Velagapudi Ramakrishna

Velagapudi Ramakrishna
Velagapudi Ramakrishna
Born	1896; Nagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
Died	1968 (aged 71–72)
Nationality	Indian
Parent(s)	Velagapudi Venkata Subbayya Chowdary (father);

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 [2] family to Velagapudi Venkata Subbayya Choudary 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]

Ramakrishna died in 1968 and was survived by two sons and a daughter: V. Maruthi Rao, V. Lakshmana Dutt, and Rajeshwari Ramakrishnan.[4]

Ramakrishna's second son, V. L. Dutt, a past chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),[5][6][7][8] is the current chairman and managing director of KCP Limited.[9] His wife, Indira Dutt, is a daughter of the Raja of Muktyala and the President of the World Telugu Federation.[10] 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 [11] and a former Union minister in India. [11]

The Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, near Vijayawada has been posthumously named after him.[12]
He also funded the VSR & NVR College[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.
V Ramakrishna Polytechnic in Thiruvottiyur, Near Chennai is an institution within KCP campus and is named in memory of Velagapudi Ramakrishna.

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