Dwelling Minister Dr. G. Parameshwar pays final respects
Mysuru: Metropolis’s famous industrialist V. Praphulla Chandra (97) of Mysore Toys-fame, handed away at his residence on Ashram Highway in Jayalakshmipuram right here yesterday afternoon.
He leaves behind his son Satish P. Chandra, proprietor of World Tech Park Pvt. Ltd., in Bengaluru, daughter Bharathi Devi, grand-children and a number of family members and mates.
Praphulla Chandra inherited the Mysore Toys Firm, based by his illustrious father M. Veerappa in 1935, with manufacturing centre on Kalidasa Highway (now closed). Later, Praphulla Chandra alongside together with his son Satish Chandra, established a manufacturing facility close to Kadakola on Nanjangud Highway within the eighties, to fabricate house-ware merchandise together with wood toys, which had been exported.
Toys manufactured by Mysore Toys Firm conformed to Worldwide requirements and UNICEF wished them to be provided globally for kids. Equally, Sweden-based IKEA began buying home-ware merchandise manufactured by this manufacturing facility.
A senior Rotarian, Praphulla Chandra had served because the President of Rotary Membership of Mysore West for a few years. His household had established an Endowment within the identify of M. Veerappa at JSS Mahavidyapeetha to honour an excellent artist yearly — one 12 months below Wonderful Arts and one other 12 months below Handicrafts alternatively — calling it ‘Artist M. Veerappa Award.’
Final rites of Praphulla Chandra had been held at Chirashanthidhama in Gokulam this afternoon.