Mangalore Association Saudi Arabia MASA celebrated its 8th Annual Day “GOWJI 2014” on , 19th Dec 2014.

The Crystal Hall Dammam was jam packed with the overwhelming crowd on Friday evening to witness yet again another mega event of MASA, the 8th Annual Day, ‘GOWJI 2014’. The ceremony kicked off by welcoming the distinguished guests and members by the Entertainment Committee Head Sathish Bajal.  A number of events lined up for the evening was highlighted and briefed by Satish Bajal.  

The Executive and Advisory Committee members were welcomed on the dais. President Dayanand Shriyan along with executive committee members lit the ceremonial lamp. The Annual Report was presented by General Secretary Naveen Bhandary.  The achievements of MASA, various events conducted throughout the year, membership strength, charity details were the main items of the report. The main highlights of the report was the MASA Financial Aid towards the noble causes in the span of last Eight Years amounting to Indian Rs.70 Lakhs.


The innocent victims of Peshawar School attack were remembered in this occasion and a minute silence was observed in solidarity.

Awards ceremony began with presenting mementos to member students in recognition of honoring for their academic excellence from grade 9 to 12 (scoring above 75% marks), graduates, Post graduates and professional degree holders for the academic period 2013-2014, followed by special achievements awards to teens and adults of MASA. Awards were also presented to winners of Internal Cricket Tournaments, Sports Day Champions and Food Festival Winners.

22 members were awarded for their Dedicated Services and 11members for Extra Ordinary Services.  Appreciation Award was given to Mr. Abdul Aziz Mohd Al Gattani for providing excellent Hall facilities for the Annual Day. A special award, President Appreciation Award sponsored by the President Mr. Dayanand Shriyan was given to Nagaraj Bajal for his innovative talents, creativity in cultural events, being the architect of decorating all Stalls during MASA Food Festival “Authana 2014” and his commitment towards MASA. The unique attraction was when the married couples (Masa members) over 30 years were invited on the stage and recognized with bouquets.

It was the time then for the most awaited moment of the evening to declare the prestigious award, MASA Man of the Year 2014.  Entire audience was eager to know who the Man of the year is. A thunderous applause could be heard across the auditorium when the name of Mr. Usman Hosangadi was declared as Masa Man of the year by Mr. Ravi Karkera. While introducing the Masa Man of the year, Mr. Ravi Karkera explained about the dedication and commitment of Mr. Usman Hosangadi to MASA.  He said ‘a silent worker, a gentle person whose action speaks louder than his voice who believes in Give Respect and Earn Respect. Simplicity is his strength and Honesty is his premium. He has passion to work for noble cause. He delivers his duties diligently and quietly. His master’s voice cannot be heard, but his quality of work is always highlighted at every executive meeting.’  A standing ovation was given by entire audience as a respect and appreciation on earning this prestigious honors. Usman Hosangadi thanked MASA committee and all members for this honor and during his short address said that he feels proud to work for a model association like MASA which takes care of all communities irrespective of cast, creed and religion.

President Dayanand Shriyan addressed the gathering and expressed his heartily thanks to members for rendering dedicated services to MASA and sponsors for their generous support to the association. He thanked the committee for its meticulous planning and its implementation in conducting various events successfully under the professional guidance of Madhav Amin and Ravi Karkera. He emphasized on the commitment of MASA in full filling its main objectives, serving for the noble cause and at the same time focusing on up brining the talents among MASA members, teens and adults. President appreciated the great gesture of Mr. Joey Fernandes for declaring Scholarship Awards to 20 students under the name of his late parents Gerald and Theresa Fernandes for the students suffering with financial difficulties. President ensured to mention the name of one of the pillars of MASA, Mr. Santosh Shetty for his continued contribution, support and services despite of being away from MASA. In conclusion President wished all members for a pleasant and relaxed evening and welcomed to witness the exciting cultural event and mega raffle draw.

Exciting and rocking cultural items were presented by the Prize winning MASA talented members. The events one after the other mesmerized the audience and everyone enjoyed the spectacular show by MASA Artists.

