Padma Awards 2024: President Draupadi Murmu honored the Padma award winners on Thursday (May 9). He honored a total of 132 people. Disabled social worker Dr. KS Rajanna was also included in this. When he walked to receive his award, everyone kept looking at him. Dr. Rajanna first shook hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After this he received the honor from President Draupadi Murmu. After receiving the honour, he was accepting the greetings of all the people. During this time, a soldier came forward to help him, but Dr. Rajanna refused to take help. This moment tells the story of his entire life.
Dr. Rajanna lost his hands and feet due to polio at the age of 11 months. He learned to walk on his knees and his hands are affected by polio before the elbow, but despite this he did not consider himself less than anyone. On the contrary, he decided to work for disabled people.
Became commissioner in 2013
After joining social service, he worked continuously and in 2013 the government made him the State Commissioner for the Disabled. Rajanna, a resident of Bengaluru, Karnataka, was given this post for three years, but before the end of his tenure, he was removed from his post. Kamalakshi was given this responsibility in his place, but this decision of the Karnataka government was strongly opposed. The important thing was that Rajanna was not even informed that he had been removed. After this the government again gave him this post. Now he has been awarded Padma Shri.
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