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| name = Challa Kondaiah
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| office = [[Chief Justice]] of [[Andhra Pradesh High Court]]
| termstart = 1979
| termend = 1980
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| predecessor = [[Avula Sambasiva Rao]]
| successor = [[Alladi Kuppu Swami]]
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1918|07|04}}
| birth_place = [[Anantapur district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| death_date = 2001 <ref>{{cite web|title=[2001] 252 ITR 854 (AP) HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH Justice Challa Kondaiah (Decd)|url=http://law.incometaxindia.gov.in/DitTaxmann/IncomeTaxActs/2009ITAct/%5B2001%5D252ITR0854(AP).htm|accessdate=7 August 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130807040014/http://law.incometaxindia.gov.in/DitTaxmann/IncomeTaxActs/2009ITAct/%5B2001%5D252ITR0854(AP).htm|archivedate=7 August 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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'''Challa Kondaiah''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: చల్లా కొండయ్య) (1918-2001) was [[Chief Justice]] of [[Andhra Pradesh High Court]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hc.ap.nic.in/aphc/ckj.html |title=Profile of the Honorable Justice C.Kondaiah at High Court of Andhra Pradesh. |access-date=3 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619064818/http://hc.ap.nic.in/aphc/ckj.html |archive-date=19 June 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was born on 4 July 1918 at Challavaripalle in [[Anantapur district]] to Challa Venkata Kondaiah and Laxmamma. He graduated from Government Arts College in Anantapur and received his Bachelor of Law from [[Madras Law College]]. He did Civil, Criminal and Taxation work in [[Madras High Court]], High Court of Andhra at [[Guntur]] and High Court of Andhra Pradesh, [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]. He was appointed as Standing Counsel for Income-Tax Department in 1958. He was appointed as permanent Judge on 21 August 1967. He was transferred to [[Madhya Pradesh High Court]] on 24 June 1976. He was Judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court again from 27 October 1977. He was Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh from 16 March 1979 till 3 July 1980.

[[Government of Andhra Pradesh]] appointed [[Justice Challa Kondaiah Commission]] in 1987. Based on its recommendations, the government has made an Endowment Act to end the Hereditary rights of Archakas in the Temples of Andhra Pradesh.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071207170416/http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120496250400.htm Endowments Amendment Bill welcomed in the Hindu]</ref>

He was chairman of [[Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams]] and initiated the ''Nitya Annadana Scheme'', a food service to the devotees.

A spacious auditorium for Anantapur Bar Association for their cultural, social and recreational activities with a seating capacity of 1,000 was constructed in 2005. It was named as ''Justice Challa Kondaiah Auditorium''. A Statue of Challa Kondaiah was also installed in the premises.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105114333/http://www.hindu.com/lf/2005/06/04/stories/2005060406930200.htm New auditorium for Anantapur bar association in the Hindu.]</ref>

==References==
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==Notes==
* Luminaries of 20th Century, Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005.

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