Rajyotsava Awards (2016)

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The Government of Karnataka announced the Rajyotsava awards for the year 2016. The awardees included 61 noted eminent individuals from various fields.^[1]

List of 2016 Awardees

The Rajyotsava award winners for the year 2016 were:^[2]

Individual

K. T. Gatti

Sl.No	Awardee	Area of expertise	Location	Highlights
1	Justice Shivaraj Patil	Judiciary	Bengaluru	Supreme court judge.
2	K. T. Gatti	Literature	Dakshina Kannada	Author of 90 books in Kannada and English.He is the author of 45 novels, 19 plays, 9 anthologies of short stories, as well as many essays and poems.
3	Bezwada Wilson	Horanadu	New Delhi	Ramon Magsaysay Award winner for Community leadership in 2016. Activist and National convenor of National Convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA).
4	Lakshmi Narayan	Film and TV	Chennai	South Indian film industry veteran of 48 years. Acted in 65 Kannada films. Her first Kannada film was Goa Dalli CID 999 with thespian Rajkumar in the year 1968. Winner of numerous Karnataka State film awards and a national award.
5	Moulasab Imamsab Sadaf	Theatre	Davangere
6	T H Hemalatha	Theatre	Tumakuru
7	Rameshwari Verma	Theatre	Mysuru
8	Umarani Barigidada	Theatre	Bagalkote
9	Chandrakumar Singh	Theatre	Bengaluru
10	Revathi Kalyan Kumar	Film and television	Bengaluru
11	J. K. Srinivasamurthy	Film and television	Bengaluru
12	Sa. Ra.Govindu	Film and television	Bengaluru	President of Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce.
13	Syed Satyajith	Film and television	Dharwad
14	K Muralidhar Rao	Music and dance	Dakshina Kannada
15	Dwaraki Krishnaswamy	Music and dance	Bengaluru
16	Hemavathamma	Music and dance	Bengaluru
17	Pandit Narayana Dage	Music and dance	Raichur
18	V G Mahapurush	Music and dance	Bagalkote
19	Thimmamma	Folklore	Mandya
20	Sharadamma	Folklore	Chikkamagaluru
21	Mallaiah Hidikal	Folklore	Bagalkote
22	Sanna Birappa Kariyavar	Folklore	Haveri
23	Sabhitha Kambrekar	Folklore	Uttara Kannada
24	Chikka Marigowda	Folklore	Ramanagara
25	M R Ranganath Rao	Yakshagana	Bengaluru
26	Petri Madhav Nayak	Yakshagana	Udupi
27	Kinnigoli Mukhyaprana Shettigar	Yakshagana	Udupi
28	Sujathamma	Yakshagana	Ballari
29	D. J. Lavani	Yakshagana	Gadag
30	Dhruva Ramachandra Pattar	Art and Sculpture	Vijayapura
31	Kashinath Shilpi	Art and Sculpture	Shivamogga
32	Basavaraj L Jane	Art and Sculpture	Kalburgi
33	Parvathamma Kowdi	Art and Sculpture	Yadagiri
34	Tulasamma Kelur	Social Service	Gadag
35	G. M. Muniyappa	Social Service	Kolar
36	Somanna Hedge Devanakote	Social Service	Chamarajanagar
37	Nazeer Ahmed	Social Service	Uttara Kannada
38	L. C. Soans	Agriculture/Environment	Dakshina Kannada
39	G. K. Veeresh	Agriculture/Environment	Hassan
40	K. Puttannaiah	Agriculture/Environment	Mysuru
41	M. A. Khadri	Agriculture/Environment	Bidar
42	M. M. Mannur	Media	Kalburgi
43	Bhavani Lakshminarayana	Media	Chikkaballapura
44	Ishwara Daithota	Media	Bengaluru
45	Indudhara Honnapura	Media	Bengaluru
46	J R Lakshmana Rao	Science/Environment	Mysuru
47	Prof K Muniyappa	Science/Environment	Chikkaballapura
48	Hebri Subhash Krishna Ballal	Medicine	Udupi
49	Surjith Singh	Sports	Bengaluru
50	S. V. Sunil	Sports	Kodagu
51	Krishna Naikodi Amoghappa	Sports	Vijayapura
52	Tejaswi Kattimani	Education	Kopalla
53	R. S. Lokapura	Literature	Belagavi
54	B. Shyam Sundar	Literature	Mysuru
55	Sukanya Maruthi	Literature	Dharwad
56	Mahadev Shivabasappa Patana	Freedom fighter	Belagavi	106 year old freedom figher from Belagavi. He represented Ramdurg in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1957. Participated in the Quit India Movement and the Karnataka unification movement. He led the agitation to free Ramdurg from the British. A reward of Rs 10,000 was announced by the British to catch him dead or alive. He was a follower of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
57	M. N. Vali	Other fields	Vijayapura
58	R Jaiprasad	Other fields	Bengaluru
59	Dr. Shakunthala Narasimhan	Other fields	Bengaluru
60	Devaraj Reddy	Other fields	Chitradurga

Organisations/Associations

Sl.No	Awardee	Area of expertise	Location	Highlights
1	Team Yuva	NGO	Bidar

References

1. "61 people bag 2016's Rajyotsava awards". Bengaluru. The New Indian Express. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
2. "List of Rajyotsava awardees". Bengaluru. Deccan Herald. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.