Veerappa Moily, Arun Yogiraj, S.V. Ranganath, and Jude Felix Sebastian among 69 selected for Karnataka Rajyotsava Award
The Hindu
Former Chief Minister and Kannada writer M. Veerappa Moily, writer and activist B.T. Lalitha Naik, sculptor Arun Yogiraj, former Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath, hockey player Jude Felix Sebastian, Yakshagana artist Keshav Hegde and Seetharam Tolpadi, are among the 69 persons selected for the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award - 2024 by the Karnataka government, for their contributions in different fields.
Former Chief Minister and Kannada writer M. Veerappa Moily, writer and activist B.T. Lalitha Naik, sculptor Arun Yogiraj, former Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath, hockey player Jude Felix Sebastian, Yakshagana artist Keshav Hegde and Seetharam Tolpadi, are among the 69 persons selected for the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award - 2024 by the Karnataka government, for their contributions in different fields.
Mr. Moily served as the Chief Minister, Union Minister, and author of many books in Kannada, while Arun Yogiraj sculpted the statue of Ram Lalla which has been installed in the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
The government has selected 50 men and 50 women achievers in various fields for the Karnataka Sambhrama – 50 – Golden Jubilee Award on the occasion of the golden jubilee of renaming Mysore State as Karnataka.
The award will be presented on November 1 at the Vidhana Soudha by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on the occasion of the 69th Kannada Rajyotsava. Among the awardees are 10 women, including senior environmentalist Almitra Patel.
The award carries a purse of ₹5 lakh, 25 gm of gold, and a plaque. Kannada and Culture Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi announced the list of awardees.
The award winners in different fields are as follows:
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