Mulki Sunder Ram Shetty

Mulki Sunder Ram Shetty

Mulki Sunder Ram Shetty was an Indian Banker.He was associated with Vijaya Bank since 1946 and joined the board of directors of the bank as Chairman from 1962, became the Hon. Chairman from 1962 to 1969 resulting in growth of Vijaya bank.^[1] and then remained as full time Chairman till 1978.

Biography

Born in a Tulu speaking Bunt family to Mr.Bommerabettu Muddana Shetty and Mrs.Kakwaguttu Seethamma Shetty.He began his career in insurance and banking by working for various companies initially namely Tropical, Warden, Crescent, Atlas & Triton.Later he joined Vijaya Bank in 1946 and became a part of its growth story.The bank was initially established by A. B. Shetty to aid large scale farming in the erstwhile South Canara district of Madras Presidency on October 23, 1931.The bank diversified and first became a Scheduled bank in 1958 and then grew due to merging of nine smaller banks into it between 1963-68.The credit for this merger as well as growth goes to Mulki Sunder Ram Shetty,who was then the Chief Executive of the bank. Shetty served as full time chairman of the bank until 1978 and died in 1981. Considering his legacy in the history of Indian Banking,a degree college was established in his memory in Shirva, Udupi district, India ^[2] and a locality in Bangalore, India is named after him^[3]

References

1. ^ "Inception". Vijaya Bank. http://vijayabank.com/vijaya/vijaya/internet-en/menus/we-at-vijaya-bank/inception.html. Retrieved 2009-09-07. 
2. ^ "Colleges affiliated to Mangalore University". Mangalore University. http://www.mangaloreuniversity.ac.in/xampp/affcol.html. Retrieved 2009-09-07. 
3. ^ http://www.financialexpress.com/news/vijaya-bank-launches-1000th-branch/255616/

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Name	Shetty, Mulki Sunder Ram
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Short description	Indian Banker
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Date of death	1981
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