Dr. PRASAD THOTAKURA
Received “Dr. ANR Life Time Achievement Swarna Kankanam Award” and Honorary Doctorate from GITAM University, Visakhapatnam Community activist, former President of TANA Prasad Thotakura received “Dr. ANR Life Time Achievement Swarna Kankanam Award” from Dada Saheb Phalke Awardee, Padma Bhushan, Nata Samrat, Dr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao at his 90th Birthday celebrations held on Sept. 22nd in Hyderabad at Ravindra Bharathi in starstudded ceremonies hosted by a well known service oriented organization Vamsee Art Theaters International headed by Vamsee Ramaraju.
High Court Lawyer Sri. Yellamraju Gopalakrishna Murthy (104 yrs); Famous Writer Smt. C. Ananda Ramam; SVBC Channel CEO Dr. P. Madhusudhana Rao; Celebrity Mistress of Ceremonies Smt. MKR Asha Latha.
Hon. Supreme Court Justice Jasti Chelameswar attended these ceremonies as a Chief Guest and Padma Bhushan Dr. C. Narayana Reddy, Dr. T. Subba Ramireddy, MP, Entrepreneur N.T. Chowdary attended as special guests. A special ANR Golden Hits live concert with full orchestra was conducted by NRI popular singer Sarada Akunuri along with other noted singers Geetanjali, Chandrateja and Vinod Babu at this event. A special souvenir depicting Dr. ANR’s life history was released during this occasion.
Prof. Koneru Ramakrishna Rao, Chancellor of GITAM bestowed Prasad Thotakura with Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters on October 8th , 2013 in Visakhapatnam at GITAM’s fourth convocation.
The following are the awardees: NRI Community Leader, Prasad Thotakura, Padma Bhushan, Nata Sekhara G. Krishna; Guinness Book of Worlds record holder Director Smt. G. Vijaya Nirmala; Dharskendra K. Raghavendra Rao; Comedian actor Ali; Producer, Director and Actor R. Narayana Murthy, Senior
Prasad Thotakura also received Honorary Doctorate from one of the very reputed Universities in India GITAM University, Visakhapatnam for his decades of distinguished community service.
Former ISRO Chairman, Current Planning Commission member of Government of India, Padma Vibhushan Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan; Renowned Nephrologists, Chairman of the Board of Ganga Ram Hospitals, New Delhi, Padma Shri Dr. Devinder Singh Rana and CEO & MD of TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), Mr. Natarajan Chandra Sekharan also received Honorary Doctorate degrees from GITAM at the same Convocation. Mr. Prasad Thotakura from Dallas, TX is an outstanding, dynamic, corporate and community leader, a bridge builder, a mentor and a role model of the immigrants has |7