Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru/Udupi

Mangaluru/Udupi, Oct 31: Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts on Saturday October 31 announced their respective lists of winners of this year's district Rajyotsava Awardees.

The awards will be presented on Sunday November 1 during the Kannada Rajyotsava celebrations in the twin districts.

Judith Mascarenhas, Corrine Rasquinha

Gopadkar, Soori Shetty

List of Awardees - Dakshina Kannada

Agriculture - S D Sampath Samrajya

Education - Haji N Sulaiman Narsha, U H Khaled Ujire

Social service - Judith Mascarenhas, Corrine Rasquinha, C H Kochanna Rai, Narayana P M, Urban Pinto

Journalism - Balakrishna Puttige, Lokesh Suratkal

Sports - D M Aslam

Sports (international athlete) - Purandara P J (javelin throw)

Medicine - Dr Vishwanath Nayak P

Theatre - Sharada Barkur

Institute - Sanidhya (for children with special needs)

Art - Gopadkar, Diwakar Das, Santhosh Aithal

Folk art - Sheena Parava

Photography - Keshava Vitla

Yakshagana - Manya Thimmayya

Udupi

Agriculture - K Shambhushankar Rao

Farmer - Krishna Kulal

Social service - Ibrahim Saheb, Anand C Kunder, Sr Donalda Pais (Arunodaya Special School, Karkala), Leeladhar G Shetty, Gowri, Sanjeeva Vandse, Sunil John (Vishwasada Mane), Mahabala Kundapur, Suresh D Shetty (alias Soori Shetty)

Folk art - A Krishnayya

Yakshagana - Naradi Bhojraj Shetty, Bhaskar K Padubidri

Sculpting - K G Ramachandra Acharya

Music - H S Gopal Devadiga (instrumental), Jeevan Prakash (folk)

Art/sculpting - Purushotham Adve

Tulu drama - Prasanna Shetty

Matpady Kumaraswamy reject award

In Udupi, the journalists were unhappy with the fact that no award was announced in the field of journalism, although in other districts including Dakshina Kannada, it was done. A memorandum was submitted to district incharge minister in this regard, and hours after the first official list was out, in which award for journalism was not mentioned, Sorake announced that senior journalist Matpady Kumaraswamy had been selected for the award.

However, it is learnt that Kumaraswamy has rejected the award in protest over the way journalists had been ignored by the district administration.

Earlier, it was also said that Gopadkar, founder of Swaroopa Adhyayana Kendra, who has contributed a lot to the field of education among children, had turned down the award, reportedly miffed with the fact that the district administration and the government had not recognised him for long and that now his contribution to the field of education had been ignored. However, Gopadkar clarified that he has not rejected the award, but is only unable to receive it as he is in Bengaluru.