SHILLONG, April 26: Former Additional Chief Secretary of Assam, Parul Devi Das, died in Guwahati today after falling prey to the dreaded COVID-19 disease.
An Assam-Meghalaya cadre officer, she was the first woman IAS officer from Assam. She briefly served Meghalaya in the early 1980s.
She was born and bred in Shillong.
Her father, late Ramnath Das, was a cabinet minister in the undivided Assam. Her brother, Naba Kumar Das, is the retired Chief Secretary of Assam.
