KARHADA BRAHMANA
PARISHATH
Meeting
held on August 14, 2016 at KarhadaSamajaBhavana, Mangalore
The 4th meeting of the KarhadaBrahmanaParishath
for the year 2016-17 was held on August 14, 2016 Sunday 11.30 a.m onwards in
KaradaSamajaBhavana, Mangalore under the Chairmanship of Shri Balakrishna Bhat
Kolikkaje, President.
Totally 12 participants including
KarhadaSamajaSudharakaSangha, Srinivaspura, Gundyadka (Banangady) with 5 office
bearers and also Mangalore unit with 5 participants (including the President of
the Parishath), Agalpady and Bangalore with 1 participant each took part in the
deliberations actively (Balakrishna Bhat Kolikkaje, S V Bhat, Mahabala Bhat M,
K Ramachandra Bhat Natekar, K Ganapathi Bhat, Mahadeva Bhat Kemaru, K
Ramachandra Pandit, Sunil Kumar Angraje, Venkatesha Bhat Atikukke, K Vishwanath
Bhat, M Purushotham Bhat, Ramakrishna Bhat K).
At the outset, Shri Venkatesha Bhat
Atikukke, President of KBS, Bengaluru, welcomed all the participants and
recalled that the third meeting was held at Shringeri and today’s meeting would
take forward the formation of the Parishath still further. He also recalled the
second meeting held on May 15, 2016 at PradhanaKashiSadana,Dongerkery,
Mangalore where a committee of 9 members including 2 eminent lawyers
of our community viz. Shri RamanandaK. Pandith and Shri M Purushotham Bhat, was
formed. Shri R K Pandith was entrusted the responsibility of framing 3 sets of
suitable bye-laws/trust deeds for the Parishath. The same could not be
circulated to the member institutions/ individual members due to paucity of
time and follow-up. Anyway, advocate Shri M Purushotham Bhat who was present,
was requested to put forth his opinion regarding the bye-laws for the
Parishath. Before that, Shri MuruvaMahabala Bhat, the President of
KarhadaBrahmanaAbhyudayaSangha, Agalpady (Kasargod) was requested to present a
brief report of the previous meeting (that is the third meeting of the year)
held at Shringeri, in the afternoon after the “Shree Guru Darshan” and
PrasadaBhojanam.
Shri MuruvaMahabala Bhat stated in
the report that the number of gathering of KarhadaBrahmana community from
various institutions of different places for the day’s programme was more than
400 based on the region wise reports and other sources. The units present gave
a brief report about their activities in the previous and present years and
also activities to be held in the coming months of the current year 2016-17.
Shri Srirama Bhat Indaje addressed the gathering at length about the
difficulties in forming the Parishath and various other issues concerning the
community. It was observed that the gathering for the meeting was less than 100
and most of the office bearers of various units did not participate in the
meeting and therefore the decision taking about the bye-laws and other aspects
of theParishath had to be postponed.Shri S V Bhat, President of
KarhadaBrahmanaSamaja, Mangalore had offered to arrange for the next meeting on
August 14, 2016 at K S Bhavana, Mangalore.Accordingly, today’s meeting is held.
Shri M Purushothama Bhat proposed to have unregistered
written bye-laws, a federal structure and two types of membership – 1.
Institutional 2. Individual. This was discussed at length. It was proposed
after discussion that institutional membership fees may be Rs. 1000/- (Rupees
One Thousand only) and individual membership may be Rs. 5000/- (Rupees Five
Thousand only) reason being, to have activists in the Parishath and have
limited individual membership. Though the Bangalore Unit President Shri
Venkatesha Bhat Atikukke proposed to have an Ad-hoc Committee for a short
period, it was turned down by the majority & the majority entrusted him
with the responsibility to be the convener (Sanchalak), for which he agreed
half-heartedly. He finally agreed to take up the responsibilityfor the time
being, along with Shri PandurangaGurjarand/or Shri NagarajUppangala. The KBS
SudharakaSangha, Gundyadka President, Secretary and Treasurer felt that more
units are required to be present in the deliberations for taking certain
wide-ranging decisions.
A decision took place about the
name/title of the organization – what should be the name/ title of the
organization – whether to include or exclude the term ‘Brahmana” in the
“KaradaParishath”. Though the President Shri Balakrishna Bhat Kolikkaje was of
the opinion of having the title/name “KaradaParishath” only, most of the
participants wanted the term “Brahmana” to be retained atleast for the time
being.
Apart from organizing Shri
ShringeriGurudarshana, the activities of the Parishath also came for
discussion. Shri M Purushotham Bhat enlightened that there is a wide scope for
a large number of activities in future. Shri Sunil Angraje felt that the
employment issue should be given greater prominence. It was proposed to have
some more meetings and a conference of the KaradaBrahmanaParishath at the
earliest possible, involving a large number of delegates from various units for
which wide publicity may be given by all concerned.
Discussions were also held on the
difficulties faced by some youths and their families due to inter-caste
marriages which has become a reality of our community. Solutions to some of
these problems are uncertain and a balance has to be attained. It was felt that
life is an adjustment and somewhere some adjustment has to be made for a
peaceful living, happiness & prosperity. Shri M Purushotham Bhat advised to
be cautious and to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best.
Shri MuruvaMahabala Bhat, President
of KBAS, Agalpady (Kasargod) informed that in the year 2000, during the
KarhadaRajataMahotsava at Perla, about 200 topics were listed out and serious
discussions took place on various topics which was held on record.
It was decided to hold the next
meeting during the KaradaSamajotsava of KBS Bengaluru on September 18,
2016 (Sunday) between 9.30 a.m and 10.30 a.m atYajnaMandira of Shri Shringeri
Shankar Mutt, Shankarapuram (Chamrajpet), Bengaluru - 560004. Apart
from the 9 Member Committee, from each unit atleast 3 participants,
preferably The President, Secretary & Treasurer or any 2 representatives
authorized by the executive committee,are requested to be present in the
deliberations.
Shri A V Bhat, Bangalore unit
President thanked the hosts, i.e. Mangalore Unit for making all arrangements
for smooth conduct of the meeting and also for arranging lunch to the
participants.
(Report compiled by Shri Atikukke
Venkatesha Bhat, President, KBS Bengaluru)
