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38TH “MAASI KRITHIGA” AT THIRUPORUR. (TN)

Thiruporur.(TN)24-25 Feb- Function was celebrat-ed by the association On 24 and 25th February 2015 at the association property B.K.K Kalyana Mandabam at Thiruporur. (TN)

The function was started On 24-02-2015 with Ganesh Pooja at Evening 5.00 pm and

followed by Sahasrarjun Pooja at 7.00 pm.

Nearly 400 persons are gathered and the function is celebrated in a grand manner followed

by dinner to all SSK com-munity persons which is ar-ranged by the Association Management.

The 38th “Maasi Krithiga” Function was started on 25-

02-2015 at 7.30 am.The president Sri Sulekha

B.Kannan Sah preside over the pooja which is held at

11.30 am and made a speech among the Commu-nity persons the steps to be taken

in order to strengthen our community and The Further Developments of the Asso-ciation.

Nearly 1000Nos of our community peoples were present, and The Function is celebrated

in a grand manner. The Association manage-

ment provided Morning tiffin and Afternoon lunch to all the

Persons on free of cost worth of Rs.120000.

Bangalore 12 March-Elected members of SSK Co-Operative Soci-ety: Bangalore

The election for the President, Vice president and Secretary for SSK Co-operative Society Ltd

was conducted on 12-03-15 at Bangalore.

Mico Gangadharsa elected as

President, Gulabi Ramachan-dra Harihar as Vice president and Gajendra Kumar as secre-tary of SSK Cooperative Society...

Board of directors was declared as follows: Sri. M.N.Ram, Sri.B.R.Sham, Sri.G.M.Ambaram, Smt.H.C. Sway-amprabha, Sri .S.Ananth. Sri. Sat-ish E. Vagale, Sri. A.R. Anand ku-

mar, Sri. J.K. Suresh, Sri. Magaji Baad K. Somashekar, Sri. B. Girid-har, Sri. M.M. Rukamngada, Smt. V.M. Preethi, Smt. K.Hemavathi.

SSK Times wishes them all the best for their future plans and hopes that they will reach new heights.

RAM. M .N. ANANTH S. S. SATISH VA-GALE.

MAGAJI BAAD K SOMSHEKAR.GIRIDHAR. SWAYAM-

PRABHA. HEMAVATHI K.

GULABI BAI.Vice president. SHAM .B. R AMBARAM-

SA G. M.GANGADHAR-SA. President.

RUKMANGAD-HA M. M.

PREETI ME-HERWADE.

ANANDKU-MAR A. R.

SURESH. J. K.

Gajendra Ku-mar secretary

SSK Co-Operative Society: BangaloreHeartly Congratulations!

Hubli- Somavamsha Sahas-rarjuna Kshtriya community peo-ple, as you know, are basically hard workers, industrious, kind-hearted and known well in busi-ness arena. You may trace them in every type of business, indus-try and professions. The tradi-tional business of the community was trading, weaving silk, cotton yarn and hand-loom work ances-trally. There was no organized institution wherein these people could find their financial require-ments met. Two visionaries of the community Sarvashri Janardhansa Pawar and Shri Ramachandrasa Pu-

jari felt necessity of one such finan-cial institution which can take care of their monetary needs for devel-

opment of business and industries. 93 years back on 30.5.1921 they founded historical S.S. K. Co-oper-ative Bank. Like any other Co-operative

THE SAGA OF SSK BANK HUBLI

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Hubli- Dharwad: As we all are aware that In-dian Government has planned to set up IIT in Dharwad. SSK Senior citizen association has also given a memorandum to bring it to Dharwad in the month of March. During March 3rd week, before the final announcement, SSK Senior Citizen As-sociation’s president said that Hubli-Dharwad is the perfect place for setting up IIT as it is next the educational hub after the Bangalore. A mem-orandum was submitted to the Chief Minister of Karnataka through Sri Shivananda P. Rane, Up-per Tahasildar Hubballi on 19th March, 2015.

Sri Dr. KH Jituri and Sri V.O. Katwa., President of the Assocation presented the memorandum. Sri Suresh Bhandage, Sri Parusharam Utwale, Sri Jagannath Baddi, Sri Ashok Ladwa and Sri Gana-pati Hanamasagar were present on the occasion.

Bringing IIT to Hubbali-Dharwad: A Welcome Move

Sinnar (Maharas-tra): SSK samaj’s Vice President. Deepaksa Ganapatasa Bakale has bagged the Na-shik District Secondary Teachers Co-operative Society’s Ideal Teacher Award. He was honoured by the SSK Samaj Sin-nar recently for his good achievement. Sudhakar Chowdhary, Pt Kathyare, Prakash Kukkar, Sachin Pahilavana, Sudhir Petakar, Hemant Kath-yare, Laxman Tak, Kiran Tak, Mukunda Petakar, Shailendra Kukkar, Madhukar Goyal, Ratnakar Pawar and others were present on the occasion

DEEPAKSA GANAPATASA BAKALE OF SINNAR INMAHARASTRA BAGS IDEAL TEACHER AWARD

DATE : 05 - 04 - 2015 SSK TIMES ENGLISH MONTHLY. GADAG2PHistor y of Somavamsha Sahasrarjun Kshatriya PANCHANGA SUMMARY

5. MRIGASHIRA NAKSHATRA

Warm and hearty greet-ings of ‘Ugadi’, the new year. It marks the begin-ning of rejuvenation of na-ture and revitalization of its energies and strength. Eve-ry year Ugadi comes and it keeps on bringing new en-thusiasm and novelty. We enjoy seeing nature wear-ing a new look, the vigor and beauty of greenery around us. We celebrate Ugadi with great pomp and enthusiasm and perform worship with devotion. We eat neem buds and joggery to remind ourselves that life is a mixture of bitter and sweet experiences. We have to accept all such ex-periences alike and retain our hopefulness happily. It is also an occasion to look back and view the achieve-ments and make plans for the next year. The retro-spection of how we have fared will help us to plan for the next year.

