Mangalore : The 96th annual session of Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) will be held at Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala near here on Sunday. Pundalika Halambi, president of the parishat will chair the session in which all office-bearers of the parishat from across Karnataka as well as presidents of taluk units of the parishat from the respective districts will participate in the proceedings that will be held at the Amruthavarshi hall of the Sri Kshetra.

Dr.Veerendra Heggade, dharmadhikari, Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala will inaugurate the annual session. Mohan Alva, chairman, Alva’s Education Foundation, Harikrishna Punaroor, former president of the parishat will be the guests. Annual report and statement of accounts of the parishat will be presented before the members at the meet. A meeting of district office bearers and presidents of taluk units of the parishat will be held later in the afternoon.

The parishat will hold a special felicitation programme for Veerendra Heggade and his wife Hemavathi V Heggade on the occasion. The organizers expect more than 1,000 delegates from within the state as well as from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to take part in the one-day event.

The session is expected to deliberate and even possibly adopt resolutions aimed at bringing about far reaching changes in the manner in which the sahitya parishat, the apex body on issues pertaining to land, language and cultural issues, progresses . Elections to the post of president of taluk units as against the system of their nomination by the district presidents, limiting the terms for presidents of state, and district units are the major issues.Times of India