Five padma awardees in Karnataka including B.M. Hegde, Kambara

Bengaluru, Jan 26 : Five distinguished personalities from Karnataka including veteran Physician, Administrator and motivational speaker Belle Monappa Hegde, popularly known as B.M. Hegde, has been conferred the Padma awards.
Hegde will be conferred Padma Vibushan for his work in the area medicine, India’s second-highest civilian award while Jnanapeeta awardee Chandrashekhara Kambara was bestowed Padma Bhushan for his contributions to Kannada literature.
Whereas folk artist Manjamamma Jogati, para-sportsman K. Y. Venkatesh and Indian Applied Mathematics professor Rangasami L. Kashyap was selected from Karnataka to receive the Padma Shri awards this year.
The Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished personalities, the Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of high order. The Padma Shri is awarded for distinguished service in any field.
Though announced on January 25 every year, the awards are given to the recipients usually around March or April every year, in a ceremonial event at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Kambara is a popular Kannada poet, playwright and film director told IANS that this award is for Mother Kannada Saraswathi and not me.