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Nagesh Shetty elected as president of Bunts Bahrain

August 30, 2012

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Mangalore, August 30: Bunts Bahrain, an organisation of Bunt community residing in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has elected Karmar Nagesh Shetty as president for the year 2012-13, announced Bhaskar Rai Kukkavali, Editor-in-charge of 'Namma Samparka' monthly.

Speaking at a press meet here on Thursday, he said that under the leadership of Mr Shetty various programmes would be held as part of decennial year celebrations of Bunts Bahrain. Funds are also being collected for various schemes proposed by the organisation for the year 2012-13, he said.

A friendly get-together will be held on September 7 at Sitra Baba garden, Bahrain, and a summer-cum-induction ceremony will be conducted on October 19 at Hotel Ramada Palace, he said.

Speaking about the future plans, Nagesh Shetty said that along with social and cultural programmes for the Bunt community, the organisation would also be rendering service to the society.

He said that the organisation took an interest in construction of homes, provision of educational and medical aid to the underprivileged, and had so far provided financial help to several families who had appealed for help.

He said that various personalities such as Bollywood actor Sunil Shetty, N. Vinay Hegde of Nitte University, former minister B Ramanath Rai, former Lokayukta N Santhosh Hegde, Dr B R Shetty of Abu-Dhabi, Dr M Mohan Alva of Alva's Educational Institution and Harish Shetty had taken part in programmes conducted by the organisation.

Vasudeva R Kottary, K Lakshminarayan Rai Harekala and Shobha N Shetty were present at the press meet.

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