Mangalore: Corruption-free India Campaign - Justice Hegde Administers Oath to Students
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS)
Mangalore, Oct 15: The oath-taking ceremony by the students for the ‘corruption Free India’ was held at T V Raman Pai Hall here on Saturday October 15.
Former Lokayukta of Karnataka Justice Santhosh Hegde administered the oath to students. The programme was organiZed by Anti Corruption Committee Mangalore.
In his presidential address Santhosh Hegde said that till today he has held interaction meets with students of more than 300 schools and response and interest of students has motivated him to execute his best.
Erya Laxminarayan Alva, addressing the gathering said that he earlier had mis-apprehension that young generation are not worried about level of corruption in the nation, but only after watching the level of support given by the young minds to Anna Hazare’s fight against corruption, he changed his thought. young generation has great concern over this nation, he opined.
The chief guest on the occasion Ananthkrishna of Karnataka Bank said that when understood the difference between need and creed, richness of life and richness of money, there will not be corruption cases.
A Ramachandra Karkala while addressing the guest Justice Santhosh Hegde to the audience said that Hegde even now resides in a 2 room flat in Bangalore without much more asset in his name, much to the appreciation of audience.
Kumari Akshatha, a student in K S Hegde Institute in her address questioned, in the days where even a security personnel need educational qualification, why the qualification is not fixed for politicians who have the responsibility of ruling the people.
This was an unique programme as two persons Sudattha Jain (a hotelier labour turned anti-corruption activist) and Rajesh Kavoor (carpenter turned anti-corruption activist) were honoured on the occasion.