Moily relaunches Devadiga community website

Mangalore, November 21: Union Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily urged the Devadiga community to grow combining their identity with that of the nation.

“Harmonise your identity with your nations' identity,” he said after relaunching Devadiga community website 'www.devadiga.com' in the city on Sunday.

He said that there are two factors that the community should keep in mind. “You should have an identity as a community but that alone is not enough, it is a drop in the ocean...have an identity in India, that has a future”, he said.

The community should search for its 'place in the sky', he said.

“Good opportunities are there only for some people is a myth,” he said. “We have to strike through education, hard work, and agitation and break the forts and get a fighting spirit,” he said. The community should strike through the "forts" around with a fighting spirit, "capacity building" and win, he said.

Mr Moily said that Devadiga Community has demonstrated its capacity and courage to build nation, despite being a small community.

He also said reformation of mindset alone can take a community towards success and this success is not only a material achievement but an achievement of stability of mind and far sightedness.

Speaking to the youth, he said, "For youngsters the future is bright... you are the youngest nation in the world in 20 years' time, grab the opportunity....Build your energies for taking opportunities created the world over.”

“There is plenty of vacancy at the level of excellence. He said, "Do not be islands of excellence, be an ocean of excellence," he said.

He said that the community members have demonstrated that they can be successful as shown by the website. The Internet has great power and it can be used to get exposure and for capacity building.

District In-charge minister Krishna J Palemar, who was the chief guest on the occasion, said Devadigas are the disciplined community.

Malathi Moily, former VC of Kuvempu University Dr. BS Sherigar, eminent Neuro Surgeon Dr. KV Devadiga, Principal of SDM College of Management Dr. Devaraj K were present on the occasion.

About the website

The original site was founded by Devadiga community visionary and achiever, B G Mohandas, in the year 2000 in Dubai. The site was designed mainly to connect the various community people and bring them together by means of using the latest information technology (IT). For more than a decade, he has single handedly and passionately maintained devadiga.com and has served its purpose i.e. to provide the latest news about the community, highlighting eminent personalities, encouraging new talents and educating youth on our culture, traditions and festivals.

Recently, a group of enthusiastic and energetic youngsters have come forward to take up the mantle of devadiga.com to the next level. As part of this endeavor a team of professionally qualified and experienced individuals have come together to form 'Team Devadiga'.

The main motivation of Team Devadiga is to become a felicitator for all the social and cultural activities of the community. The site aims to provide an opportunity to the community members, living in any part of the world, to utilize his/her expertise and skills towards building up a prosperous devadiga community, through advocacy and cooperation while using modern technology.

The salient features of the portals are, Community News, Community personalities, Information on Festivals and Traditions, Virtual Career Guidance by educationist and other professionals, Job portal, e-learning portal for development of soft skills, Free Matrimonial portal with features like popular commercial matrimonial sites, Separate Student area, Women's portal, Classifieds, Recipes, Obituaries, Devadiga Forums, Articles, Blogs, Photos gallery, Search, Polls, RSS Feeds, Video & Music share, Devadiga magazine, Devadiga Wiki, Devadiga Sangha portals, Devadiga Sangha News, Complete Devadiga Members Directory, Devadiga social network, Health & Wellness advices from experts, Legal advices from legal experts, Technology advices from Techies, many more.

The portal also offer a personal email facility on par with the most popular email services, so that Devadiga community member can boast a unique email ID, like [email protected] All these features and portal are strictly available exclusively to Devadiga community members only. The ambition of the Team Devadiga is to make this portal a BEST Community Portal, a clear benchmark to other community portals of this reagion.

Team Devadiga is encouraged and supported by patrons of the community Dr Rathnakar Sherigar, USA, Dharmapal Devadiga, Mumbai, Raghu Sherigar, Bangalore, K K Mohandas, Mumbai, Vishvas Attavar, Vaman Maroly, Mangalore, H Mohandas, Mumbai, Harish Sherigar, Dubai, M D Narayan, Dubai, Krishna Kumar, Singapore, Laxmikanth Beskoor, Udupi and B G Mohandas.