Dubai Ruler Confers Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award to 3 Kannadiga Students

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Dubai, 10 Jun 2014 : The Kannadigas beamed with pride when Prapti Jayananad Pakkala, Shashwik Divakar Shetty and Shraddha Deviprasad Shetty won the prestigious Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for distinguished academic achievement. 

 
Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, deputy ruler of Dubai and minister of finance, gave away the awards to the winners at a glittering ceremony at World Trade Centre here on Friday April 22.  

 
The Award honors individuals who value their commitment and have a proven record of outstanding success in their respective educational field. The award for distinguished academic performance has been instituted to recognize academic achievements, talents, skills and leadership abilities across variety of disciplines.

 
Shashwik Divakar Shetty is the son of Divakar Shetty couple.  Shashwik is a multi- talented student, currently studying in Grade 9 at The Indian High School, Dubai, achieved remarkable milestone in public speaking, English literature, social work and in cricket. He is an avid reader winning many accolades in spell bee and quizzing. He was spotted reading when he was as young as 4 years. He is a green crusader, an artist and was head boy for middle school. This young lad has initiated the art of tissue drawing. He left no stone unturned to soar high in cricket. He was sponsored and sent to UK by Young Talents Cricket Association and there he won the Most Promising Player Award in 2012.

 

 

Prapti Jayanand Pakkala, daughter of Jayalaxmi Pakkala and Jayanand Pakkala.  Prapti is studying currently a Grade 5 student at The Indian High school, here.  He is a promising student who has excelled in academic performance scoring 95 percent above in all her subjects along with multi-talented curricular and extra-curricular activities.  The young girl is environment conscious and she is member of Green Hope and student council. Prapti is a good dancer and singer particularly excelling in classical dance. Prapti is a member of Smile Creations Dance Troupe and Rajarajeshwari Bhajana Mandali.

 
Shraddha Shetty   daughter of Deviprasad Shetty and Neetha Shetty couple.  Shraddha is   currently studying in Grade 12 at Our Own English High School, Sharjah. Shraddha is an all -rounder besides scoring 95 percent above in her academics for the past many years.  She is a multi-talented girl.  Her talents and skills are public speaking, throw ball, discus throw and writing articles for Newspapers. As an environmentalist, Shraddha has led several campaigns which led the school winning the Green Flag award.  Shraddha is the Head girl of her school, a brown belt Dan 2 in Karate and member of UAE Federation of Karate and Taekwondo. In 2012, she was also awarded the Margadarshan Award by Knowledge Resource Development and Welfare Group, IIT-Delhi.

The three rising Kannadiga stars were felicitated by Swami Vishwa Santhosh Bharathi during fortieth World Bunts Convention held at Abu Dhabi on April 25 2014, in the presence of Sarvotham Shetty, president of UAE Bunts association and Shankar Shetty, president of Buntara Sangha Mumbai ®.