Mangalore: St Aloysius students create awareness on voting with motor rally
Pics: Meryick D'Silva
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Media Release
Mangalore, Feb 11: In a unique and laudable initiative, the students of St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), Beeri on Tuesday February 11 conducted a motor rally to create awareness among the youth on the importance of voting.
The motorcade, held as part of the Insignia-14 fest, started at Pumpwell and passed through Nantoor, KPT, Bejai, MG Road, PVS, Bunts Hostel, Balmatta, and culminated at St Aloysius College campus in Light House hill.
The two-hour procession was flagged off by chairman of AIMIT Fr (Dr) Oswald Mascarenhas, and Nithin Raj and Sathya Shankar of Ouola.com, the title sponsor of Insignia-14, were present.
The students and faculty with open arms welcomed students from various colleges as the awareness programme went on its way educating the youth on the importance of voting. The rally culminated at St Aloysius College main campus, where Fr Oswald Mascarenhas addressed the gathering emphasizing the importance of voting.
Rector of St Aloysius Fr Denzil Lobo spoke on the occasion exhorting the youth to be duty bound and exercise their franchise. Management Club secretary spoke on behalf of the students on the purpose of holding the rally and also explained Insignia-14 to the gathering.
Babitha of second-year MBA compered and delivered the vote of thanks
The students of AIMIT implemented the idea and took the initiative to organize the motorcade from the motivational business ethics and corporate governance (BECG) course. This course stressed on ethics consisting of moral values and principles that need to be followed in today’s society. The country today needs leaders who are ethical and share values of fairness, mutual well-being, and harmony. They must be able to have a service-oriented leadership wherein a their duty is to serve first, followed by making conscious choices that bring about a positive change.
This awareness programme will be carried out for the next few days and will mark the grand finale of Insignia 2014-powered by Ouola.com on February 24 and 25. Insignia is the annual national-level business fest of the College and this year’s theme is 'A Systems Thinking Approach: The Supreme Way of Design Thinking'.