| 词条 | A. B. Shetty |
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|name = Attavar Balakrishna Shetty |image = Attavar Balakrishna Shetty.jpg |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |other_names = |education = |alma_mater = |occupation = |known_for = Founder of Vijaya Bank |office = Minister for Health Co-operation, Housing and Ex-servicemen, Government of Madras State |predecessor = |successor = |party = Indian National Congress |spouse = |children = |parents = |relations = }}Attavar Balakrishna Shetty (1883–1960)[1] better known as A. B. Shetty was an Indian politician, philanthropist, entrepreneur and the founder of Vijaya Bank.[2] BiographyShetty was born in a family of landlords to Mulki Kalappa Shetty (Father) and Attavar Unhakke (Mother).{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} He completed his early education in Mangalore. Realising the need for dissemination of news and information about world affairs among people in the South Canara district, he started a weekly Kannada language publication, called "Navayuga", which was edited in its early years by K. K. Shetty and later by K. Honnayya Shetty. This was very popular for more than 40 years.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} In addition Shetty was also the pioneer behind Canara Printing Press, a printing press in Mangalore.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} Shetty established Vijaya Bank in 1931 at Bunts Hostel in Mangalore.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} The bank did well, providing job opportunities for thousands of youths and also providing banking service to lakhs of people all over the country.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} Vijaya Bank is today one of the foremost nationalised banks of India.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} Deeply secular and progressive in outlook, Shetty was interested in the activities of the Theosophical Society, the Brahmo Samaj, the Arya Samaj, the Depressed Classes Mission, etc., all of which were engaged in the uplift of neglected sections of society.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} He also served as Minister in the Madras Presidency and later in Madras State, holding various portfolios such as agriculture and veterinary, medical and public health, cooperation, housing and ex-servicemen[3] between the years 1949-1956 until quitting the Ministry on 1 March 1956 following the States Reorganisation Act of 1956.[4] He married Kalyani Shetty. They had four children: two sons and two daughters.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} He died in 1960 at the age of 77 and is commemorated by the A.B.Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Deralakatte, Mangalore.[5] References1. ^Bring rural populace to mainstream: Mahe VC - Deccan Herald {{DEFAULTSORT:Shetty, A. B.}}{{Karnataka-politician-stub}}2. ^Vijaya Bank {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/66EXxNxXf?url=http://vijayabank.com/vijaya/vijaya/internet-en/menus/we-at-vijaya-bank/inception.html |date=17 March 2012 }} 3. ^{{cite book|title=India: A Reference Annual 1954|date=1954|publisher=Ministry of Information and Broadcasting|page=382|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85206|accessdate=3 March 2018}} 4. ^{{Cite book | title = Justice Party golden jubilee souvenir, 1968 | publisher = Justice Party| year = 1968| pages =50–65| url= https://books.google.com/books?lr=&client=firefox-a&cd=20&id=rCZYAAAAMAAJ}} 5. ^Mangalorean.Com- Serving Mangaloreans Around The World! {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011142252/http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newsid=167794&newstype=local |date=11 October 2012 }} 9 : 1883 births|1960 deaths|Mangaloreans|Indian philanthropists|Karnataka local politicians|Indian bankers|People from Dakshina Kannada district|Karnataka politicians|20th-century philanthropists |
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