Background
He was born in Chennai Tamil Nadu, India in a Telugu Brahmin family to the High Court judge Mr. Bheema Shankaram Kanda and Mistress Papayamma, a prominent social reformer.
He was born in Chennai Tamil Nadu, India in a Telugu Brahmin family to the High Court judge Mr. Bheema Shankaram Kanda and Mistress Papayamma, a prominent social reformer.
He is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1968 batch. He retired as Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh in 2005. He did his schooling from All Saints High School, Hyderabad and his Bachelors and Masters in Mathematics from Nizam College, Osmania University.
He was awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics by Osmania University for his thesis.
He has acted in a few Telugu films as a child actor with the screen name "Master Mohan." They include Pelli Chesi Choodu a comedy film of 1952 directed by L. V. Prasad. He acted in the song drama Amma Noppule Ammamma Noppule.
Mohan Kanda started his career with State Bank of India as an Officer. After becoming an Institute for Advanced Study officer his began working with the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
He was also Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and served as Vice Chairman, National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA).
He worked as a Secretary in the Union Ministry of Agriculture before working as Chief Secretary in Chandrababu Naidu"s government and later with Y.S.Rajashekhara Reddy government. He was made head of a committee that would look into the problems faced by the Coastal Andhra ryots in declaring a crop holiday.
He is working as a member of National Disaster Management Authority. He is a member of the steering committee on Agriculture and Allied Sectors for the formulation of the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) for Planning commission.
