Vitori Karkal
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (RD/CN)
Udupi, Sep 25: John R D’Silva was unanimously elected president of the district Small Scale Industries Association, during the 12th annual general body meeting held at their auditorium in Manipal here recently.
D’Silva is also the director of Mangalore Catholic Co-operative (MCC) Bank, Mangalore, and vice-president of St Lawrence parish council, Karkala. He is the proprietor of Allen Cashews Sanoor, Karkala, Tenguraja Coconut Oil Mills, Sanoor, and also a partner in Santhosh Cashews at Nitte, which processes cashew kernels. He is also an importer of raw cashewnuts and exporter of cashew kernels.
The district has more than 1,000 industries in the taluks of Karkala, Udupi, and Kundapur, of which 104 units are patron members and 359 units are life members of the Association that operates from Manipal Industrial Area, near here.
Other office-bearers are Chittaranjan Bhat, Manipal, Sudhir Nayak, Hebri, and Panduranga Pai, Siddapur (vice-president), I R Fernandes, Manipal, (secretary), Haridas Prabhu, Manipal, (treasurer), Prashanth Baliga, Udupi, and Narasimha Kamath, Sanoor, (joint secretaries).
All the past presidents of the Association and Udupi town municipal commissioner Gokuldas Nayak, District Industries Center joint director S G Hegde, assistant director Ramesh Murthy, other office-bearers of the local association, and zilla panchayat members were present as special invitees at the meeting.