GV Krishna Reddy

  While most of the Indians stayed in their homes during the lockdown, Covid-19 warriors at GVK EMRI risked their lives to save hundreds of thousands since the beginning of the pandemic.  A healthcare arm of the GVK Foundation, GVK EMRI played a vital role in containing the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Since the first case was detected in Kerala at the beginning of 2020, ambulances of GVK EMRI that have been operating across 15 states and two UTs, have pitched in with the additional task of transporting Covid-19 suspects and patients to the designated hospitals.  As per the data available, it has transferred over 2.56 lakh people with suspected Covid-19 symptoms through its ambulances. Transporting an average of 3,336 suspected patients every day until 31 May 2020. However, by December, 2020, GVK EMRI cumulatively reported nearly 15 lakh Covid-19 linked transfers.  Average per day Covid-19 transfers were around 7000. It touched a peak of 10,000 per day. Currentl...

  GVK Group is the story of an ambitious entrepreneur that began with a desire to establish an indigenous business for developing state-of-the-art world-class infrastructure in India. Consequently, as soon as   GVK Reddy  graduated, he accepted full responsibility for taking up his father’s construction business in the year 1960. However, he was quite new to the construction business and a bit skeptical of success. He says, “With very little knowledge of the trade, I was unsure of myself but gradually learned the ropes by facing the challenges, working hard, remain self-disciplined and committed — the four virtues that remained constant in the path of my life.” He successfully completed his first project; the construction of a canal and under-tunnel at the Nagarjuna Sagar Right Canal at Adiguppala and Shyamarajapuram. For GV Krishna Reddy, every challenge was an opportunity in disguise. He found one at the time when the main Nagarjuna Sagar Dam was erected. He recall...

  Padma Bhushan Dr GV Krishna Reddy is the founder chairman of GVK Power and Infrastructure Ltd. He is well known for his social development and environmental sustainability projects. Eminent entrepreneur and philanthropist  Dr GV Krishna Reddy  has contributed Rs. 1 crore for the construction of the Bhavya Ram Mandir. Also present on the occasion was his son  GV Sanjay Reddy . Today, GVK Foundation has become one of the most prominent organisations that are actively involved in taking up social causes. Dr. GV Krishna Reddy basically comes from a village background of Kothuru in Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh and has seen the suffering of poor people. He always felt that he should help in improving the health, education, and basic facilities that would benefit a large number of needy underprivileged individuals and social institutions. Thus, the GVK Foundation came into being with this objective of supporting the underprivileged in our society. A healthcare arm o...