Dubai: Karnataka NRI Forum holds meeting on govt’s NRK card

By Shodhan Prasad | photos by Floyd Kiran
April 16, 2018

Dubai, Apr 16: Karnataka NRI Forum UAE President Praveen Kumar Shetty called the first meeting on 14th April, 2018 evening at Fortune Plaza Hotel, Al Ghusais Dubai with the representatives of various communities of Karnataka residing in the UAE. The meet was to brief the registration process of NRK Card for the people of Karnataka which will be issued by the Government of Karnataka and also to know the facilities available with the card.

KNRI Forum UAE a governmental body for Kannadigas in UAE, last year in April was inaugurated in Dubai at the Indian Consulate Auditorium and was inaugurated by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramayya. Businessman Praveen Kumar Shetty was elected as the first President of this body. Under his leadership this meeting was held and with him were General Secretary Prabhakar Ambalthere, Vice President’s Ganesh Rai and M.E. Moolur on the dais.

Based on the Press Release made by the Consulate General of India Dubai, Indian Community Welfare Fund Committee Member N. Mohan briefed on the facilities available at the Indian Consulate for all Indians in respect of any issues or grievances faced by our Citizens.

President Praveen Shetty gave detailed information on the KNRI Forum UAE body registration process with Karnataka NRI Forum, permission process, registration for members and later providing the NRK Card for the members in the meet.

General Secretary Prabhakar Ambalthere later shared the information on the facilities which are available in the NRK Card.  These are the facilities attached to the NRK Card:

1)      Life Insurance for KNRIs

2)      Prioritized swift facility available in any of Governmental offices in the District where the card holder belongs to.

3)      Loan facility and reasonably reduced interest rates in the State Government recognized banks

4)      Around Rupees 2 Lakhs grant for those Family back home, whose KNRI Members, in case meets with an tragic accident or faces unforeseen accidental death, during their annual vacation in their home city.

5)      Governmental support for those KNRI’s who opt to start any new business in Karnataka State

6)      Support from Government for those KNRI’s who return from overseas after job loss.  Facility in training and re-locating home will be provided by the government.

7)      Special discount in State Hospitals will be provided for the NRK Card holders

8)      Tax Free facility for those KNRI’s who do or conduct Social Service back home

9)      Special pricings for KNRI’s who opt to stay in Hotels near Tourist places

Later Joint Secretary Deepak Somashekar explained on the online registration process for NRK Card and briefed that only those persons who fall into the below criteria can register:

1)      Minimum 6 months stay in UAE required in the Visa validity

2)      Passport size photo in digital file should be uploaded

3)      Only Digital Indian Passport with home address should be uploaded

Once the above is done and registration process is completed, one will receive an email confirmation on the registration completion.  Later in a few days’ time one will receive the details of the NRK card delivery.

Followed was question and answer session and few questions raised was answered appropriately.

Vice Presidents of KNRI Forum UAE, Harish Sherigar, Dr. Kaup Mohammed, Treasurer Sadan Das, Joint Secretary Noel Almeida and other Committee Members were present during the meeting.  Leaders of various Kannadiga Associations in UAE present have promised that they will request all their members to get registered with the Forum.

KNRI Forum UAE, Vice President B.K. Ganesh Rai conducted the meeting and shared some of the important information’s one need to know.

Dinner was served at the end and Joint Secretary M.E. Moolur rendered the vote of thanks.

Comments

Tavargeri Moha…
 - 
Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Myself is zaheer,, my passport number s1637441,my u. A. E number +971585708303 and my Indian number is 9739567262, I am came from visiting visa, I wanna to come back to india very urgently bcuz of my wife is pregnant,,, and she I'll have delivery on may15.no one take care her,  she is alone so please kindly process to come back india 

Riyaz .s.a
 - 
Wednesday, 2 May 2018

I want nri card. Please help me sir.

abdullah
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

 sir

 

    how to registerr for nrk card.  for login  asking user name and password  user name  ok but password from where

 

Javed ali
 - 
Friday, 20 Apr 2018

Sir how to do the card. can you help me ?