The SSK Times has been publishing the series of ar-ticles on the history of our forefathers. Every member of the clan has to know his roots and derive inspiration. The knowledge of our histo-ry together with the history of India will make us strong individuals. Kshatriyas had been the great rulers, the visionaries of happy man-kind and had built great empires which excelled in their achievements in all the fields of life. The con-tribution of our forefathers should help us to regain our inner strength. Our ances-tors strove hard to build such empires where hu-manity bloomed fully; hu-manity developed its out-look on sound moral and spiritual principles; mate-rial life became happy; fine arts developed Spiritual at-tainments galored. In man-ufacture, India excelled on various fronts.

Thus, India with its abundant wealth attracted the foreigners and the in-vaders who rushed to be-come wealthy in India and conquered the country. The foreign rule eclipsed our vision, weakened our strength and vitality and cut-off our links with our glorious past.

The Freedom Movement that began towards the end of nineteenth century and gained momentum in the early twentieth century served us as an eye-opener. The educational system in-troduced by the British had put us in a very disadvanta-geous position. It was not a man-making education. It was merely and entirely a negative education. A negative education or any training based on negation is worse than death.

A nation that has no his-tory of its own has noth-ing in this world. Out of the past is built the future. Look back, therefore as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal foundations that are behind and after that look forward, march forward and make India brighter, greater and much high higher than she ever was. Our ancestors were the builders of our na-tion. They were rulers who looked after the entire com-munity. The more we study the past, the more glorious will be our future. The mar-velous spiritual inheritance of our race is what a com-plete world-civilization is waiting for. Our ancestors were great. We must recall that.

Let the new year bring in us a thorough change backed by the vision of our glorious past.

Sarve janah sukhino bhavantu; Shubha Mastu

OUR ANCESTORS WERE GREAT WE MUST RECALL THAT

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In Hindu astronomy, Mrigashira is the 5th star. It is ranging from 53-20 and 66-40. It is a cluster of three stars which look like deer’s head. This nakshatra’s

1,2 padas come under Vrushab rashi, 3, 4th

padas come under Mithun rashi. Chan-dra who born at the

time of Samudra Manthan is the presiding god of Mrigashira. The people born in this nakshatra will have amiable and lovely qualities of mind.

Mrigashira is considered as maha nakshatra (The Great Star). The bride and bride-grooms born in this nakshatra need not have to tally their kun-dalis. So is said in the muhurth shastra. Such of the bride and bridegrooms can marry without having to look for the Guna-kootas and they are said not to worry about eknadi and rakshas gana doshas.

Mrigashira nakshatra is best for good deeds.

Mrigashirians will be active, they usually perform rituals like homa hawanas, they organize

people, and they will be rich, popular. They are fickle minded and fearful too.

People born in this nakshatra can undertake the trade and business of woolen and cotton, brass, real estate and automo-bile spare parts. They can have prosperity in the businesses of jewellery, animal husbandary, film industry, fruits and flowers, cosmetics.

The people born in this nak-shatra will have the birth names starting with 1 at pada – ve, 2nd pada – vo, 3rd pada- ka, 4th pada – kee.

The people born in the 1st pada will have to wear manikya and those born in the 2nd pada will have to wear emerald green and those born in 3rd pada can wear diamond and those born in the 4th pada can have coral. These people will have to wear the articles weighing more than 2 carrots.

Mrigashirians can undertake trade and business, money lending profitably as the stars associated are Aridra, Swati and Shatatara which are wealth stars. Those born in the Push-ya, Anuradha and Uttarabhad-

rapada can undertake farewell works as these stars are fare-well stars.

The Maga, Moola and Ash-wini stars are considered as achiever-stars. The individu-als can undertake novel enter-prises and contact works of the big factories and companies and challenging works.

Kruthika, Uttarashadh stars are the friendly stars.

Rohini, Hasta and Shravana stars are stars of intimacy, so people with these stars can undertake partnership enter-prises, money lending business with those having these very stars.

(To be continued…….)

Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil nadu regions in the past have witnessed the rule of renowned dynasties belonging to the Somavamsha Sa-hasrarjuna Kshatriya. These rul-ers have contributed substantially to our culture. They built artistic temples and have left inscriptions.

Their contributions to the field of literature, music, dance and medicine (Ayurveda) are in good measure and worthy of appre-ciation. Unfortunately our people have remained ignorant of our rich past and it is time that we should begin our search for our roots in the past. The great contributions made by our distant elders, their wonderful accomplishments will help us to know our rich past and draw inspirations from their deeds and enhance our sense of pride. An awareness of our racial supremacy will surely help us to enhance our self-esteem and will inspire us to undertake great and challenging enterprises.

