KALLAM ANJI REDDY

INTRODUCTION

Kallam Anji Reddy (born 1940) is an Indian entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry,

The founder-chairman of Dr Reddy's Labs.Which he established in 1984. Chairman of Dr Reddy’s Foundation (DRF)He is a member of the Indian Prime Minister's

Council on Trade and Industry

Early life and education

• He spent his early years in the village Tadepalli, Guntur District in the banks of Krishna River, where his father grew turmeric. He studied in Anapothana ZPHS School in Nutakki until Tenth Class.

• Reddy after graduating from the local high school, went on to get his first Bachelor of science degree from A.C. College at Guntur in 1958. Thereafter he, did his B.Sc.-Tech in Pharmaceuticals and Fine chemicals from Bombay University followed by a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune in 1969.

Career• He started his career in the state-owned PSU, Indian

Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL) (1969–1975), when he left the job to found Uniloids Ltd in 1976 of which was also the and managing director of till 1980, when he founded Standard Organics Limited, before founding Dr Reddy's Labs in 1984 with an initial capital of Rs 25 lakh (Rs 2.5 million).

• Over the years, it transformed Indian bulk drug industry from import-dependent in mid-80s to self-reliant in mid-90s and finally into the export-oriented industry.

Dr Reddy's Labs

• Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has been credited with turning the Indian bulk drug industry from dependence on imports in the mid 1980s to self reliance in the mid 1990s and finally into the export-oriented industry that it is today.

• It was the first company to take up drug discovery research in India (in 1993).

• April 2001 Dr Reddy’s Labs became the first Asian pharmaceutical company outside Japan to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

• company has revenues of $546 million (Rs.2,427 crore) during the fiscal year 2006 and is India’s second largest pharmaceutical company.

Social causes

• Naandi Foundation, a not-for-profit development institution that strives for eradication of poverty has Dr Reddy as its founding father. He is also founder-chairman of Dr Reddy’s Foundation for Human and Social Development, a social arm of Dr. Reddy’s Labs.

Kallam Anji Reddy Vidyalaya

• Set up in October 2001, the Kallam Anji Reddy Vidyalaya at Chandanagar ( Hyderabad ) has over 1500 students from KG to Class X. Following the SSC syllabus of the Government of AP, the co-educational school offers instruction in both English and Telugu media.

• The teaching methodology adopted at the school is activity-based, duly taking into account the specific needs of every student. Those who are lagging behind in academic capacity are brought into the mainstream through special remedial programs.

Kallam Anji Reddy Vocational Junior

College• The Board of Intermediate Education (Government of AP) has instituted various two-year vocational courses for students who have cleared the Senior Secondary Certificate (SSC) / Class X Board Examination.

The Kallam Anji Reddy Vocational Junior College, which was set up in September 2002 at Chandanagar (Hyderabad), offers the following vocational courses:

• Automobile Engineering Technician • Computer Science & Engineering• Computer Graphics and Animation • Hotel Operations • Multi-Purpose Health Worker

Awards• For his Entrepreneurship, Leadership and

thrust on Innovationin he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2001.

• He was also rewarded with Padma Bhusan by govt of india in 2011.