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Posted by: | Posted on: November 21, 2018

Upkar Diwali Night 2018

Upkar Association Kuwait, one of the modestly largeAssociation of Indians formed in Kuwait,  celebrated its Diwali Night Grand Party on 9thNovember, 2018 at Hotel Radisson Blu, Kuwait. Diwali is traditionallycelebrated as the Festival of Lights where people meet their near and dear onesto exchange festive greetings.

The event was presided over by the First Secretary of the Indian Embassy, Mr. Krishan Kumar Pahel. 

Despite the stormy weather, Upkar members turned up in large numbers to get together and celebrate the festival. All the members were dressed up for the occasion, and exchanged festive greetings- it felt as though everyone was in India!

Upkar Parivar members and invited guests participatedin various Diwali themed games. Upkar gave away a number of spot prizes duringthe celebration and also felicitated talented children who achievedmilestones in academics and other activities. There was also a Lucky Draw with a prize of a silver coin!

Upkar Association will be glad to provide additional information on Upkar membership and can be contacted. at upkarpost@yahoo.com or kindly visit our website www.upkarkuwait.org. In addition our office bearers shall be reachable on- Mr. Jitendra Chaudhary 66457045; Mr. Mahesh Menghani 66900317; Mr. Bobby Oberoi – 50288007; Mr. Sachin Vig 50477619 and Mrs. Himali Shringi – 66898319.

UPKAR executive committee thanks all members for over whelming support and co-operation!

Posted by: | Posted on: September 15, 2017

Welcome Back and Upkar Event 2017-18

Dear Members,
We take the opportunity of welcoming the Upkar members from their vacations and hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. Whilst we are gearing up for the new session to begin, we hereby invite nominations from interested members to join the Executive committee. Please send your nominations for EC to upkarpost@yahoo.com or upkarpost@gmail.com at the earliest. Last date of receiving the nomination is 15th October 2017.
We plan to hold the following events during the forthcoming year –
1) October 27, 2017 – Diwali & AGM – Whilst we believe the AGM shall be held in September, since Diwali is following in October, it was decided to collaborate the 2 events. An official mailer on Diwali event will be sent shortly, however we request you to block your dates for October 27, 2017 in the evening for the event.
2) December 2017 – Upkar Box cricket league – After the stupendous success and repeated demands from our members, we are scheduled to hold the cricket league in the similar fashion as held earlier in December owing to a favorable weather.
3) January 2018 – Upkar Sports Day & picnic – The new calendar year shall witness the annual family picnic wherein the respective date shall be finalized later.
4) March 2018 – Upkar Holi – We shall hold the flagship event on the weekend falling close to the auspicious day bringing all the members together to enjoy the festival of colors.
5) Drawing Competition (for Kids)/Upkar Talent Show.
We also wish to bring to your kind notice that the in the current environment we are witnessing an increase in expenses in carrying out any event as expenses pertaining to food, venue, decoration etc have moved up significantly in the last 2 years. However, we have decided to continue with KD 25/- renewal fee for this year. As you are aware we run the association on members contribution and sponsorship. Therefore, we request all the members to come upfront to renew the memberships timely and also request you to arrange for sponsorship from your sources; this shall enable us to continue the improvement in the quality of the events and have more memorable programs for the Upkar family.
We also encourage members to provide us innovative ideas for more different community events, so that we can increase members participation, please send your ideas, feedback and complaints to upkarpost@yahoo.com.
We look forward to an active involvement from all the members in order to support us to have yet another fun filled year with our extended family members.
Best Regards,

UPKAR EC
Posted by: | Posted on: November 8, 2016

Coverage : UPKAR Diwali Celebration

Upkar Association Kuwait, one of the modestly large Association of Indians formed in Kuwait, had the honor of holding it’s Diwali Mela on November 4, 2016 at Rezzayat Villa, Salmiya, Kuwait.

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The festival symbolizes get-together with near & dear ones, lighting of lamps and exchanging gifts. The event had begun with the lighting of the lamps by EC members and felicitation of students from the Upkar family for performing well in the previous academic sessions. There was an array of games for both elders and children witnessed by a crowd of 350 people along with raffle draws, singing performances and followed by dinner.

