Hyderabad: Dr Elluri Shiva Reddy, former Vice – Chancellor of Telugu University has been nominated for the prestigious Dasarathi Krishnamacharya Award – 2021. The award will be presented every year on the birth anniversary of Dasarathi Krishnamacharya.

The Telangana State Government has been presenting the prestigious Dasarathi Krishnamacharya award to those who make outstanding contributions in the field of Telugu Literature and winner of this prestigious award will receive a cheque for Rs 1, 01,116.

Dr Shiva Reddy will receive this award at a function organised at Ravindra Bharathi on Thursday on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Dasarathi Krishnamacharya. Dr Elluri Shiva Reddy, who hails from Nagarkurnool, was nominated for the award for his outstanding contributions in the field of literature.

Previous awardees who won the Dasarathi Sahitya Award are poet Acharya Thirumala Srinivasacharya 2015. It was awarded to Jay Bapu Reddy in 2016, Acharya N Gopi in 2017, Vala Sivakumar in 2018, Dr Kurella Vithalacharya in 2019 and Dr Thirunangari Ramanujaya in 2020.