Mangaluru: Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy has announced its annual awards for the year 2015 in three categories, Honorary Awards, Book Awards and Yuva Puraskar (youth awards).

Chief minister Siddaramaiah will confer the annual Honorary Awards, Book Awards, Yuva Puraskar and Special Recognition Awards for the year 2015 on Sunday, March 6 at 5 pm in Nagayakshe Sabha Bhavan in Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada during the Konkani Utsav.

While Ramachandra M Shet (Konkani language and literature), Kasargod Chinna (Konkani art) and Alu Peelu Marathi (Konkani folk) have been chosen for the Honorary Awards, the book awards will be conferred on Om Ganesh Uppunda (for the translation of ‘Bayila Bhade Bayila’), Rony Arun (for the research study book ‘Tho’kanatullo Zuzari’) and Fr Denis Castelino (for the collection of Konkani articles titled ‘Dalit’).

The Yuva Puraskar-2015 will be conferred on Rajaram Prabhu (music), Nasrullah Askeri (sports) and Anjali Wilson Vaz (dance).

Special recognition award will go to S M Khalil, Pradeep G Pai and George Fernandes.

The Honorary Award comprises of cash prize, a shawl and citation while the Book Award carries a cash prize and a citation. There will be no cash prize for the Youth Award.

Umashree, minister for Kannada and culture will be the chief guest, R V Deshpande, minister for higher education and tourism will be the guest of honour, Shankutala T Shetty parliamentary secretary, Kannada and culture and MP Ananth Kumar Hegde will be the special invitees. Mankal Vaidya will preside over the awards ceremony.

The two-day Utsav starts on March 5.