Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru District Kannada Sahitya Parishat and Himalaya Foundation have jointly organised an awards ceremony to commemorate Sri Patanjali Maharshi and to felicitate Practitioners/Achievers in Yoga field by conferring Yoga Vibhushan and Yoga Bhushan at Parishat Hall in Vijayanagar on Feb. 20 (Sunday) at 5 pm.

Rangayana Mysuru Director Addanda C. Cariappa will inaugurate. Social Worker K. Raghuram Vajpayee will preside. Sri Somashekhar Swamiji will grace the occasion. MLC Dr. D. Thimmaiah will offer floral tributes to Patanjali Maharshi. 

District Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Maddikere Gopal, Mysuru Yoga Association Vice-President Yoga Prakash, Astrologer Madhu Dikshit, Muktaka writer Kamala Rajesh, Congress leader N.M. Naveen Kumar, Jeevadhara Blood Bank Director S.E. Girish, Farmer leader Chandan Gowda and others will be present.

Yoga Vibhushan award will be presented to International Yoga Guru Yogi Srinivasa Arka while Devaki Madhavan, Geetha Kumar, M.P. Vinay Kumar, Narasimha Shetty, Rakesh Jain and Ravi Prabhakar will be presented with Yoga Bhushan awards.