of Maharashtra and the Government of India including Home Secretary, Government of Maharashtra, Director General of Shipping in the Government of India, and Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra. In December 2008, he was appointed to lead a two-man panel to investigate the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He died due to age-related ailments on July 31, 2020, aged 92.