Mangaluru Dasara: Felicitation for sportspersons in Kudroli Kshetra

Vartha Bharati | 17-10-2018 | 18:33:00 IST

Mangaluru: As part of Mangaluru Dasara, ten sports persons will be felicitated and the Gokarnanatha Health Cards will be released on October 18 at Kudroli Sri Gokarnanatha Kshetra.

Informing this to media persons, Padmaraj - treasurer of the Kshetra - said, ten sports achievers, including Poovamma, Gururaj, Jagadish, Pradeep Acharya, Panchami will be honoured at the programme that would be held at 6 pm on that day.

Meanwhile, Gokarnanatha Health Cards will be released. Initially, the cards will benefit about 2,000 poor families and an agreement has been made with A J Hospital for treatment. This benefit would further be extended to 10,000 families, he informed.

The Mangaluru Dasara Mahotsava will be concluded with a Shobhayatre on the 19th of this month and the preparations for this are on.

The administrative committee on Tuesday held a meeting of the tablo organizers in presence of the police authorities.  Open vehicles will not be allowed to participate in the procession, except generators connected to tablos. Artists will not be allowed to get down from their vehicles and perform on roads. While these rules will be strictly enforced, the organizers have agreed to obey them. Therefore, this year, the 16-hour procession has been cut short to 12 hours; he informed.

Administrative committee chairman HS Sairam, Ravishankar Mijar, Madhava Suvarna, Harikrishna Bantwal, Urmila Ramesh, DD Kattemar, Shekar Poojary, Dr. BG Suvarna, Dr. Anasuya, Leelaksha Karkera, and others were present.

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