He graduated in Bachelor of Science from St. Francis De Sales College, Seminary Hills, Nagpur, Maharashtra during 1984-1988 and qualified Post Graduate Diploma in Social Welfare in 1991 from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Kolkata, West Bengal. Working in different hierarchy of functional structure, Sri Ramaiah has handled all areas of HR functions including IR, Contract Labour Management, Hospital Management, Human Resource Development, liaison and coordination. Prior to joining BCCL as Director(Personnel), he was functioning as General Manager(HR) in SAIL, Durgapur and worked for Introduction of Productive Work Culture, Organization restructuring, incentive scheme for beyond capacity utilization, change management, etc.