We belong to the lineage of So-mavamsha Sahasrarjuna ances-try. Let us have a peep into the temples built by Somavamsha dynasties. There is a temple of soma in Gadag (Karnataka). This is known as someshwara temple (karedevara gudi – temple of black

stones). Our ancestors, the kings of Kalyani Chalukya Dynasty have built this temple. This temple is beautiful and is known for its archi-tectural grandeur. The God Shree Somesh-wara is the kuldevata of Somavamsha Sa-hasrarjuna Kshatriyas. There is a temple of So-meshwara in Laxmesh-wara, a town in Gadag district.The rare idol of Someshwara seated on Nandi is seen there. We have the tem-ples of Someshwara in lakkundi, Hanagal, Bankapura and Itagi in Karnataka. Our forefathers are said to have migrated from Man-dogad in Gujrat state. The famous Somanath temple of Gujarat was built during the Chalukya rule. We must cherish these historical feats of achievement with pride. The Chalukya kings became the fol-lowers of Jaina Dharma and built jaina temples (Basadis) in Bada-mi, Laxmeshwara and elsewhere in Karnataka. The Chalukyas of Badami, Kalyani, Rastrakutas and the Kalchuri Hyayahya kings were all blood-relatives.

(To be continued…….)

Murlidharsa F. Kalburgi

Gadag 9 Mar: On behalf of the SSK Tarun Sangh Gadag and SSK Mahila mandal celebrated Kaam Rati utsa-va in the premises of Sree Jagadam-ba temple in old saraf bazaar Gadag.

The SSK Mahila mandal members gave ‘Udi’ offerings to Rati devi. The president of the Mahila mandal Smt Sa-rojabai R. Tikandar, vice-president Smt Renukabai D. Kalburgi, honorary secre-tary Smt Umabai S. Bevinkatti, honorary joint secretary Smt Snehlata P. Kabadi, treasurer Smt Annapurnabai I. Bev-inkatti and the members Smt Pushpabai N. Katwate, Smt Rekhabai V. Katawate,

Smt Sunandabai K. Habib, Smt Shanta-bai P. Bakale and SSK Tarun Sangha’s president Kishan I. Mehrwade and the members and the Kaam Rati utsav sami-ti 2015 chairman Sree Sagar D. Pawar, vice chairman Sree Manjunath Kabadi, honorary secretary Sree Sachin Devale, hon’ble joint secretary Sree Srinivas Y. Badi, treasurer Nemachand V. Pawar and other members were present on the occasion. The secretary of the Tarun Sangha Sree Sudhir R. Kategar has thanked all the members for making the holi festival a grand enthusiastic event.

THE HOLI FEST: WOMEN GIVE ‘UDI’ OFFERINGS TO RATIDEVI

SSK Tarun Sangha’s president Kishan I. Mehr-wade and the members of Kaam Rati utsav samiti 2015

Gadag 9 Mar : ‘Dasar Oni’ in the Gadag city has a long and grand tradi-tion of Holi festival. In its unique style of colour-play of Holi this year it cel-ebrated its 145th year of the celebra-tion of Holi. The entire lane partici-pates in a very descent and dignified manner and enjoy the festival’s mood. The members of the Festival Management Committee of Ka-ma-Rati 2015 were President-Dattusa .I. Bhandage, Vice-presi-dent-Ramachandrasa .K. Shidling, Secretary-Parshuramsa .M. Bakale,

Vice-Secretary - Raghavendrasa .H. Pawar, Chairman-Nagaraj Magadum.The Elders of the Ward collected the gold approximately 8 to 9 kgs for rati alankar . Motilalsa .N. Raibagi, Tu-karamsa .R. Raibagi, Jagannathsa .V. Bhandage, Ishwarsa .D. Bhandage, Prakash .R. Bakale (Municipal Coun-cilor), Shankarsa Habib, Rajannasa .D. Habib, Dattusa .I. Bhandage, Ga-napathsa .R. Jituri, Shankarsa .A. Shi-dling, Ramachandrasa .K. Shidling, Parshuramsa .M. Bakale, Raghaven-drasa .H. Pawar, and Nagaraj Maga-

dum were on the commit-tee of deco-ration and presented an exquisite dis-play of Kama-Rati. The peo-ple of the city thronged to see Kama-Ra-ti of this lane.

145TH HOLI CELEBRATION IN DASAR ONI GADAG

Kama rati of dasar oni

Bellary: Bellary SSK Samaj has organ-ized mass threading ceremony and senior’s shashthi poorthy function on 23rd April, 2015 at Jagadamba temple, Bellary. On this occasion Editor of SSK times Shri Deepak M. Kalburgi will be felicitated. All SSKians are invited to make the function successful. The function will start from 22nd April.Vatu Kshour, Gondal Pooja will start at 4 p.m. Magic show will start at 6 p.m. Dinner will be at 8 p.m. Next day Homa, mantropadesha, Janivar dharane, kashiyatre will start from morning 6 a.m.

VIPs will be felicitated in the morning at 11.30. Seniors Shasthipurthy samarambha will be conducted after the felicitation program. In-terested aspirants for threading ceremony can contact the samaj office or call 9886270443, 9448006660, 9964418644 or 9448202028

The SSKs are spread all over India and our community is so vast and widely spread that it has become difficult to choose the proper life companions for our daughters and sons. So to overcome this problem and to seek the right kind of life partners, we have arranged in a very big way to conduct a Meet of the prospective SSK Brides and Bridegrooms together with their parents.

