NRCC of Jam’iyyatul Falah hold Annual General Meeting at Riyadh

[email protected] (Ramesh S Bhandari)
May 6, 2012

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Riyadh, May 6: The Non-Resident Cooperation Council (NRCC), the overseas ruling body of Jam’iyyatul Falah had their annual NRCC Meeting for the term 2011-2012 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on April 26, 2012.

NRCC is the administration of four active units in Riyadh, Dammam, Jeddah and Jubail, which supervises all the major decision taken by its Head Quarter in Mangalore.

Moderator of the Meeting Mohammad Nawaz (Ex-President of Riyadh Unit) opened the meeting with the permission of NRCC Ameer S. M. Jaffer and invited Mohammad Mubeen (Ex-President of Dammam Unit) for Qirath and the meeting was commenced with recitation of Holy Quran and Mubeen interpreted its meaning which enlightens the importance of charity and brotherhood in Islam.

President of Riyadh Unit Akhtar Shaikh, took the honor to welcome the NRCC delegations from Jeddah, Dammam and Jubail Units. He expressed his and his unit’s pleasure to host the NRCC Meeting in Riyadh.

Addressing the gathering of NRCC delegates, NRCC Ameer S. M. Jaffer took the immense pleasure to welcome all the NRCC Representatives from Riyadh, Jeddah, Jubail and Dammam. He said the presence of all NRCC Units is the symbol of unity which will enhance to understand the commitment to the community.

Jubail Unit, the host of last NRCC meeting took the opportunity to present the Minutes of Meeting and Abdul Samad Kolnad read the minutes and after the few changes in the minutes, the Minutes of Meeting was approved and adopted.

During the first session of the meeting, all the NRCC representatives distributed their report of achievements and accounts for the term 2011-2012. The head of each NRCC representatives had shared the opinion and advised to each other how to improve the activities and succeed the target of achievements. Each unit had acknowledged their shortcomings and pledge to take necessary steps to overcome the deficiency and improve the unit with proper guidance from each unit.

Many pros and cons were discussed and the NRCC representatives from Jeddah, Dammam, Jubail and Riyadh units actively participated in the healthy discussions and took some vital decisions to implement unified LSOP (Local Standard Operation Procedures) to run the day to day activities of Local NRCC Units. Riyadh unit took the responsibility to update the LSOP and the final draft will be distributed to all the NRCC units for their approval and immediate implementation.

In order to avail the maximum benefits provided by the state government and the central government for the minority communities, NRCC representatives had strongly emphasized to appoint a paid ‘Administrator’ at JF Head Quarter in Mangalore, who should exclusively work and perform to get the maximum funds from the related institute and concerned departments. The roles and responsibilities were discussed in the meeting and accordingly the NRCC Ameer will instruct JF Head Quarter to execute with immediate effect.

NRCC Representatives seriously focused on funding for New Hostel on Community Hall and unanimously agreed to finish the major construction work before the monsoon season and discussed the maintenance of existing Hostel. NRCC Ameer had appreciated all the NRCC Units for their valuable contribution towards the construction of New Hostel on Community Hall.

All the NRCC Units has collectively appreciated the progress of “Green View School” at Adkarepaddu, the prestigious project of Jam’iyyatul Falah. All the Representatives has expressed their views and presented their opinion to upgrade the school with finest standard of education.

The second session of the meeting was commenced and NRCC Ameer S. M. Jaffer had presented the report on ‘Utilization and Benefit of Dialysis Machines’. This is another success story of Jam’iyyatul Falah and NRCC Ameer appreciated the effort executed by the members of JF Mangalore Corporation Unit for the success of this noble cause.

It was decided by the NRCC Representatives to seriously work on the completion of all the existing projects and step by step the new projects in the field of education will be implemented as per its requirement. Every projects implementation should deeply analyze and consider according to its essentiality.

