An exemplary civil servant by any measure

THOSE familiar with Malaysia’s industrial development from the early days in the 1960s will be well aware of Datuk N. Sadasivan Pillay. He died yesterday after a brief illness according to a family member; he was 86.

Popularly known as Datuk Sada, he served the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (Mida) for a whopping 27 years, from 1968 to 1995.