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Mr K. Ramachandra Raju was the original promoter of the company. He is considered to be a pioneer in the mini-cement industry in India.
Nagarjuna Cement

Our Founder and Inspiration
Sowing the seeds of
entrepreneurship
The Founder of our Group, Mr. K. Ramachandra Raju was a pioneer in the mini cement industry. He was among the first few to venture into what at that time was a revolutionary and untested concept of mini cement plants.
K. Ramachandra Raju
Founder
(1934 - 2008)
The Government encouraged experimentation with this low-investment low-volume solution to the chronic shortage of cement that prevailed four decades ago. Mr. K. Ramachandra Raju accepted the challenge with an entrepreneurial spirit and established Nagarjuna Cements Ltd to set up a mini cement plant.
Today, while we proudly present our 40th commemorative issue, we pay homage to this visionary, whose philosophy of Growth and Innovative Products we have inherited and internalised. They have become the credo of a corporate conglomerate in the making.