Kalpatta Narayanan appointed Kerala Sahitya Akademi chairman, Prem Kumar to head KSFDC

Thiruvananthapuram: Noted poet, writer and orator Kalpatta Narayanan has been appointed chairman of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi. Writer and journalist M P Surendran is the academy's new secretary.

Actor Prem Kumar, who was removed as chairman of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy during the previous government’s tenure, has been appointed chairman of the Kerala State Film Development Corporation (KSFDC) by the UDF government. The appointment follows actor Raveendran's appointment to the post of Chalachitra Academy chairman.

Singer G Venugopal has been appointed chairman of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi, with Hemanth Kumar as vice-chairman. N V Pradeep Kumar is the new secretary.

Alleppey Ashraf has been appointed vice-chairman of the Kerala State Film Development Corporation. Film producer M Ranjith has been appointed chairman of the Kerala Cultural Activists Welfare Fund Board.

Animator and production designer Prof Prakash Moorthy will take charge as chairman of the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi. T R Udayakumar will be the vice-chairman, while Vaikom M K Shibu will be the academy's secretary.

Suresh Babu Elayavoor will take charge as chairman of the Kerala Folklore Akademi. Sreeraman Koyyon will be the vice-chairman, while Pradeep Kumar M Payyannur will take charge as the new member secretary.