Additional Chief Secretary to the Government Subhash Chandra is seen conferring Padma Shri award on novelist Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa at the novelist’s residence in city yesterday as the novelist’s wife S.B. Saraswathi, ADC T. Venkatesh, former Chairman of Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi Dr. Pradhan Gurudatta, NIE Principal Dr. G.L. Shekar, NIE Committee Members S.K. Lakshminarayana and S.L. Ramachandra, SP Abhinav Khare, DCP Dr. H.T. Shekar and others look on.