19.2 My elder brother, late Ch Nageswara Rao (1950-2015) is older to me by two years. We studied in the same School till 1966 when he passed out of High School. He too started his work life early after his Pre-University Course in Hyderabad. He joined B.Com. (3 YDC) in the New Science College in Evening Session and simultaneously took up the course of Cost Accounting in 1967-68. He contested for General Secretary of the Students Union in 1969 in his Final Year. After acquiring degree, he appeared for selection in Defence Services by attending tests / interviews at Indian Military Academy.
19.3 In the year 1972, my brother was selected as Accountant by M/s Zuari Agrochemicals Ltd., Goa and was posted in their Secunderabad Office. He also took up M.Com studies privately with Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. My friend Mr N Hanumantha Rao also pursued the same and they both passed the same by 1974. Then, he joined Andhra Bank Ltd., Secunderabad and worked till his retirement in 2010 as Manager. He was married in 1979 to Smt Lakshmi and had three daughters - Preethi, Mythri and Sanjukta. Eldest daughter is a post-Graduate, married to Mr Bharani and has two children. She is living in Pune. Second one studied Engineering, went to USA for MS, worked there for a decade and returned to India in 2019. She is now married and shifted to Melbourne, Australia. The youngest is Sanju, who also went to USA after her Engineering, pursued MS and settled there after marriage. My brother died due to ill health in Hyderabad in 2015. My Bhabhi Smt Lakshmi is living in Saket, Hyderabad.
19.4 My younger and only sister, Smt Ippili Jyothi is an Arts Graduate from Osmania University, Hyderabad. She was married in 1982 to late Dr Ippili Sankara Rao (1958-2021), who was a Research Scholar then, in the area of Nuclear Chemistry in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, AP. He chose to work in Academics in AP and retired as a Principal of Junior College in 2018. Besides being in service, he partnered with two of his colleagues and established Sri Venkateswara Group of Colleges in Etcherla, Srikakulam, AP. The group grew from strength to strength over the years, and now comprises of eleven residential colleges offering Agriculture, Pharmacy, Engineering, Education, Management, Polytechnic and Physical Education and allied colleges. It's now well established and popular across the border States too attracting students. SV Group of Colleges, Etcherla
SVG of Colleges, Engineering, Etcherla
SV College of Pharmacy, Etcherla
SV College of ET Convergence 2017
19.5 Dr Sankara Rao Ippili was one of the co-promoters of the Group. Mrs Ippili Jyothi, my sister is part of the Management Team since beginning. Their son, Mr Ippili Kishore is an Engineering Graduate and turned Entrepreneur after working for a few years in IT industry. He is married to his classmate Ms Sravanthi of Hyderabad who works for M/s Dell. He is also associated with the SV Group of Colleges, Etcherla. Dr Sankara Rao died prematurely in May 2021 in Visakhapatnam, AP. Their only daughter is Mrs Deepti, an M Tech and was working in Bangalore. She is married to Pakki Kiran s/o Pakki Appaladas of Rajam and now residing in Denmark. The couple is blessed with a boy.
19.6 My younger brother Mr Venkateswara Rao (Babu) lives in our own home in Saidabad Colony, Hyderabad. He is married and has three children Sai, Pavani and Rithik. Daughter is married and lives in Bangalore and two the sons are working in the Pharmacy field.
19.7 My spouse Mrs Ganga Prasad (formerly Ganga Patnaik) is from Kondavalasa family. We were married in March 1983 in Bhubaneswar, Odisa where my late father-in-law Shri K N Patnaik lived. My mother-in-law Smt Lalithamba was not keeping good health then. Ganga is the youngest of the five children in their family. She is a Science Graduate from Utkal and pursued B.Ed from Annamalai University. She was born in Kolkata and later lived in North-eastern States, Ujjain in MP prior to settling in Bhubaneswar. She had two elder brothers and two elder sisters. We continued the journey in TS, Maharashtra and Karnataka States. She took up the teaching profession for about two decades in different Schools and retired as a Group Principal of St Meera's High School, Bangalore.
19.7.1 Our only daughter Mrs Sravanthi Chowdari was born in Vizag, AP and grew up in Mumbai. As a toddler, she was taken care by our friends and Telugu families in SBI Apartments in Malad, Mrs Appa Rao, Mrs Mani Sreedhar, Mrs Vijaya Murthy and Mrs Radha Chary. After our shifting to Hyderabad (1993), Bangalore (1996) and Manipal (1999), she completed her schooling up to 12th Standard (2003) in Little Rock Indian School, Brahmawar and BE in Bio-medical Engineering (2007) from MIT, MAHE, Manipal. She pursued MBA in Marketing (2009) in Bangalore and commenced her career for next five years in two Organisations, M/s RAMCO and M/s Manipal Informatics. She was engaged in October 2014 to Mr Krishna Kumar Rao of Melbourne, Australia and married in April 2015. She joined her husband and inlaws in May 2015 and is now settled. She is blessed with a son Amay Rao in Jan 2017. She now works with M/s Medibank, a leading Insurance Company in Melbourne.
19.8 My Eldest brother-in-law is Wg Cdr KA Patnaik was an Electrical Engineer and worked in The Indian Air Force (IAF). He was married to Chowdari Vasantha Lakshmi d/o late Sri CVR Murthy of Hyderabad and has two sons, Sai and Tunnu. On retirement in 1993, he moved to Hyderabad and settled down. Both sons completed their studies and are working in New Delhi and Hyderabad respectively. Sai is married to Sarada Menon. Arun died in October 2020 in Hyderabad.
19.9 Smt Uma Rao is the elder sister, married to Shri Kuppili Raja Rammohana Rao of Vizag. He worked in ONGC and retired as General Manager. They have four children, three daughters and a son. Vanaja Rao is in Pune, Vandana Adivishnu is in Chennai, Vathsala Rao is in Mumbai and the youngest Sai Giridhar is in USA.
19.10 Mr RK Patnaik is also an Electrical Engineering Graduate from REC / NIT, Raipur (MP). He retired as a Director of DRDO in Hyderabad in 2016. Earlier, he was in Odisha and worked in ITR in Balasore / Chandipur for close to two decades. He is married to Mrs Sadasivuni Padma (d/o Mrs Kamala and Mr S Prasada Rao of Hyderabad) in 1984. They have two sons, Sai Abhishek (Babla) and Sai Abhilash (Kankan). Both studied Engineering Degrees. Babla added an MBA from IPE, Hyderabad a leading Institute and started working. Kankan went to Canada in 2017 for pursuing MS and later started working and settled down there. Babla also went to Canada for his second MBA in Entrepreneurship in 2019 and after completing the same, took up employment. Kankan is married in 2022 to his college-mate of Engineering, Ms Kriti Bagga who also pursued her MS in Canada.
19.11 Mrs Rama Vidya Sagar is also a Science Graduate. She is married to Mr Pakki ES Vidyasagar (Sukumar) of Vizag, AP. Sukumar is an MA in Economics from Andhra University. He started his career as a Lecturer in Bullayya College in Vizag and switched to corporate job in IDBI, Mumbai in 1984. He shifted to SIDBI in Mumbai and was posted on promotions to Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Cochin, Mumbai and Kolkata. He retired voluntarily as Chief General Manager and settled down at hometown, Vizag. They have two daughters, Suma and Deepthi. Suma is an Architect from Mumbai, married to Suresh and is located in USA. They have two sons. Deepthi completed her Degree in Physiotherapy from Mangalore/Manipal and shifted to USA after her marriage with Dr Urlam Murali. They have 3 daughters.
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