Padma Awards 2021: 26 win Padma Shri for 'literature and education'
NEW DELHI: Former Vice-chancellor of Manipal University, Belle Monappa Hegde (BM Hegde), a cardiologist, has been awarded Padma Vibhushan in the medicine category. Nine others have received Padma Shri under the medicine category. Another academic, Chandrashekhara Kambara, founding Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University who is also a poet and playwright has been awarded Padma Bhushan, in Literature and Education category.
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