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Upkar Executive Committee shall be shortly announcing the dates for their next mega event to be the “Upkar Cricket League” during the remainder of 2016. We shall also hold a family picnic, Holy Celebration and children’s talent show of various forms during 2017 and prior to the next AGM.

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Upkar Association shall also take this opportunity to thank its sponsors Air India, Country Club, Aman Exchange and Omaxe Builders (India) who have been a constant partner in our journey and to inculcate the essence of oneness.

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We shall be glad to provide additional information on Upkar and shall be contacted for updates on membership, events etc. at upkarpost@yahoo.com or kindly visit our website www.upkarkuwait.org.

 

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UPKAR executive committee thanks all members for over whelming support and co-operation.

Posted by: | Posted on: November 7, 2016

Welcome to Newly Joined Members

Upkar EC has pleasure in welcoming following new Members (few returning members) to UPKAR Parivar. We are proud to announce that , in current Year 2016-17 (till Diwali Event), we have added 53 new member families. UPKAR Parivar warmly welcome them and expect them to participate actively in upcoming upkar events.

Sno Last Name First Name Spouse
1 Agrwal Manish Ankita
2 Agarwal Gaurav Shilpi
3 Arora Sunit
4 Arya Sumit Monika
5 Baijal Sanjeev Roli
6 Chandel Mohan Singh Amita
7 Choudhary Arun
8 Dhawan Rajneesh Shweta
9 Doshi Suhas
10 Garg Sanjay Renu
11 Ghai Jatinder Kawaljeet
12 Goel Harish Kshipra
13 Gupta Rahul Rupam
14 Gupta Chandan Aakansha
15 Gupta Dr. Sunil Jaya
16 Gupta Santosh Nidhi
17 Gupta Gaurav
18 Handa Om Prakash Sangita
19 Harne Dr. Vinod Vanita
20 Kadam Dr. Mahesh Aparna
21 Kanchan Mrinal
22 Kothari Avnish Sarika
23 Kumar Nidhi Bineeta
24 Mahendru Sushant Anjali
25 Marwah Satinder Pal Singh Jaspreet Kaur
26 Mehta J.P. Simran
27 Mirchandani Monesh Vishakha
28 Mishra Shitla Prasad Sneha
29 Mittal Dr Ramika Dr. Vipul Gupta
30 Mulchandani Chandra Kant Viju
31 Nandy Rajesh Rimmi
32 Panwar Leshpal Singh Reena
33 Parmar Bharat
34 Prasad Shiv Vidyavati
35 Sagar Manish Taniya
36 Saksena Rajeev Molshri
37 Sangtani Anil
38 Saxena Ashok Kumar Mokshda
39 Singh Tarun Shalini
40 Singh Brijesh Kumar Meenu
41 Singh Amit Swati
42 Singh Ishpreet Jasleen Kaur
43 Singh Kanwarjeet/Manjeet
44 Singh/Kaur Amarjeet /Muninder
45 Sori Sunil Alka
46 Takkar Sanjeev Bharti
45 Thakur Ashish/Naveena Naveena
47 Tomar Anuj
48 Tyagi Brijesh Bhawna
50 Vallabh Pankaj Deepti
51 Vashishta Nishant
52 Verma Dr. Omesh
53 Voddepelli Ramu Pallavi
54 Wadhawalkar Amit
55 Yasmeen Huda /Rafiq Ahd Rafiq Ahmed Khan

 

Posted by: | Posted on: October 11, 2016

Upkar Diwali 2016 Celebrations

Namaskar, Sat Sri Akal, Salaam Alaikom!
 
