Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation

The Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation (Telugu: శ్రీ రాజా లక్ష్మీ ఫౌండేషన్) is an Indian charitable trust that promotes arts, sciences, literature, medicine, journalism, humanities and other intellectual pursuits and to honour distinguished persons in these fields.Established in 1979 in Madras by Late P. V. Ramaniah Raja, a businessman, the foundation instituted the 'Raja-Lakshmi Award'.The Foundation has also instituted the 'Ratna Rao Memorial Prize' which is awarded annually to the best student in M.Sc.Special awards (Raja–Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar) have also been announced on a one-off basis.This Award honours Vedic scholars, and consists of a Citation, a plaque and a cash prize of ₹25,000/-.
Ramaniah Raja, Managing Trustee, Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation
Dr. Bezawada Gopala Reddy presenting the first Raja-Lakshmi Award to Sri Sri on 19.11.1979
Smt.Mahalakshmi Raja presenting the 1985 Raja-Lakshmi Award to Mandolin Srinivas
Sadguru Sivananda Murty presenting the 2004 Raja-Lakshmi Award to Smt. Sudha Murty
Raja-Lakshmi Awards-2008, L to R: R.Sekar IPS, N.Murali, Pappu Venugopala Rao, R.Venkatraman Ghanapaati, Koneru Humpy , Balakrishna Prasad, B.S.R.Krishna, Janani Krishna
Mayor Sabbam Hari presenting the 1995 Raja-Lakshmi Literary Award to Sri Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
Sri T. A. Venkateswaran delivering the Memorial Lecture for the year 2007.
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