Chandrababu Naidu presents Kala Ratna, Hamsa awards

Vijayawada: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu honoured 47 eminent personalities with Kala Ratna and  Hamsa awards and 99 persons with Ugadi Puraskarams on the occasion of Ugadi on Sunday. 

He gave away the awards at a function organised by department of culture and language and endowments at Tummalapalli Kshetrayya Kalakshetram here.

Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said Vilambi Nama Ugadi would bring prosperity to the people of AP. He recalled that agriculture budget was introduced to make farmers happy and wealthy. Naidu felicitated Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry for his contribution to (literature), MM Srilekha (Music) and Indira Dutt for here contribution in the field of social service.

He felicitated Dr Sashidhar for his service in medicine, Manjula Naidu in Doordarshan, Dr Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry in (Kuchipudi  dance), Dr Emani Siva Nagireddy (History and Epigraphical research) with Hamsa Awards.

Special Chief Secretary Manmohan Singh welcomed the guests and cultural artistes. Ministers, Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao, Kollu Ravindra and Bhuma Akhila Priya, MP Kesineni Srinivas, Women’s  Commission chairperson Nannapaneni Rajakuimari, endowments commissioner Anuradha, ZP chairperson Gadde Anuradha, mayor Koneru Sridhar and others took part in the programme.