Madras Telugu Academy to honour personalities

Chennai, Apr 2:

Madras Telugu Academy (MTA) will conduct its 27th Mega Festival 'Samaikya Bharath Gaurav Satkar 2007' (formerly known as Ugadi Purashkar) on 29 April at the Music Academy auditorium.

Announcing this to presspersons here, T V K Shastry, founder and chief convenor of Madras Telugu Academy, said that more than 50 eminent personalities and 12 child prodigies would receive Samaikya Bharath Gaurav Satkar 2007.

Students from 30 States and five Union Territories ranked first in the tenth std in the academic year 2005-2006 would receive scholarships of Rs 6,000 each on this occasion.

Dr Lilly George, founder and managing director of Shalom Hills International School and president of YWCA would be given Samaikya Bharath Swarna Puraskar of Rs 1,01 lakh.

Indra Nooyi, CEO, PEPSICO, art director Thota Tharani, P Anjali Devi, film personality, and P Susheela, cine playback singer, would receive Samaikya Bharath Gaurav Satkar 2007.

Shastry said S M Krishna, Governor of Maharashtra. would be the chief guest. Prema Krishna, the wife of the Governor, N Janardhan Reddy, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr T Subbarami Reddy, Union Minister of State for Mines, Dharmana Prasada Rao, Minister of Revenue, government of Andhra Pradesh, T N Seshan, former Chief Election Commissioner, and K S Sarma, former CEO, Prasar Bharathi, would be the special guests of honour.

Dr Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, veteran Telugu film star, would preside over the function.

Courtesy: NewsTodaynet