Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (NR)

Mangalore Sep 15: K Rahman Khan, deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha will dedicate the Devadiga Samaja Bhavan to society, at a function to be held on Sunday September 16, stated Babu Devadiga, general secretary, Devadiga Association, while speaking to the media here recently.

The said Bhavan is a four-storeyed building which was built at a cost of Rs 1.75 crore approximately in the Mannagudda area in the city by the Karnataka State Devadiga Association, he informed.

According to Babu Devadiga the association had an eventful history of 80 years, dedicated to the service of the society in general and the Devadiga community in particular. Further he observed that the members of his community had contributed their best to various socially relevant causes for several years despite not being financially well off.

Making a mention of the Devadiga Samaja Bhavan project, he credited the former chief minister M Veerappa Moily with laying the foundation stone for it in 2002 and giving it a good start. Although the work on the building project was slow in the beginning, but later it gathered speed under the dynamic leadership of K V Devadiga, the honorary chairman of the building committee, he averred.

Further Babu Devadiga informed that the building consists of the head office of Mangala Credit Cooperative Society and Mangala English Medium schools. The auditorium and an attached balcony in the Bhavan, has a seating capacity of 1,200, he added.