The 20th Annual Day Celebration was coupled with the release of the Souvenir brought out to commemorate 20 years' service to the community in general. The function was held on 5th July in our own premises, the BADAGANADU BHAVANA, where the roof of the first floor hall had been completed and the scaffolding removed just in time. The walls, windows and doors were still missing but that did not deter our Members from attending the function in record numbers (about 175!!). Of course, a beautiful shamiana and other stage decorations gave the building a festive look as you can see from the few photos elsewhere. It was naturally followed by a gala lunch in the cellar hall which was appreciated by one and all.
As per convention, we made use of the occasion to honour a few personalities who had distinguished themselves in various fields of activity or helped the Balaga to put up this Building as may be seen from the long list below;
| Sri S.A.Ramadas | MLA Krishnaraja Constituency& Parl. Secy. to CM |
| Sri M.Sathyanarayana | MLA Chamundeswari Constituency |
| Sri H.S.Shankaralinge Gowda | MLA Chamaraja Constituency |
| Sri C.H.Vijayashankar | Former MP Mysore Constituency |
| Sri Thontadarya | MLC Mysore |
| Sri Siddaraju | MLC Mysore |
| Sri M.V.Ravishankar | Chairman Mysore Lac & Paints |
| Sri M.K.Shankar | Corporator, Ramakrishna Nagara |
| Sri M.D.Parthasarathy | Corporator, Agrahara |
| Sri S.Shankarappa | Senior Teacher of the Balaga |
| Sri N.R.Shankara Rao | Senior Champion Athlete of the Balaga |
| Smt. A.S.Indiramma | Major Donor of the Balaga |
| Sri N.C.Krishnamurthy & Smt Kusuma Krishnamurthy | Major Donors of the Balaga |
| Smt. Lakshmidevi N.Pradhan | Major Donor of the Balaga |
| Sri Lakshmipathy & Smt.Ramaa | Major Donor of the Balaga |
| Sri Venkatesh & Smt. Manjula | Major Donors of the Balaga |
| Sri B.N.Prabhakar | Engineer in charge of construction of the Bhavana |
| Sri Kishore Chandra | Architect in charge of the Bhavana |
| Sri Mandya Ramesh | Dramatist & Film Actor |
| Sri Ilai Alwar | Religious Leader & Major Sponsor of Sports and Cultural activities of the Balaga |
A rather surprising development of the day was the receipt of the highest individual donation so far, a grand Rs. 1,00,000, by an Industrialist and well-wisher from Bangalore, Sri K.Chandrashekar! We really are overwhelmed by such generosity Sir, and thank you immensely for the same. Not to be forgotten are the efforts put in by Sri K.Jagannatha Rao, Smt. Shailaja and Sri J.Naren who did the preliminary work of meeting and talking to Sri Chandrashekar. Our grateful thanks are due to them.
The complete list of all Donors thus far is available on our website.
As to the Souvenir itself, we were able to collect 85 advertisements and a good number of articles, short poems, essays, etc. authored mainly by our own Members. The 70 page Souvenir has been nicely printed and funds to the extent of Rs. 80000 could be raised from this effort. Our thanks again to all the Advertisers and those Members who got those advertisements. A photo of the beautiful cover page indicating the future look of the Badaganadu Bhavana Building may be seen elsewhere.