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The festive season is here and it’s time to greet and meet one and all on the auspicious occasion of Diwali. One of the most widely celebrated festivals amongst all Indians, Diwali is a symbol of Diyas, Fire-Works, Prayers, meeting the near and dear ones and hoping the almighty showers their blessings on one and all for a prosperous year ahead. Since UPKAR is one large family, we cordially invite all the UPKAR members to come together to celebrate the festival and enjoy the grand evening. The details for the event have been provided below –   
 
Date: Friday; 4th November, 2016
Venue: REZAYAT VILLA – RAS SALMIYA 
Event Start Time: 6.30PM
Entry timings: Registration Desk will open from 6.30 PM.
Registration & Food Vouchers:  We request all members to register and collect their food vouchers before the event or upon arrival at the venue. 
Felicitation: UPKAR would like to honor the children of UPKAR members who have achieved Grade 9/ Grade A1 or above from classes VI – XII for the academic year 2015-16.  Parents are requested to send details to upkarpost@yahoo.com, latest by 22nd Oct, 2016 with the following:
1. Student’s and Parents’ Name
2. Class & aggregate % marks/ grade obtained
3. School
4. Copy of marksheet
4. Contact details.
Membership Renewal: We request members to renew their UPKAR membership for 2016/17 before the event or upon arrival at venue along with collection of food vouchers.
Food Charges: Food charges will be KD 1.500 per head, kids below 5 years will be free. Guests are most welcome to be part of celebration, guest charges shall be KD 7 per head.  
 
Food Confirmation : Please confirm your attendance and food confirmation at the form below .   https://goo.gl/forms/LvadpANQzUmtYift1
 
No Show Charges  Confirmed Members shall be liable to pay no-show charges KD 1.500, in case they are not able to attained.
 
Program sequence: The program will start with registration followed by snacks, Many surprise games, Food, Fun and Masti, prize distribution and will culminate with the dinner, raffle draw and tambola. 
Your cooperation will be highly appreciated to make this a memorable Deepawali event.
Food Confirmation mandatory at : https://goo.gl/forms/LvadpANQzUmtYift1

Wish you and a your family a very Happy and Prosperous Diwali.

Best Regards,

UPKAR EC
Posted by: | Posted on: October 17, 2015

Upkar Diwali Event Announcement

Upkar Association Kuwait, would like to invite all Upkar members to join for celebration of festival of light. Diwali is celebration of happiness, togetherness and spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness. We Indians living in Kuwait are away from our homeland, let’s join together and celebrate this festival of happiness altogether.Your presence will add sparkle in our festivities On the auspicious day of Diwali with your presence Looking forward to see you.

Entry to the Diwali event is restricted to UPKAR Association Kuwait members and their invited guests only. Upkar Membership is open to all Indians living in Kuwait. For membership please contact upkarpost@yahoo.com or visit our website www.upkarkuwait.org

 

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Posted by: | Posted on: February 28, 2015

Diwali Celebration Event

UPKAR Association Kuwait, a non-profit organization serving Indian Community living in Kuwait, for last 25 years, celebrated Diwali on Saturday the 30th October 2014 in Musical Fountain Garden, Kuwait. Event was attended by all Upkar members and invited guests.

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Event was started with National Anthem, followed by various ice breaking games. I

Members Enjoyed Ice breaking games, all games enabled members to know more information about other members. Read More …

Posted by: | Posted on: October 15, 2014

DIWALI CELEBRATION Announcement

Dear UPKAR members,

The festival of Light – Diwali is our next and most awaited program. We are pleased to inform you that we would conduct the program in the last weekend of October 2014 and request all members to block their calendars for that the same and join us in celebrating the homecoming of Lord Ram to Ayodhya.

Details of the venue with other specifics would follow in the forthcoming emails.

EC Nominations – UPKAR needs enthusiastic members to join the committee and help in its initiative to promote the cultural flavors. We had requested members to send in their nominations to join EC 2014-15.  Last date to receive nominations is on or before  23rd October, 2014.  We look forward to your response and support in making UPKAR reach new heights in the year 2014-15.
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The auspicious occasion of Diwali is also the time when we felicitate 6th to 12th standard kids for their outstanding academic achievement (i.e. grade A, or 9.0, and above). We request all members to send across your child details for the needful.

Membership:  We also request members to renew their membership and bring new members.  Our membership for the year 2014-15 is KD 25/- for the family.  Guests are welcome to attend the program, guest charges would be communicated in the forthcoming emails.

Regards,