Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy, a prominent linguist and social reformer, made significant contributions to both the Telugu and the Savara languages, said Chief Secretary K.S. Jawahar Reddy at the Telugu Official Language Day celebrations held at AP Secretariat, Velagapudi, on Monday.
Gidugu Ramamurthy’s birth anniversary is celebrated for a week across the State and concludes on August 29 marked as the Telugu Official Language Day by the government of Andhra Pradesh.
The AP Telugu Official Language Commission is organising this programme in collaboration with Acharya Nagarjuna University.