The Hindu 06.12.2017
City Corporation honorary lifetime award for Kadri Gopalnath
Mayor Kavita Sanil addressing a press conference at the Mangaluru City Corporation on Tuesday.H.S. MANJUNATH
Three more chosen in Yakshagana, Education, Sports categories
A committee of the Mangaluru City Corporation has chosen well-known
saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath for the corporation’s first Ullal Srinivas
Mallya Memorial Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award
carries a purse of Rs. 1 lakh, a memento and a citation. The award will
be presented during the Mangaluru City Corporation Day at the Town Hall
here on December 8.
In addition, the committee has chosen three
persons for the Ullal Srinivas Mallya Memorial Award for Yakshagana,
Education and Sports.
They are Agari Raghurama Bhagavatha
(Yakshagana); K.A. Rohini (Education) and M.R. Poovamma (Sports). Each
one of them would be given away a purse of Rs. 50,000, a memento and a
citation.
Announcing the awards here on Tuesday, Mayor Kavita
Sanil said that the corporation has instituted the awards for the first
time to recognise the contribution of those who have brought laurels to
Mangaluru.
The selection committee comprised B.A. Vivek Rai,
former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University and also Karnataka State
Open University; B.A. Abdul Rahman, former Vice-Chancellor, Kannur and
Calicut universities, K.N. Tingalaya, former Chairman of Syndicate Bank,
Rita Noronha, a social worker, and Manohar Prasad, a journalist. The
Mayor is the ex-officio chairperson of the committee.
She said
that the corporation would conduct a drawing competition for primary and
high school students within the jurisdiction of the corporation in the
forenoon on December 8. The topics would be Mangaluru International
Airport; New Mangaluru Port; National Institute of Technology,
Surathkal; National Highway 66 and Mangaluru-Hassan railway line.
The
topics have been selected on the basis of contribution of late Mallya
for their development. The venue would be the mini Town Hall. There will
be three awards each in primary and high school categories. Students
will have to register their names either by sending a message on
WhatsApp to 9964160249 or 9113995063 before December 6.
She said
that the programmes of the City Corporation Day would be conducted from
2.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. The awards would be presented at 6.30 p.m. There
would be cultural programmes before and after the award presentation. D.
Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Shree Kshetra Dharmasthala, would
present the awards.
The Mayor would present a karate demonstration after the award presentation.