Mangalore  : South Canara District Central Co -operation Bank (SCDCC) in association with Navodaya Rural Development Charitable Trust will honour all the newly elected Dakshina Kannada and Udupi MLA’s and Ministers at Loyola Hall on June 16, Sunday.

Speaking at the press meet held at SCDCC head office, president M N Rajendra Prasad said that the felicitation programme will encourage the ministers and MLA’s to work for the development of coastal districts.

SCDCC will felicitate Minister for Forest, Environment and Ecology and Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge B Ramanath Rai, Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader, Minister for Urban Development Vinay Kumar Sorake, Minister for Fisheries and Youth Affair K Abhaychandra Jain, MLAs J R Lobo, Moideen Bawa, Pramod Madhwaraj, K Vasanth Bangera, S Angara, Haladi Srinivas Shetty, Shakuntala T Shetty, Gopal Poojary, and V Sunil Kumar.

Apart from them, S R Patil, Minster for Information and Technology and Kimanne Ratnakara, Minister for Primary and secondary Education will also be honoured.

SCDCC will make the ministers realize the problems faced by the farmers and co-operative society in the same platform.

Speaking about the farmers’ loan to be surrendered by the BJP government in 2009, he said that the government had claimed to sanction Rs 217 crore but not even a Rupee has reached the co-operative banks till date.