Since last several years, Dammam and Jubail units were consistently supporting and contributed to SSS (Student Support Scheme). It was decided in the NRCC meeting that the pattern of SSS should improve to benefit the students as per his/her requirement. Dammam and Jubail Units were given the responsibility to prepare and study the new scholarship pattern under the existing system of SSS, which will be implemented from new academic year 2013 in all 11 JF Taluk Committee through JF Head Quarter.

The Year 2013 will be commemorating as a “Silver Jubilee Year” for Jam’iyyatul Falah. The NRCC Representatives had described this as a prestigious event of JF and all the JF members should take the privilege to mark this event by forming a strong committee to execute the celebration with excellence. It was also suggested to appoint or take the opinion from the best event management companies to make the event most memorable to each and every members of Jam’iyyatul Falah.

The third session of the meeting was commenced with the ‘Open Forum’. The audiences were given the opportunity to ask any questions related to Jam’iyyatul Falah and its activities. The panelist – NRCC Representatives – had answered the queries of audiences to make them understand about JF and its activities.

Election for the New NRCC Ameer was carried out and the President of Riyadh Unit Akhtar Sheikh was unanimously elected by the NRCC Representatives and the outgoing NRCC Ameer S. M. Jaffer and all other NRCC Representatives had congratulated the New Ameer. In his sworn-in speech, Akhtar Sheikh had assured all the NRCC Units that he will coordinate with Head Quarter in Mangalore and simultaneously will inform the results to NRCC Units of the updates and development in Head Quarter and look forward to receive the maximum support from all the NRCC Units for the betterment of Jam’iyyatul Falah in particular and the community in general.

New NRCC Ameer has suggested General Secretary of Dammam Unit Mansour Ali Ahmed to be JF NRCC General Secretary to support him during his tenure and Mansour Ali Ahmed was unanimously selected as a ‘JF NRCC General Secretary’.

General Secretary of Riyadh Unit Nazeer Ahmed had proposed the vote of thanks while the Moderator of the meeting had reminded all the NRCC delegates to carry forward to its success whatever discussed in the meeting in a positive note and to keep close associate with each unit and maintain proper coordination with JF Head Quarter in Mangalore.

NRCC Meeting was dispersed immediately after the Dua’a.

The NRCC Meeting was held at Red Onion Restaurant in Riyadh and the delicious dinner was served to all the guests and the NRCC Representatives immediately after the NRCC Meeting.

THE MEETING OFFICIALS AND NRCC REPRESENTATIVES

1) S. M. Jaffer, NRCC Ameer & Chairperson of the Meeting.

2) Mohammad Nawaz, Moderator of the Meeting.

JEDDAH UNIT

1) Habib Ur Rahman, President

2) Mohammad Mansoor, NRCC Representative

3) Shabih Ahmed Kazi, NRCC Representative

RIYADH UNIT

1) Akhtar Sheikh, President

2) Abdul Hameed, NRCC Representative

3) Nazeer Ahmed, General Secretary

JUBAIL UNIT

1) Farook Kanyana, President

2) Sheikh Mohammad Raffi, NRCC Representative

3) Saleem Udupi, NRCC Representative

4) Abdul Samad Kolnad, Executive Member

DAMMAM UNIT

1) Munaf A. U. S., President

2) Shahul Hameed, NRCC Representative

3) Mahmood Saad, Advisor

4) Mansour Ali Ahmed, General Secretary




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March 2,2020

Abu Dhabi: Yogish Prabhu K is the newly elected president of Abu Dhabi’s prestigious India Social & Cultural Centre (ISC) and he will serve for the period 2020-2021. ISC’s annual general body meeting and Election for 2020 were held on Thursday, February 27 and the election results of the election were announced during the early hours of Friday, February 28th morning.

In the keenly contested election, Yogish Prabhu emerged victorious. Humble origin and hailing from a small town of Karkala from Udupi district of Karnataka state has never deterred him from setting challenging goals. He belongs to a well-known Gouda Saraswat Brahmin family of K.V.Prabhu Coconut oil mill in Karkala. He is the eldest son of Late Rtn. Krishna Prabhu and Rtn. Bharati Prabhu.  His father and grandfather were freedom fighters who left a profound impression on him and their ideology “serving people is like worshiping God” (Jana seveye Janardhana seve) inspired and guided his life ever since. Prabhu has been a privilege member of ISC since 2003 and has been actively involved in ISC activities throughout. His relationship with ISC spans over 2 decades during which he has immensely contributed in many ways to ISC and the Indian community at large. A banker by profession, Yogish Prabhu is currently working as Vice President, Group Finance & Treasury, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB).

