Mangalore : The SCDCC Bank and Navodaya Grama Vikasa Charitable Trust felicitated  newly appointed ministers as well as newly elected legislators of the district at a function held  at Loyola Hall of St Aloysius College on June 16, Sunday.

Oscar Fernandes, senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha Member inaugurated the ceremony. He also presided over the function and made the honours. Oscar felicitated B Ramanatha Rai, Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment as well as District In-charge Minister, State Minister or Health UT Khader, Urban Development Minister Vinaykumar Sorake, Fisheries Minister Abhayachandra Jain, IT Minister SR Patil and Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Ratnaker. Even  JR Lobo, Moidin Bava, Pramod Madhwaraj, Vasanth Bangera, Shakuntala Shetty and Gopal Poojari were honoured.

Ramanatha Rai  who spoke on the  occasion spoke on the good progress of the district in the co-operative sector and also on the role of SCDCC Bank. Ministers Kimmane Ratnaker  Vinaykumar Sorake,  Abhayachandra also spoke.

Several dignitaries including Rajendra Kumar, Chairman of SCDCC Bank, Vinaykumar Soorinje, Vice President, M Gopalkrishna Bhat, Managing Director of SCDCC Bank, K C Naik, Chairman of Mahabaleshwara Builders, Kodijal Ibrahim, Ivan D’Souza, Congress leaders,  Rohan Monteiro, Chairman of Rohan Corporation, Pushparaj Jain, Chairman of Abish Builders  were also present at the ceremony.