Dubai: Ganiga Samaja UAE celebrates 9th anniversary with community gathering

Bellevision Media Network

Dubai, 28 Apr 2015: Ganiga Samaja UAE organized its ninth anniversary celebrations at Fortune Grand Hotel, Bur Dubai, here on Friday April 24. Over 100 expats of Ganiga community who arrived from different emirates of UAE attended the mega celebrations.

 

Raghavendra Ganiga started the program by inviting the Ganiga Samaja UAE founder, president and vice president on dais. The event was organized by the Committee members with all dedication, hard work and unity which were then followed by the approval and consent of the main board members of Ganiga Samaj.

 

 

The Ganiga members present on this occasion enjoyed each and every event which itself is a success. The day started off with a devotional song sung by Geeta Radhakrishna Shetty, Veena Suresh, Chethna Sumanth, Aarthi Harish Shetty and Mamtha Shetty followed by lighting of the lamp by the president and the managing Committee members. 

 

Inaugurating the function – - vice president Arun Ganiga welcomed all the guests, members and their families to the function. The President and the committee members honored prominent members of others associations who were the guest for the day, introducing our another honorable guest Mr. Shashidar Nagaraj from our community he runs free kannada classes for children at JSS school, Dubai, our Samaja members welcomed him with flower bouquets and appreciated that he attended the function with his family members.

 

Raghavendra Ganiga welcomed all of them and Geetha Radha Krishna Shetty introduced our dignitaries to all present there. Drawing Competition was held for kids based on their age categories, for which all kids of the Samaja participated with keen enthusiasm it was conducted under the supervision of Nisha Sachin, Divya Prasanna, Chethna and. Anusha Raghavendra. The winners were chosen by Mamtha Satheesh.

 

On finishing the above there was a scrumptious lunch meal for all our members followed by entertaining performances and activities which were loved by one and all present for the program and one of our success factors too. Dance numbers started with Niriksha , Rithika, Manya, Tanisha, Diya which left a smile on everyone’s faces and an energetic dance performance by SPM Group (Sachin, Prasanna, Manoj) on a fusion mix of hindi and kannada film songs kept everyone swaying, claping and wishing to see more.

 

Songs were sung by Dinesh and Swathi Prasanth made everyone’s head waving to their melodious voice. Followed by children (Dishitha, Cheethu, Chirag and Kushal) singing with innocence which brought an inner peace for all keeping apart the routine of our busy scheduled life. Another remarkable performance by Pavan Charanlal he sang and played Guitar for this program which is memorable.

 

All the winners were awarded with prizes and certificates along with Chilly Willy gift hamper and all the participants were appreciated with participation certificates which would give them and encouraging platform to perform much better every year.

 

Games were held for kids and couples which was played with full of enjoyment and excitement. Our hearty thanks to Sohan Brahmavar as he took care of all the songs that needed to be played on time and also to our Photography which were taken care by Pradeep, Manoj, Harish, Nathasha and Niriksha.

 

Billawa’s Dubai president Satish Poojary, Vishwakarma Sangha Dubai president Prashant Achar and Anand Salian of Kannada Sangha Sharjah were also present on the occasion. 

 

Self introductory speeches were given by new and old members of Samaja who attended the function this year. The program concluded by lucky dip for all members to participate and to try their luck the lucky prizes were 32” Samsung LED TV and Samsung Mobile phone the winners were Anusha Raghavendra and Mr. Subhash Salian. Finally concluding the Get-Together the Vote of gratitude speech was given by Raghavendra, followed by founder Satheesh Venkataramana and by the President Suresh Ganiga– Thanking each and every Ganiga’s for attending the get together making it memorable also defined on the future events that will be held this year and in the coming years.

 

Ganiga Samaja UAE 2015 -16

Founder Satheesh Venkataramana

Suresh Ganiga (president), Dayanand and Arun Ganiga (vice presidents), Vasu Ganiga and Radhakrishna Shetty (treasurers), Prasanna (secretary), Padmanabha K and Geetha Radhakrishna Shetty (joint secretaries), K J Ganiga and Nisha Sachin (media co-ordinators), Raghavendra Ganiga, Sachin Ganiga and Divya Prasanna (event organizers), Lokesh Venkataramana (IT co-ordinator), Mamatha Satheesh, Anusha Raghavendra, Saritha Ramesh, Harish Shetty, Subash, Chetana and Dinesh (Committee members).