The Rajyotsava Prashasti or Rajyotsava Awards, the second highest civilian honor of the Karnataka state of India are conferred annually by the Karnataka Government on the occasion of the establishment of the state on 1 November celebrated as the Kannada Rajyotsava.
The awards are presented in Bengaluru by the Chief Minister of Karnataka on 1 November of every year. Each award carries an amount of 100,000, a 20-gram gold medal and a citation. In addition to that, the government has in the past, allotted commercial land for eligible awardees.
Recipients
Year Recipients Field 1966 M. C. Modi Medicine 1966 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Social Work 1966 M. Adikesavulu Medicine 1966 Veerannagowda Patil Social Work 1966 M. Narasimhaiah Engineering 1966 H. F. Kattimani Education 1966 Muniswamappa Social Work 1966 D. N. Krishnaiah Setty Social Work 1966 Bhagirathibai Puranik Social Work 1966 Bheemarao Potdar Indian Independence Movement 1967 Kapatral Krishna Rao Research 1967 Albuquerque Social Work 1967 Umadevi Kundapur Social Work 1967 Krishnappa Social Work 1967 K. Sampathgiri Rao Education 1967 Malladihalli Raghavendra Social Work 1967 S. Malurkar Mathematics & Science 1967 B. Venkatasubba Rao Medicine 1967 Gopalarajan Medicine 1967 Aadya Anantacharya Ayurveda 1968 B. K. Belliappa Social Work 1968 K. M. Nanjappa Social Work 1968 A. K. Lingappa Gowda Social Work 1968 K. P. Puttegowda Social Work 1968 Patel Marigowda Social Work 1968 Yavagal Social Work 1968 Manik Rao Bhim Rao Patil Social Work 1968 K. T. Ramaswamy Music 1968 Honnaiah Social Work 1968 Champabai Firoz Bogal Social Work 1968 Subrahmanya Shetty Tammaji Social Work 1968 Y. H. Venkataramanappa Social Work 1969 Yaamunacharya Education 1969 H. V. Krishna Rao Agriculture 1969 B. R. Purohith Journalism 1969 B. H. Katharaki Agriculture 1969 Appa Rao Agriculture 1969 V. Dasappa Reddy Agriculture 1969 A. R. Chikkappaiah Sports 1969 R. Nagendra Rao Drama / Cinema 1969 R. Marthanda Varma Medicine 1969 H. Narasimhaiah Education 1969 P. R. Ramaiya Journalism 1970 P. I. Joseph Sports 1970 H. V. Narayana Rao Engineering 1970 Gangubai Hangal Music 1970 Gaadi Cheluvarayana Shetty Social Work 1970 Mallikarjunappa Gowda Social Work 1970 Mohammed Shafi Medicine 1970 H. R. Arakeri Agriculture 1970 Devangi Prafulla Chandra Progressive Farming 1970 Katte Sethuramachar Progressive Farming 1970 G. P. Rajarathnam Literature 1970 B. R. Panthulu Cinema 1970 Victoria S. Peter Social Work 1970 Doraiswamy Iyengar Music 1970 Puttaraj Gawai Music 1970 M. K. Vaidya Medicine
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