The SSK Brides and Bridegrooms Meet is scheduled on 20.05.2015 (Wednesday) in Hubli. We earnestly request all our bandhavas to participate in this Mega Meet and make the programme a grand success and an useful event. The prospective participants are re-quested to contact Sri Jagannath Vithalsa Katwe (SSk Purohit ) Gudi Oni Cross, Chennapete, main road, old Hubli – 24. (Mobile; 09164098299)

Please convey this news to all our kins and kiths and relatives and friends

(AN INVITATION TO ALL OUR PEOPLE)SSK BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS MEET BY HUBLI SSK SAMAJ

MASS UPNAYANAM CEREMO-NY BY BELLARY SSK SAMAJ

Like a character she is one, who lights one house and top to other house run like a supreme and great who is she? That is her character of to tolerat-ing, that is her power to convert na-

tion, That is her challenge to rise a new birth and off course who is she?Including expertise method of entertain-ment pondering way of making new ide-als knowledge to build high charm and run having expanded method to convert an idle in legal way by heart, who is she?She is a reformer she is a converter she is

a tolerator she is having a self respect she is a way she is a knowledge and includ-ing all the mentally scenery power and again, she is a mother gave as gift by god.

WHO IS SHE?

Ariticle by Ashwini G. D (9th Class) Bangalore.

DATE : 05 - 04 - 2015 SSK TIMES ENGLISH MONTHLY. GADAG3P

FOOD GALLERY

Preparation:1. In a kadai (wok) fry the sliced onions until light brown.2. Into this add, the ginger-garlic paste and fry for another minute or two, before adding half of the freshly pound garam masala. Make sure the ga ram masala is not the readymade version, but handmade as the aromas lend a distinct flavor to the chicken later.3. After frying for a minute, add the chicken pieces and make sure that they have been coated well in the pound spices. Now cover and cook for 5 min utes.4. Add tomato puree, red chili powder and salt at this stage. Mix well and once again cover and cook the chicken, until well done. Normally, it takes 20-25 minutes to completely get the chicken laced in the sauce. Add a lit tle water if needed.5. Finally, add the tomato ketchup, red chili sauce, the remaining garam masala powder, green chilies and chopped coriander leaves. Mix well and turn off the heat.6. I personally loved it with rotis, however you can try it as it is and enjoy!

Tomato ChickenIngredients (Serves 2-3):

• 450 grams of chicken, cleaned,• Freshly pound garam masala ( 2 cloves, 3 cardamoms, 3 small cinna mon sticks, 1 black cardamom and 1 star anise or chakri phool)• 3-4 small tomatoes, pureed,• 2 tsp ginger-garlic paste,• 2 medium onions, finely sliced,• 4 tbsp of freshly chopped coriander,

• 1 tbsp of green chilies, finely chopped,• 1 ½ tsp of red chili powder,• Salt to taste,• 2-3 tsp of oil,• 1 tsp of tomato ketchup,• 1 tsp of red hot chili sauce

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Vijaylaxmi V. ChoudhariBelgaum.

8th ANNUAL DAY AT KINDER GARTEN KID’S SCHOOL HUBLI

Hubballi 23-Mar: Kinder garten Kids School Hubballi celebrated its 8th Year Annual Day on March 23rd, 2015. The School’s principle Smt Nagaratna S. Jaratgar chaired the occasion. Mr. Shashikant N. Jartarghar presided over the function. On this grand occasion, water aware-ness program, save water campaign, on-the-spot-speech, group discussion, on-the-spot drawing competition and other creative activities were or-ganized. Mr. T.R. Shirul, Head Master Govt School,

BJP leader Shri Mahesh Tenginkai, Mahila Man-dal vicepresident Sunita J. Kalennavar, Geeta T. Jarat-gar, Sunandabai V. Miskin were present on the func-tion. Winners were awarded by principle and other mahila mandali members. The event was a grand one.

Banks, SSK Bank too prospered in the Banking business for many many years meeting the monetary needs of the large spectrum of the community.

Since the year 2000 many co-operative Banks in length and breads of India, started los-ing their financial stability and were not in a position to return the deposits to their custom-ers. SSK Bank too was not an exception. In un-divided Dhar-wad District many co-operative Banks started sinking and RBI restricted them to continue the business of Banking. Simi-larly SSK Bank too was placed under moratorium and the Karnataka Co-operative De-partment appointed an Admin-istrator in lieu of elected board of directors during 2003-04.

During the year 2010 a show cause notice was issued by Re-serve Bank of India under Rule 35(A) for liquidation of SSK, long lasted Bank. This was shocking news for the Society in general and the well-wishers of the Bank in particular. It was a matter of great concern that the one and the only Bank of our samaj which was a Kama-dhenu for the needy people of our community is sinking.

A few alert, sincere, active and veteran members of the community with the sole inten-tion of reviving our only Bank with the help and timely assis-tance of Shri Jagdish Shettar, the then Dharwd District-in-Charge Minister and Shri K.H. Patil, President, Federation of Karnataka Co-op. Urban Banks, Bangalore and as per instruc-tions and stipulation of the Re-serve Bank of India, mobilized additional share capital of Rs. 1.5 crores with assistance of savior Shrimant Harisa Khode, Bangalore as also local kind hearted business people and social workers and also recov-ered more than Rs.4 crores of outstanding loans. This was possible due to the strenu-ous efforts of all the concerned people of the community.

