Mumbai:Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik will be among four prominent personalities to be confer-red with the 17th SIES National Eminence Award for 2014, an organizer said on Thursday.
Beside Naik, Indian music composer Ilaiyaraaja, secretary of the department of science and technology K. Vijayaraghavan and spiritual orator C. Kotes-wara Rao shall be honoured at a function here on Saturday.The annual award is part of the ongoing Kanchi Mahaswami festival which will end Dec 14 at Shanmukhananda Hall.
The awards were instituted by the South Indian Education Society (SIES) in 1998 in the memory of late seer of Kanchi, Chandrasekarendra Saraswati who died in 1994 at the age of 100, said SIES president V. Shankar.
Each year, outstanding citizens are conferred with the awards who have made noteworthy contributions in the field of community and public leadership.
Each award carries a cash prize of Rs.250,000, a citation, an ornamental lamp and a scroll, he said.(IANS)