With some new initiatives in his mind, Prabhu wants to creatively improve the quality of ISC’s services, its humanitarian impact as well as the diversity of its membership. His intentions are always to help everyone irrespective of caste, creed, religion, language or status. As a new elected President of ISC, Prabhu’s main objective is to strategically plan and implement his vision through his ABC 5 Year Plan i.e.,

A-    Accountability & Transparency,

B-    Build a Sound Financial Plan and

C-    Compassion & Affection for the needy

so that ISC is recognized not just in UAE, but worldwide as a mascot of the great Indian community.

Prabhu thinks “as individuals, we can do only so much but with the support of Elected ISC Committee members and all the ISC members together, there is no limit to what we can achieve, and in the process, we can truly transform the ISC”. He proudly says, “I have a strong treasury management experience in ISC as well as in the bank which we need now more than ever”.

With his dynamic leadership, sheer dedication and ambition, ISC will definitely be scaling new heights of glory and prestige in Abu Dhabi and beyond. His humble nature, leadership qualities coupled with his rich administrative experience will surely help boost ISC’s popularity and meet its challenging goals and can serve people in a better way and contribute to the Indian community at large.

Yogish Prabhu has been married for 28years. His wife Chethana Prabhu Kasaragod too has been equally active in ISC and continuously supporting and participating in various sports, entertainment and literary committees throughout these years. She became ISC Women’s Forum Convener in 2016-2017. Their daughter, Aarti Prabhu is an IT Engineer from NITK Suratkal, working in Bangalore. Son, Ajith Prabhu finished his Masters in Mechanical Engineering and Management in Industrial Design in Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK and at present doing his internship there. Both Aarti and Ajith are alumni of Abu Dhabi Indian School and both have represented National level CBSE Badminton meet. Also, Aarti was a Gold medalist in the school for scoring 100 in Mathematics in SSLC.

Following are few of his contributions and achievements:

•          Hon. Asst. Treasurer of ISC for consecutive years from 2005 till 2007

•          Hon. Treasurer of ISC in 2011.

•          Member of Finance Committee of ISC new infrastructure and premises from approval till completion.

•          In 2016, initiated the participation of ISC members as officials for International Yoga Day organized by Indian Embassy

•          In 2017, initiated the participation of children as officials to help the organizers so that children could learn their social responsibility and become good citizens.

•          In 2012, initiated ladies throw ball tournament in ISC and now it is extended to men too.

•          Member of IPEF since its inception in 2014. Also served as its Governing board member in the same year.

•          Founder member of ‘UAE GSB group’ since its formation in 2004

•          Committee member of ‘Gandhi Sahitya Vedi’ Abu Dhabi

•                    Treasurer of Abu Dhabi Karnataka Sangha

•          Head of Finance and member of other committees of ‘World Tulu Convention’ held in Dubai - 2018

 

Election was held for other Posts too. The other office bearers elected to the present committee are:

Vice-President: George Varghese.

General Secretary: Jojo J Ambooken

Asst.Gen.Secretary: C. George Varghese

Treasurer: Shijil Kumar N K

Entertainment Secretary: Jayapradeep K P

Literary Secretary: Elias Padavetty

Sports Secretary: Freddi J. Fernandes

Secretary Southern Region: Raja Srinivasa Rao Aita

Auditor: G.N.Sasikumar

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May 20,2020

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The Consul General Of India, Jeddah and Vice Patron IPWF, H.E.Mr. Md. Noor Rahman Shiekh graced the Grand Finale as honorable Chief Guest. The HOC, Consul Hajj and Director IPWF - Mr. Y Sabir attended as Guest of Honor, while the ever-exuberant President of the forum Mr. Ayyub Hakeem lead the event. A large number of Indian dignitaries and media personnel also joined this live event.