Considering improvement in the financial status of the Bank, the convinced Reserve Bank of India ultimately lifted the Clause 35(A) imposed on the Bank and permitted restoration of Banking activities effective from 30th December 2011. This a land mark in the history of the Bank and it is not a matter of exaggeration if we say that the Gateway of Prosperity was re-opened for the benevolence of the community. The contri-bution of the Administrators appointed by the Co-operative Department was commend-able. On conducting the election on 14.12.2012 elected body of Board of Directors having mul-tifarious experience in the busi-ness, administration, education, legal and accounting Excellency took the reins of Administra-tion of the day to day affairs of the Bank. This paved the way towards further excellence in

the service of the community. Renovation of the Bank’s

Interiors and Computeriza-tion: Commensurate with pre-sent requirements in the Bank-ing Industry, the ambience of the Bank’s interiors was sub-stantially improved. The en-tire Banking transactions were fully computerized. SSK Bank is proud to inform that this is the first Co-operative Bank to introduce CTS-2010 enabled cheques in the District of the Dharwad. It was introduced ef-fective from 21.8.2013. IFSC Code is being obtained/intro-duced shortly. SMS Banking is available to the customers of the Bank. NEFT/RTGS facil-ity is also made available in association with IDBI Bank.

Human Resources: Along with the existing experienced staff and with due permission from the Co-operative Depart-ment Bank has recently re-cruited new meritorious can-didates to meet the present needs of the man power for efficient running of the Bank.

Reserve Funds: As re-quired under various laws, SSK Bank has Rs. 5.21 of Reserves as at end of February 2015.

Deposits: The financial strength of any Bank is gauged in terms of Deposits it mobiliz-es. Even after releasing/repay-ing the deposits based on their need and necessity of those put to financial hardships during the period from 2003-04 to the date of restoration of the Bank and after mobilizing the new depos-its SB, Current Account, Fixed Deposits and Pigmy, we have a deposit base of Rs. 10.34 crores as at February 2015 end. The existing customers/their heirs are being contacted to comply with RBI KYC norms and renew the deposits. Customers are ex-pressing their satisfaction and happiness to receive computer-ized pass books and FD receipts. New Deposits are flowing in from elite business class, Trad-ers, Small and medium Entre-preneurs, hawkers, retail trad-ers, housewives and Institutions alike. To suit the requirements of business community, daily pigmy deposit by name “Jeevan Aadhaar” has been introduced and happy to inform that the 8 pigmy collectors are mobiliz-ing on an average Rs. 60,000/- daily. Day by day this is becom-ing popular source of deposits.

CLR/SLR: As prescribed time to time by RBI the require-ments of CRR and SLR are me-ticulously met by depositing money with nationalized Banks like State Bank of India, Pun-jab National Bank, IDBI Bank, Karnataka State Co-operative Apex Bank Ltd. Bangalore and in Treasury Bills and liquidity ra-tio is met. Shri G.V. Jituri (CA) has been appointed as Auditor of the Bank as approved in the Annual General Body Meeting and audit of the Banks vari-ous books of accounts are au-dited periodically a required.

Social Banking: To take care of the health of the Customers of the Bank and fulfill our social commitment we have issued “Yashaswini” Health Insurance cards introduced by the Gov-ernment of Karnataka Bank.

Loans and advances: The deposits mobilized are effec-tively and profitably lent to eligible, needy customers who fulfill parameters of eligibil-ity criteria such as repayment capacity, business prospects, and security available. etc. as prescribed by RBI. The total loans and advances outstand-ing as at end February 2015 stands at Rs. 9.25 crores. The loans are sanctioned/disbursed ensuring the credit - deposit ratio at all the times as stipu-lated by the Reserve Bank.

Non Performing Assets (NPA): After revival of the Bank 78 Panchayat Recovery cases for an amount of Rs.32.51 lacs and 69 execution cases aggregat-ing an amount of Rs. 39.85 lacs have been instituted. Notices are issued prior to seizure/auc-tion of movables and immova-bles. With this initiation and un-der One Time Settlement (OTS) permitted by RBI, a sum of Rs. 1.76 crores of NPA has been re-covered. Still a sum of Rs. 3.13 is to be recovered and process of various means of recovery is undertaken on on-going basis.

Net Profit: After setting off the accumulated loss oc-curred during the bad times of the Bank, the net profit of the Bank stands at Rs.49.83 lacs as at the end of February 2015.

Dividend: Considering the improvement in the financial health of the Bank, the Reserve Bank of India has permitted the Bank to declare a Dividend of Rs. 4/- per share for the fi-nancial year ended 31.3.2015.

Plan of Action: The Board of Directors are going to hold various deposit promotional programmes on an ongoing basis from time to time to re-quest/persue all spectrum of the Community such as Trad-ers, businessmen, Contractors, builders, Small and medium Entrepreneurs, Retail Traders, hawkers, housewives and the general public to route their all Banking transactions with us.

SSK Bank team humbly prays Jaganmata Shri Amba Bhavaani to bless SSK Bank to achieve excellence and also bless all of us to give enough streangth to achieve desired excellence and development of the Bank.

SSK Bank request you to please bring forth the financial developments that are being in-itiated by us and the day today progress achieved by the Bank so far, to the notice of the public in general and our community in particular by publishing in your esteemed News Papers and request you to strengthen our hands . The Bank solicits your encouragement at all times.

