{"id":647761,"date":"2025-09-25T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647761"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:44:44","slug":"energy-secretary-beela-venkatesan-dies-at-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/energy-secretary-beela-venkatesan-dies-at-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy secretary Beela Venkatesan dies at 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Beela Venkatesan, a 1997-batch IAS officer who was serving as the Energy Secretary of Tamil Nadu, died at her residence in Chennai on Wednesday. The 55-year-old officer was fighting an illness that was diagnosed at an advanced stage a few months ago. She is survived by two daughters. <\/p>\n<p>Beela, hailing from Kanniyakumari district, was the daughter of Rani Venkatesan, a senior Congress leader and former MLA, and LN Venkatesan, a former DGP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Beela Venkatesan, a 1997-batch IAS officer who was serving as the Energy Secretary of Tamil Nadu, died at her residence in Chennai on Wednesday. The 55-year-old officer was fighting an illness that was diagnosed at an advanced stage a few months ago. She is survived by two daughters. Beela, hailing from Kanniyakumari district, was the daughter of Rani Venkatesan, a senior Congress leader and former MLA, and LN Venkatesan, a former DGP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}