Five padma awardees in Karnataka including B.M. Hegde, Kambara
By IANS| Published: 26th January 2021 1:51 am IST
Bengaluru, Jan 26 : Five distinguished personalities from Karnataka including veteran Physician, Administrator and motivational speaker Belle Monappa Hegde, popularly known as B.M. Hegde, has been conferred the Padma awards.
Hegde will be conferred Padma Vibushan for his work in the area medicine, India’s second-highest civilian award while Jnanapeeta awardee Chandrashekhara Kambara was bestowed Padma Bhushan for his contributions to Kannada literature.
Whereas folk artist Manjamamma Jogati, para-sportsman K. Y. Venkatesh and Indian Applied Mathematics professor Rangasami L. Kashyap was selected from Karnataka to receive the Padma Shri awards this year.