Multi-faceted personality and retired IAS officer Neela Satayanarayan - who created history as the first woman State Election Commissioner - succumbed to Covid-19 at a private hospital, official sources said here on Thursday.
An IAS officer of the 1972 batch, Satyanarayan, 71, held many important posts in the state government and finally crowned her 42-years: of bureaucratic service with the post SEC.
Besides, she was a prolific poet, writer, singer, composer and music director who had composed songs for scores of Marathi films and a couple of Bollywood movies.
She had been admitted to a private suburban hospital a few days ago for Corona treatment and breathed her last early today.