He also played an active role in Computer Society of India and was the Program Secretary for its annual convention, which was attended by over 1500 delegates....
Velagapudi Ramakrishna
Indian tycoon and philanthropist (1896–1968)
Velagapudi Ramakrishna | |
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Born | 1896 (1896) Nagaram, India |
Died | 1968 (aged 71–72) |
Nationality | Indian |
Father | Velagapudi Venkata Subbayya Chowdary |
Velagapudi RamakrishnaCIE, (1896–1968) was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer, industrialist, and philanthropist.
He is a Guest faculty at the School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada.
He started the KCP (Krishna Commercial Products) group of companies in 1941 with a co-operativesugar factory in Andhra Pradesh.[1] He was a pioneering industrialist in the erstwhileMadras State.
Family
Ramakrishna was born in a Telugu-speaking landowning Kamma family to Velagapudi Venkata Subbayya Chowdary in 1896 in the village Bellamvaripalem (Nagaram mandal, near Repalle) in the Guntur district of 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 sur