Payyanur Souhrudavedi Abu Dhabi

Payyanur Souhruda Vedhi - Abu Dhabi

It was with great enthusiasm, the first meeting of the Pravasis of Payyanur and surrounding areas in Abu Dhabi was held under the banner of PSV, Abu Dhabi on Friday, the 17 January 2003. Nearly 100 people gathered and actively took part in the 3 hour-long discussion and other programmes. Most of them have expressed their concern for not having a forum of Payyanurians in Abu Dhabi and thanked the organizers for trying to bring the Payyanurians under one banner. All appreciated the role taken by Payyanur Dot Com for its initiative in organizing such an event.

M. Abdul Salam introduced the organizers and spoke about the purpose of the gathering. VTV Damodaran, who acted as the chief coordinator for conducting this event, welcomed the gathering. Janardanadas Kunhimangalam, one of the executive directors of Payyanur Dot Com briefed the gathering, the background and the objectives of the PSV, Abu Dhabi.

The draft constitution presented by the co-ordination committee was passed unanimously after through discussions. The meeting also elected a Managing Committee for the year 2003 unanimously.

No.	Designation	Name	Mobile Number
1	President	Usman Karapath	4432781
2	Vice Presidents	Abdul Salam M	5703815
2	Vice Presidents	Madhu S Nambiar	6215021
3	Gen.Secretary	VTV Damodaran	5229059
4	Joint Secretaries	B.Jyothilal	5168820
4	Joint Secretaries	Janardandas Kunhimangalam	7917838
5	Treasurer	Khalid Thayyil	6716640
6	Executive Committee Members	Chandran Kannoth	4922192
		Ravi PT	4599239
		Balagopalan	7912573
		Rajesh CK	7740540
		Muhammad Rafeeq TK	5963277
		PP Damodaran	5317571
		AC Muhammad	6919925
		Isthak A	7626808

The following persons are nominated as Patrons of the SouhrudaVedi :

P.Gopinathan, Ameer Thayyil, E. Devadas, KP Muhammad Saad and Dr. PK Murali

The members introduced themselves and it was a matter of great surprise when the so-called neighbours coming from Payyanur meeting each other after many years.

The newly elected President, Usman Karappath called for the co-operation and involvement of all Payyanurians in all the future activities of PSV to make it a model forum. MV Gopalan, Ramesh Payyanur and VP Sasikumar attended the function, representing PSV- Dubai. They congratulated the newly elected managing committee and assured full support and co-operation. T P Gangadharan, the Mathrubhumi correspondent of Abu Dhabi who was a special invitee gave a felicitation speech. The newly nominated Patrons of the SouhrudaVedi also offered their felicitations. One of the participants KK AnilKumar presented a melodious solo, which was followed by a short but attractive mimicry performance by Ramesh Payyanur.

B. Jyothilal offered vote of thanks.

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