End of an era: Dr BS Rao, founder & chairman of Sri Chaitanya edu institutions, is no more
Rao had observed that students especially girl children from rural Andhra Pradesh had limited access to professional education because of a lack of awareness or resources
By Newsmeter Network Published on 13 July 2023 12:57 PM GMT
Hyderabad: Founder and chairman of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions Dr Boppana Satyanarayana Rao (76) passed away due to illness on Thursday, in Hyderabad. Raoās last rites will be held in Vijayawada on July 14.
Many politicians and students sent their condolences to the eminent educationist who was running the Chaitanya group of institutions for the last 40 years.
TDP supremo N Chandra Babu Naidu posted a message on Twitter expressing condolences.
Long-lasting impact on education
In 1986, after practising medicine in the UK and Iran for 16 years, Rao and his wife Dr Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Boppana returned to India to start the first Sri Chaitanya school in Vijayawada. His daughters Seema and Sushma also moved to India from the US, to help their father.
According to Rao, the inception of Sri Chaitanya was the outcome of a long-cherished dream. He had observed that students especially girl children from rural Andhra Pradesh had limited access to professional education because of a lack of awareness or resources, one of the reasons that made him start the initiative to address this lacuna by establishing the first Sri Chaitanya Girls Junior College, 37 years ago.
After establishing a boysā junior college in Hyderabad in 1991, Rao launched several junior colleges (Classes XI-XII) in other towns in then unified Andhra Pradesh. Currently, there are 321 state board-affiliated junior colleges and 322 K-10 Sri Chaitanya Techno Schools in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In addition, he has established 107 CBSE-affiliated Chaitanya schools in other states.
Sources said Rao had recently undergone brain surgery.
