Velagapudi Ramakrishna

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Velagapudi Ramakrishna was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer, industrialist, and philanthropist. He started the KCP (Krishna Commercial Products [1])group of companies in 1941 with a co-operative sugar factory in Andhra Pradesh [2]. His pioneering industrializing efforts in the erstwhile Madras State are commendable.

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Ramakrishna was born in 1896 in the village Bellamvaripalem (Nagaram mandal, near Repalle ) in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India. He studied at Oxford University and acquired B.Sc. and M.A. degrees. His father (pre-adoption surname: Katragadda) originally came from Tellapadu, Maddipadu Mandal, in Prakasam District. [3] [4]

He was survived by two sons and a daughter: V. Maruthi Rao, V. Lakshmana Dutt, and Rajeshwari Ramakrishnan. [5].

Ramakrishna's second son, V.L. Dutt, a past chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),[6] is the current chairman and managing director of KCP Limited.[7] His wife, Indira Dutt, is a daughter of the Raja of Muktyala and the President of the World Telugu Federation.[8]

Ramakrishna's daughter, Smt. Rajeswari Ramakrishnan, is the managing director of Jeypore Sugar Company Limited. Her son R. Prabhu is the Congress MP from the Nilgiris (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, a five-term Member of Parliament [9] and a former Union minister in India. [10]

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[edit] Memorial institutions

The Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, near Vijayawada has been posthumously named after him. [11]

He also funded the VSR & NVR College [12] [13] in Tenali and the Sri Velagapudi Ramakrishna Memorial College [14] in Nagaram, Guntur district.

The Andhra Chamber of Commerce building in Chennai [15] has also been named after Velagapudi Ramakrishna.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Numbers_or_not_these_guys_have_the_moolah/articleshow/msid-540863,curpg-2.cms
  2. ^ KCP Web site
  3. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellapadu
  4. ^ http://wikimapia.org/#y=15661625&x=79949167&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2
  5. ^ http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004083006950400.htm&date=2004/08/30/&prd=th&
  6. ^ Directors Database
  7. ^ http://www.kcp.co.in/html/Chairman's%20Speech.pdf
  8. ^ The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : KCP's Indira Dutt is now looking to new horizons
  9. ^ Current Lok Sabha Members Biographical Sketch
  10. ^ Current Lok Sabha Members Biographical Sketch
  11. ^ Welcome,V R Siddhartha Engineering College
  12. ^ http://wikimapia.org/#y=16250337&x=80643634&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2
  13. ^ http://gist.ap.nic.in/cgi-bin/edn/ednshow.cgi/?en=9403
  14. ^ Accredited Colleges
  15. ^ The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : In Chennai Today


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