Karnataka government has selected Sri Basavaliga Pattaddevaru, senior seer of Bhalki Hiremath, for the prestigious Sri Basava International Award.
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Minister for Kannada and Culture V. Sunil Kumar will present the award at Ravindra Kalakshetra in Bengaluru on August 18.
The septuagenarian seer has spent over five decades in the Lingayat religious institution in Bidar district.
He has set up educational and charitable institutions, apart from spreading the message of Sri Basaveshwara and other sharanas of the 12th century.
A child rescue centre and adoption agency he set up 18 years ago, has raised, educated and offered for adoption around 75 children so far.
