Jeddah: Mohammed Mansoor New President of Karnataka NRI Forum

By: Shaikh Saoud Yakoob

Jeddah, May 29: The general body meeting of KNRI Forum Jeddah was held at the banquet hall of Seasons Hotel Jeddah where several dozens of KNRI Forum members and guests gathered to witness a colourful evening programme.

"Karnataka NRI Forum is a family and we are all its members. The Kannada community of Jeddah has selected us as its representative and each of us has the great responsibility of fulfiling the community's needs," said Mohammed Mansoor who has been elected new president of KNRI Forum Jeddah for the period of 2011 -2012. He thanked each and every member for showing confidence in him to lead this lone NGO which represents people from Karnataka state in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Vice-presidents J Parameshwarappa and Shrikanth launched the newly designed website of KNRI Forum Jeddah (www.knriforumjeddah.com) and requested everybody to visit to this website to know more about the forum.

Earlier in the programme, outgoing president B K Shetty thanked the members for supporting him in his three-year stint as president of the forum and requested the members to support the new team, which will have greater challenges to face in KSA as well back home in Karnataka.

The meeting started with pleasant Kannada song with Karaoke music by known singer Mohammed Kaleem. General secretary Mohammed Mansoor presented the annual report for the year 2010 – 2011 along with a power point presentation on the activities and achievements of the forum. Treasurer S M Jafer presented the financial statement which was audited by M/S R K Kumar and Associates, chartered accountants, Bangalore, for the period of 2010 – 2011.

The following members have been elected to the new executive committee for the year 2011- 2012:

Mohammed Mansoor         President
Vasu Manchegawda          Vice-president
Roshan Rodriguez             Vice-president
Raghavendra                     General secretary
Niaz Ahmed                      Joint secretary
Manzoor Ahmed                Press secretary
S M Jafer                         Treasurer
Srikanth                           Joint treasurer
Shaikh Saoud                  Chief co-ordinator
Jeevan Mevada                Cultural secretary
Mohammed Kaleem         Joint cultural secretary
Habib Rahaman               Sports secretary
Sabu Chandran               Joint sports secretary
Rajesh Kumar                 Technical co-ordinator
Krishna Jangal                IT co-ordinator
Mohammed Arif              Membership co-ordinator
Walter Luwis                  Membership co-ordinator
Peter Mascarenhas         Membership co-ordinator
J Parameshwarappa        Liaison co-ordinator
B K Shetty                     Executive committee member
Vishwanath Karkera        Executive committee member
Imtiaz Ahmed                 Executive committee member
Manohar Ullal                 Executive committee member
Mohammed Saheb         Executive committee member
Rafiq Kankanadi             Executive committee member
Chetan Kaiwar               Executive committee member
 

The guests and members enjoyed the appetizing dinner along with an entertaining musical programme which was held after the meeting, where famous singer of Jeddah Mohammed Sami and his team regaled the gathering with their beautiful rendition of Kannada and Hindi songs.

Shrikanth proposed the vote of thanks and the entire programme was managed and moderated by Niaz Ahmed.