Set up in 2004,
KATRAGADDA FOUNDATION is a non-profit foundation. Presently run by
Dave Katragadda (Devi Prasad Katragadda) and his brother Krishna Prasad Katragadda, offering their valuable services for their
Chiluvuru Village development. They are spending millions of dollars for laying cement roads and for setting up various clinics like medical, dental and eye to meet the medical requirements of the people residing in the village. Because of the good work they are doing they have earned the respect and love of thousands of people belonging to their village.
The
Dave Katragadda Foundation has started e-governance programme,
Chiluvuru became the first `
Rajiv Internet village' in India, when Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy inaugurated it on August 20, 2004.
The vision was to link
Chiluvuru village in Guntur district through the Internet. Providing high-speed broadband Internet services to reach all villages. The focus was on tele-medicine as remote villages needed expert medical opinion in an emergency for which the foundation has brought new technology with the support of the 4G-informatics and for the use of farmers who would be assisted in farming.