Supriya Sahu

Supriya Sahu is an Indian Administrative Service officer currently serving as the Additional Chief Secretary, Environment, Climate Change and Forest Department, Government of Tamil Nadu. She has over 30 years of experience, and has worked extensively in areas relating to Socio-Economic Development Administration, Health, Empowerment, Environment, Climate Change, Forests and Media. As District Collector of The Nilgiris in 2000, she is credited with launching a highly successful grassroots campaign, “Operation Blue Mountain” to eliminate single-use plastic from the district. The movement also led to the creation of a Guinness world record for the “largest number of trees planted in a day”. She has received the prestigious “Best Collector Award” and the “Green Award” by the Government of Tamil Nadu. In her present assignment, she has been instrumental in setting up India’s first Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company (TNGCC), a not-for-profit venture of the Government of Tamil Nadu to steer climate action in the State.