Career
She was the General Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Mahila Sangham for eighteen years, and then the honorary president of the organisation between 1992 and 2001. She was also Vice President of the All India Democratic Women"s Association, to which the APMS is affiliated, between 1981 to 2001. Udayam came from a family of communist sympathizers in Turumella village.
During these periods she led the first all-female Burrakatha cultural group, a vehicle for anti-fascist campaign activities.
She was also was known in Andhra Pradesh as the first woman to peddle a bicycle in the state. When the Communist Party of India was split in 1964, she sided with the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
During the Emergency, she again went underground to escape repression. After her death, the Moturu Udayam Trust was set up in her memory.
Mallu Swarajyam, who had built up the APMS alongside Udayam, is the managing trustee of the Trust.
