The 2021 Rajyotsava Awards ceremony took place at the Ravindra Kalakshetra on 1 November 2021. Awarded annually by the Government of Karnataka, the ceremony saw 66 individuals being awarded for achievements in various fields.

List of awardees

Name of the Recipient District / Location Category Mahadeva Shankanapura Chamarajanagar Literature Prof D T Rangaswamy Chitradurga Literature Jayalakshmi Mangalamurthy Raichur Literature Ajjampura Manjunath Chikkamagaluru Literature Krishna Kulkarni Vijayapura Literature Siddappa Bidari Bagalkot Literature Fakirappa Ramappa Kodai Haveri Theatre Prakash Belawadi Chikkamagaluru Theatre Ramesh Gowda Patil Ballari Theatre Malleshaiah N Ramanagara Theatre Savitri Gowdar Gadag Theatre R B Nayak Vijayapura Folklore Gauramma Huchappa Mastar Shivamogga Folklore Durgappa Chennadasara Ballari Folklore Bananje Babu Amin Udupi Folklore Mallikarjuna Rachappa Mudakavi Bagalkot Folklore Venkappa Govindappa Bhajantri Dharwad Folklore Maharudrappa Veerappa Itagi Haveri Folklore Thyagaraju C Kolar Music Harold Cyril D'Souza Dakshina Kannada Music Dr G Jnananda Chikkaballapur Sculpture Venkanna Chitragara Koppal Sculpture Solagatti Yamunavva (Salamantapi) Bagalkot Social Service Madalai Madaiah Mysuru Social Service Muniyappa Domluru Bengaluru City Social Service B L Patil Athani Belagavi Social Service Dr J N Ramakrishnagowda Mandya Social Service Dr Sulthan B Jagalur Davanagere Medicine Dr Vyasa Deshpande Dharwad Medicine Dr A R Pradeep Bengaluru City Medicine Dr Suresh Rao Dakshina Kannada Medicine Dr Shivanagowda Rudragowda Ramanagouder Dharwad Medicine Dr Sudarshan Bengaluru City Medicine Rohan Bopanna Kodagu Sports K Gopinath Bengaluru City Sports Rohith Kumar Kateel Udupi Sports A Nagaraj Bengaluru City Sports Devaraj Bengaluru City Cinema Swami Lingappa Mysuru Education Shridhar Chakravarthi Dharwad Education Prof P V Krishna Bhat Shivamogga Education Dr HS Savitri Bengaluru City Science and Technology J U Kulkarni Bengaluru City Science and Technology Dr C Nagaraj Bengaluru Rural Agriculture Gurulingappa Meldoddi Bidar Agriculture Shankarappa Ammanaghatta Tumakuru Agriculture Mahadeva Velipa Uttara Kannada Environment Bykampady Ramachandra Dakshina Kannada Environment Patnam Anantha Padmanabha Mysuru Journalism U B Rajalakshmi Udupi Journalism Dr Sunitha Mumbai Horanadu Kannadiga Chandrashekar Palthadi Mumbai Horanadu Kannadiga Dr Siddameshwar Kantikar (Non-Resident) Horanadu Kannadiga Praveen Shetty Dubai Horanadu Kannadiga Ba Ma Shrikanta Shivamogga Yoga Dr Raghavendra Shenoy Bengaluru City Yoga Dr B Ambanna Vijayanagar Miscellaneous Captain Rajarao Ballari Miscellaneous Gangavathi Pranesh Koppal Miscellaneous C V Keshava Murthy Mysuru Judiciary H R Kasturi Rangan Hassan Administration Naveen Nagappa Haveri Army/Defence Gopalacharya Shivamogga Yakshagana Ratnamma Shivappa Babalada Yadagiri Civic Work (Pourakarmika) Mahadevalla Kadechooru Kalaburagi Hyderabad-Karnataka Unification Shyamaraju Bengaluru City Entrepreneurship

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