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KaDaM celerbats 8th anniversary in Ajman

Shodhan Prasad
November 1, 2017

Ajman: Kundapura Devadiga Mitra, popularly known as KaDaM celebrated their 8th anniversary in a grand manner on October 27th 2017, at Ajman Beach Hotel, Ajman, UAE with a whole day cultural event witnessed by packed Devadiga families, guests from India and friends. With the able leadership of dynamic businessman Dinesh Devadiga Chitradi Nagoor, KaDaM are not only conducting anniversary but also serving the needy community brethren’s with contribution towards education, medical and also arranging blood donation drive in the UAE.

A meaningful ceremony that was organized began at 11am by lighting of the lamp by KaDaM Ladies, Gowri Devadiga, Sharada Devadiga, Leelavathi Devadiga, Ambika Devadiga, H Mohan Das, Ravi Devadiga, Raju Devadiga, Dinesh Devadiga, Ravi Devadiga Tallur and Sheena Devadiga. Ramachandra Devadiga Kasaragod recited the prayer.

NithyanandaBeskoor welcomed the audience, sponsors and media representatives and gave a gist of an exciting day ahead. Followed was welcome dance by Shashirekha and Kumari Shreya.

Asha Devadiga, Sridhar Bramavar and Santhosh Sherigar jointly hosted the programme throughout in their own style.

A variety of cultural programs were presented beautifully which included variety of dances. Audience enjoyed some beautiful soulful melodies sung by Pramod Kumar, SaiMallika, Dinesh DoddanaGudde, UdayaNanjappa, Shiva Kumar, KumariAdhira, Kumari Ishwarya, Master Manish, Suresh Devadiga, Shodan Prasad, Gayathri, Master YashSujith Shetty & Ramachandra Devadiga. Dancing numbers by Neha, Shreesha, Dhanya Dinesh Devadiga, Asha Devadiga Navya Devadiga Konchady, Shruthi Devadiga, Priya Devadiga, Vishalakshi Devadiga, Kiran Beskoor, Smitha Devadiga, Harinakshi Sherigar, Shashirekha Devadiga, Reshma Devadiga, Kumari Shreya, Niveditha, Niranjana, Kumari Elsa, Nandana, Master Yash, Vasu Devadiga, Santhosh Sherigar, Ravi Devadiga, Jagadish Devadiga, Manohar Devadiga, Manjunath Devadiga and Kids from symphony dancing institution.  Audience applauded witnessing sporting Ladies Group Dance a catchy number and which was the highlight of the day.

Vasu Devadigabriefed on KaDaM’spast years successful events from the time of inception viz., year 2010 till the current anniversary.  He also briefed on the mission-vision and main objectives of KaDaM.

Ravi Devadiga read out greeting messages received from well-wishers around the world.

KaDaM’s service to the community

As of date KaDaM collected a whopping amount of rupees around Rs 25 lakh as KaDaM Education Fund. Rs 3 lakh is being distributed as scholarship every year and another Rs 5.35 lakh was given as medical aid to hospitalized patients. The contribution given by each member every month is being accumulated to meet any emergency unexpected medical expenses of needy community families.Whenever there is an urgent need for aid, members voluntarily take up initiativesand contribute fund for the needy.

Devadiga Sadaka Prashasti - 2017 conferred on Gowri Devadiga

Like every year this year too KaDaM organized to identify exceptional Community Member who contributed to the society. This year the Award 'Devadiga Sadaka Prashasti' was conferred on Smt. Gowri Devadiga as a recognition to her contributions in the field of Social work.

Devadiga Sadaka Prashasti Award is specially conferred to individuals as a token of appreciation for their contribution towards the society and community affairs. Awardee Smt. Gowri Devadiga is a woman who created an identification for herself in society with a belief and objective in social service. An initiative to honour such woman achievers of the community is a proud feeling for KaDaM.  Guest Ravi Devadiga President of Devadiga Sangha Mumbai honoured her with Shawl, Vishalakshi Dinesh Devadiga presented her garland, KiranBeskoor handed over flower bouquet while Sudhakar Devadiga handed over the fruit basket all in a traditional way. Simultaneously a Video presentation was shown to highlight the achievements and awards received by Gowri.  Prashasti Patra was presented by Dinesh Devadiga. Sheena Devadiga presented a memento. In return to the Sadaka Prasasti, the overwhelmed recipient Gowri Devadiga thanked the organizers of the event and dignitaries on the dais.

