Jeddah: Karnataka NRI Forum elects new committee with a pledge to help needy

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October 5, 2015

Jeddah: Karnataka NRI Forum elected new committee during their general body meeting recently. The outgoing president Engr. Roshan Rodrigues opened the meeting and expressed his condolence on the sudden demise of our former president of India late Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam.

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Two minutes silence was observed by all the members to pay homage and honor to the departed soul and prayed to Almighty to rest his soul in peace. Also expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief on the Makkah incident over the loss of lives of more than 100 pilgrims, prayed for them, departed souls to be rested in peace in Jannah.

Mr. Vishwanath Karkare and Mr. Ilyas Momin conducted the session and unanimously all members of the forum expressed their satisfaction, confidence and trust on the abilities, capabilities and performance of the last year management team under the dynamic leadership of Roshan, and decided to elect him for the 2nd tenure.

Mr. Roshan is elected for the 2nd term as the president of the forum and soon after the announcement of result, Roshan conveyed his thanks to the members for reposing a strong trust on him and for giving an opportunity to serve the forum for one more year, he assured that he will put his best efforts, strategies and resources to take the forum to a higher level in the coming days. The names and positions of elected office bearers are as follows.

Roshan rodrigues president, Syed nasir Khursheed and Habeeb Rahman as vice presidents, Aijaz Ahmed as General Secretary , Syed Haseebuddin as Treasurer, Yashwant Amin and Peter Mascarances as Joint secretary and Meeeting Coordinator. Mohammed Arif as joint treasurer, Krish Jangal as IT Coordinator, Dadapeer hayath as joint IT Coordinator, Niaz Ahmed as Press Secretary, Sabu chandran as Sports Secretary, Arif Abed as Joint Sports secretary, Mohammed Saifuddin as Cultural Secretary, Mohammed Kaleem Mohsin Khan and Syed Shakeel Ahmed were elected as Joint Cultural Secretaries. Ilyas momin, Faizee sheikh and Mukkaram khan were elected as membership coordinators.

Mohammed Mansoor, Shaikh Saud, Dr. Ashfaque Maniyar, Mohammed Saheb, Alok pattar, Manzoor Ahmed, Mohammed Saleem khalifa, Imtiaz Ahmed and Nasir Jamal Shah were elected as Executive members.

Members expressed their happiness for accepting Roshan this position for the 2nd term and shared their thoughts & experiences and said Roshan has won the hearts and minds of the members of the forum through his simplicity, dedication, hard work and professional behavior and he has always encouraged and motivated members to come forward and participate in the decision making and shown his tremendous respect to all the members and follow the ethics of forum i:e “collective decision” and advocated that united approach is always fruitful, and one of the important tools for the success and growth of any forum or a civil society.

Newly elected Gen Secretary Aijaz Ahmed described him as a good listener and created space for the members to come and speak of their minds, very healthy and friendly environment has been developed and created a culture of “ONE TEAM ONE FORUM” under his leadership.

Habib Rahman newly elected vice president described KNRI Forum as a unit of family members where we all the members are from different parts of Karnataka work together for the betterment of poor and needy people.

Outgoing General Secretary and newly elected vice president Syed Nasir Khursheed expressed deep sense of appreciation towards all the executive committee members for their continuous support for the activities carried by the forum. He requested all the body members to render similar support to new executive committee for getting good results from them. He also thanked founding members of KNRI forum Vasu Manchegowda and Sri Harsha who are settled in Bangalore now for their tremendous support to the forum in India.

Dr. Asfaq Maniyar and Engr. Dada peer who are the newly elected Executive Committee members, expressed their pleasure in becoming the integral part of the forum. Dr. Ashfaq Maniyar expressed his pleasure and said he has joined the Forum because of its Vision, Mission and objectives, most importantly the Objective which has attracted and brought me closer to this organization is that forum is understanding the pain of the KNRI parents and fighting for the educational rights of the NRI children to get admission on merit basis in the professional courses, back home in Karnataka through Common Entrance Test (CET).

Executive member Shaikh Saud and Membership coordinator Mukkram Khan further elaborated and shared their ideas, knowledge and options how to achieve success in this direction, he said we should strongly put forth this case to the government, and to garner a wider support of KNRI across the Gulf Countries, KNRI Saudi Arabia should play a leading role in communicating and convincing other KNRI Forums to join hands with us, so that a memorandum can be submitted to Government, informing that this demand is in pending from a longer time, a bill to be passed in the Karnataka assembly at the earliest and our children should get admissions in medical and engineering colleges on merit basis.

Roshan advised that Forum’s activities scope to be extended to the new objectives and areas and should work for the betterment of society in a larger scale and proposed that Forum should support our KANADIGAS in making A CLEAN AND BETTER INDIA and our Karnataka state be made free from open defecation by building a large number of public toilets. It was decided in the meeting that 10 toilets will be built by KNRI FORUM in the first phase and will do our best to build 100 toilets in the coming years, across the districts of Karnataka state.

Immediately after the proposal a quick generous response come from Mr. Ilyas Momin who come forward and announced that he will be funding to build 4 toilets. Faizy and Roshan come forward and donated cost of the constructing another two toilets respectively.

Meeting ended around 11.00pm with the vote of thanks by Shaikh Soud followed by a dinner hosted by Roshan.

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An Indian expatriate, hailing from Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka, who was detained in Jeddah jail in an alleged cyber case, was set free recently. He is allowed to continue his work in the same company. 

The 49-year-old Mangalurean, has been working for a Maintenance company in Jeddah for more than 13 years. He is known for his efficiency and sincerity in the company with good experience in his field of work. 

His company usually assigned him on duty in Jeddah sea port to take the delivery of the goods consigned to his company. As a part of his duty, he normally takes pictures of the goods before the transportation. He did the same in February 2023 too. 

The security personnel informed the police about his act that amounts to be a violation of the port security rule. He was unaware of the rule as he was doing it normally in the port during the release of the goods. Since then, he was detained by the police on the charge of photographing inside the port premises. After more than 6 months detention, he was released and allowed to work in the same company. 

The detainee’s brother based in Jeddah was constantly pursuing the case.

P A Hameed Padubidri, a pro-bono NRI lawyer and social worker based in Riyadh, extended his socio-humanitarian help in this case upon the request of his family and relatives. 

He actively involved trying to set him free from the jail on humanitarian grounds with the coordination and help of the Consulate General of India (CGI) Jeddah. The CGI keenly followed up the case with the concerned Saudi authorities. He was released from the jail recently and shared his happiness with his family and thanked good samaritans. 

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