Velagapudi Ramakrishna | |
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| Born | 1896 |
| Died | 1968 (aged 71–72) |
| Nationality | Indian |
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Velagapudi Ramakrishna (1896-1968) was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer, industrialist, and philanthropist. He started the KCP (Krishna Commercial Products) group of companies in 1941 with a co-operative sugar factory in Andhra Pradesh.[1] He was a pioneering industrialist in the erstwhile Madras State.
Family
Ramakrishna was born in a Telugu-speaking zamindari landowning family to Velagapudi Venkata Subbayya Chowdary in 1896 in the village Bellamvaripalem (Nagaram mandal, near Repalle) in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India.[2] He studied at The University of Edinburgh and acquired B.Sc. and M.A. degrees. He further was affiliated with the London School of Economics.[2] His father (pre-adoption surname: Katragadda) originally came from Tellapadu, Maddipadu Mandal, in Prakasam District.[3]
Ramakrishna died in 1968 and was survived by two sons and a daughter: V. Maruthi Rao, V. Lakshmana Dutt, and Rajeshwari Ramakrishnan.
Ramakrishna's second son, V. L. Dutt, a past chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),[4][5][6][7] was the chairman and managing director of KCP Limited.[8] His wife, Indira Dutt, is a daughter of the Raja of Muktyala and the President of the World Telugu Federation.[9] 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[10] and a former Union minister in India.[10]
Positions held
- District Collector
- Director, Department of Industries
- Commissioner, Labour
- Development Commissioner, Government of Madras
- Member of Parliament
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] in Tenali and the Sri Velagapudi Ramakrishna Memorial College[13] in Nagaram, Guntur district.
- The Andhra Chamber of Commerce building in Chennai[14] has also been named after Velagapudi Ramakrishna.
- V Ramakrishna Polytechnic in Thiruvottiyur, Near Chennai is an institution within KCP campus and is named in memory of Velagapudi Ramakrishna.
Notes
- ↑ KCP Web site
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Damodaran, H. (2008-06-25). India's New Capitalists: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation. Springer. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-0-230-59412-8.
- ↑ Chalichema, Venkataramaiah (1964). Guntur Jilla Kammavaaru. pp. 176–177.
- ↑ http://envfor.nic.in/cc/cop8/chennai/vldutt.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ficci.com/media-room/speeches-presentations/2002/july/july13-climate-dutt.htm
- ↑ http://www.iccindiaonline.org/events/oct27_04.htm
- ↑ http://www.natcomindia.org/chennai.pdf
- ↑ http://www.kcp.co.in/html/Chairman's%20Speech.pdf
- ↑ The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : KCP's Indira Dutt is now looking to new horizons
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Current Lok Sabha Members Biographical Sketch
- ↑ Welcome, V R Siddhartha Engineering College
- ↑ http://gist.ap.nic.in/cgi-bin/edn/ednshow.cgi/?en=9403
- ↑ Accredited Colleges
- ↑ The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : In Chennai Today