Award for UoH professor
The Hindu
The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, has conferred the Maya Deb Memorial Lectureship award for the year 2020 on Prof. Meena Hariharan, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Hyderabad. This award is c
The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, has conferred the Maya Deb Memorial Lectureship award for the year 2020 on Prof. Meena Hariharan, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Hyderabad.
This award is conferred in recognition of her research contributions through her work on psychological and social problems of downtrodden Indian rural women. Twenty-seven scholars from different fields have been chosen for the award for the year 2020.
Prof. Hariharan worked for making the rural women literate along with her colleague Prof. Ramabrahmam for 15 years. Alongside the evaluation of literacy campaigns in various districts in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, and Karnataka, she provided counselling and coping techniques to empower the neo-literate women.

The Karnataka government has drafted a comprehensive master plan for the integrated development of Kukke Subrahmanya temple, the State’s highest revenue-generating temple managed by the Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Department. The redevelopment initiative is estimated to cost around ₹254 crore and aims to enhance infrastructure and facilities for devotees.