Satya Nadella's father worked for the impoverished India

February 05, 2014 17:07

He is going to be the future CEO of Microsoft, one of the biggest forces of capitalism on the planet.

But Satya Nadella's father B N Yugandhar, a prominent IAS officer who headed the Union rural development ministry, devoted his tenure to helping the poor in India's most impoverished regions.

Yugandhar, who also served as a secretary to then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao, later became a member of the Planning Commission.

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