Managing Director

Smt Anita Prabhu, B.Com.

Board Of Directors:

1. Sri R Prabhu, B.E (Hons), S.M.(MIT), M.P.

2. Dr S.R.K.Prasad, B.Tech., PGDOR, MORSI, MORSS, D.SC

3. Sri Boppana Ramalingeswara Rao, M.A., LLB

4. Sri K Muneswara Rao

5. Sri R Kannan,M.Tech, Nominee Director ICCI Bank

6. Sri K Subramanian, M.A., B.L.,

President

Sri Vikram Ramakrishna Prabhu

Velagapudi Ramakrishna

Velagapudi Ramakrishna was born in a Telugu-speaking Kamma 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.

He was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer, industrialist, and philanthropist. He established first registered company in Orissa, named as The Jeypore Sugar Company Ltd, in 1936. Then started the KCP (Krishna Confectionery Products) group of companies in 1941 with a co-operative sugar factory in Andhra Pradesh. He was a pioneering industrialist in the erstwhile Madras State.

He died in 1968 and was survived by two sons and a daughter, V. Maruthi Rao, V. Lakshmana Dutt, and Rajeshwary Ramakrishnan.

Ramakrishna's First son late V.Maruthi Rao, was the Chairman and Managing Director of KCP Sugar & Industries Ltd, now Mrs.Irmguard Rao, wife of late V.Maruthi Rao is the Managing Director, Second son, Sri.V. L. Dutt, a past chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), is the current Executive Chairman of KCP Limited. Ramakrishna's elder daughter, Smt. Rajeswary Ramakrishnan, is the Chairman of The Jeypore Sugar Company Limited. Her son R. Prabhu was the Congress MP from the Nilgiris (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, a five-term Member of Parliament and a former Union minister in India. Second son Dr.S.R.K.Prasad, is the Managing Director of Krishna Industrial Corpn Ltd.

Positions held by Sri.Velgapudi Ramakrishna

  • 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.
  • He also funded the VSR & NVR College in Tenali and the Sri Velagapudi Ramakrishna Memorial College in Nagaram, Guntur district.
  • The Andhra Chamber of Commerce building in Chennai 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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