Vice Chairman For National Disaster Management Authority

Early Life

Marri Shashidhar Reddy (born.1945) is an Indian Politician. He has been active both at the state level and national level politics in India. In 2005, he became part of the high-powered National Disaster Management Authority, he has been responsible for formulating the Government of India guidelines that would ensure prompt and effective response to cyclones in any part of India. He was also the Convener of the National level Task Force on Naxal violence set up in 2004 Marri Shashidhar Reddy a was born in Hyderabad, India to former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Marri Chenna Reddy.

went to All Saints High school Gunfoundry later he obtained his Bachelors in Arts (English Honors) at St. Stephens College, University of Delhi in 1967. An Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Merit Scholar, he graduated from the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad, in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. He obtained a Master’s degree in Agronomy with distinction from Kansas State University, U.S.A. in 1973.

Personal Life

Marri Shashidhar Reddy is married to Indira Reddy and has three children.

Contributions to Public Life

• As a member of the National Disaster Management Agency since 2005, he has been responsible for formulating guidelines that would ensure prompt and effective response to cyclones in any part of India. He is also responsible for delineating the role insurance and microfinance can play in preparing the people before a natural disaster strikes and rehabilitating the people affected by a natural disaster.
• Convener of the National level Task Force on Naxal violence in 2004. The Task Force's objective was to study the causes of Naxal violence in the India. The Task Force submitted its report in 2005
• An invited participant of the Shimla Chintan Shivir (High Level brain storming Session) organised by All India Congress Committee (AICC) in 2003.
• Participated in an International Training Seminar on “Political Strategies” at Sintra, Portugal in 1994, which was organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation of Germany.
• Represented India as a member of Government of India delegation to the second UN commission on “Sustainable Development”, at New York in 1994
• Closely connected to the World Bank funded Cyclone Emergency Reconstruction Project, which was established after the 1990 cyclone hit the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh.
• He has been a water activist and has especially taken up water issues like the optimal utilisation of water from Godavari and Krishna rivers.