Mangalore, April 13: Tulu Nataka Kalavidara Okkuta (Tulu Theatre Artistes' Federation), which is embarking on generating a Rs. 20-lakh corpus to assist members who were in distress, has started contributing to the lives of its members.
In the last three years, the corpus has reached Rs. 3 lakh with Tulu play lovers contributing their mite in some measure.
It has given an assistance of Rs. 75,000 to different artistes. This was disclosed by office-bearers of the Okkuta, who held a press meet on Thursday here.
It decided to fund the education expenses of the daughter of a woman theatre artiste, who is doing her M. Tech. In another case, it helped the son of an artiste, who is doing his B.Com in a city college for the last three years, bearing his expenses of Rs. 15,000 a year.
It funded a computer course he completed. Another actor was given an assistance of Rs. 20,000. Charan Kumar, honorary convenor of the Welfare Fund, said the dream of generating a fund for Tulu play artiste germinated about three years ago. He hoped that the fund would reach the targeted Rs. 20 lakh within the next two years.
Several persons had volunteered to pay the premium of members who were unable to join the group insurance scheme being offered by the federation owing to financial difficulties. One individual was bearing the yearly premium of 10 artistes already, he said. About 25 others had been covered by the group insurance scheme.
The premium per family was Rs. 360 with the sum assured being Rs. 15,000 for each member of the family. The office-bearers, who included president of the federation Kishor D. Shetty and general secretary Mohan Koppal, said the ninth anniversary of the organisation would be celebrated on Friday where some senior artistes such as Elluru Umesh Rao, Balakrishna Kadri, Anil Kumar Barke, Vishnumurthy, and M. Vishwanath Barke would be felicitated. The programme would begin with dance programme “Bhara Yoga Nrithya”.
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