Media Release
Moodbidri, Oct 1: Primary & Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar said, "Alva’s Education Foundation is an exemplary institution in the state in terms of supporting sports, culture and education in different capacities. No other institution in the state bestows this kind of support to build society through young minds.
He spoke at an annual 'Free Fund Distribution' programme held at Alva’s Education Foundation’s, Nudisiri Vedhike, Vidyagiri where he was the chief guest.
"There are four kinds of people in society. The first one says, 'Mine is mine and yours is yours'. The second category is, 'mine is yours and yours is mine' and the third one is 'mine is mine and yours is also mine' and the last one is 'yours is yours and mine is also yours'.
"Dr M Mohan Alva belongs to the fourth category, who always finds happiness in supporting others. This section of people should increase drastically and through that, we can find welfare in society. I call upon students to cultivate a culture of payback to society through one or other way from childhood."
Tourism and Kannada and culture department minister, C T Ravi said, "A country can be all-powerful only with the desired education system." Quoting the example of Japan, he said, "The great devastation of the Japanese economy during the war was rebuilt within ten years through education." Stating the imprudent culture of media, he said, "In today’s world negative news gets front page honour, whereas positive news gets inner page consideration. When our media gives positive news on the front-page and meagre attention to negative news then a model society can be built.
Presiding over the programme, Sri Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji of Pejawar Math said, "Dr M Mohan Alva takes the problem of Karnataka as his own and this ethos made him come forward to support the flood victims of Karnataka.
Alva’s Education Foundation chairman, Dr M Mohan Alva said in his introductory speech, "Our foundation supports student fraternity in different ways. An enormous amount of Rs 33, 85, 40, 315 was spent on various kinds of adoption and concession for a total of 4543 students in a year out of which Rs 9,81,36, 738 is for meritorious students, Rs 1,89,26, 128 for cultural students and Rs 5,69,14,160 for sports students, Rs 8,07,63,289 for fee concession and Rs 7, 85, 25,000 for Kannada Medium school students' adoption. A total of 1421 students are in our foundation studying under complete zero fees. Rs 50 lac is for chief minister’s flood relief fund in the program.
Former minister, K Amarnath Shetty, K Abhaychandra Jain, legislator Umanath Kotian, former MLC captain, Ganesh Karnik were present among others.