KaDaM also felicitated Community Leaders H Mohan Das, Ravi Devadiga President of Devadiga Sangha Mumbai andSmt. Ambika Raju Devadiga. All the recipients thanked KaDaM for honoring them and wished KaDaM all the success.

Politician Raju Devadiga, Entrepreneur Praveen Kumar Shetty of Fortune Group, Ravi Tallur, Dinesh Kumar Devadiga, President of Devadiga Sangha Dubai, Guest UmanathKotian of Tulu Sahitya Academy, Guest RajshekarKotiyanActor/Producer of Shree Narayana Guru Tulu Movie and Guest N.TPoojary of BillawaJagratiBalaga, Mumbai spoke on this occasion and remembered KaDaM’s social work in and around Kundapura.

Naveen Suvarna, Shodhan Prasad, Ganesh Rai, Suresh Devadiga (NMS), Arvind Sanil, Murthy Bhat, Sadan Das, Devesh Alva, Nithiraj Shetty, Vasu Shetty, Karunakar Shetty, DayaKirodian, Das Kudla, Ravi Devadiga Abu Dhabi, Suresh Devadiga DHL, Sujith Shetty were present during the program as guests.

Ganesh Rai applauded KaDaM for its self-less service to the society and their dedication towards mankind.  He mentioned on KaDam’s various social responsibility initiatives such as Blood donation camp, scholarship in back home, picnic, and Indian traditional festival celebration which are commendable.

KaDaM conducted drawing competition for children which was ably judged by Mr. Ravi Tallur, Suresh Devadiga DHL and Sai Mallika.

Cultural and Stage program were coordinated and ably conducted by Yuvaraj Devadiga, Manoj Devadiga, Ravi Nagoor, Santhosh Kolnad and Elegant Team.

All the Sponsors, Media Representatives & Participants were honoured and presented with mementos by Dinesh Devadiga and KaDaM Members.

Throughout the programme there were many spot games conducted and audience actively participated and received prizes.  Towards the end Grand Raffle draw was conducted and prizes handed over to the winners.

The event got concluded with vote of thanks rendered by Sheena Devadiga who thanked all the Sponsors, Participants, Media, Guest of various organizations, well-wishers and members for the wholehearted support and who made  the event a grand success. He also thanked Special Guests from India who flew to just to attend the event who were Smt. Sharada Devadiga Nagoor, Smt. Leelavathi Devadiga Nagoor, Revathi Sherigar Mala, Shri Ravi Tallur & Mr Sheena Devadiga.

He particularly thanked Mr.  & Mrs Dinesh Devadiga for their continuous whole hearted support extended to KaDaM and its members in planning and executing this event in an organized manner.  Like every year Elegant Group of Companies were the proud Main Sponsor of the event. KaDaM organized ‘Sumptuous Buffet’ ;unch for all including Mangalorean Special ‘Holige’.

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May 30,2020

Dammam: Indian Social Forum, Dammam, Karnataka chapter organized a "Live along with COVID-19" webinar on 29 May 2020 in association with HealthCare Polyclinic, Dammam.

The webinar at Zoom App. featured over 150+ resident Kannadigas from Saudi Arabia's eastern and neighboring provinces.

Dr. Shailendranath made a presentation on the program and gave useful information. Indian Social Forum Dammam, Karnataka Chapter President Sharif Joktake delivered the keynote address. General Secretary Irshad Jokatte stalled the program.

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Media Release
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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The forum organised camp to support the high demand of blood in the context of COVID-19.

All arrangements to maintain COVID-19 protocol were made in the camp including segregation of donors as branch wise batches along with strict safety measures of participants.

Forum also had donated blood to many patients during the lockdown period. 

Hundreds of people donated blood in the camp. The camp organised in Blood Bank, Jabriya was successfully managed by Dr. Asma Rafat and leaders of Indian social forum Vice President Aslam, Secretory Sayyid Bukhari Thangal, Moideen Koya, Khaleel, Aseem, Mohammed Sha, Shihab, Naushad,
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