Jeddah: JF and KNRI Forum felicitate JP Hegde, UT Khader

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April 8, 2013

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Jeddah, Apr 8: The local unit of Jamiyyatul Falah (JF) and Karnataka NRI Forum (KNRIF) jointly organised a felicitation programme for Udupi-Chikmagalur MP K Jayaprakash Hegde and Mangalore MLA U T Khader, who visited Saudi Arabia through the maiden Mangalore-Dammam flight. Coastdigest.com chairman Mohammed Asif was also present.

The programme at Jeddah Trident Hotel on April 5, commenced with recitation of verses from holy Quran by Shaikh Saoud followed by the patriotic song in Kannada by Mohammed Kaleem. President of Karnataka NRI Forum, Mohammed Mansoor welcomed and introduced the guests.

Mohammed Iqbal Yousuf, the Founder of Jamiyyatul Falah, Mohammed Aslam Kazi, Managing Director Basem International Shipping and Logistics Company Ltd, Vishwanath Hegde, Managing Director Intermodal Services of SA, Shabih A. Kazi, Founder Member of Jamiyyatul Falah, Rafiuddin Fazalbhoy, Founder of Indian Embassy School and members of JF and KNRIF were among the dignitaries who took part in the event.

S.M. Jaffer addressed a number of community concerns including direct flights between Mangalore and Jeddah, voting rights/Adhar cards for NRIs, admission to NRI children for professional courses, opportunity to participate in any governmental infrastructure/ development projects, establishing a NRI cell/ grievance cell, government housing project for small /medium income group etc.

The same was presented in the form of a memorandum to Jayaprakash Hegde by B P Abid, President of JF, Jeddah.

Mohammed Aslam Kazi and Br. B P Abid have presented the memento to Mr Hegde and Mr Khader on behalf of Jamiyyatul Falah Jeddah and Vishwanath Hegde and Mohammed Mansoor presented the memento to the duo on behalf of Karnataka NRI Forum, Jeddah.

Presenting a brief chronology of the organization before the audience, Mohammed Iqbal Yousuf said that JF was the first community socio welfare organization to be established in Jeddah to serve the poor masses back home and it has been serving for the last 25 years. He also highlighted the potential opportunities existing for participation under public private partnership (PPP) for Mangalore Airport and other infrastructure projects in Karnataka.

He said that earlier he had presented studies on the Mangalore Airport Development to the union minister M Veerappa Moily. A copy of his plan for further developing Mangalore Airport was submitted to Mr. J.P. Hegde. The idea of PPP was welcomed by Mr. Hegde and assured that he will raise the issues with the concerned authorities in India.

Krishna Jangal briefed the audience about the various activities under taken by Karnataka NRI Forum in Jeddah and services rendered to poor back home.

Mr. Hegde addressed the gathering with overwhelming applaud. Speaking about the current situation of regularizing the NRI illegals in the Kingdom, he informed that he and Mangalore MLA U T Khader had fruitful discussion with the Indian Ambassador in Riyadh. He assures that he will discuss the Mangalore – Jeddah direct flight issue with the concerned authorities. He also assured to take necessary action to resolve the issues outlined in the memorandum submitted to him.

Mr Khader said that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the take up the issues of NRIs with the state government. He stressed that awareness programmes need to be conducted back home to educate the new comers to Saudi Arabia.

Mr  Asif assured that he will continue his efforts for the cause of direct flight from Mangalore to Jeddah.

Roshan Rodrigues, vice president Karnataka NRI Forum proposed the vote of thanks. The programme concluded with the dinner.

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May 20,2020

Dubai, May 20: Dubai-based Karnataka Sports and Cultural Club’s humanitarian services in charge Naseer Karaje team have appreciated the efforts of Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner, Mangaluru Airport director, NGOs of Mangaluru, and MLA for extending a royal welcome to second batch of repatriates from Dubai that landed at Mangaluru Airport on May 18.

There was so much of confusions when 1st batch of repatriation flight landed in Mangaluru airport on 12th May due to lack of proper arrangements and co ordination.

This time due to proper arrangements and special supervision by the DC everything was driven smoothly. It has given a confidence to all the Manglurean expats of Dubai in returning to their native places, the KSCC said.

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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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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. 

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