Dr. Bolla Bulli Ramaiah

Public finance, fiscal studies, science and industrial technology, progress and research in engineering

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.

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

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