Shree Velagapudi Ramakrishna Memorial College

Shree Velagapudi Rama Krishna Memorial College, one of the prestigious college, Affiliated to Acharya Nagarjuna University is located in Nagaram, Andhra Pradesh about 60km from Guntur. 47 years ago, a small lamp of knowledge edge was lit, to be exact, on August 21, 1969 to inaugurate the college, named after the memory of late Sri Velagapudi Rama Krishna, the pioneer industrialist of Andhra. Many people were doubtful about the future of that institution, for it was started in a remote and sleepy village of hardly a thousand thatched houses, in a forgotten corner of Repalle Taluk, Guntur District. The founding of this college was an act of faith. The impulse behind it is the great principle that every human being has an inalienable right to develop the full faculties of his personality, through education. Today Sri Velagapudi Rama Krishna Memorial College is know as one of the good colleges of the state. It has a record of good teaching in a disciplined and academic atmosphere. It stands on a campus of 17 acres, stately avenues of trees, a beautiful library, laboratories and class rooms. It is not all. A hostel and residential quarters for staff in a the midst of gardens and green foliage are in the 11 acres opposite to the college.