Released on: September 23, 2008, 3:29 am

Press Release Author: katragadda foundation

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: DAVE KATRAGADDA FOUNDATION is a non-profit foundation.
Presently run by Dave Katragadda (Devi Prasad Katragadda) and his brother Krishna
Prasad Katragadda, offering their valuable services for their village development.
The Dave Katragadda Foundation has started e-governance programs, Chiluvuru Village
became the first `Rajiv Internet village' in India.

Press Release Body: DAVE KATRAGADDA FOUNDATION is a non-profit foundation. Presently
run by Dave Katragadda (Devi Prasad Katragadda) and his brother Krishna Prasad
Katragadda, offering their valuable services for their village development. They are
spending millions of dollars for laying cement roads and for setting up various
clinics like medical, dental and eye to meet the medical requirements of the people
residing in the village. Because of the good work they are doing they have earned
the respect and love of thousands of people belonging to their village.

The Dave Katragadda Foundation has started e-governance programs, Chiluvuru Village
became the first `Rajiv Internet village' in India, when Chief Minister Y.S.
Rajasekhara Reddy inaugurated it on August 20, 2004. The vision was to link
Chiluvuru village in Guntur district through the Internet. Providing high-speed
broadband Internet services to reach all villages. The focus was on tele-medicine as
remote villages needed expert medical opinion in an emergency for which the
foundation has brought new technology with the support of the 4G-informatics and for
the use of farmers who would be assisted in farming.

Katragadda foundation gives the villagers of chiluvuru livelihood and soft skills in
an environment of interactive learning and mentoring that develops their inherent
strengths. The curriculum is constantly upgraded in tune with industry requirements.
The people of chiluvuru are put through intensive learning of computer skills to
help them communicate their problems in medicine and framing and help them learn
using the internet. The foundation has facilitated to start a Trust for Education
under the chairmanship of Dave katragadda, which is in the process of establishing
corporate training centers for IT education nationwide in India. The Trust aims to
have an impact on engineering education in India through cutting-edge technological
education in two engineering colleges, as well as state-of-the-art training for
future engineering faculty.

The Foundation is dedicated to reducing the financial obstacles that prevent many
students from fulfilling their potential.


Web Site: http://www.katragaddafoundation.org/

Contact Details: 9530 Hageman road,
Ste # B- 255,
Bakersfield, CA-93312
Tel: 310 694 8698