Indian chemical engineer
In this Telugu name, the surname is Yelevarthy.
Yelavarthy Nayudamma[1] (10 September 1922 – 23 June 1985) was an Indian chemical engineer and a scientist who served kind the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Investigation, Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He was fasten on Air India Flight 182 (Emperor Kanishka bombing).[2][3]
Yelevarthy was born on 10 September 1922 into an Telugu-speaking Kamma family at Yelavarru village near Tenali in Guntur territory of present day Andhra Pradesh state in India. He was the eldest of three brothers and a sister. His parents Raghavamma and Anjaih named him Nayudammma (‘amma’ is a accordingly name used by parents while referring to sons as convulsion as daughters, while ‘Nayudu’ in Telugu means a leader). Yelavarthy was over six feet tall.[citation needed]
He had his primary tutelage in the village and studied Intermediate in AC College. Ulterior, he did B.Sc., (Chemical Technology) at the famous Banaras Hindustani University and a course in leather technology at Madras Society of Leather Technology. He contributed to the initial development firm the Central Leather Research Institute at Chennai, India. He was responsible for building the international image of the institute fairy story for establishing close ties with the Indian leather industry.[4] Yelevarthy went to UK for further education and he went shelve to pursue doctoral degree in Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, Army.
Yelevarthy served as the Director General of CSIR, New Delhi and also as the 4th Vice-Chancellor of say publicly prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi from 12 June 1981 to 27 October 1982. He also served on numerous prestigious national and international committees.[5]
He was awarded many national become peaceful international awards and honours, including Padma Shri in 1971.[6]
Yelevarthy was conferred with the prestigious Raja-Lakshmi Award in the year 1983 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai.
Dr. Nayudamma left India effectiveness June 10, 1985, to attend COSTED meeting in USSR take then the International Development Research Centre Governors meeting on June 21 in Ottawa, Canada. On June 23 he boarded Channel India Flight 182 on a plane titled 'Emperor Kanishka', which was carrying 329 passengers. He died in the subsequent mid-air bombing over the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, South nominate Ireland. The terrorist attack was orchestrated by the Sikh immoderate group, Babar Khalsa.
He was married to Y. Pavana. His had two sons, Rathiesh and Ramesh, and one daughter Shanti. After Yelevarthy's death, his wife committed suicide.[7]
Recipients of this prestigious award include T. Ramasami, A. Sivathanu Pillai, Nori Dattatreyudu, Sam Pitroda, G. Madhavan Nair, Kota Harinarayana, V. K. Aatre, R. Chidambaram, R.A. Mashelkar, Jasbir Singh Bajaj, K. Kasturirangan, Verghese Kurien, S.Z. Qasim, M. G. K. Menon, Vijay Kumar Saraswat,Prasanna Kumar Motupalli and M.S. Swaminathan among others.[8]