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AU Road named after statistician C.R. Rao

VISAKHAPATNAM: The road from Andhra University out-gate to Gurajada Kalakshetram is now named after great scientist and statistician and a former student of the university C.R. Rao.

Following a proposal from Mr. Yugandhar, a member of C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, that a road be named after Dr. Rao, the municipal corporation has passed a resolution to the effect. Born as Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao at Huvana Hadagalli, now in Karnataka, he was a first class first rank in Statistics from Andhra University. After working for 40 years at the Indian Institute of Statistics, he moved to the USA and worked there for 25 years.

Author of 14 books and 350 research papers, he was the recipient of Mahalanobis Prize. He has also been conferred the Padmabhushan in 1968 and Padmavibhushan in 2001.

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