CIGI 2nd int’l thematic conference ends; leaders urged to take up daunting tasks

Media Release
March 4, 2018

Kuwait City: The two-day long CIGI 2nd Thematic conference hosted by CIGI (Centre for Information and Guidance India) Kuwait Chapter was concluded recently at Crown Plaza with a ground-breaking gala leadership Summit. The summit was attended by Embassy officials, leaders of CIGI from India and various GCC chapters, Prominent figures from Kuwait’s business and social arena, leaders of main stream organizations active in Kuwait along with Kuwait TV and other media personalities. 

Dr. Amir Ahmed, Chairman of CIGI Kuwait chapter in his presidential address stressed CIGI’s greater rolesof upbringing the weaker class of the society by Education, irrespective of their religion caste or creed.Dr. Amirurged leaders to take up the daunting tasks, so as to enable the weaker society to cope with the potential challenges and reach greater heights of excellence. “We all know that a leader is the one who is resourceful, tolerant, peaceful, inclusive, humble and filled with empathy for the weak. Instead of leaving them to dwell in their weak social, economic and literacy situation, CIGI as a prominent NGO should play a much bigger role in upbringing the weaker section and transforming them in to educated, resourceful and responsible citizens, contributing positively in the nation building process and promoting a peaceful and progressive society” Dr. Amir continued.

The summit was formally inaugurated by Shri Krishan Kumar Pahel, First Secretary, Embassy India, Kuwait and in his inaugural speech he applauded CIGI’s two decades long activities in the field of Education inGCCas well as in India and appreciated CIGI for playing a unique role in the empowerment of the marginalized sector of the society by supporting them to have higher Education, Career guidanceand thus enabling them to acquire better status intheir life.

Guests of honour Shaikh Nourie Al Nourie and C.P. KunjhuMuhammed in their felicitation speeches praised CIGI for its unique services in the field of Education for the less privileged sector of the society. Shri K.K. Pehel released “Compass - CIGI Hand Book 2018”,a reference careers guidance book, by Giving a copy to Mr. AlNourie.

In his keynote speech at the opening session, CIGI President P.A. Abdussalam described the 20 years of CIGI’s active Social, Educational and Career engagements aimed at the transformation of the weaker society by inculcating self-confidence and self-respect in the younger generation and thus prepare them to face the dynamic socio-economic situation with confidence, through various programs throughout Kerala and other gulf countries.

CIGI Int’l Chairman MuhamedFirozMeethalin his key note speech explained the strategic pillars of ‘CIGI’s Vision 2030” focused on Education, Employment and Empowerment of the poor and less privileged section of the society, irrespective of their religion, cast or creed,to lead and drive them to excellence in all walks of life, withdignity, progress, prosperity. 

Dr. A.B. MoideenKutty – Director of the Kerala Government’s Directorate of Minority Welfare Department, in his key note address explained various schemes, employment projects, different types of scholarships, premarital counselling for youths and other benefits offered by the Government of Kerala for the minorities.

The two-day long CIGI Thematic conferencestartedon Thursday evening and continued on Friday morning 8:00 AM till 5:30 PM with active participation of delegates from within Kuwait as well as from other Gulf states and India and have witnessed several brainstorming sessionsaimed to generate ideas,that would eventually be transformed into projects.Friday’s Morning session started with recitation of versus from Holy Quran by HammadAbdulrahiman, Chief coordinator Abdul Majeed M.M welcomed the delegates, CIGI Int’l Vice Chairman K.V. Shamsudheen led the panel for discussion and the session was presided over by CIGI Int’l Chairman MuhamedFiroz.  After the preparation of the functional Model CIGI president P.A. Abdussalam summarized the discussion papers and CIGI Int’l Chairman concluded the session to proceed further with the conference to the final Leadership summit.

The community leadership summit started earlier by recitation of Holy Quran by HasilUnus followed by Kuwait and Indian National anthems.The Whole event was brought to success and turned in to a memorable event by the flawless supervision, timely intervention and follow up by the Kuwait Chapter Vice chairman Faseehullah Abdullah and his team including Abdul Rahman, Abdul Ghafoor, Hameed Mathur and Abdul Jabbar in providing the logistical, technical, transportation and above all arranging visa, accommodation etc., for the delegates who came from far and wide.  Sameer Mohamed, ShemsyNiharaand Sajid Ibrahim done the editing and designing of “Compass - CIGI Hand Book 2018”. CIGI Kuwait Chapter chairman Dr. Amir Ahmed presided over the community leadership summit session, Senior Visionary SagheerTrikarpur welcomed the gathering, Ashraf Vaakath compered the event and Chief coordinator Abdul Aziz proposed the vote of thanks.

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July 6,2020

The Chairman of Intellectual Council Jeddah, Syed Nasir Khurshid, called for a Zoom meeting on 2nd July, 2020 to celebrate the oath taking ceremony of the D K Shiva Kumar who took over as the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. Mr Khurshid opened the meeting with a very enthusiastic and sincere note of congratulations to newly appointed president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr. D.K.Shivakumar.

