page_title: Rajyotsava Prashasti
section_title: Award winners
hierarchical_section_title: Rajyotsava Prashasti / Award winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Prof.K Chidananda Gowda, in Bangalore at the Free Software Movement-Karnataka
context_page_description: The Rajyotsava Prashasti or Rajyotsava Awards, the second highest civilian honor of the Karnataka state of India are conferred annually by the Karnataka Government on the occasion of the establishment of the state on 1 November celebrated as the Kannada Rajyotsava.
  The awards are presented in Bengaluru by the Chief Minister of Karnataka on 1 November of every year. Each award carries an amount of ₹100,000, a 20-gram gold medal and a citation. In addition to that, the government has in the past, allotted commercial land for eligible awardees.
caption: K. Chidananda Gowda, awardee in 2019, is an educationist, engineer, author and playwright.
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