Mysore :

The government has sanctioned Rs. 5 lakh for the construction of Kannada Bhavana in city.

This was disclosed by MP H. Vishwanath while speaking after presenting Kannada Ratna awards to 35 Kannada activists at a programme organised as part of Kannada Rajyotsava by the Dasara Exhibition Cultural Sub-Committee at P. Kalinga Rao Gana Mantapa at Exhibition Grounds here recently.

Vishwanath said that the government has envisaged several schemes for the promotion of Kannada in the State. He lauded the services of the Kannada activists who vociferously spear- headed Kannada movements unlike the senior litterateurs with a lot of intellectual finesse.

The Kannada Ratna awardees were felicitated on the occasion. MLA M.K. Somashekar presided. Sub-Committee President Biligiri Ranganath, Vice-President Latha Siddaranga Shetty, District KSP President M. Chandrashekar and others were present.

List of awardees: H. Vishwanath, A.T. Ranganath, S.L. Nagaraj, G. Hanumantha Shetty, Chandrashekaraiah, M.B. Doddegowda, Thayur Vitthal Muthy, Mugur Nanjundaswamy, S.S. Shastri, C. Sampath, M.B. Vishwanath, M.P. Anandakumar, N. Vanaraju, H.K. Ananth Palahalli Ramakrishna, Dr. T. Bharadwajan, K. Raghuram, M.N. Gopalkrishna, R. Ranganath, S. Murali, C. Srinivasa Gowda, M. Jayaprakash, G. Balasubramanya, G.S. Bhoganandish, Gubbigoodu Ramesh, B.A. Shivashankar, M.P. Jnanamurthy, K. Satyappa, H. Rajneesh, Abdul Ghani, K. Madesh, Nataraj, Mohankumar Gowda, Balakrishna and Nalabeedi Ravi.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / November 08th, 2013