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March 28,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 28: The Karnataka government on Saturday said that the state run Indira Canteens would provide food packets free of cost to the poor and needy in the wake of the lockdown, the government said here on Saturday.

The canteens would operate in three schedules -from 7:30 AM to 10 AM, 12:30 PM to 3 PM and 7:30 PM to 9 PM, the government said in a public announcement

During the scheduled hours, street side vendors, labourers and poor would be provided food free of cost.

After the cabinet meeting on Friday, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa had said food packets would be provided to the poor and needy with the help of some organisations through the Canteens and had sought the help of everyone in this regard.

The State-sponsored, subsidised 'Indira Canteens' as of now serves breakfast at Rs five and lunch and dinner at Rs 10.

The government asked people availing the facility to maintain cleanliness at the canteen and staff who serve food to compulsorily use masks and hand gloves.

It also said soaps and sanitizers should be made available at the canteens.

The government also asked people to maintain a minimum distance of one metre while standing in queue and take all precautionary measures.

Earlier, a day after announcing that food would be provided free of cost through the canteens for daily wagers, Yediyurappa on March 24 had said it has been decided that the canteens will not be opened, after realizing that it was leading to crowding, which drew criticism.

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March 3,2020

Mysuru, Mar 3: Three leopard cubs were rescued by a team of Forest Department in Mysuru on Tuesday.

The cubs were found in a sugarcane field and came into notice of a farmer while cutting the sugarcane.

The villagers alerted the forest department which rescued the three cubs.

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February 27,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 27: Karnataka Chief Minister and veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa turned 78 on Thursday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of leaders greeting him.

Modi hailed Yediyurappa as a "hardworking" chief minister and wished him long life and good health, while several state leaders flocked to his residence and greeted the Lingayat strongman.

"Birthday greetings to Karnataka's hardworking CM @BSYBJP Ji. He is passionately working for the state's progress, especially on farmer welfare and rural development. I pray for his long life and good health," the Prime Minister tweeted.

A large-scale "non-partisan" birthday bash will be held here later in the evening.

The felicitation function will see Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and former chief minister S M Krishna besides Siddaramaiah of Congress and H D Kumaraswamy of JD(S) sharing the stage.

Union Ministers D V Sadananda Gowda, also a former chief minister, Pralhad Joshi and Suresh Angadi will be in attendance.

BJP National General Secretary (Organisation) B L Santosh and state party chief Nalin Kumar Kateel are among those who will be gracing the event.

While Santosh will release a felicitation volume in Kannada with 78 articles from a cross-section of people, including politicians, writers, bureaucrats, and spiritual leaders; Siddaramaiah and Kumaraswamy will unveil a coffee table book and documentary respectively.

Yediyurappa, on the eve of his birthday on Wednesday, had said whatever he has achieved is a result of the people's "blessings and faith" and requested well-wishers not to bring bouquets, flowers, shawls, sweets, turbans or any souvenirs to greet him.

The birthday function organised by "Yediyurappa Abhinandana Samiti" (Yediyurappa Felicitation Committee) is being seen in some quarters as an attempt by Yediyurappa and his loyalists to send a message to the party leadership that he was still "strong".

The BJP's current dispensation under Narendra Modi and Amit Shah has retired several senior party leaders who crossed the age of 75.

However, an exception was said to have been made in Yediyurappa's case after the BJP won 25 of 28 seats in the Lok Sabha election under his leadership.

In the 2018 elections, he spearheaded the campaign of the BJP which emerged as the single largest party but fell short of the majority mark following which Congress and JD(S) came to power stitching a post-poll pact.

However, the coalition collapsed in July last year, paving the way for return of Yediyurappa as Chief Minister for the fourth time.

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