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Lakha Shivappa has been awarded ‘Shram Shri’ award by the Prime Minister of India on Independence Day, 1995, for his significant contribution in the area of Missile Control System.

The Labour Minister, G Venkat Swamy presented the Prime Minister’s 1995 Shram awards to 22 persons for their exceptional contribution in production and productivity and innovation abilities of high order. Lakha Shivappa was conferred the Shram Shri award for his exceptional contribution.

Lakha Shivappa was born on 14th Oct, 1940 in Bidar district, Karnataka, India. He worked with Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad.

Lakha Shivappa’s outstanding contribution lies in setting up a Two-station, Hardware-In-Loop Simulation (HILS) configuration with AD-10 and EAI/PDP simulation computers along with 5-axis motion-simulator. He has integrated all the flight-ready hardware and ground launch vehicle along with sophisticated real time simulation computers and precision instruments in HILS laboratory which has resulted in successful user trials for Prithvi Missile System in 1994. His contribution towards setting up Two-station HILS has helped AGNI Missile System performance evaluation as well as validation in the same year. This parallel test-bed is continuing to contribute for multiple projects.