Karnataka Lingayat Education Society members and employees felicitated Prabhakar Kore for completing 40 years as chairman of the society.
Members of various organisations also joined the event to felicitate the former Rajya Sabha member at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Belagavi on Saturday.
Society secretary B.G. Desai said that Dr Kore assumed office as chairman of the society on May 16, 1984. The society, which administered 38 schools and colleges then, now runs over 310 institutions of education and healthcare, he said.