Social worker honoured with 'Nada Nayaka' award

Kannada Katte has honoured Ullal Uday Gatti, who buries the carcasses of stray dogs, with the ‘Nada Nayaka’ award.

The felicitation was carried out as part of the Kannada Rajyotsava celebrations. The award consisted of a Kannada-coloured shawl, a garland, a Mysore Peta and a bouquet.

The Kannada Katte organisation will work with the winner for a period of one year, at the end of which a new ‘Nada Nayaka’ will be selected for the award and honoured with it on the occasion of the next Kannada Rajyotsava.

In conventional style, betel leaves were handed as mark of respect to pro-Kannada activists and members of various fields, like Okkodi Shekhar Shetty, M J Rao, Swarna Sundar, Ravindra Shetty, Chandrashekhar Karkala, Dinakar Shetty and Apul Ira.

Jaggery and water from the River Nethravathi were distributed among those who are actively involved in the anti-Yettinahole project movement, in order to motivate the public to join the movement.

The organisation president Dr Annayya Kulal said, “River Nethravathi is like our mother and we should save the river.”

Yettinahole activist and Bunt community leader Shashiraj Shetty Kolambe warned the State government that it would have to face severe protest in the days to come, if it failed to understand the feelings of the people in the region.

“The government is also burdening the district with unwanted projects, which are affecting the Nature and the self-respect of the people,” he added.