BBMP Restructuring Committee members among 53 persons to receive Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Award in Bengaluru

A total of 53 individuals, including members of the BBMP Restructuring Committee, who gave the first draft of the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 proposing a new governance structure for the city, have been awarded Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Award for 2025. The awards will be conferred at an event in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) headquarters on June 27 evening.

Apart from members of the BBMP Restructuring Committee, former Chief Secretary B. S. Patil, retired IAS officer Siddaiah, and V. Ravichandar, former bureaucrats Jayakar Jerome and S. R. Umashankar will be getting the award this year.

Other awardees include B. S. Satish Kumar, Deputy Chief of Bureau, The Hindu, Karnataka. Civic activists R. K. Mishra and Padmashree Balaram, tennis player Mahesh Bhupati, singer Sangeeta Katti, advocate M. S. Shyamsundar, and cable operator V. S. Patrick Raju also figure in the list of awardees.