44 to get district-level Rajyotsava award

 
Addressing a press meet here on Saturday, Dakshina Kannada District Kannada Sahithya Parishat President Pradeep Kumar Kalkura said that the Rajyotsava award winners are D G Nadka of Sullia (senior writer), Vijaya Raghava Padwatnaya (social work), Purandar Bhat (senior litterateur), Derebail Hariskrishna Tantri (Sanskrit vidwan), Athur Sadananda Shetty (Education and sports), Ashwathapura Baburaya Acharya (sculpture), Pu Srinivas Bhat (folk literature-research), Nellikatte Narayana Hasyagara (yakshagana), Peruvayi Narayana Shetty (yakshagana), Jabbar Samo Sampaje (yakshagana talamaddale), Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Yoga and Moral Education project’s Shantivana Trust (Yoga and moral education), Chinnara loka—Mokeda Kalavider Seva Trust (children’s literature), Venkatesh Baliga (Konkani literature), Geetha Bhai (sports), Lancy Mascarenhas (social service), V G Pal (cultural organisation), M Vishwanath (drama), Shivaram Kasargod (Gadinada Kannada seve), Vinod Shenoy (service), M Narayana (Carnatic music), Sathyavathi Mudambadithaya (carnatic music), A K Vijay (Drama), Muralidhar Kamath (sugama sangeetha), Madhava Thingalaya Sasihithlu (co-operation), Na Karanth Peraje (rural journalism), Dr H Prabhakar (medical), Ballamanja Purushotham Devadiga (temple musical instrument), Somashekar Shetty (literature), Dinesh Kumar (police band), Anand Assaigoli (social service), Monappa Poojary (yoga), K Mohan Rao (organisation, culture and literature), B Seetharam Kulal (traditional art), Narahari Orabhu (agriculture and rural development), Keshava Shettigar (folk music), Sudhakar Yermal (photography), Surendra S Wagle (journalism), Chidananda Kasargod (Kannada awareness), Pattabhirama Sullia (mimicry), Sunitha Jayanth Ullal (bharathnatyam), D K Suresh (traditional percussion), Manjunath N (young achiever) and Neha B (young achiever).