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After reading an article in Deccan Herald recently, my mind started wandering. I couldn’t agree more with what was written. Everyone talks about treating women in the right way, respecting them, fight-ing for them and taking a stand for them. There are protests eve-rywhere after a crime has taken place. People get down to streets demanding justice. Celebrities take part too. They give their opinion on social networking sites.But, in reel life, it’s the celebrities who portray women in a provoca-tive role. Male actors keep chas-ing the woman despite her ‘no’, only to have her in his arms after a song. That’s why, a majority of Indian men do not know how to take ‘no’ for an answer. They are unable to separate the reel world from the real world. As the writer in the article has justly said ‘we can-

not tell whether’s it’s a case of art imitating life or life imitating art’When girls step out of the house late evening, all the members of the house get worried and each one gives a different warning. Having listened to so many things, the girl drops the idea of going out, no matter how important it is.I had to meet my friends for an important discussion, but, due to the inconvenience of all, we couldn’t meet during the day. For-tunately or unfortunately, it was scheduled for the evening. But, it’s Indian Stretchable Time (IST), we met at 8.30 p.m. By the time we were done discussing and filled our bellies, it was already 9.30. After that, we just stood on the street sharing lighter moments when something really strange happened. A guy stared at us and walked past us. The guys with

me were worried and all kinds of ‘ifs, buts, dos n don’ts’ started. I realized how insecure girls are in today’s world. We were about to make a move when the same guy who had walked past us returned and said, “sir, idu area sari illa, hudgi jote isht ratri ille irodu sari illa, illinda bega hogi.” (it is not good to be out in the streets with a girl so late at night, this area is not safe. Make a move soon)All of us were touched by his ges-ture. Then I thought ‘not all men are the same’. There are those who really care. Instead of pray-ing and lighting candles for the victims after the crime has taken place, not letting a crime hap-pen is a better choice. As the saying goes “Helping hands are better than praying lips”. isn’t it?

Article by -Arya Katwe Hubli.

HELPING HANDS OR PRAYING LIPS?

Gadag 27 Mar : Amba bhavani mata*s birth anniversary was celebrat-ed in Gadag*s Old saraf bazaar*s Tulaja bhavani and Jagadamba temple on 27th

March, 2015. The tottilu program was celebrated in a grand way in Jagad-amba temple and Amba bhavani tem-ple.

Veena Gururaj Balaganur, Kalpana Arjun Kalal, Pushpa Mrutyunjaya Hire-math, Sharada Mallikarjun Sajjanar, SSK Panch committee members and Tarun Sangha members were present on the occasion.

JAYANTI UTSAV@GADAGGajendragadh 27 Mar: SSK Samaj, Panch

Trust committee organized 147th anniversary celebration and Jagadamba mata procession. The grand

procession started from Jagadamba temple and went on main streets of the city via Kolliya-var circle, Basaveshwar circle, Durga circle, K.K.

circle. Guru Jagannath Dasa*s Bajana Man-dali sung bhajan on the occasion.

Gayatri devi ladies committee members per-formed Udi program. More than 100 ladies of our community participated in this celebration.

SSK Youth Committee, SSK Welfare Commit-tee, SSK Panch Trust Committee and Gayatri La-dies committee members were present.

JAGADAMBA DEVI PROCES-SION IN GAJENDRAGAD

DATE : 05 - 04 - 2015 SSK TIMES ENGLISH MONTHLY. GADAG4PTOUR AND TRAVEL TIMES

THANE 18TH JAN - SSK SAMAJ THANE has celebrated its 22nd Annual Day (VARDHAPAN DIN) ON 18TH January 2015 at Marathi Granth Sangrahalaya, Talao Pali, Thane in the presence of the following dignitaries and entire Thane Samaj –

Shri Bharat Kumar H Kshatriya, Jt Secretary of Maharashtra Prantik, Sangamner, BJP President of Gondia City,

Shri Jaywantsa Pawar, President of Maharash-tra Prantik, Sangamner,

Shri Bapusa Tak, Member of Akhil Bhartiya SSK Samaj, Bangaluru,

Shri Prakash Tavrej, Chairman, Shri Sai Sahas-rarjun Credit Society, Sangamner,

Shri Nandkumar Pawar, Vice Chairman, Shri Sai Sahasrarjun Credit Society, Sangamner,

First of all, all the dignitaries and Samaj Band-hus have offered deep condolence as a mark of respect to all the departed souls of our samaj and Indian Jawans and then the program started with Deep Prajwalan, Pooja and Aarti of God Ganapati, Goddess Hinglaj Mata and God Shri Sahasrarjun Maharaj.

After Pooja and Aarti, Thane Samaj President, Shri Yashwant Raotole has welcomed & greeted all the guests & Samaj Bandhus. He introduced all the guests to the mob and greeted them with a Shawl, a Coconut & a Flower.

At the same time, Senior citizens of SSK Samaj Thane, Mr Ashok Vinayaksa Muley & Mrs Arundhati Ashok Muley have been honored with a Shawl, a Coconut & a Flower as well as Shri Yashwant Ram-lalsa Raotole & Shri Arunsa Murlidharsa Chaudhari of SSK Samaj Thane Residents have been greeted and honored with a Shawl, a Coconut & a Flower for having retired from their services at the hands of the guests of honor and dignitaries. Along with it, the Samaj Bandhus who are working for samaj have also been honored respectively.

Thereafter, all the guests of honor have ad-dressed their valuable speech to the audience and guided the Samaj for improvement and bet-terment. Then the students of Thane SSK Samaj have been honored with a token of appreciation in the hands of Guests.

Thereafter the Most Valuable and Sacred Pearl Garland of our God Shri Sahasrarjun Maharaj have been bestowed to Mr Kishor Merwade & Mrs Vidya Merwade by way of offering highest competitive bid to the Samaj by them.

After lunch, all the females have been respect-ed with Haldi Kumkum, Til gul and a small gift from Thane Samaj. And cultural songs and dances are performed by some of the samaj children.