Judges panel included three experienced youths. First judge was the Prominent Hafiz and one of the best Qaris of his calibre, Hafiz Ismail Yahya Bilal, well educated in Qirat from Umm Al Qura University Makkah and currently persuing Masters. He also holds many honors and accolades from various international competitions and appreciations from Imaams of Haramain. The other judge, Hafiz Abdullah A.Mateen Usmani, first position winner, a record for being youngest Indian to win Jeddah Quran competition 2018 under patronage of Jeddah Governor.  Hafiz Farhan Abdur Rab, was the third judge, an Engineer by profession, as well as current Treasurer at IPWF.

Winners; Humeirah Masood Kazi and Furqan Mohammed Vasi Ahmed won Gold position. Maryam Jaffar and Adil Abdul Rasheed ranked Silver while Khatija Ehtesham Ali and Nadeem Noorisha ranked Bronze. Consolation prizes were given to Aamina Mustafa and Mohammed Ahsan Ali. The event was organized to encourage and boost the ambitions of young generation and inspring them to bring out their best in Quran Recitation

While speaking at the event Chief Guest H.E.Mr. Md.Noor Rahman Sheikh appreciated the social works of IPWF for Indian Community, praised the brilliant performance of students, He said it gives us great pleasure seeing that all participants, Judges and Jury members are Indians, he said the recitation of the children was fantabulous, and congratulated to the winners and participants. Chief Guest further said President Ayyub Hakeem and his IPWF Team deserves to be appreciated for their relentless efforts for this Noble cause, even in this period when the world is observing lockdown.

HOC, Consul Hajj Mr. Y Sabir appreciated IPWF team for organizing this virtual competition, he said it’s really amazing that 111 students registered to participate for the contest, he appreciated the hard work of children and efforts of parents for preparing their children.

Mr. Hakeem welcomed all and informed that this competition received overwhelming response from Indian community locally and internationally in short time since its launch was just couple of days earlier. Which compliments events Objective to encourage children “mainly Indians residing in Saudi Arabia” especially during the month of Quran “Ramadan” and lockdown period #COVID-19. 

40 contestants made it to the Semifinals, and 15 Students reached the Grand Finale, 2 young children were given consolation for their enthusiastic recitation. 

The President also appreciated his IPWF Team for unwavering support in preparation of this event.  He thanked the Chief Guest, HE Mr. Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh and Guest of Honor Mr. Y Sabir for gracing this glorious competition. He Thanked the audience and announced that all contestants will be awarded appreciation “digital certificate’

Syed Nasir Khursheed anchored the program, and entertained with beautiful Urdu couplets. Farhan Abdur Rab and Abdul Rahman Poyakkara conducted the contest flawlessly on time. Farhan, concluded the event with Vote of Thanks and soleful dua.

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Indian Social Forum, Eastern Province Central Committee, Saudi Arabia organized Republic Day program at AlRyan Policlinic Restaurant Auditorium, Dammam on 25th January 2020.

Abdul Waris, Former Chairman of Indian International School Dammam Inaugurated the program.

Wasim Rabbani, president of Indian Social Forum, Eastern Province Central Committee Presided over the program.

Mansoor Shah KFUPM, Indian Social Forum Delhi Zone President, Dr. Fayaz Ahmed from King Fahad University Hospital, Amir Moulavi, Executive Member,  India Fraternity Forum (IFF) Dammam, Nasir Koduvalli, Indian Social Forum, Kerala State President, Dammam, Sharief, Social Forum Karnataka State President, DammamJahangir Moulavi, Tamilnadu State president delivered speech at the program. Mohammed Firoz, Indian Social Forum  President, Jubail read the preamble of constitution. 

 Nameer Kerala , Secretary, Social Forum Central Committee welcomed guests while Ashraf Karnataka, General Secretary, Central Committee delivered vote of thanks and Tahir Hyderabad, Secretary, Indian Social Forum, Central Committee coordinated the program.

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