Vidyavati


Vidyavati, former Vice-Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India was born on 15 September 1939, in Goud community. She is President of Phycological Society of India. She was honored by Telangana State Government as Eminent Women on 8 March 2017, on the occasion of "International Women's Day" celebrations.

Early life and education

She studied at Bansilal Balika Vidyalaya, Begum Bazaar, Hyderabad and passed Higher School Secondary Certificate in the year 1955. In 1957, she studied Intermediate at Koti Women’s College, Hyderabad. In 1959, she passed her graduation with Botany main, Zoology and Chemistry from the same college. She did post-graduation in M.Sc Botany with Hydrobiology main in Final level at Osmania University.
She was awarded Ph.D for her thesis on ‘Experimental and Cytological Studies on Certain Desmids’ from Osmania University in the year 1967 under the able guidance of Prof. Jafar Nizam and Prof. M.R. Saxena. As most of the literature was in German, she passed Junior and Senior Diploma in German Language at Arts College, Osmania University,in the year 1963 - 65 for a period of 3 years. Her area of specialization is Hydrobiology, Phycology, Cytology and Ultrastructure Ecology.

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