The chief speaker for the evening was Saleem Khaleefa, vice Chairman of the Council, he said, for more than 4 decades, he is monitoring the politics of the Karnataka state very closely and also monitoring the role of crises management DK Shiva Kumar in the last 2 years, whether it is Rajya Sabha election of Mr. Ahmed Patel or managing the MLAs of Madhya Pradesh. He said, he is one of the best leaders of the party and the best leaders use “their brain, their heart, their soul and their guts.” And his leadership is fit in the size of all these characters. Growth is a very powerful word and fundamentally, party growth is the responsibility of the President and he can take a holistic approach to close the gap between and among the party cadres. 

Every effort is to be made to preserve the sense of unity within the party. We need to unite party base while appealing to voters. He should identify on ground challenges and find the mechanism to address them. He further pointed out that a President’s chief responsibility is to bring all the party leaders and office bearers on the same page with a Mission to bring back the congress party into power in the next assembly election. His smart strategies, road map, mechanism, booth management, better connected with the party workers, taking everyone along with him, will be a direction for the presidents of the party in other states to take party into power.

He pronounced his leadership is totally remarkable and has a track record of his very sensible leadership and he also known for his collaborative and crises management leadership style. Engr. Nasir suggested that his first task is to address the formidable challenges faced by the party and bring the Congress members together, on a very single aspect how to win the election. The party backbone and strength is gross-root workers who can play a significant role to take the party in a very strong and popular position in public. He emphasized that unity is the main strategy and ingredient to win the election, because a party divided will hurt, cannot win the election. Planning is everything and a good planning goes a long way, helping to win the election.  

All the members of the Council expressed their views and everyone is very much hopeful that he is the right person to lead the party from top.He has commanded immense respect from party workers, office bearers, all communities, groups, including opposition parties. He is a very experienced, have immense experience and hard-work leader and he is a strategist and knows the art how to motivate the party workers and unite all in a single rope.

Engr. Amjad Ali said, we are very much confident that he will re-structure from bottom to top, panchyat, taluka and district committees will be re-structured and will induct caliber and talented leaders who can understand and realize their responsibilities and accountability as head of the party at their levels with only one point how to win the coming election with thumping majority.

One of key members of the Council, Sajid Shaikh expressed joyfully that every single member of the party have confidence on the leadership of Mr. D.K Shiva Kumar and his appointment to the top position says a lot of nice things about him.  He has shown his great leadership and expert in crises management on many occasion.  The party in Karnataka is in good hands and I am sure he will sort-out all the difference between and among the party leaders and cadres, which has hurt the party in the last election and will bring all on the same page. Congress party and its workers are lucky to have such a passionate and hardworking president who is ready to work day in and day out to bring party in power in 2023 assembly election.

Prominent members of the Council, Engr. Azher Parvaiz, Engr. Abdul Wahid, Hazrat Qadri, Engr. Abdul Ameed, Saleem Khan, and Rafiuddin Kharadi commented, we looking forward his dynamic and result oriented leadership in organizing and re-shaping the party in the state, he will hold all congressmen together with a noble purpose, motivate every party worker to work with dedication so that congress can come back to power with absolute majority and he can count on our absolute support in booth management as well  suggest a few points to be included in the manifestos, running a high  successful voltage campaign highlighting the failure of the BJP government at the Center and at the state, between and among in the NRIs community across the Gulf Countries, including Europe and America. Council will do the value-based politics and will present the image of the Congress party, as the rational political party, with secular and inclusive, where people of all religions, caste, race and gender, feel wanted in the party, as its main ideology.

Syed Nasir Khurshid thanked entire team for attending the meeting he expressed his gratitude towards Vice Chairman of the council Saleem Khaleefa for speaking as chief speaker and giving updates, he said, team members are excited to meet in person with Mr. D.K. Shiva Kumar, when members visit India during their vacation.

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Media Release
January 19,2020

Mogaveers Association Kuwait(MAK) Affiliated to Indian Embassy Kuwait, proudly announces ‘MAK Champion Trophy 2020’ a National Level Volley Ball (Men) & Throw Ball (Women) tournament on 25th Feb @American International School Maidan Hawally, Kuwait for all Indian Nationals.

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P A Hameed Padubidri
February 24,2020

Riyadh, Feb 24: Indian Islahi Center, Riyadh (IICR) kicked off the propagation campaign of "Learn the Quran" national conference, which is slated to be held on March 27, 2020 at Nofa Istiraha, Exit 18, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. It's IICR's 20th successful program.

Kerala Legislative Assembly's opposition leader & Congress leader, Ramesh Chennitthala inaugurated the campaign that was held at Voco Hotel in Riyadh, capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ramesh was on two days visit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The objective of the campaign is to instil the keenness & to keep creating the continuous awareness amongst the community on Quran. It also enables to recite the Quran with Tajweed (science of reading the Quran) & correct form.

Aboobakker Edthanatukkara (President of IICR), Abdul Qayyum Bustani, Kunhi Kumbala, Abdullah Vallanchira, Adv. Abdul Jaleel, Naushad Ali Kozhikode, Mujeeb Ali Thodigappulam, Muhammad Kutty Kadannamanna, Fasal Rahman City Flower, Mujeeb Irumbuzhi, Jaleel Alappuzha, Arafat & others were present on the occasion.

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