Doha: Philanthropist Ravi Shetty, who belongs to Doninjeguthu family of Mangaluru, was unanimously re-elected as the president of Tulu Koota Qatar on Friday, June 17, during its annual general body meeting (AGM) of the organization held at the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) Doha, Qatar.
The AGM which started at 9am was chaired by the outgoing president Ravi Shetty. Former ICC president K M Varghese was the returning officer.
Ravi Shetty welcomed the gathering and presented a brief report of Tulu Koota activities during the period he was its president. He thanked the executive committee, sponsors, volunteers and all members of the Tulu Koota for their tremendous support during his tenure and requested the gathering to extend the same support to the new committee.
Outgoing general secretary of the Tulu Koota Kiran Anand, presented the minutes of the previous AGM and presented a brief annual report. Outgoing treasurer Nithesh Doddanagudde presented the audited financial report which was later approved by the members. The first session came to an end after Ravi Shetty dissolved the existing committee and handed over the stage to the returning officer, K M Varghese, who announced the approved nominations of 11 office-bearers and the only nomination for the post of the president.
Later the new management committee for the year 2014-2016 was officially declared elected as follows:
Ravi Shetty – President
Kiran Anand – Vice President
Vijay Rai Kumbra -General Secretary
Asmath Ali – Sports Coordinator
Dhanlakshmi Anil Shetty – Cultural Secretary
Uday Kumar Shetty – Treasurer
Chaitali Suhas Shetty – Media and Environment Coordinator
Nithesh Doddanagudde -Technical Coordinator
Kevin Aranha – Membership Coordinator
Roopesh Kumar- Joint Secretary
Divya Chethan – Joint Cultural Secretary
The newly-elected president, M Ravi Shetty, delivered introductory address and appealed to all the members to continue to extend support and co-operation to the office bearers of the organization. He assured the members that the new team will give more priority towards charity activities along with other socio-cultural activities.
Ravi Shetty, a well-known philanthropist and founder member of the Koota has served as vice-president and later as president of Tulu Koota Qatar during 2008-2010, 2014-2016 and also as founder president of Bunts Qatar. He was instrumental in arranging ‘Yakshagana’ for the first time in Qatar during Tulu Koota’s 10th anniversary celebration and also during the Vishwa Kannada Sammelana held in Qatar in the year 2008. He is actively involved with social, charitable and special needs services associated with Tulu Koota Qatar, Bunts Qatar and also back home in India. He has also provided employment opportunities in his company ATS (Advanced Technical Services and Associated Technical Services) to hundreds of Indians, out of which majority are from the coastal belt. He also honoured by ‘International Aryabhata Award’ recently at a function held at Bengaluru in recognition of his service to the society.
Vice-president Kiran Anand has served the forum in different capacities in many earlier committees. Asmath Ali too has served Tulu Koota in various capacities including as vice-president and he is also the captain of Tulu Koota cricket team. Overall the new team is a blend of youth and experience with proven track record and the expectations are quite high about achieving greater standards and setting new bench marks.
Executive committee members who have served Tulu Koota Qatar 2014-2016 were honoured with mementos for their selfless service.
The event came to an end with vote of thanks by general secretary, Vijay Rai Kumbra. ICC general secretary and former Tulu Koota president Divakar Poojary compered the entire event.
