Hari Chandana Dasari

Hari Chandana Dasari is an officer of Indian Administrative Service, 2010 batch Telangana cadre.

Early life and education
Hari Chandana was born (31 August 1984) in Hyderabad, Telangana State, India. She holds M.sc from London School of Economics in Environmental Economics, Postgraduate from university of Hyderabad and Graduate from St. Anns College, Hyderabad.

Career
Hari Chandana appeared for the Civil Services Examination 2009 and was selected for the IAS and allotted Telangana cadre. From 2012 she served in various capacities and is presently working as Special Secretary to Govt of Telangana R & B Dept. Earlier She worked as Collector and District Magistrate, Nalgonda district, Telangana, India.

Awards and Recognition
Hari Chandana was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration under the category of Innovation in Governance in the year 2020.

She was awarded with FICCI FLO Influential Women Award in the year 2021.

Recipient of GoI National Tourism Award, 2017

Identified by the Better India Magazine as one of the Top 10 IAS officers of India creating change at grassroots 2018

Selected as one of the Top 4 IAS officers making a difference by The Print magazine in 2019 [14 ]

Shortlisted for Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Administration 2020

FICCI, Recipient of F.L.O Award for Women Empowerment 2021[15 ]

British Council Alumni Award-2021 under the Social Impact category (The only Indian recipient to have been selected)

Selected by SpeakIn as one of India's 8 most influential IAS officers 2021[16 ]

Conferred BEST D.M. Award 2023 on 17.01.23 by the Indian Express Jury headed by Former CJI Justice R.M.Lodha.