Bharat Natyam Group Dance (Al Khobar Junior Group): Siya Chowta, Anshika Kottara, Smrithi Shetty, Tvisha Shetty.  Semi Classical Solo Dance: Shradha Sathish and Smriti Sadanand. Filmi Solo Dance: Gremsy Sequeira. Filmy Retro Metro Group Dance (Kudla Adventures Sub Jr. Group, Choregraphy by Nagaraj Bajal): Shreya Bajal, Verina D’Souza, Bhavya Pradeep, Shreya Arun, Shervin D’souza, Eshan Yashvant. Kannada Semi Classical Group Dance (Kudla Adventures Jr. Choreography by Nagaraj Bajal): Srinidhi Sathish, Kushi Ganesh, Prishitha Sadashiv, Prateeksha Niranjan, Viola D’sa, Yashmitha Yashvanth, Aishwarya Keshav, (In Guest Appearance: Nagaraj Bajal, Sandeep Bajal, Roopesh Suvarna and Naveen Kumar Salian).  Western Group Dance (Mangalure Rockers Al Khobar, Choreographed by Rekha Rajesh Shetty & Parinitha Gopal Shetty): Disha Balakrsihna, Shravya Harish, Arpitha Gopal, Aryan Rajesh, Nidha Parveen, Poorvi Gopal, Akanksha Rajesh, Rekha Rajesh. Western Re Mix Group Dance: Sharon Fernandes, Shalon Fernandes, Rishon Fernandes, Aaron D’Costa, Reanne Fernandes, Reydan Fernandes. Humorous Kannada Filmy Dance (Kudla Adventures Sr. Choreographed by Nagaraj Bajal): Ravi Karkera, Nagaraj Bajal, Sunil D’souza, Suresh M. J., Santhosh J. D., Jagajeevan Karkera, Roopesh Suvarna and Naveen Kumar Salian. Young Akanksha Shetty, Venesa Saldana and seniors Farooq Bunder, Sowjanya Srikumar, Dayanand Shriyan, Sunitha Shiryan and Yashwanth Sanil entertained the crowd with melodious numbers.

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Before the dinner break, as a tradition of MASA, visiting parents were honored with shawls and bouquets. Also 13th Marriage Anniversary of Sathish Bajal and Suchitra Sathish Bajal celebrated by cutting the cake and singing the song for the lovely couple.

Induction ceremony of new committee for the year 2015 and 2016 held after the dinner break. This was conducted by Area 60 Governor, Toastmaster Vasudev Warrier and Immediate Past Area 60 Governor DTM Alex Philip in a professional way. The unique kind of Induction ceremony created excitement among the audience. The installing Officer TM Vasudev Warrier declared the names of new committee members lead by Narendra Shetty as president. New committee members took oath; all members present welcomed the new committee with a round of applause and accepted to support the new committee.

NEW COMMITTEE FOR 2015-2016 installed as below:

Executive Committee: Narendra Shetty (President), Sadashiv Poojary (Vice President), Vidyadhar Shetty (General Secretary), Praveen Peter Aranha (Treasurer), Mohammed Nooman and Sathish Bajal (Jt. Secretaries), Gopal Shetty and Babu Kotebettu (Jt. Treasurers), Excom Members: Ameer Hussain, Usman Hosangadi, Viraj Kumar Shetty, Dayanand Chowta, Edwin Martis, Ibrahim Khader, Puttaraju Halappa.

Advisory Committee: Messrs. Madhav Amin, Ravi Karkera, Dayanand Shriyan, Ahmed Gulam Beary

Assessment Committee: Babu Kotebettu (Assessment Committee Head), Sadanand Poojary (Dy. Assessment Committee Head), Assessment Committee Members: Messrs. Sharif Karkala, Naveen Bhandary, Chandrashekhar, Usman Hosangadi, Ameer Hussain, Joey Fernandes, Management Committee and Advisory Committee.

Internal Auditors: Messrs. Santhosh P. Shetty and Sachin Hegde.

Media Committee: Mohammed Nooman (Media Committee Head), Puttaraju Halappa (Dy. Media Com. Head), Media Com. Members: Messrs. Nayaz Kaiser and Ibrahim Khadar.

Sports Committee: Viraj Kumar Shetty (Sports Committee Head), Ameer Hussain (Dy. Sports Committee Head), Sports Committee Members: Messrs. Abdul Azeez Hussain, Abdul Kader Baikampady, Abdul Rahim Arkula, Ashraf Naushad Pollya, Bhaskar Kanchan, Chandrashekhar Karkera, H. Sukumar Shetty, Harish Poojary, Imran Karkala, Naveen Shetty Khobar, Nayaz Kaiser, Nizamuddin Abdul Samad, Osmond D’Souza, Praveen D. Shetty, Rajesh Suvarna, Ranjith Shetty, Riyaz Ahmed, Sachin Hegde, Saleem Puttur, Sandeep Shetty, Santhosh Kulal, Santhosh P. Shetty, Shakib Ahmed, Sunil Shetty, Suresh M. Jayanth, Vincent Saldana, Yoganand Achar.

