NEWS

Puneeth Rajkumar honoured posthumously with Basavashree Award 2021

ABOUT THE AWARD

• The award honours people for services to society in their respective fields by following the principles of Lord Basaveshwar.
• It is presented by Chitradurga Bruhanmutt since 1997.
• The award includes a Rs 5 lakh cash and a memento.
• PT Usha (2009), Malala Yousufzai (2014), P Sainath (2016), Dr K Kasturirangan (2020) are some to win the award.

ABOUT THE MUTT

• Located in Chitradurga this mutt
• Also known as Sri. Murugarajendra Matt
• Built in honour of an eminent guru of the Veershaiva Community and worship is the Gudduge (tomb) of lmmadi Muruga Swamy.