page_title: Rangaraya Medical College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rangaraya Medical College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: volley ball courts
context_page_description: Rangaraya Medical College is one of the old and premier Government Medical colleges in Andhra pradesh. It was established in 1958 and is in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is affiliated to Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences.
context_section_description: Dr. Datla Satyanarayana Raju and Dr. M. V. Krishna Rao had been dreaming of starting a private medical college to cater to the students of coastal Andhra Pradesh, particularly Godavari districts. They founded and registered the Medical Education Society on 16 April 1958. The objectives were of promoting medical education, research and relief through voluntary effort. They started collecting donations assisted by Dr. I. Joga Rao, P.V.N. Raju, K. Chandra Rao, A. Perisastry, B. Venkata Raju and Dr. P.R. Hari.
  Mullapudi Harishchandra Prasad of Sri Mullapudi Venkata Rayudu Memorial Educational Trust of Tanuku offered a donation of Rs. 500,000. The college was named after his late brother-in-law Sri. Pendyala Ranga Rao, zamindar of Dommeru. He became the vice president of the society. Sri Kotamarthi Venkanna gifted 6-1/2 acres of land, now called Kotamarthi Park on which stands the present men's hostels. Sri Draksharama Choultry Trust gave a donation of Rs. 50,000 towards construction of a lecture hall.
  Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau, the Maharaja of Pithapuram, leased the palatial orphanage buildings (now the Main Campus) to house the Medical College. Two lecture halls and a dissection hall were constructed. 
  The Rangaraya Medical College was inaugurated on 17 November 1958 by Sri. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. One hundred students were admitted in the first year. Their teaching work for first MBBS was initiated on 15 August 1958 by Dr. V. S. Krishna, vice chancellor of Andhra University. The idea was conceived on 24 February by Col. D.S. Raju n his associates. The society was formed on 16 April; the first lecture was delivered by Dr. Moturu Bhanu Sankar Prasad on 17 September.
  Prominent among them in the medical field during 1958 were Col. Dr. D.S. Raju and Dr. M.V. Krishna Rao.
  While Col. Raju was engaged in the task of collecting donations to the proposed Medical College, Dr. M.V. Krishna Rao did the spade work for the starting of the institution. The then municipal chairman Sri Dantu Bhaskara Rao heartily cooperated with the endeavour, with the result the starting of a medical college, which was till then an ambition, became a reality.
  Sri Draksharama Choultry Trust represented by the Pydah family gave a donation of 50,000 rupees with which a lecture hall was constructed. Many other people contributed smaller donations amounting to about rupees 2.5 lakhs.
  The Government General Hospital would serve as the teaching hospital. Within 21/2 months two lecture halls and a dissection hall were constructed and ready for occupation. The formal inauguration of the Rangaraya Medical College was done on 17 November 1958 by Sri. N. Sanjeeva Reddy, the then chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. The paraclinical departments, the central library, and two more lecture galleries were constructed opposite to the hospital. The hospital began to see expansion in the late 1960s and 1970s.
  In the year 1977 Government of Andhra Pradesh took over the privately managed RMC. In 1981 Rangaraya Medical College became a full-fledged Government Medical College.
  More recently the college and hospital have seen numerous changes. Two exam halls capable of accommodating almost 400 people were constructed in 2002. A new lecture gallery for the Department of physiology was constructed behind the exam halls.
  The volleyball and basketball court were renovated with flood lights. New tennis courts were constructed and are being used to provide tennis coaching by the East Godavari District Tennis Association. The badminton court flooring was renovated.
  During golden jubilee celebrations of the college the auditorium was renovated with air-conditioning and new sound system facilities — making it one-of-a-kind among the auditoriums of its sister colleges in the state. A medical exhibition was organised by students and staff after almost 25 years which attracted huge crowds from the beginning to the end of the event. During the golden jubilee celebrations the RMCANA (Rangaraya Medical College Alumni Association of North America) he
caption: students playing in the renovated volleyball court
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