Advisory Board 

Our most generous supporters help Manya Pragathi discover new approaches to indigenous people's welfare, provide feedback on our strategic direction and reach our goal.

 

Vantaku Venkata Rao, Ph.D  

(Chief advisory Board Member )

Venkata Rao working as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He has received his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Animal Biotechnology from the University of Hyderabad. The University of Hyderabad is listed in 6th rank in the university category ranking system in the National Institutional Ranking Framework from the Government of India. He has received a senior and a junior research fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development in Education (MHRD) Government of India.  He has a Bachelor of Science from Sri Krishna Devarayal University, Anantapur of Silver Jubilee Government College (APRDC) Kurnool (2006). Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi's Chief advisory board member to guide the indigenous people's education system.

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Perika Shyam, M.Tech

Shyam working as an Assistant professor at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering (2012), Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT Nuzvid), Nuzvid, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was a Ex.HOD of the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, and Ex.Finance officer of  RGUKT Nuzvid. Presently, Acting Administrative officer of RGUKT Nuzvid. He has a Master of Technology (M.Tech) from Indian  Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2011). He was the co-founder of student development campus activities cell (SDCAC) in RGUKT Nuzvid (2013), it was a small Technical activity cell in the University, now it is a big platform for student's technical activities center in the campus.  Now, he joined to Manya Pragathi as advisory board member to guiding on indigenous people development, education and integration of technology in the remote areas of tribal schools.

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Madhusudhana Rao Battiprolu, M.Tech

Madhusudhana Rao working as an Assistant professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering (2012), Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT Nuzvid), Nuzvid, Andhra Pradesh, India.  He has a Master of Technology (M.Tech) from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli (2011).   He was a member of the student development campus activities cell (SDCAC) board in RGUKT Nuzvid.   Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on indigenous people's development and integration of technology in the remote agency areas.  

 

Ilaiah Dongari, CA

Ilaiah, Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary by qualifications. Currently with OLIVA ( chain of aesthetic dermatology clinics)  as a CFO (Chief Financial Officer). He has a Bachelor of Commerce from Sri Krishna Devarayal University, Anantapur of Silver Jubilee Government College (APRDC) Kurnool (2003).  My earlier stints are with Aditya Birla (lifestyle division)  Blore and Whirlpool - Delhi.  I'm from Warangal Rural District, Currently based out of Hyd, and Knows Telugu, English, Hindi, and Tamil languages.

I Loves traveling, networking with likely minded people, and striving to help the needy. Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on indigenous people's development.

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Vinod Babu, M.Tech

Vinod Babu working as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering (2012), and Dean of Student's welfare (16.09.2019-till) at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT Nuzvid), Nuzvid, Andhra Pradesh, India.  He has a Master of Technology (M.Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2011).    He is a Chairman of all the student development campus activities including technical, sports, cultural, and welfare of the students in the RGUKT Nuzvid campus.   Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on indigenous people's development and integration of technology in the remote agency areas. 

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Dasari Venkata Venu Gopal, Ph.D

Venkata Venu Gopal working as Assistant professor in the Department of Management, and  Associate Dean of student's welfare (2018 -till) (2011), Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT Nuzvid), Nuzvid, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has an M.A (2005), M.Phil (2009), and Ph.D. in psychology (2013) from  Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.  Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on indigenous people's development in socio-economic, rural development, tribal rights, culture, and Arts.

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Chalapareddy Suresh, Ph.D

Suresh working as a Postdoctoral fellow at National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He has M.Sc in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Hyderabad. The University of Hyderabad listed in 6th rank in the university category ranking system in the National Institutional Ranking Framework from the Government of India.   He has received a senior and a junior research fellowship from The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Ministry of Science & Technology  (MHRD) Government of India. He has a Bachelor of Science from Sri Krishna Devarayal University, Anantapur of Silver Jubilee Government College (APRDC) Kurnool (2008).    Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on indigenous people's education system.

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Loknadha Rao Gunupuru, Ph.D

Loknadha Rao working as a Postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, Truro, Canada. He has a Ph.D. from University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He has a Master of Technology (M.Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) (2011). He has received a Postgraduate fellowship for two years from the Ministry of Human Resource Development is education (MHRD) Government of India.  Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on the indigenous people's education system.

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Prasad Gonugunta, Ph.D

Prasad working as  Research Scientist Coval Energy B.V, and Guest Researcher TU Delft, The Netherlands. He has a Ph.D. in Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy from Radiation Science and Technology (RST), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has a MASc (Biological Engineering) from Bio-products Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC) and School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada.  He has a M.Sc (Physics) Department of Physics, Pondicherry Central University, India.  He has a Bachelor of Science from Sri Krishna Devarayal University, Anantapur of Silver Jubilee Government College (APRDC) Kurnool (2008).    Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on the indigenous people's education system.

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Damisetti SS Arjun, M.Sc

Arjun working as a Manager Environment at Anjani Portland Cement Pvt. Ltd, Andhra Pradesh. He has a M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.  He has a Bachelor of Science from  Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.    Now, he joined as Manya Pragathi advisory board member to guide on the poster environment, biodiversity, restoration of the ecosystem, wildlife protection, and forest & conservation.