Bengaluru: The State Government on Thursday announced the appointment of members to various Academies and Authorities coming under the Kannada and Culture Department. Those appointed are as follows: 

Kannada Development Authority –  Dr. Kishore (Bengaluru).

Karnataka Lalithakala Academy- Raghavendra (Bengaluru), L. Ashok (Ballari), Veeresh Rudraswamy (Bagalkot), Mahadeva Dandina (Chamarajanagar), Srikanth Raj (Bengaluru Rural) and Dr. Sowmya (Bengaluru).

Karnataka Janapada Academy-  C.M.Narasimhamurthy (Chamarajanagar), Jogila Siddaraju (Ramanagar), Dr. Narayanappa (Sindhanur), Shilpa Mudubi (Belagavi), M.V. Itagi (Haveri).

Karnataka Sahitya Academy- Nallithambi (Mysuru), Dattaguru Hegde (Uttara Kannada), Madivalappa Mulachandi (Kalaburagi), Vanaja (Bengaluru), Maruti Kattimani (Dharwad), Basavaraj Jagadampi (Belagavi), Deepthi (Shivamogga) and Dr. Prasannakumar (Tumakuru).

Karnataka Nataka Academy- Bislehalli Somashekar (Chikkamagalur), A.P. Suryanayak (Belagavi), Koorgi Shankarnarayana Upadhyaya (Uttara Kannada), Rachappa Badiger (Bagalkot)

Karnataka Arebhashe Sahitya – Samskruti Academy – Dr. K.C. Dayananda (Madikeri), A.T. Kusumadhara (Sullia), Dr.Vishwanath Badikana (Dakshina Kannada), Jayaprakash Montadka (Dakshina Kannada), Purushottam Kirlaya (Dakshina Kannada) and Bharathi Ramesh (Kodagu).

Karnataka Sangeetha-Nruthyakala Academy- Dr. Shobha Shashikumar (Bengaluru Rural), C.K. Anjali Shetty (Shivamogga), Sowmyashri (Hassan), Nagesh Hebbal and Smriti Haritsa (Bengaluru).

Tulu Sahitya Academy- P.M. Ravi (Madikeri), Narendra Kerekadu (Mulki), Sarvottama Shetty (Dubai), Santoshkumar (Belthangady), Kalavathi (Udupi).

Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi Pradhikara – Yatheendranath (Shivamogga) and Prof. Raghavendra Patil (Dharwad). The Government had appointed Chairpersons to all these bodies in October last year.