Upasana Kamineni Konidela and Nara Lokesh support & celebrate the CORPORATE MOM!

Upasana Kamineni Konidela has always been an active advocate of women’s empowerment and their independence. She is also a firm believer that ambition should be supported and motherhood should be celebrated. A woman’s career should never have to end when she becomes a mother, she believes. “India educates its daughters, invests in their dreams, and then loses their talent to motherhood. That’s not just a women’s issue — it’s an economic loss,” she says.

At the CII Andhra Summit, Upasana proposes Andhra Second Career, an initiative aimed at bringing 10,000 mothers back into the workforce through reskilling, flexible work and childcare support. The vision is to make Andhra Pradesh India’s most working-mother-friendly state because working mothers don’t need to be superheroes. They need a society that supports them.

From Aragonda, Dr Prathap C. Reddy Garu championed Atma Rakshanam — access to world-class healthcare. Today, Upasana Konidela and Nara Lokesh carry their grandfathers’ vision forward, aspiring to make Andhra Pradesh the healthcare talent capital of the world. “If the world needs healers, let Andhra train them,” they believe.