[15] In 2015,[16] Raveendra was a resource person at the Strategic Gaming Exercise on Left Wing Extremism held by the United Service Institution, New Delhi.
[2] After post-graduate studies at Department of Zoology,[2] Osmania University[17] where he received a gold medal in Zoology, he cleared the Union Public Service Commission entrance and opted for IPS and underwent training at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.
[24] Moves by the incumbent Chief Minister, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy to his neighbouring counterpart, K. Chandrashekar Rao point towards this direction and steps seem to have been made at the Centre to quickly move the files and get the Officer on deputation from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh.
[25] So far in Raveendra's career he has encountered Naxalism[26] (as SP-in-Warangal), Factionalism[27] (as SP-in-Anantapur), Corruption[28] (as SP-in-Karimnagar), Regionalism[29] (as DCP-in-East Zone) and eradicated drugs from Hyderabad city.
[31] The problem of drugs is under current debate so much that the former Commissioner of Police, A. K. Khan, even addressed a seminar conducted at the Centre for Economic Studies in Hyderabad on the topic "War on Drugs"[32] where Officer Raveendra was also present .Mr.Raveendra in a dare-devil act of self-less courage saved the lives of 61 patients who were trapped in a fire accident[33] in a hospital for which he was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Life saving Medal.