At the end, the Annual Day function, anchored by Mrs Rupali Kshatriya, is concluded with a Vote of Thanks by Thane Samaj President, Shri Yashwant Raotole. The President of Thane Samaj also thanked all the Managing Committee Mem-bers & Mahila Mandal for contributing their maxi-mum efforts to make the event a grand success.

Lastly, the program ended with a National An-them.

SSK SAMAJ THANE CELEBRATED 22nd ANNUAL DAY,HALDI KUMKUM & MAKAR SANKRANTI

Hubballi: We are happy to announce that our sa-maj youngster Tuljappa M. Ladwa (29) has secured 36th rank in IES (Indian Engineering Services) ex-amination conducted by UPSC. He is now excitingly waiting the mains result.

“It was very difficult to muster fees for college ad-mission. With the help of gov-ernment scholarship, I man-aged to get a seat at PC Jabin Science College. The year 2006 was the worst period for my family. My father met with an accident and was in bed for a year. But I cracked the entrance exam and got a B Tech seat at NIT Rour-kela in electrical engineering in same year,” recalls Tul-jappa with tears in his eyes.

IES is rare exam; nearly

2 lakh candidates will appear for the prelims. It is not fa-mous like IAS IFS and IPS. Tulajappa proved that finan-cial position is not barrier to achieve success. He was with NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) earlier to this as Asst Manager, where he asked two months leave to prepare for competitive exams, but the management refused and he had to leave the job. Amidst all difficulties he passed this examination.

Another interesting thing is he has failed in mains re-cently by just 5 marks, this time he will chase it, he added.

He thanked his father Mo-tilal T. Ladwa and mother Jayashree for their support in achieving this grand suc-cess. His father is 10th class pass and he worked hard

to fetch good edu-cation to his three c h i l -d r e n . His fa-ther runs a stationary shop, still he travel to Mumbai to supply goods to local station-ary shops. Tulajappa says, we all studied in a very small house, now we are all in a good position by our parent’s blessings. His brother San-jay is a software engineer in Hyderabad and his sister Deepika is the principle of MVP ITI College in Hubballi.

Proud Parents: Our children have worked hard amidst all difficul-ties and now a silver lin-ing has come in our life.

TULAJAPPA SECURED 36th RANK IN IES

Tuljappa M. Ladwa

MAHESHWAR (MP)

sahasrarjun temple with 11lamps.

Fort built by Mata Ahilyabai Holkar the ruler of Maheshwar Mandir at Maheshwar.

Sunset at the Narmada river in Maheshwar.

Maheshwar is a City in Khargone district of Mad-hya Pradesh state, in central India. It is located 13 km east of National Highway 3 (Agra-Mumbai highway) and 91 km from Indore, the commercial capital of the state. The City lies on the north bank of the Narmada River. It was the capital of the Malwa during the Mara-tha Holkar reign till 6 January 1818, when the capital was shifted to Indore by Malhar Rao Holkar III.

Maheshwar is handsome and also built on the site of the ancient city of Somvanshya Shastrarjun Kshatriya, and was the capital of king Kartavirya Arjuna, (Shree Shastrarjun) who is mentioned in the Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. Maheshwar was known as Mahissati (Mahishamati in Sanskrit) in ancient times and was the capital of Southern Avanti. Maheshwar on the banks of the Narmada was capital of King Sahas-rarjun.

Temples of Maheshwar

It is said that there are more than 100 temples are telling the long history of Maheshwar.

• SahastarArjun Temple near the holy river Nar-mada, Rajrajeshwar Mandir, Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, Chaturbhuj Narayan Mandir, Ahilya Mata’s Chhatris, Chintamani Ganpati Mandir, Pandharinath Mandir, Bha-wani Mata Mandir, Gobar Ganesh Mandir, Banke Biha-ri, Anant Narayan Mandir, Khedapati Hanuman, Ram and Krishna Mandir. Baneshwar temple, Kaleshwar, Jwaleshwar and Narsingh Mandir.

• Ek Mukhi Datta Temple is newly constructed tem-ple in Sahastradhara, Jalkoti, Maheshwar. It’s also called “Shiva Datta Dham”. This temple is constructed in 30 acres of area. Temple area is approx 10000 sq. feet. The temple is situated at the bank of historical Narmada River in its most serious, calm, adventured and horrible form. The main attraction in this temple is The very beautiful idol’s of Lord Ek Mukhi Datta, Maa Narmada and Lord Ganesha.

Other Cities near Maheshwar-Dhamnod, Bagh, Barwani, Sanawad, Mundi, Khargone, Khandwa, Man-dleshwar, Kasrawad.

Article By-Sunil Kabadi., Archi-tect * Interior DesignerBangalore. Email id- sunilkaba-di@gmail.com

CORRIGENDUM.

From left-Mr Yashwant Raotole, Mr Nand-kumar Pawar, Mr.Bapusa Tak, Mr Bharatku-mar Kshatriya, Mrs Merwade & Mr Kishore Merwade (honored with a Shawl, a Coco-nut, a Flower and a Sacred Pearl Garland), Mr Jayaramsa Pawar, Mr Prakash Tavrej, & Mr Mohansa Kshatriya.

Karyakari Mahila Mandal of Thane Sa-maj with Guests

Karyakari Mandal of Thane Samaj with Guests

Pune 8 Mar: Aurang-abad’s swimming champion Smt . Smitha Rajan Katwe was given away the Maha-rashtra state Award in pune on the National women’s cel-ebration (2014-2015). The state’s sports and youth ser-vices commissioner sree Om-prakash Lakoria and District sports officer Smt uminala

Morale were present on the occasion together with the officials and lovers of sports . Smt. Smitha Rajan Katwe has earned many state and national prizes in the swim-ming competitions during 2013-2015. She swam con-tinuously for twelve hours in August, 2014 and entered her name in the Indian Book

of Records . The SSK TIMES pro-fusely con-gratulations Smt Smitha Rajan Kat-we for her wonderful a ch i eve -m e n t s .

