Daijiworld Media Network – Karkala

Karkala, Aug 2: Senior journalist and editor of the Dangura weekly, Kuntadi Dayananda Pai, has been selected for the prestigious 2025-26 Dr Shekhar Ajekar State Award, instituted by the Karkala Taluk Working Journalists’ Association in memory of late journalist and litterateur Dr Shekhar Ajekar.

The award presentation ceremony will be held on August 6 at Rajeshwari College, Sanur, Karkala. The award will be presented by Dr Mohan Alva, founder of the Alva’s Education Foundation.

The programme will be presided over by Mohammed Shareef, president of the Karkala Taluk Working Journalists’ Association.

Among the dignitaries who will attend the event are Dr Ravindra Shetty Bajagoli, state president of the Karnataka Quarry and Crusher Association; Deviprasad Shetty, president of Rajeshwari Educational Institution, Sanur; Sriram Bhat, president of Sanur Isha Vyasam Trust; Kondalli Prabhakar Shetty, president of the Karkala Taluk unit of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat; Subrahmanya G Kurya, president of the Udupi District Working Journalists’ Association; vice-president Uday Kumar Mundkur; general secretary Nazir Polya; and Astro Mohan, committee member of the Karnataka Working Journalists’ Association.

The details of the programme were announced in a press release issued by Harish Sacharipete, general secretary, and Satish H Shetty, treasurer of the Karkala Taluk Working Journalists’ Association.