Mysore/Mysuru: A programme has been organised by Bhoomigiri Prakashana and Gana Nandana to confer Madhyama Ratna Awards on achiever journalists tomorrow (Feb. 25) at 4.30 pm at Mysuru District Kannada Sahitya Bhavan, Vijayanagar I Stage in the city. The award ceremony will be followed by a musical programme.

The awardees are as follows:  Anurag Basavaraj, Photographer, Kannada Prabha, M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav, photographer, Star of Mysore, M.D. Ramesh Uthappa, Resident Editor, Vijaya Karnataka, M. Mahesh Bhagirath, Senior Journalist, Prajavani and K.P. Nagaraj, Reporter, Public TV, Mysuru and journalism student H.P. Shamprasad.

Dr. Y.D. Rajanna, Bettegowda, Dr. Devi Anand, Dr. A.S. Poornima, Srilatha Manohar and C.S. Vani will render songs in the musical programme.

Prof. C. Naganna will inaugurate the programme while Mysuru District Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Maddikere Gopal will preside. Senior journalist Amshi Prasanna Kumar,  Assistant Professor Dr. P.K. Usha, former President of Mysuru District Kannada Sahitya Parishat Dr. Y.D. Rajanna, Bhoomigiri Prakashana and Gana Nandana President N. Bettegowda and former Syndicate Member of Mysore University Dr. E.C. Ningaraj Gowda will be the chief guests.