RENOWNED SWIMMER SMT SMITHA RAJAN KATWE (MAMARDE) (AURANGABAD) GETS MAHARASHTRA STATE AWARD.

MAHARASHTRA STATE AWARD.

SMITHA RAJAN KATWE (MAMARDE)

Sholapur’s Somavamsha Sahas-rarjuna High school’s four girl- students have joined Maharash-tra Hockey Association . Kumari Shivaganga Honnamalagi (centre Half-back), Kumari Sheetal Man-nirai (centre Half-back ), Kumari Nisha pundure (Right Half –back ) are these four girls who have got an entry in to Maharashtra Hockey Association. There four promising

girls have been representing the state Association for the last three years and have won appreciations for their performances. They are ably guided by the school teacher sree Ujwala malji. The founder of sree sahasrarjuna high school sree Ganapatasa Mirajkar, Education committee president Sree Gulaba-sa Barad, school committee mem-bers Sree Gajanan Goel and Sree

Balbheemsa Kolhapure, Head mas-ter Sree Vishnu Rangrej and sen-ior teachers Sree B.B. Ummadikar, Sree Majusha Kashid have congrat-ulated these girl students for their excellent performances. The SSK Times congratulates these bud-ding youths and wishes them great success ahead in their careers.

SHOLAPUR SREE SAHASRARJUNA SCHOOL’S FOUR GIRL STUDENTS JOIN MAHARASTRA HOCKEY ASSN

Solapur 15 Mar - Under the aegis of the Mahila Man-dal of Sree Somavansh Sa-hararjuna Kshatriya Samaj, in the religious fest held in Sree Sahasrarjuna Mangala Karyalaya of Sholapur on the 15th of March, 2015, 45 sen-ior citizens of the samaj cel-ebrated their Sahasrachan-dra darshana ritual with pomp and enthusiasm. The religious festivity began with the pooja performance of Sree Sahasrarjuna Maharaj. Then were held the Homa-Hawana and Sahasrachan-dra darshana rituals by the 47 senior citizens Smt & Shree. Ramachandrasa Ga-napathsa Katawe. Smt & Shree Sidramsa Arjunasa Rangarej, Smt & Shree Bal-abhimsa Ramachandrasa Kolhapure, Smt & Shree Kashinathsa Ramachan-drasa Habib, Smt & Shree Narayansa Balakrishnasa Chavadimani, Smt & Shree Baburaosa Gyanosa Kol-hapure, Smt & Shree Ma-hadevsa Merhawade, Smt & Shree Baburaosa Dat-

tusa Bhumkar, Smt & Shree Dattatraya Babusa Bakle, Smt & Shree Parshuram-sa Mahadevsa Rodage, Smt & Shree Baburaosa Bhimaraosa Chavan, Smt & Shree Narayansa Re-vansiddusa Lomate, Smt & Shree Namadevsa Rajar-amsa Punekar, Smt & Shree Motisa Bidri, Smt & Shree Chandrakantsa Choud-hary, Smt & Shree Hanu-manthsa Ganapathsa Katwa,

Smt & Shree Panduran-gasa Bidri, Smt Sharnilabai Shalgar, Smt Saraswatibai Shankarsa Gangte, Smt Annapurnabai Shankarsa Lomete, Smt Krishnabai Motisa Kolhapure, Smt Sar-aswatibai Krishnansa Jithe, Smt Kamalabai Bhikkusa Pa-war, Smt Ambubai Yallappa

Habib, Smt Sushilabai Arjun-sa Bankapur, Smt Laksh-mibai Nagusa Basude, Smt Prabhavati Mahadevsa Kol-hapure, Smt Kashibai Barad, Smt Ashatai Chavan, Smt Rukhmani Shirigiri

About seven hundred people of the samaj wit-nessed the performances. The program as chaired by Smt Sharada R. Kolhapure. Smt Sunanda B. Kolhapure, Smt Surekha P. Jhad, Smt Gayatri V. Goel and the mem-bers of Mahila Mandal were present on the occasion. Gayatri V. Goel proposed a vote of thanks. Following are the names of the senior citizens, the fortunate souls who witnesses the Sahas-rachandra darshan Bhagya:

SENIOR CITIZENS SAHASRA CHANDRA DARSHAN SAPTAH IN SOLAPUR

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GANESH C. BHUMKAR ELECTED AS SSK YUVA PRATHISHTAN PRESIDENT IN SOLAPUR

Solapur- Ganesh C. Bhumakar elected as SSK Yuva prathishatan president, Kumar K. Mirjkar as a Vice President, Janeshwar H. Pawar as a secretary, Rajendra D. Katwe as a cashier, Prakash N. Pawar as a Joint secretary and remaining body members are Ananth N. Bankapur, Vilas G. Rangreja, Pramod G Mirjkar, Akshay M. Bidri, Rohan R. Bankapur, Shivaraj R. Pawar, Raju D. Kholapure, Ashok L. Bhandge, Naresh K. Punekar, Sachin K. Pawar, Niraj M. Rangreja, & Ravi D. Habib. SSK times heartily Congrates ! all the elected members.