Entertainment Committee: Gopalkrishna Shetty (Entertainment Committee Head), Dayanand Chowta (Dy. Entertainment Committee Head), Arun D’souza, Bharat Kumar Mukka, Chandrashekhar, Chittaranjan Shetty, Ganesh Karkera, Jagajeevan Karkera, Mohidin Sheikh, Nagaraj Bajal, Naveen Kumar Salian, Nayaz Ahmed, Niranjan Karkera, Pradeep Kumar Kadekar, Prakash Sanil, Prakash Shetty, Rajesh Shetty KHO, Rajesh Thingalaya, Roopesh Suvarna, Sadanand Poojary, Sandeep Bajal, Sudarshan Sanil, Uday Sanil, Victor Sequeira, Vijay Naveen, Vishwanath Suvarna

The Anchors for the event were Ravi Karkera, Naveen Bhandary, Narendra Shetty, Nayaz Kaiser, Sarita Peter Aranha (For Award Ceremony and Cultural Event), Victor Sequeira and Ibrahim Khadar (For Raffle Draw)

Main Sponsors: INTERMODAL SERVICES, YOGESH D POOJARY (SASP), ARABIAN CARGO, AL MANAFA TRANSPORT CO., M. M. AMIN & CO. ABDUL KARIM HOLDING CO.  

Co-sponsors: Messrs. Dayanand Shriyan, Shankar Billava, Prabhakar Shetty, Sathish Bajal, Mohd. Sharief Iqbal, Gopal Shetty & Group, Sanil Bros, Santhosh Shetty from Salalah Oman, Naveen Bhandary, Remi Lobo (Riyadh), Babu Kotebettu, Chandrashekar, Ahmed Gulam Beary & Group, Vincent Saldana, Ameer Husain, Sadanand Poojary, Pradeep Kadekar, Ibrahim of Sitco, Jaya Suvarna from Candle Light Pest Control, Ramesh Mendon, Vidyanathan, Naveen Shetty, Viraj Kumar Shetty, Elroy D’Souza, Vidyadhar Shetty, Mohd Nooman, Bubbles Fashion Co. Chennai, Richard Almeida(Kanoo), Jaya Verma, Salim Puttur, Vijay Naveen and Puttaraju.

Vote of Thanks was presented by Joint Secretary Mohammed Nooman

Raffle Committee was led by Vidyadhar Shetty and Puttaraju. The team of young children were recognized for the excellent marketing of raffle tickets. Members were happy to take home from the lucky draws attractive prizes

Raffle Prizes, Sponsors and Winners

SL	RAFFLE PRIZES	SPONSORED BY	WON BY
1	GIFT VOUCHER -LULU	GANESH SHETTY	RAVI KARKERA
2	GIFT VOUCHER -LULU	NAVEEN BHANDARY	ASHVI
3	GIFT VOUCHER -LULU	GANESH SHETTY	RAJU PANGUEN
4	SCHOOL BAG	VIDYADHAR SHETTY	SHAHDAT NIZAM
5	HAND BAG	SADANAND POOJARY	SHAHDAT NIZAM
6	HAIR STRAIGHTNER	DAYANAND SHRIYAN	DIVYA PRAVEEN SHEETY
7	GIFT VOUCHER - CENTRE POINT	VIJAY DERICK DSOUZA	SHABBUDHEEN
8	GIFT VOUCHER - CENTRE POINT	GANESH SHETTY	JOEY FERNANDES
9	DINNER SET	NAVEEN BHANDARY	TVISHA PRAKASH SHETY
10	DELSEY BRIEF CASE	GANESH SHETTY	AFSA.NOOMAN
11	GOLD COINS 4 GRM	MOHAN & LANCY	PRAKASH SANIL
12	HOME THEATRE LG	AMEER HUSSAIN	USMAN HOSANGADI
13	MOBILE SAMSUNG S4 mini	INTERMODAL SERVICES	SATHISH POOJARY
14	MOBILE SAMSUNG GRAND 4G	INTERMODAL SERVICES	DAYANAD AMIN
15	GOLD COINS 8 GRM	SAGAR  ( B M C)	GOPI
16	FRIDGE 200 LTRS	MOHAMMED SHARIEF (A Y D )	BEDU LIMBU
17	LAPTOP -  Lenovo I 5	Joy Fernandes (Al Manafa)	RONALD FERNANDES
18	Apple I PAD 4G	DAYANAND SHRIYAN	CHANDRASHEKAR KARKERA
19	MOBILE - I PHONE 5S	VISHWANATH KARKERA & RAVI KARKERA	NAZMI ( AL BARRAK)
20	SAMSUNG SMART TV  58" LED	INTERMODAL SERVICES	REHMAN C/O SHARIEF  KARKALA

Nagraj Bajal’s creation, ‘A Tribute to Women’ was a classic act by Kudla Adventures Team based on the fact of current violence on women taking place, touched the heart of entire audience. That concept was unique, well narrated and presented beautifully which involved almost 60 participants.  

The exciting and awesome evening was concluded with National Anthem and audience returned home with sweet memories of MASA 8th Anniversary ‘’GOWJI 2014”.