Kannada Rajyotsava Awards 2025 list announced: Check details

Kannada Rajyotsava Awards 2025: The Kannada Rajyotsava Awards for the year 2025-26 have been announced, and a total of 70 achievers, including multilingual actor Prakash Raj, have been selected. Kannada and Culture Minister Shivaraj Thangady held a press conference today (October 30) and announced the names of the awardees.

This is the first time that a total of 70 people have been selected for the award without inviting applications for the Rajyotsava Awards. Some of these people submitted their own applications, and they were selected for the award because they were deserving of the award.

The awards were announced by Kannada and Culture Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi on October 30, and a total of 70 achievers were selected. This year, the selection was made without inviting general applications for the first time.

2025-26 Karnataka Rajyotsava Awardees (Partial List provided by user):

Category, Awardee Name and District/Location:

Folk Arts –

Sri Basappa Bharamappa Chowdki – Koppala

B. Takappa Kannur – Shivamogga

Sanningappa Satteppa Mushennagol – Belagavi

Hanumantappa, Marappa, Chilangi – Chitradurga

M. Topanna – Kolar

Somanna Dundappa Dhanagond – Vijayapura

Sindhu Gujaran – Dakshina Kannada

L. Mahadevappa Udigala – Mysuru

Literature-

Prof. Rajendra Chenni    Shivamogga

Tumbadi Ramaiah – Tumakuru

Prof. Ar Sunandamma – Chikkaballapura

Dr. H.L. Pushpa- Tumakuru

Rahamat Tarikere – Chikkamagaluru

H. M. Pujara – Vijayapura

Film / Television              

Prakash Raj – Dakshina Kannada

Vijayalakshmi Singh – Kodagu

Administration:

H. Siddaiah IAS (Retd.) – Bengaluru South (Ramanagara)

Medicine:

Aalamma Maranna – Tumakuru

Dr. Jayaranganath – Bengaluru Rural

Social Service:

Mati Sulagitti Eeramma – Vijayanagara

Fakkiri (Pourakarmika) – Bengaluru Rural

Corrine Antoinette Rasquinha – Dakshina Kannada

 Dr. N. Seetaram Shetty – Udupi

Konandooru Lingappa – Shivamogga

Umesh Pampada – Dakshina Kannada

Dr. Ravindra Korishettir – Dharwad

K. Dinesh – Bengaluru

Shantaraju – Tumakuru

Zafar Mohiuddin – Raichur

Penna Obalayya – Bengaluru Rural

Bayi (Shanti Bayi) – Ballari

Pundaleeka Shastri (Budabudake)- Belagavi

NRI / Overseas

Zakariya Bajpe -Saudi

P. V. Shetty – Mumbai

Environment:

Ramagowda – Chamarajanagar

Mallikarjuna Ningappa – Yadagiri