Pragada Kotaiah
Pragada Kotaiah (26 July 1915 – 26 November 1995) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He served as a Member of Parliament in the upper house from 1990 to 1995. He was the leader of the Handloom movement in India. Early life and education Pragada Kotaiahwas born in 1915 in a Padmasali family in Nidubrolu of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his schooling at Ponnur. He completed his textile technology from Madras Textiles Institute. Kotaiah finished S.S.L.C. in the year 1931, he came out with first class in Supervisor's Course in Spinning, Handloom, Weaving, Dyeing and Printing in the Textile institute at Madras. Kotaiah also completed certificate course in Chemistry as applied to Cotton Textile Industry City and Guilds of London Institute in first Class. Career Kotaiah served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1962, representing the composite Madras State, Andhra State, and later, Andhra Pradesh. He was re-elected to the Andhra P ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nidubrolu
Ponnuru is a neighbourhood in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Ponnur municipality of Tenali revenue division. Government and politics Ponnur Municipality is the governmental body. Transport Nidubrolu railway station Nidubrolu railway station (station code:NDO) is an Indian Railways station in Nidubrolu of Andhra Pradesh. It lies on the Tenali–Gudur section of Indian Railways and is administered under Vijayawada railway division of South Central Railway z ... is classified as a ''D–category'' station in the Vijayawada railway division of South Central Railway zone. There are frequent public bus services available from Tenali and Guntur, as all passenger train services from Tenali were extended to Guntur. Prominent citizens * N.G Ranga - Gandhian and former MP * Pamulapati Ankineedu Prasada Rao - Former Member of Parliament * T. R. K. Prasad - former Cabinet Secretary, Govt. of India * Yetukuri Venkata Narasayya - Telugu poet * Ko ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vetapalem
Vetapalem is a census town in Bapatla district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the mandal headquarters of Vetapalem mandal in Ongole revenue division. Demographics India census, Vetapalem had a population of 38,671. Males constituted 49% of the population and females 51%. Vetapalem had an average literacy rate of 59%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 68%, and female literacy was 50%. In Vetapalem, 11% of the population was under 6 years of age. Government and politics Vetapalem gram panchayat is the local self-government of the town. The elected members of the gram panchayat are headed by a sarpanch A sarpanch ( IAST: ''Sarpañch'' Hindi: ''सरपंच'') or Gram Pradhan or Mukhiya is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the Gram Sabha (village government) in India. The Sarp .... Education The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aid ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Indian Independence Activists From Andhra Pradesh
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Members Of The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council
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1995 Deaths
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1915 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". * January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** ''A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a ''femme fatale''; she quickly b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee
The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) is the state unit of Indian National Congress for the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The APCC has its headquarters at Andhra Ratna Bhawan, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. The APCC is responsible for Congress party units of all the 13 districts in Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t .... Office Bearers List of PCC Presidents List of AICC Presidents from Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election History Total number of seats in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly was 294 . After state division in 2014 total seats come down to 175. • In 1957, elections were conducted in the newly added region of Telangana alone which includes 105 seats and then in 1962 elections were held for the state as a whole in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council
The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council or Andhra Pradesh Śāsana Manḍali is the upper house of the legislature of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and the lower house being the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly It is situated in the state Legislative capital of Amaravati, and has 58 members. The Sasana Mandali has been in existence in two spells - from 1958 to 1985, and from 2007 continuing till today. A resolution has been passed by AP government for dissolution of the house which awaits parliament ratification. History In the first years since its creation in post-independence India, the state of Andhra Pradesh worked under a unicameral parliamentary system. On 5 December 1956, the Andhra Pradesh Vidhana Sabha passed a resolution calling for the creation of an upper house, the Vidhan Parishad, to transition to a bicameral system. The members of the majority party/coalition in the lower house would be the ruling party of the upper house, regardless of number. The ho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat— * * * * and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's prime minister for 16 years. Nehru promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he steered India clear of the two blocs of the Cold War. A well-regarded author, his books written in prison, such as ''Letters from a Father to His Daughter'' (1929), '' An Autobiography'' (1936) and '' The Discovery of India'' (1946), have been read around the world. During his lifetime, the honorific Pandit was commonly applied before his name in India and even today too. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Member Of The Legislative Assembly (India)
A Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of State government in the Indian system of government. From each constituency, the people elect one representative who then becomes a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). Each state has between seven and nine MLAs for every Member of Parliament (MP) that it has in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of India, parliament. There are also members in three unicameral legislatures in Union Territories: the Delhi Legislative Assembly, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and the Puducherry Legislative Assembly. Only a Member of the Legislative Assembly can work as a minister for more than 6 months. If a non-Member of the Legislative Assembly becomes a Chief Minister or a minister, he must become an MLA within 6 months to continue in the job. Only a Member of the Legislative Assembly can become ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Government Of India
The Government of India ( ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, consisting of 28 union states and eight union territories. Under the Constitution, there are three primary branches of government: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary, whose powers are vested in a bicameral Parliament, President, aided by the Council of Ministers, and the Supreme Court respectively. Through judicial evolution, the Parliament has lost its sovereignty as its amendments to the Constitution are subject to judicial intervention. Judicial appointments in India are unique in that the executive or legislature have negligible say. Etymology and history The Government of India Act 1833, passed by the British parliament, is the first such act of law with the epithet "Government of India". Basic structure The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ministry Of Textiles
The Ministry of Textiles is an Indian government national agency responsible for the formulation of policy, planning, development, export promotion and regulation of the textile industry in India. This includes all natural, artificial, and cellulosic fibers that go into the making of textiles, clothing and Handicrafts. The current Minister of Textiles is Piyush Goyal. Main functions of the Ministry *Textile Policy & Coordination *Man-made Fibre/ Filament Yarn Industry *Cotton Textile Industry *Jute Industry *Silk and Silk Textile Industry *Wool & Woollen Industry *Decentralised Powerloom Sector *Export Promotion *Planning & Economic Analysis Organizations Attached Offices * Office of the Development Commissioner for Hand-looms * Office of the Development Commissioner for Handicrafts Subordinate Offices * Office of the Textile Commissioner * Office of the Jute Commissioner Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) * National Textile Corporation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |