Bojjam Narasimhulu Pharmacy College

Shri M Rama Reddy

Shri M Rama Reddy sir was Born in 1943. He has completed degree in Public Administration, Political Science and Economics from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has completed Post Graduate Degree in Journalism from Osmania University, Hyderabad, Post Graduate Studies in Political Science at Delhi University and also he has completed Post Graduate studies in Local Government and Economic Development at Princeton University, USA.

He has worked as a Research Associate in Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, 1965-66. He also worked as Reporter and Sub Editor in Patriot, New Delhi, from1966-67 and Chief Executive of Cooperative Development Foundation (Popularly known as Sahavikasa), from 1975-99 and President of Sahavikasa, from 2000 year onwards.

He worked closely with Brahma Prakash Committee during 1989-90 in evolving a Model Cooperative Societies Bill for states to adopt. He has worked closely with Andhra Pradesh Government for the drafting and unanimous passage of Andhra Pradesh Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies Act of 1995 (poplularly known as Macs Act or Parallel Law). He has provided organizational / personal assistance to seven state governments of Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh Chattisgarh, Orissa and Karnataka for enactment of liberal, parallel cooperative laws.

Shri M Rama Reddy

Chairman Emeritus

He also worked with the UNDP-sponsored LARGE (Legal Adjustments and Reforms for Globalising the Economy) Project for thorough field and desk review of the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act of 1984 (MSCS Act of 1984) and in the preparation of an MSCS Act of 2002 to replace the 1984 Act

He has assisted the Ram Niwas Mirdha Committee in its review of MSCS Act of 1984 between 1983 and 2000, conducted over a 100 workshops in several states and at the national level to develop a framework for cooperative legislation in the new economic scenario based on learnings from the field as well as the inputs from parliamentarians, jurists, cooperators, activists, civil servants, academicians and others attending workshops, published the Referential Bill (a model bill for cooperative legislation), first in 1990 and subsequently updating it in the light of field experience and the changing needs of civil society, market and government