Govindacharya biography
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A Short Biography of Sri Alkondavilli Govindacharya (by Vanamamalai Dr. T.D. Muralidharan):
Sri Alkondavilli Govindacharya Swamy was the second son of Sri Srinivasa Iyengar who hailed from Tirupraithurai in Tiruchirapalli district in Tamil Nadu State, India. A. Govindacharya’s father, Sri Srinivasa Iyengar was a tutor in English to Sri. Nalmadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar, Maharaja of Mysore and was known as “Angrezi Srinivasa Iyengar”. Sri Govindacharya Swamy traces his ancestry to Sri Ramanuja’s disciple Vaduga Nambi or Andhra Purna at Saligrama. He stood first in Engineering in the year 1878 for which he was awarded the medal from the School of Engineering and Natural Science, Bengaluru. He was an Executive Engineer in the PWD, Government of Mysore. The Nanjangad Kapila Bridge was built under his supervision. The house which he built in the then Viceroy Road in Mysore
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Govindacharya emerges as an unlikely influencer of India’s tech policies late in his career
As the Coronavirus pandemic began to spread in India, the Narendra Modi governmentbuilt an app called AarogyaSetu(meaning Bridge of Health), and mandated all citizens to install it on their smartphones and populate it with their health and location data. The app then computes the possibility of the individ having komma in contact with a Covid-19 positiv person and the chances of herself being infected. It advises the user the course of action to follow and also sends the information to government databases.
On May 6, Govindacharya, through his lawyer, Virag Gupta, sent a legal memo to AarogyaSetu’s creator, National Informatics Centre, saying that the app had poor privacy controls and inadequate data safety. (Last week, the government threw open the app’s
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K. N. Govindacharya
Kodipakam Neelameghacharya Govindacharya (born 2 May 1943) is a founder Bharat Vikas Sangam, Eternal Hindu Foundation and Rastriya Swabhiman Andolan, Formally Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak, environmental activist, social activist, political activist and thinker. He was associated with Bharatiya Janata Party but is now a staunch critic of that party as much as he is a critic of the Indian National Congress.[1]
Political career
[edit]K. N. Govindacharya became a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1988 and for a period until 2000 he served as its General Secretary.[2] He was forced to leave the BJP on the insistence of Prime Minister Vajpayee as he said Advani was calling the shots while the Prime Minister was just a mask.[3] He insisted that the statement had been wrongly attributed to him,[4] but Vajpayee, not impressed by the clarification, thought the damage to the party's image had been done, wh