Kailasa Venkata Ramiah

Who was Kailasa Venkata Ramiah?

Kailasa Venkata Ramiah was a renowned educationist from Andhra Pradesh,India. He was born in Pegallapadu village of Khammam district. He stood first-in-first in both B.Sc and M.Sc from Osmania University and grew to Head the Physics Department of Osmania University. He is recipient of Sir Akbar Hyderi Gold medal and several awards during his glittering career both as student and later as a academician. He finished his post doctral in record time and later his research was in Quantum Mechanics and "Raman Effect". He published about 100 papers in both National and International journals. He served to become the First Vice-Chancellor of Kakatiya University. He founded the University from its inception.It was his vision and efforts that led to the tremendous development of Kakatiya University in a short period of time.

He is the first person from Andhra Pradesh to be the member of UPSC during the period 1981-87. He also served on Satish Chandra panel for review on UPSC selection process.