Krishna, NRN, Prakash Padukone chosen for Kempe Gowda award

NT Correspondent
Bengaluru

Former chief minister S.M. Krishna, Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murty and former Badminton world champion Prakash Padukone have been selected for the Kempe Gowda International Award which has been instituted in the beginning this year.

Announcing this on Saturday, Dr C.N. Ashwath Narayan, Minister, who is also the Vice-President of Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda Heritage Area Development Authority, said that Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai will present the awards during the grand celebration of 513 birth anniversary of Kempe Gowda on June 27 at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru.

The award carries Rs 5 lakh and a plaque. The minister met Krishna at his residence on behalf of the government and invited him to receive the award. Expressing his happiness for being selected for the award, Krishna said he would be glad to accept it. Dr Ashwath Narayan opined that all the three achievers have contributed in their unique way for the development of Bengaluru and the fame it has garnered.

A high-level committee headed by the Stage Startup Vision Group Chairman Prashanth Prakash has made this selection. Industrialist Mohandas Pai, R. Balasubrahmanyam, Founder of Vivekananda Youth Movement, and retired IAS officer M.K. Shankaralinge Gowda were members of the committee. R. Vinayadeep, Commissioner, Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda Heritage Area Authority was the member secretary of the committee.