The Cabinet Secretary at the time, T.S.R. Subramanian, took a bold decision. On the file that processed the candidature, he wrote, ‘If this country could be governed by a seventy-five-year old, why could not a sixty-five-year-old Sreedharan run an organization such as DMRC?’ He made a compelling endorsement of Sreedharan’s candidature. The move was quite unprecedented. Before Sreedharan’s appointment, a government servant of that age had never been appointed in a comparable institution, and it has not happened since. It was the administration’s trust in Sreedharan’s capability that drove them
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