Know your Politician
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Constituency : |
Eluru (Andhra Pradesh )
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Party Name :
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Telugu Desam Party(TDP)
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Email Address :
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[email protected]
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Father’s Name
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Shri Bolla Veera Venkanna
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Mother’s Name
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Smt. Ramalakshmi
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Date of Birth
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09.07.1926
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Place of Birth
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Vill. Tatipaka, Distt. East Godavari (Andhra Pradesh)
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Marital Status
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Married
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Date of Marriage
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26 May 1946
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Spouse’s Name
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Late Smt. Venkata Ramanamma
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No. of Sons
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1
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No.of Daughters
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1
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Educational Qualifications
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B.Sc. (Hons.) (Sugar Tech.), M.Sc. (Chem. Tech.), M.Sc. (Chem. Engg.),
A.M.P., Doctorate in Pub. Admn.
Educated at Andhra University, Waltair (Andhra Pradesh)
Wisconsin
University (U.S.A.), Harvard University (U.S.A.), World University
Round-Table, Benson, Arizona (U.S.A.)
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Profession
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Technologist
Economist, Industrialist, Scientist
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Permanent Address |
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Venkatarayapuram, Tanuku 534215 W.G. Dt.
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Andhra Pradesh
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Present Address |
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AB-79, Shahjahan Road
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New Delhi – 110011
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(011) 23782813, 23782264
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Position Held |
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1984
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Elected to 8th Lok Sabha
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1985-86
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Member, Estimates Committee
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1991
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Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
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1996
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Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
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Union Minister of State, Commerce
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1999
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Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
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1999-2000
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Chairman, Committee on Members of Parliament Local Area Development
Scheme
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Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
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Member, Committee on Industry
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Literary Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
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Published technical articles in journals and magazines (including articles on Sugar Industry in Andhra
Pradesh in the Souvenir of APCC); also presented papers at many international conferences on science
and technology
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Social And Cultural Activities
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Rendered community services like relief operations; connected with eye-camps,
anti-polio campaign, flood relief; Member, Sree Pendyala Venkatakrishna Rangaraya Memorial
Trust, Dommeru; arranged rescue and relief operations for flood victims during Tanuku floods in
October 1983
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Special Interests
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Public finance, fiscal studies, science and industrial technology, progress and research in engineering
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Sports and Clubs
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Member and former President, Rotary Club, Tanuku
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Countries Visited
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Widely travelled; Leader, XVI and XVII Congress of the International Society of Sugarcane
Technologists, held in Brazil and Manila respectively; attended ISA Seminar at Pittsburg, U.S.A.
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Other Information
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Worked and extended financial aid for the establishment and maintenance of higher technical and
professional educational institutions such as polytechnic at Tanuku, Medical College at Kakinada
and Engineering College at Vijayawada; Managing Director, Andhra Sugar Ltd.; Chairman,
Andhra Pradesh State Financial Corporation and South Indian Sugar Mills Association; President,
The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India; Patron, The Sugar Technologists’ Association of
India, Kanpur, and the South Indian Sugarcane and Sugar Technologists’ Association, Madras;
Member, (i) Society for Advancement of Electro-Chemical Science and Technology, Karaikudi;
(ii) Energy Sub-Committee, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry; (iii) Electric
Power Problems Committee; (iv) Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Hyderabad; (v) Indian Sugar Mills Association; (vi) Executive Committee, Regional Research Laboratory,
Bhopal; (vii) Research Advisory Council, Bhopal; (viii) American Institute of Chemical Engineers; (ix) Steering
Committee, ISSCT Constitutional Review Development Council for Sugar Industry, DGTD; (x) Governing
Body, Medical College, Kakinada; (xi) Engineering College, Vijayawada; (xii) Associate Member,
Society of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; Nominated Member, Court of JNU for
three years; pioneered industrial complex for fertilisers, agro-chemicals, plastic chemicals and farm
chemicals; specialised and acquired distinctions in Sugar Technology; responsible for installation of
the prestigious plant for manufacture of liquid propellants UDMH/MMH used in Space
Applications, from the basis know-how supplied by ISRO; responsible for setting up of Hydrazine
Hydrate Plant by the Andhra Farm Chemicals Corporation Ltd., Kovvur and also the Andhra
Petrochemicals Ltd., Visakhapatnam; developed the know-how and initiated the process of setting
up plants on turn-key basis in respect of chlorosulphonic acid, acetic anhydride/acetic acid by
simultaneous process, ethyl acetate from ethyl alcohol and acetic acid, etc.; enabled the Sugar
Technologists’ Association of India to make a number of technological improvements in the Sugar
Industry
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Reference: Loksabha