Sri Raja Lakshmi Foundation

Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation is a 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 Chennai by Late P.V. Ramaniah Raja, a businessman, the Foundation instituted the Raja-Lakshmi Award.

Contents

• Recipients of Raja Lakshmi Recognise the Teacher Award
• Recipients of Raja Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar
• Recipients of Ratna Rao Memorial Prize
• Memorial Lectures delivered
• References

Erstwhile the Raja-Lakshmi Award carried a prize amount of Rs.1,00,000/-, a Citation and a Plaque. The Awardees also received the Dr. K.V. Rao & Dr. Jyoti Rao Award of US $2000, in association with the Telugu Fine Arts Society (TFAS), New Jersey, USA.

The Foundation also instituted awards such as the Raja-Lakshmi Literary Award (1987-1999) and "Recognise the Teacher" Award. Special awards (Raja-Lakshmi Visishta Puraskar) have also been announced on a one-off basis. Lakshmi-Raja Vaidika Puraskar was instituted in the year 1994 coinciding with the 60th birthday of Smt. Mahalakshmi Raja, founder trustee of the Foundation. The Award honours Vedic scholars, and consists of a Citation, a plaque and a cash prize of Rs.25,000/-.

These Awards were being announced on August 15 (birthday of Late Smt. Mahalakshmi Raja) every year and presented at a function on November 19 (birthday of Sri Ramaniah Raja) in the same year.

From the year 2010 the Foundation has decided to award only the Lakshmi-Raja Vaidika Puraskar besides awarding educational scholarships.

The Foundation has also instituted the Ratna Rao Memorial Prize which is awarded annually to the best student in M.Sc. Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.