Udupi: Mogaveeras Bahrain association honoured those students from Mogaveera community who have scored highest marks in the SSLC exam 2014 conducted by Karnataka government recently.

The felicitation programme was held at Yeloor Mogaveera Bhavan in Malpe in association with Mogaveeras youth organisation Malpe.

Yashpal Suvarna, President of Dakshina Kannada Udupi district Fish Federation Union was the chief guest. Mogaveers Bahrain secretary Naveen Karkera, Mogaveer Youth organisation Udupi district president Sadananda Balkur and Mogaveer Youth organisation Malpe unit president Ganesh Salyan were present on the dais.

Prajna Hemanath Puthran, Hejamady Kodi(98.88%), Nitish Kumar Shanker, Kirimanjeshwara(96.00%), Puneeth Karunakar Karkera, Mattu Katapady(94.08%) the toppers of state level board exams were felicitated.

Kavrady Vinaya Rama Mogaveera from financially backward family received special scholarship.

The other five talented students who scored above 90% are Tekkatte Bhagavathi Narayana, Irody Varsha Shankara, Kadekaru Bhagyashree Shankara, Koteshwara Nupura Ananda, Hebri Varshitha Rathnakara were also honoured on the occasion.

Chandrakanth Kunder Kalmady welcomed and also compered the programme. Raveendra Bengre rendered vote of thanks.

The first prize has been sponsored by Subhas Chandra Shiroor, second prize by Shamith Kunder and third prize by Kodandarama Saliyan. Other sponsors are Leeladhar Baikampady, Girish Idya, Theertha Suvarna, Suresh Amin, Puneeth Puthran, Padmanabha Kanchan, Vinod Shriyan, Chandra Sekhar Mendon, Manoj Suvarna, Janardhan Tingalaya and Arun Kidiyur.