Kotha Raghuramaiah

Family

Education

Career

• Practiced Law in Madras High Court, 1937–1941
• Joined Provincial Judicial Service in 1941; between 1941 and 1951, held various posts like:
• Assistant Secretary, Legal Department, Government of Madras – 1941.
• Assistant Director of Employment and Regional Publicity Officer in the Resettlement Directorate of the Ministry of Labour, Government of India.
• Assistant Solicitor to the Government of India, Ministry of Law.
• Deputy Secretary and Joint Secretary, Legal Department, Government of Madras
• Legal Secretary and Legal Remembrancer to the Government of Madras.
• Reesignation from Government service in 1951.
• Enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court.
• Editor, 'Asian Recorder', 1955.
• Member, AICC, 1955–59.
• Legal Advisory Committee, AICC, 1956.
• Secretary, Harijan Sevak Sangh, Madras.
• Vice-President, Madras Corporation Labour Union prior to 1942.
• Member, Executive Committee, Indian Institute of Public Administration, 1954.
• Member, Railway Corruption Enquiry Committee, 1954.
• President, P.& T. Workers' Union, 1954.
• President, Andhra Pradesh Life Insurance Salaried Officers Association, 1954.
• President, All-India Postal Employees' Union, Class III, Andhra Circle, 1956.
• President, All-India R.M.S. Employees Union, Class IV, Andhra Circle, 1956.
• Member, First Lok Sabha, 1952–57, Second Lok Sabha, 1957–62, Third Lok Sabha, 1962–67, Fourth Lok Sabha 1967–70 and Fifth Lok Sabha 1971–77.
• Member, Executive Committee, Congress Party in Parliament – 1954.
• Secretary, Executive Committee, Congress Party in Parliament – 1955.
• Convener, External Affairs Standing Committee, 1952–57.
• Member, Estimates Committee 1954.
• Member, General Purposes Committee and Rules Committee, 1955–57.
• Chairman, Petitions Committee, 1955–57.
• Deputy Minister of Defence, May 1957.
• Minister of State for Defence on 16 April 1962.
• Minister of Defence Production on 14 November 1962.
• Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour & Employment on 9 June 1964.
• Minister of Supply in the Ministry of; Industry and Supply on 13 June 1964.
• Minister of Supply and Technical Development on 3 October 1964.
• Minister of State in the Ministry of Law on 13 March 1967.
• Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals and of Planning and Social Welfare on 13 March 1967.
• Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals and of Social Welfare on 5 September 1967.
• Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals on 23 August 1968.
• Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Shipping and Transport on 14 February 1969.
• Cabinet Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Shipping and Transport 26 June 1970 – March 1971.
• Cabinet Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in February 1973.
• Additional charge of Ministry of Works and Housing in October 1974.
• Minister of Works & Housing and Parliamentary Affairs.
• Minister of Tourism & Civil Aviation and Parliamentary Affairs in December 1976.
• Chairman, Government of India Tobacco Delegation to Far East, 1954 and Tobacco Export Committee, 1956–57.
• Member, Indian Central Tobacco Committee, 1953–57.
• Vice-President from 1955–56; Alternate Delegate to the Trusteeship Committee of the United Nations, 1956.
• India's Representative in the U.N. Committee on Information from, Non-Self Governing Territories, 1956.
• Alternate Delegate to the U.N. General Assembly, 1956.
• Member, Executive Committee of the Indian Parliamentary Group, 1955–57.
• Member, "Law of the Sea" Conference, Geneva, April 1960.
• delegate to the International Parliamentary Council Meeting at Nice in 1957 and at Dubrovnik in 1966.
• Represented Government of India at the function, of the assumption of office by the President of Philippines in December 1969.
• Leader of the Indian delegation at the International Highway Conference held at Montreal in 1970.
• Member, Indian Parliamentary delegation to USA in 1970.
• Attended Colombo Housing Ministers Conference at Sri Lanka in 1975.
• Leader of Indian Delegation to the 21st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference held in New Delhi in 1975.
• Leader of the Indian Delegation to the U.N. Conference on Habitat held in Vancouver in June 1976.
• Leader of the Indian Delegation to the 22nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference held in Mauritius in September 1976.

  Honours

• Andhra University conferred Doctorate Degree in 1975.
• Sri Venkateswara University conferred Doctorate Degree in 1977.
• Two colleges in the towns of Narasaraopeta and Duggirala in Guntur district were named in his honour.