Jalagam Vengal Rao or Jalagam Vengala Rao was the Chief Minister of the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

 from December 10, 1973 to March 6, 1978. Vengal Rao held a World Telugu

Telugu people

The Telugu people or Telugu Prajalu are an ethnic group of India. They are the native speakers of the Telugu language, the most commonly spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali...

 Conference in Hyderabad in 1975. .He belongs to esteemed Velama caste

Vengal Rao hailed from Buyannagudem in Khammam district

Khammam district

Khammam District is a district in Andhra Pradesh, India. It had a population of 2,565,412 of which 19.81% were urban as of 2001 census. Khammam town is the district headquarters. The present name of Khammam is derived from the old name Kammamet. Later it was called Khammam Mettu and subsequently...

. Vengal Rao's hallmark was his efficiency. But he is more famous for his pragmatic handling of Naxal

Naxalite

The word Naxal, Naxalite or Naksalvadi is a generic term used to refer to various militant Communist groups operating in different parts of India under different organizational envelopes...

 menace and containing it. He replaced local officers with officers from far away districts so that a naxalite-police nexus could not be formed. And important rehabilitation measures were formulated for the family members of slain naxalites so that they could lead an honourable life. He almost wiped out naxalism from the State. He created decent means of livelihood for the families of slain and surrendered naxalites so that the younger generations were not misled. He improved the lot of the tribals to ensure there were no fresh additions to the cadres.
It was during his tenure of Chief Ministership that 3 universities namely Kakatiya University

Kakatiya University

Kakatiya University is a public university located in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the largest recipients of central government educational funds, evidenced by the recent external campus facelift and vast expansion and acquisition of the latest IT equipment and related peripherals...

, Acharya Nagarjuna University

Acharya Nagarjuna University

Acharya Nagarjuna University is one of the Universities located in the region of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the major universities in the country covering many colleges and institutes of different districts in the region...

 and Sri Krishnadevaraya University

Sri Krishnadevaraya University

Sri Krishnadevaraya University is a public university in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India, founded on July 25, 1981. The University is named after a patron of learning and the arts, Sri Krishnadevaraya, of the Vijayanagara empire of the 16th century.-History:...

were started, catering for 3 regions of Andhra Pradesh: Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema. Later Vimadlal commission was appointed to probe into attacks on naxals during his Chief Ministership.

Jalagam Vengal Rao died on the June 12, 1999.
Later A park in Banjara Hills of Hyderabad was named after him as Jalagam Vengal Rao Park. There is also an upscale residential neighbhourhood named after him – Vengal Rao Nagar.