26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Yakshadhruva Patla foundation organises decennial celebrations on June 1
Mangaluru: Decennial celebrations of the Yakshadhruva Patla Foundation Trust — National Art Conference — will be held at Adyar Garden on June 1. The Trust's founder president, Patla Satish Shetty, told reporters on Monday that the conference will begin at 9.30am.
"The pontiff of Edneer Mutt Sri Sachidananda Bharati Swami will bless the event. Speaker UT Khader will inaugurate the event, while entrepreneur Shashidhar B Shetty will preside," he added.
Kannada and culture department minister Shivaraj Thangadagi will inaugurate the conference in the presence of the president of Alva's education foundation, M Mohan Alva. Pontiff of Pejawar mutt Sri Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami, along with Prakash Shetty, CMD of MRG Group, and cricketer Rohit Sharma will preside over the session at 1pm, he added.
Odiyoor Kshetra's Sri Gurudevananda Swami will be present at the closing ceremony at 5.30pm along with of deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar, and industrialist Kanyana Sadashiva Shetty.
Shetty said that the Yakshadhruva Mahaposhaka award 2025 will be presented to the federation of World Bunts Associations president Aikala Harish Shetty and his wife Chandrika Shetty. The Yakshadhruva Patla Award 2025 will be given to senior Yakshagana Bhagavat and scholar Kuriya Ganapathi Shastri.
There will also be a Yakshagana competition with eight teams of young artists from the Thenku and Badagu region, he added.
Decennial Celebration — Patla Award of Rs 1 lakh honorarium, Yakshadhruva Art Honour with Rs 20,000 cash for 16 senior achievers in various fields including Yakshagana, medical financial assistance, free medical check-up, eye examination, distribution of glasses and medicines, assistance for home construction for disabled artists, Yaksha education plan for 9,500 students of 86 govt schools, accident insurance plan (for Yakshagana, theatre, Kambala, and Daivaradhane artists) and free home construction for 100 artists without plots under the 'Patla Yakshashraya' scheme, he added.
