Mangalore: Veerappa Moily to Relaunch Devadiga Community Website on Nov 20
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, Nov 17: Devadiga community will soon relaunch its web portal www.devadiga.com, ten years after it was first founded in the year 2000. The community website has undergone a revamp and will be re-launched as a complete community portal, with an aim to bringing community members together on one page.
The website will be launched by union minister for corporate affairs M Veerappa Moily on Sunday November 20 at 2.55 pm at the Devadiga Samaja Bhavana, Karntaka Rajya Devadiga Sangha, Mannagudde here.
The event will be graced by district inchrage minister Krishna J Palemar as the guest of honour.
Dr B S Sherigar, former vice-chancellor of Kuvenpu University, Dr K V Devadiga, eminent neurosurgeon and Dr Devaraj K, principal SDM College of Management will be the guests of honour.
The original site was founded by Devadiga community visionary and achiever, B G Mohandas, in the year 2000 in Dubai. The site was designed mainly to connect the various community people and bring them together by means of using the latest information technology (IT). He has founded many such initiatives such as www.gulfvarthe.com, www.kollur.com etc and currently runs the highly popular site www.Gulfkannadiga.com (A reflection of Karnataka in gulf). His vision is to motivate and educate the community youth to work towards progression of the Devadiga community. For more than a decade, he has single handedly and passionately maintained devadiga.com and has served its purpose i.e. to provide the latest news about the community, highlighting eminent personalities, encouraging new talents and educating youth on our culture, traditions and festivals.
Recently, a group of enthusiastic and energetic youngsters have come forward to take up the mantle of devadiga.com to the next level. As part of this endeavor a team of professionally qualified and experienced individuals have come together to form 'Team Devadiga'.
The main motivation of Team Devadiga is to become a felicitator for all the social and cultural activities of the community. The site aims to provide an opportunity to the community members, living in any part of the world, to utilize his/her expertise and skills towards building up a prosperous devadiga community, through advocacy and cooperation while using modern technology.
The portal devadiga.com allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community.
The salient features of the portals are, Community News, Community personalities, Information on Festivals & Traditions, Virtual Career Guidance by educationist and other professionals, Job portal, e-learning portal for development of soft skills, Free Matrimonial portal with features like popular commercial matrimonial sites, Separate Student area, Women's portal, Classifieds, Recipes, Obituaries, Devadiga Forums, Articles, Blogs, Photos gallery, Search, Polls, RSS Feeds, Video & Music share, Devadiga magazine, Devadiga Wiki, Devadiga Sangha portals, Devadiga Sangha News, Complete Devadiga Members Directory, Devadiga social network, Health & Wellness advices from experts, Legal advices from legal experts, Technology advices from Techies, many more.
The portal also offer a personal email facility on par with the most popular email services, so that Devadiga community member can boast a unique email ID, like name@devadiga.com All these features and portal are strictly available exclusively to Devadiga community members only.
B G Mohandas and others were present at the press meet.