Mangalore : B. G. Mohandas at a press conference said that the official website of the Devadiga community, www.devadiga.com, is now 10 years old. Hence the site will re-launched under the motto of bringing all the community members on one page as part of the community’s decennial celebrations.

He also said that the team has been inspired by Dr. Veerappa Moily and will participate as the  chief guest of the re-launch ceremony, which is to be held in the Devadiga Samaja Bhavan belonging to the Karnataka Rajya Devadiga Sangha at Mannagudde in Mangalore on Nov 20 Sunday at 2:55 p.m.

Krishna J. Palemar, the minister for ports and environment, will be the special guest of honor. Dr. B. S. Sherigar, the former vice chancellor of Kuvempu University; Dr. K. V. Devadiga, the eminent neuro-surgeon; and Dr. K. Devaraj, the principal of the SDM College of Management were the guests of honor. About the Devadiga community

Yashodhara Maroli, Veni Maroli, and Vaman Maroli were present.

Devadigas form a progressive community which originally hails from the land of Lord Parashurama. This land stretches between Karwar, a town in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, and Kasaragod, currently a district of Kerala on the west coast of India.

Traditionally, Devadigas were known for their sincere service in Hindu temples and are predominately known for playing classical musical instruments as a service to God. Devadigas have now evolved over time and are now scattered across the globe and have been very successful in their various professions and fields of entrepreneurship.

The community has given eminent personalities to the society like great political leaders of national stature, thinkers and intellectuals, bankers, surgeons, education scholars, musicians, teachers, writers, engineers, actors, artists and entrepreneurs. Devadigas are a small, close-knit community marching towards socio-economic progress, and at the same time striving to maintain their individuality, identity, culture, traditions, values and language.

The original site was founded by one of the Devadiga community’s visionaries and achievers, B G Mohandas, in Dubai in 2000. It was designed mainly to connect the various community people and bring them together by means of using the latest information technology (IT). He has promoted many such initiatives like www.gulfvarthe.com, www.kollur.com etc and currently runs the highly popular sitewww.Gulfkannadiga.com, a mirror to Karnataka in the Gulf.

Mohandas’ vision is to motivate and educate the community’s youth to work towards the progress of the Devadiga community. For over a decade, he has single-handedly and passionately maintained devadiga.com and has realized it purpose of providing the latest news about the community, highlighting eminent personalities, encouraging new talents and educating youth on culture, traditions and festivals.

Recently, a group of enthusiastic and energetic youngsters have come forward to take up the mantle of devadiga.com to the next level. As part of this endeavour, a team of professionally qualified and experienced individuals have come together to form TEAM DEVADIGA.

The main motive of Team Devadiga is to become facilitators for all the social and cultural activities of the community. The site aims to provide an opportunity to the community members, living in any part of the world, to utilize their own expertise and skills towards building up a prosperous Devadiga community, through advocacy and cooperation, while using modern technology.

Team Devadiga strives to make this portal a virtual platform for all the Devadiga community members across the globe to express themselves – a place where new talents get recognition and education, and career guidance from professional experts. It is also a place where they are encouraged to develop their soft skills and showcase the various literature, music, arts, crafts and talents of the young community members.

The portal devadiga.com is going to be a trend-setter, designed and developed with state-of-the-art technology and it adheres to Web 2.0 worldwide web standards. The portal allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them.

The salient features of the portals are community news, community personalities, information on festivals and traditions, virtual career guidance by educationists and other professionals. It also serves as a job portal, e-learning portal for development of soft skills and free patrimonial portal with features like popular commercial matrimonial sites. It will also have a separate student area, women’s portal, classifieds, recipes, obituaries, Devadiga forums, articles, blogs, photo gallery, search, polls, RSS feeds, video and music share, Devadiga magazine, Devadiga Wiki, Devadiga Sangha portals, Devadiga Sangha News, complete directory of Devadiga members, Devadiga social network, health and wellness advice from experts, legal advices from legal experts, technology advice from techies and the like.

The portal also offers a personal email facility on par with the most popular email services, so that Devadiga community members can boast a unique email ID e g name@devadiga.com. All these features and portal are strictly available only to Devadiga community members. The ambition of the Team Devadiga is to make this portal the best community portal, a clear benchmark to other community portals of this region.