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UAE: Jeetendra Suvarna re-elected president of Billawas Dubai & NE

[email protected] (Shodhan Prasad)
June 29, 2013

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Dubai, Jun 29: Billawas Dubai & Northern Emirates (BDNE), one of the largest premier community organisations for Billawas in the UAE, while completing their 15th year of existence in the UAE held their annual general meeting as per the bylaws laid down in their constitution to elect the new office bearers for the year 2013 - 2014.

BDNE which has one of the largest working committees met recently at Malabar Palace, Karama and unanimously elected Jeetendra Suvarna for the consecutive year as their president along with other office bearers.

BDNE a household name in Billawa community, well known for their charity and distribution of scholarships to the poorest of the poor deserved community students back home, have been doing a tremendous job due to which deserving students have been availing opportunity to study from many years.  Increasing number of students are being blessed with the support given by BDNE all these years and are more than happy to continue their education with this unique programme.  BDNE recently has registered a Trust in the same name which will keep continuity of their existing programme for a long time to come.

Speaking to the media, president Jeetendra Suvarna said, "At BDNE we primarily focus on education of our younger generation, education is a true liberation from poverty and social injustice, I believe, if all of us join hands with some collective and honest efforts, I am sure we can bring about significant positive changes in the future of our younger generation. Our younger generation is the future of our society and we must emsure that they get good education and become ethically and financially strong members of our community. Billawas Dubai & Northern Emirates will continue this mission with relentless efforts."

Billawas Dubai & Northern Emirates office-bearers for the year 2013 - 2014 are as follows:

Executive Committee

President

Jeetendra Suvarna

Vice President

Krishna Poojary

General Secretary

Sudhakar Poojary

Joint Secretary

Satish Ullal

Treasurer

Prabhakar Suvarna

Chief Auditor

Vittal Poojary

Advisory Board 

Anand Bailoor

Madhav Poojari

Mohan Attavar

Praveen Kumar Attavar

Purshottam Salian

Sathish Poojary

Shodhan Prasad

Suresh Amin

Uday Kumar Kateel

Working Committee 

Joint Secretaries 

Joint Treasurer

Anand Bailoor

Cultural Secretary

Nagraj Amin

Jagannath Bellare

Suvarna Sathish

Manoj Bolar

Education Secretary

Uday Kumar Kateel

Yogeesh Salian

Jayashree Sudhakar

Pramila Poojary

Entertainment Secretary

Deepak S.P.

Ganesh Kotian

Monappa Poojary

Sunil Suvarna

Yogitha Salian

Manula Nagraj

Shubha Manoj Bolar

Vasanth Thumbe

Media Secretary

Shodhan Prasad

Ramesh Suvarna

Members Welfare Secretary

Sathish Poojary

Deepa

Public Relations Secretary

Prakash Poojary

Devdas Suvarna

Vaman Poojary

Prabhakar Poojary

Secretary for New Membership

Premnath Kotian

Ganesh Urva

Raghu Jathan

Special Projects

Mohan Attavar

Vittal Poojary

Sports Secretary

Madhav Poojary

Yathiraj Kunder

Shyamala Pujari

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Media Release
June 24,2020

The Overseas Indian Cultural Congress (OICC), Bahrain, has charted aircrafts to repatriate stranded expatriates to India. 

Boby Parayil, General Secretary, OICC National Committee, Bahrain has thanked all those who supported in this cause.

“The aircrafts were not licensed and were in crisis until the last minute. Finally, Mohammed Mansoor, president of Bahrain chapter of Indian Overseas Congress approached IOC Middle East in charge Dr Arathi Krishna, who helped get permission to operate flight to Kozhikode,” he said in a release. 

All mandatory approvals from the Foreign Ministry of Affairs and other government officials were accomplished by Dr Arathi Krishna. OICC has expressed gratitude to her for her timely support, he said. 

OICC is also grateful to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy for doing necessary arrangements to get all the approvals for flight landing in Kerala, he added.

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Media Release
July 30,2020

Jeddah: The first chartered flight for repatriation passengers from Jeddah to Bengaluru organized by Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah – Saudi Arabia was successfully landed at Bengaluru airport by 01.00 am on 19th July 2020.

Spice Jet (SG9884) departed from King Abdul Aziz International Airport Jeddah by 05.00 pm local time with 177 stranded passengers which includes 12 Pregnant Woman, 3 infants, 44 Short term visa holders, 3 medical emergency patients and 115 migrate workers and labours from various districts of Karnataka state.

Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah, a registered charitable organization under Government of Karnataka & Indian Consulate Jeddah - Saudi Arabia, helping the Kannadigas overseas & in Karnataka State as well, has initiated major role for helping stranded Kannadigas to travel back to home. During Pandemic hundreds of stranded Kannadigas were approached to the forum and requested to arrange special chartered flight to Bengaluru from Jeddah.

Initiating from collecting the data of passengers, the forum’s special panel including its President Mr. Mohammed Mansoor, Secretary Mr. Peter Mascarenes, Vice Presidents Mr. Nasir Khurshid, Dr.Ashfaque Maniyar, Chief Coordinator Mr. Shaikh Saoud, Cultural Secretaries Mr. Arifulla Shariff and Mr. Rajesh Suvarna, Treasurer Mr. Habib Rahman and Press Secretary Mr. Baig, the forum’s members have worked very hard to conclude this task very successful. 

The forum provided food packets as refreshment, complementary PPE kitsto each passenger as precaution against the spread of any infections while travelling and also guided all passengers by supporting them in Awdha portal (Saudi Passport Department) and Seva Sindhu portal registration of Government of Karnataka.

The official travel partner ITL Travel Management Company has rendered remarkable service to the passengers not only in ticketing but also supported with top priority in confirming the aircraft from SPICE JET and availed good service from ground staff at Jeddah Airport. 

All passengers have reached safely to their homes after completing the 7 days institutional quarantine at Bengaluru. 100% passengers had NEGETIVE report on Covid-19 test made on arrival as well as after institutional quarantine. 

In the press release published from the President, Mr. Mohammed Mansoor has expressed his prodigious gratitude to the Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia H. E. Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Deputy Consul General of India - Jeddah Mr. Y Saber and Chief Minister of Karnataka State Shri B. S. Yediyurappafor providing necessary approvals and NOC for the chartered flight operation. He also conveyed his boundless appreciationto Shri B. Y. Raghavendra, Member of Parliament Shimoga District (Karnataka) for his swift support extended to the forum and as well to Dr. Aarathi Krishna, Ex-Deputy Chairperson – NRI Forum of Karnataka – Government of Karnataka for her significant guidance and support on completing this mission.

The forum has thanked all the officers in King Abdul Aziz International Airport Jeddah and Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru for the facilities provided to the passengers. The Forum has thanked all passengers travelled for their calmness and also thanked to all other members of the forum, Staff of ITL Travels and SPICE JET for their tremendous support extended throughout the mission accomplishment.

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Media Release
May 2,2020

Dubai: In response to UAE health authorities encourage blood donation campaign Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta - U.A.E, conducted blood donation camps on April 22 at Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and on 23/04/2020 at Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah.

The Abu Dhabi camp was inaugurated by Head of Department of Abu Dhabi Blood Bank, On this occasion she gave brief inputs of the benefits and features of blood donation, urged the participants to spread greater awareness about the importance of blood donation and congratulated the AKO members for their selfless social service and wished all the best for their future endeavours.

Abdul Rasheed, President of AKO presided over the function and Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta Vice President Mr. Mohammad Nasir appreciated the effort for organizing this camp and gathering youths to be a part of this noble cause as life is precious on this earth. "Each drop of blood counts much, so kindly take it as personal compassion to help unknown who requires blood with no relatives to help him/her.

In Abu Dhabi 41 and in Sharjah 49 donors participated in this event and donated their blood. It was nice to see cheerful smiling donors doing a great community work.
Blood bank staff and AKO Organizing team enthusiastically arranged the campaign which was witnessed by many members and leaders of various community organization of Karnataka.

Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta President briefed the participates about the ongoing social work of AKO in this current COVID-19 pandemic grim situation AKO is working on following fields: AKO Members have stepped up to support needy community during the Covid-19 pandemic have gone out of their way to comfort those struggling to deal with the challenging situation.

While thousands of people continue to #StayHome, many are in quarantine, there are those on visit visa and stuck here, others have lost jobs or face salary cuts. AKO in coordination with UAE Embassy and other social organization have been able to ensure basic necessities are fulfilled with food provisions and medical assistance to needy.

Providing counselling to bachelors and families those are on quarantine and isolation.

The organizers thanked everybody especially, UAE Health Authority, Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah, Management and staff as well as donors for their time and support for the good cause.

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