World Konkani Centre to award scholarships worth Rs 2.5 cr

August 31, 2013

Mangalore, Aug 31: Vishwa Konkani Student Scholarship Fund, established by World Konkani Centre, Mangalore will award Merit Cum Means Scholarships worth Rs 2.5 crore to students from Konkani communities in an award ceremony to be held on Monday, September 2, at 10 a.m. at T.V. Raman Pai Convention Centre, Kodialbail, Mangalore.

The award ceremony will be inaugurated by R.V. Deshpande, Minister for Higher Education and Tourism, Government of Karnataka. Scholarships will be awarded on this occasion by Dr. Ranjan Pai, CEO Manipal Education and Medical Group. The Principal Patron of the Scholarship Programme T.V. Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Global Education will deliver the keynote address. The Function will be presided by Dr. P. Dayananda Pai, Chairman, Konkani Language and cultural foundation. J.R. Lobo MLA Mangalore, will grace the function as guests of honour.

Vishwa Konkani Student Scholarship Fund: 'Vishwa Konkani Student Scholarship Fund' envisages grant of Merit Cum Means scholarship for students having Konkani language as their mother tongue. Instituted by the Mangalore based World Konkani Centre in the year 2010 as envisioned by the eminent thinker and corporate leader T.V.Mohandas Pai, the VKSSF has since then successfully raised and distributed over 2000 Scholarships to the tune of Rs. 3.50 crores.

Eminent Konkani Philanthropists like Dr P. Dayanand Pai, Ramadas Kamath U., K. V. Kamath, Jagannath Shenoi, Dr. Ranjan Pai, Ronald Colaco, Madam Grace Pinto, A. Annappa S. Kamath, Rohan Monteiro, Vasanth Bhat, Pradeep G. Pai and many more have come forward in support of this fund.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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