- Vasireddy Sri Krishna
Vasireddy Sri Krishna shortly V.S.Krishna (b:
October 8 ,1902 - d:February 16 ,1961 ) is famous Vice Chancellor ofAndhra University inVisakhapatnam ,India .He was born to Sriramulu and Veeramma in
Tenali taluq inAndhra Pradesh ,India .He studied in
Oxford University ,London inEconomics and obtained his B.A. in 1929.He joined Andhra University in 1932 as Lecturer in Economics. He did his Ph.D. from Vienna University in
Gold Standardization. Later he joined back in the university as Warden, Registrar and head of newly established Economics department.In 1949, he was elected as Vice chancellor [http://www.andhrauniversity.info/vclist.html] by the university senate. He held this position for 11 years till 1961 and worked hard in the various developmental activities of the university. He developed the university library which was later named as Dr.V.S.Krisha Memorial Library. [http://www.andhrauniversity.info/library/index.html]
In 1957, he was elected as president of Inter University Board of India. He was the chairman of
University Grants Commission (India) in 1961 and passed away during the same period.References
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