Karunakaran award for P Chidambaram

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has been selected for the K Karunakaran Foundation award for excellence in administration.

The award, instituted in memory of veteran Congress leader and former Kerala Chief minister K Karunakaran, carries Rs 1 lakh and citation.

The award would be presented to Chidambaram by Vice- President Hamid Ansari at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on December 13, KPCC president and foundation chairman Ramesh Chennithala said in a release today.