Mangaluru: St. Aloysius Institutions and St. Aloysius College Alumni Association (SACAA) have chosen five distinguished Aloysians for the “Eminent Aloysian Alumini Awards-2018” to be held at the Fr. L F Rasquinha Hall, LCRI Block of St. Aloysius College on March 25, Sunday.
Addressing a press conference here on March 22, Convener of the programme and President of SACAA Archibald Menezes said the eminent Aloysian Alumini Awards will be conferred on P Jayaram Bhat, Dr. V Ravichandran, Dr. K V Rao, Joseph Gonsalves and Jeevan Saldanha.
Introducing the awardees, Menezes said, “P Jayaram Bhat, a committed banker and a sensitive financial manager, works as the non executive chairman of Karnataka Bank, Dr. V Ravichandran is the CEO of DIYA Systems and Glow Touch Technologies and a great philanthropist, Dr. K V Rao an eminent scientist, is the Director of Regional Science Centre Pilikula Nisarga Dhama, Joseph Gonslaves at 96 years of age, is serving as the Chief Traffic Warden of Mangaluru City and Jeevan Saldanha is a former president of Canara Chambers of Commerce will be awarded”, he said.
“The selection of awardees was done by a panel of five juries, working independently as per the criteria given by the organising committee,” Menezes said.
Fr. Dionysius Vaz, SJ Rector of St. Aloysius Institutions and Patron of SACAA, Fr. Praveen Martis, Principal of St. Aloysius College and Director of SACAA, Dr. A M Narahari, Registrar of St. Aloysius College and Naveen Mascarenhas, Secretary of SACAA and Head of IT Dept were present during the press meet.