Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MB)

Mangalore, Jan 11: Mangalore University has announced its decision to confer the doctorate - Ph D Honoris Causa - on four eminent achievers.

Kamath, Jain, Punichinttaya and Sharma

They are senior journalist and Prasar Bharati chairman Madhav Vithal Kamath, atomic scientist Shreyans Kumar Jain, Tulu scholar Venkataraj Puninchattaya and scientist and folklore specialist Prof S C Sharma.

The doctorates will be awarded at the 25th convocation of the university to be held on January 13 at Mangalagangotri, said a media release from Mangalore University.

M V Kamath

Kamath was born in Udupi. After his early education in Udupi, he started his journalistic career in Mumbai in 1946. He was the Europe correspondent of Times of India, editor of Free Press Journal, The Sunday Times and The Illustrated Weekly of India. With a 60-year-long experience in journlism behind, he has been chairman of Prasar Bharati and Vigyan Prasar since 2003. Now settled in Manipal, he is currently honorary chairman of the Manipal Institute of Communications, Manipal.

Shreyans Kumar Jain

A top atomic energy scientist, Jain is chairman of Nuclear Power Corporation of India and Power Corporation of India.

Pundoor Venkataraj Puninchattaya

He is a Tulu and Kannada scholar and researcher. Born in Pundoor in Kasaragod, he is a postgraduate in Kannada and has mastery over a number of languages.

Prof S C Sharma

He is a scientist, social scientist, academician and promoter of folklore. He has a Ph D from the University of Mysore and is the founder of R V Social Service Centre, Bangalore.