Santosh Shetty elected KWAR president, Muzaffar Ali vice-president

October 26, 2016

Riyadh: A good number of Indian expatriates in Saudi Arabia took part in the 9th annual general body meeting of Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh (KWAR) held on last Friday afternoon (Oct 21) at Al Fakhra Istra in Riyadh.

agm 1

The meeting started around 1:30 pm after a delicious lunch served to all the invitees/members. P.M.Bhaskar, the key man of KWAR with a bundle of talents welcomed the guests and welcomed the president Shri Rajesh Kumar, Vice-president Shri Santhosh Shetty, General secretary Shri Nelson Dsouza and Treasurer Shri Shashidhar Haridas to the dais. Mr P M Bhaskar surprised the key executive members of outgoing committee shared their experience and each member shared their love for KWAR which was well appreciated by the huge gathering.

Outgoing KWAR President Rajesh Kumar in his keynote address stressed the need for unity of KWAR and thanked all the office bearers, executive members, members and well-wishers who supported him during his reign as 7th & 8th president of KWAR. Further, he urged the committee members to utilize their spare time for service of the Association.

An illustrated presentation was followed by KWAR’s General Secretary Nelson Dsouza who briefed the audience about the KWAR programs, achievements and charity works during the period 2015-2016 which was well understood by the gathered crowd.

Mr. Shashidhar Haridas who had a great stint as treasurer of KWAR gave a brief on financial statements, which reflected all the positive financial aspects of KWAR as a successful organization. The specialty of Shashdhar Haridas’s presentation was that he addressed the crowd in one of the purest forms of our native Kannada which was well appreciated by the gathered.

Mr. Pervez Ali a keen, dedicated member and well-wisher of KWAR delivered a memorable speech in which he expressed his unconditional love for KWAR Organization and its motto and remembered the contributions made by the past presidents and urged the Members to bring in young and new members to the KWAR's fold. He stressed that KWAR is the only unique Organization in KSA, which gels people all religions under one Umbrella. Further, in his speech showered praises on outgoing President Mr. Rajesh Kumar’s dedication towards success of KWAR and wished the new President Mr. Santhosh Shetty a great success on his future endeavors.

The core issue of the day began with the outgoing president dissolving all the committees and sub-committees. A specially appointed election committee represented by Shri Jayaram Shetty(KANOO), Shri Jagannath Shetty and Shri Jagadish Alva (Carrier Saudi) were given the task of conducting the election procedure and to elect the new president, vice president and all the other important portfolios of KWAR executive committee.

The election commissioners gave each member a chance to represent himself and the overwhelming enthusiasm shown by members justified the elected member’s love for KWAR as well as upholding the unity of KWAR. Apparently, the election commissioners had the pleasure of announcing the unanimous election of President Shri Santhosh Shetty, Vice-president Shri Muzaffar Ali, Gen.Secretary Shri Shashidhar Haridas, Joint Secretary Shri Victor Manezes, Treasurer Shri Nelson D’souza and joint treasurer Shri Nazeer Ahmed, Shri Ramesh Shetty & Shri Rajesh Kumar were nominated as Advisors as well as other office bearers of KWAR team 2016-2017.

The unique background music played by host P.M Bhaskar while announcing the names of each and every elected member were very entertaining piece of the Grand evening. Program host Shri P.M.Bhaskar thanked all the 3 election commissioners and presented them with flower bouquets as a mark of respect from KWAR.

The Newly elected President Shri Santosh Shetty was felicitated by outgoing President Shri Rajesh Kumar. Shri Santhosh shetty, who is a well-known Organizer and Social worker promised to keep the Unity of KWAR at any cost with his dedication and Love for the Organization. In his speech the newly elected President has remembered & praised all the members who had contributed so far, especially the extraordinary efforts and contribution of Rajesh Kumar one of the founder member and main pillar in bringing this organization to the present high. The outgoing President Rajesh Kumar was felicitated by all the members and the Grand evening came to an end with the recitation of Jana Gana Mana, our revered national Anthem.

Office Bearers for the year 2016-17:
President - Santhosh Shetty
Vice President - Muzaffer Ali
Gen. Secretary - Shashidhar Haridas
Joint Secretary - Victor Menezes
Treasurer - Nelson D’Souza
Joint Treasurer - Nazeer Ahmed
Internal Auditor - Mahesh Hegde
Cultural Secretaries – P.M. Bhasker, Jayakar Poojary, Ajit Kumar & Prasanna Rao

Sports Secretaries – Iqbal Shirva, Anoop Shetty & Salman Noor
PRO – Yathiraj Malpe & Parvez Ali
Coordinators – Suresh Raj Suvarna, Subhash Shetty & Ashwath Rai
Media Coordinator – Nithin Rai
Advisors – Ramesh Shetty & Rajesh Kumar

Executive Members: Mohammed Yunus, Hamid Nazir, Jagadish Belchada, Shrikant Amin, Prakash Amin, Irfan Aboobakar, Tejraj Shetty, Umesh Shetty, Bhasker Salian, Usman Gulwadi, Jagannath Kotian, Hussain Shafi.

agm

Santhosh Shetty (President), Muzaffer Ali (Vice President), Shashidar (General Secretary)

agm 2

agm 3

agm 4

agm 5

agm 7

agm 8

agm 10

agm 11

agm 12

agm 13

agm 15

agm 16

agm 17

agm 18

agm 19

agm 20

agm 22

agm 23

agm 25

agm 9

Comments

Karavali Organization is a real fragrance of Mangalore. All the religious people are together with love and affection in one organization.
We need more and more such organizations in Mangalore as well as in Gulf and other places.
God bless you all guys.
Congratulations to Mr. Santosh Shetty and office bearers.

Add new comment

Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.

ISF urges Indian govt to address the woes of Indian expats in Saudi Arabia

Media Release

April 16,2020

Dammam: President of Indian Social Forum, Eastern Province Mr.Wasim Rabbani urged immediate intervention of Indian government to help Non Residential Indians who are in trouble due to corona pandemic in Saudi Arabia.

He said in a press rease that expatriate Indians are in concern as number of corona infected people and deaths are increasing in danger level.

Hea said, "the Saudi health minister's statement a few days ago indicates that the situation in Saudi needs to be taken more seriously with precautionary methods. There are concerns among expatriates because the number of people infected with the coronavirus and the number of deaths reported in various provinces are increasing at an alarming rate."

"Saudi Government and Health Ministry are taking excellent precautionary measures, however, in the coming days expect to see the number of cases to increase in Saudi Arabia. The Indian government needs to take diplomatic and immediate intervention to ensure the treatment of Indian expatriates considering the number of effected people increasing", He said.

He also urged that the Embassy and the Government of India should ensure qaurantiane faculty for Indian expatriates and arrange special low cost flights to bring back expatriates who would like to return home country.

" Government of India and Indian embassy need to intervene immediately to ensure that the quarantine system is in place for Indian expatriates as the facilities in the rooms where the residents are staying together are very limited. There should also be a mechanism to organize low-cost flight services for expatriates who are ready to go home. The government system should also be able to accommodate the expatriates in special quarantine areas in hometown as soon they arrive in India", he urged.

Comments

Add new comment

Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.

AIE plane crash: Two NRIs in UAE thank God for missing flight at last moment

Agencies

August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week.

Comments

Add new comment

Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.

Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah repatriates 177 stranded Kannadigas from Saudi Arabia

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.