Dubai: Kannada Mitraru UAE’s ’Kannada Paata Shaaley’ concludes maiden Graduation D

By Shodhan Prasad
Bellevision Media Network

Dubai, 11 May 2015: Kannada Mitraru UAE for the first time concluded their annual maiden ’Kannada Paata Shaale’ Graduation Day at Fortune Grand Hotel here on Friday May 8 at 10.30am.

 

Kannada Paata Shaaley (Kannada School) a free education facility is initiated by Kannada Mitraru UAE under the leadership of Sashidhar Nagarajappa. This initiative is being taken to teach Kannada to the children of Kannadigas residing in UAE with the support of JSS Education Institutions who have provided premises to conduct Kannada classes in their school.

 

 

The total children activity programme started with a prayer song by Maurya and Sinchana, Bharathanatyam dance by Deeksha followed by various Kannada classical, folk and filmy songs melodiously sung by various students. Arnav and Chetan presented melody on the keyboard and entertained the audience.

 

Overseas Kannada movie distributor Deepak Somashekar presented the activities of Kannada Paata Shaaley in a beautiful video presentation.

 

JSS International School CEO Dr D P Shivakumar, Chilly Willy managing director Satish Venkataramana, Sashidhar Nagarajappa and Murugesh Gajre inaugurated the function by lighting the traditional lamp. 

 

Dr Shivakumar, appreciated the good work of Kannada Mitraru UAE and assured to extend his support further.

 

Later, the teachers of Kannada Paata Shaaley, Premalatha, Shwetha Nadig, Kavya Yuvraj, Shuba Arun, Shilpa Siddalingesh, Roopa Shashidhar, Srinidhi Hariprasanna and Surekha Babu who have voluntarily were teaching Kannada without any financial gain were felicitated by the guest for their selfless service. Further, arts and craft teacher Surekha Babu, Vivek Anand and Jasmitha Vivek who taught photography and dance were also honored.

 

All the students who have passed in the exams conducted in Kannada were honored with a certificate and medals by the guests Praveen Shetty, Dr Shiva Kumar, Sathish Venkataramana, Shodhan Prasad, Veerendra Babu, Mallikarjuna Gowda and Manohar Hegde on the occasion. The smiles on the face of all these children remained throughout and were showing their Medals to their parents who enjoyed the proud moments.

 

Pranav, Ishitha, Yashaswi, Mourya, Sinchana and Ashish who gained 100 percent attendance in Kannada classes during the year 2014-2015 were honored by Shashidhar Nagarajappa.

 

A comedy skit was presented by the students Neeraj Nandish, Niroop Nandish, Amar Mallikarjuna, Mahantesh V Babu and Tanshiq V Babu gave some lighter moments at the end.

 

The stage programme was led by Premalata and compered jointly by students Pratyush Rao, Shama Chandrashekar and Suhas P Gowda while Shwetha Nadig compered the other programmes.

 

Sunil Gavaskar proposed the vote of thanks. The programme concluded with sumptuous food.