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A man of Vision and Action
Sri Vallurupalli Venkata Rama Seshadri Rao
It is rare that a simple man born in a ryot's family, grown with basic education becoming a successful rice-miller and finally metamorphosized into a doyen of technical education. His vision was to bring technical education to the door step of rural India. Such an ideal personality is Sri Vallurupalli Venkata rama Seshadri Rao, the founder secretary of Gudlavalleru Engineering College.
Sri VVRSeshadri Rao was born at Gudlavalleru, a village between Gudivada and Machilipatnam in Krishna District of A.P, in 1932 to Sri Nagaiah and Smt Mahalakshmi. He had his school education at S.E.R.M High School, Gudlavalleru. In his pursuit of life, Sri VVRSR had been treading the line of business and established himself as a successful rice-miller.
At the age of fifty, he was impressed upon to change his line of action into the service of technical education. Along with Sri. Adsumilli Aswardha Narayana Murthy, a senior prominent personality of Gudlavalleru, Sri VVRSR established " Sri Adsumilli Aswardha Narayana Murthy and Vallurupalli Venkata Rama Seshadri Rao Educational Society". In 1981, under the sponsorship of the society, "A.A.N.M. & V.V.R.S.R Polytechnic" was established with Adsumilli Aswardha Narayana Murthy as the founder President and Sri VVRSR as the founder Secretary.
With the relentless efforts of Sri VVRSR, the polytechnic, Sri VVRSR started "A.A.N.M. & V.V.R.S.R. High School" in 1988 with English as medium of instruction and the school is serving about 12 villages around Gudlavalleru, the highest no. of students in a polytechnic of A.P. The polytechnic has become a very renowned choice of students when seeking admissions through CEEP.
Sri VVRSR started “A.A.N.M. & V.V.R.S.R. High School” in 1988 with English medium classes and the school is serving about 12 villages around Gudlavalleru.
Sri VVRSR established “Gudlavalleru Engineering College” in 1998 with four branches and 180 students. The GEC is successfully running now with five B.Tech courses three M.Tech courses, an M.B.A and an M.C.A courses with more than two thousand students.
Sri VVRSR has had educational enthusiasm, economic wisdom, and a clear plan of action to achieve the set priorities without compromise. He has a distinctive personality with simplicity, righteousness, soft communication, straightforwardness, un compromising attitude, individual discipline, efficient administration with values, commitment to human relations and human values. With such a noble stature, Sri VVRSR has inspired many persons, teachers, and students for the last 27 years.
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