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| Alma mater | St. Xavier's College, Mumbai |
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Ramnath Kare (born 18 October 1934), also known as Ramnathbab and Babu. [1] [2] is an Indian industrialist, educationist and philanthropist from Goa. He is based in Margao, South Goa and is an avid reader. [1] Kare has studied at St Xaviers College in Mumbai. [1]
Kare started DCI Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd in Margao in 1968. He took over an aluminium packaging unit, Classic Extrusion Pvt Ltd at the Margao Industrial Estate, and started more pharma units at the Verna Industrial Estate, Verna and at Ponda, both in Goa. [1]
His father, Govind Ramnath Kare, began with small time trading in pharmaceutical products and founded Drogaria Salcete in 1932. [1] He assisted his father in setting up the Salcete Pharmacy, when Goa was still under Portuguese rule. As there was an Indian blockade of Goa between 1955 and 1961, the Portuguese government then in power allowed businessmen to procure pharmaceutical products from reputed foreign companies, such as Abbott Laboratories, Merck, Takede Chemicals and the like. [1]
His family started a small drug manufacturing unit in Thane near Mumbai in 1946, Indoco Remedies Farmacia Salcete and Drogaria Salcete became prominent names in Goa, and were looked after by Kare's youngest brother, Ashok, who died in 2012. These firms are now managed by his two sons, Salil and Kunal. [1]
His younger brother Suresh took over the manufacturing unit near Mumbai, and over the years it grew to a turnover of Rs 1500 crore annually. Suresh Kare subsequently handed it over to his daughter, Aditi Panandikar. [1]
He has been associated with the Margao-based educational network, the Vidya Vikas Mandal, of which he was the president. The VVM runs the prominent Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics in Margao [1] besides the Vidya Vikas Academy and a number of other institutions.
Kare has narrated how he helped build the VVM, facing a crisis due to a lack of funds to clear teaching staff salary arrears, and a crash in the structure of the existing rented premises during the monsoons. In 1979, the Kare family donated to start the Govind Ramnath Kare College of Law. The GVM has since expanded and grown. It claims a total of 5,000 students on its rolls and about 400 teaching and non-teaching staff. [1]
Kare has been the president of the Goa Chambers of Commerce and Industry. [3] He has been on the board of State Bank of India- Mumbai Board, State Bank of India Mutual, the Economic Development Corporation (EDC), Finolex, Holiday Inn and among others. [1]
In 2002, as Chairman of the Kare Group, he has been quoted as having wondered why Goa "could not be like Switzerland where tourism and industry go hand in hand". [4]
Ponda, also known as Fondya, is a city and a municipal council in the north Goa district of Goa, India. Located in the central area of Goa, Ponda lies 28 km southeast of Panaji, the capital of Goa and 17 km northeast of Margao, the district headquarters. Ponda is also known as "Antruz Mahal" because of the presence of numerous famous temples and rich cultural heritage.
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Uday Bhembre is an Indian lawyer, Konkani writer and a former member of the Goa Legislative Assembly. He is noted for his role as the editor of the Konkani daily, Sunaparant, and as a Konkani language activist. Bhembre is also widely known as the lyricist of the famed Goan Konkani language song Channeache Rati.
Damodar Mauzo is a Goan short story writer, novelist, critic and script writer in Konkani. He was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 2021, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his novel Karmelin and the Vimala V. Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar award for his novel Tsunami Simon in 2011. His collection of Short stories Teresa's Man and Other Stories from Goa was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International award in 2015. He has served as a member of the executive board, general council, as well as the finance committee of the Sahitya Akademi.
The Govind Ramnath Kare College of Law, popularly known as the G.R. Kare College of Law, and also as the Kare Law College, is a law college located at Comba in Margao, Goa.
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Laxman Pai was an Indian artist and painter. He was a principal of the Goa College of Art, a post he held from 1977 to 1987. Pai was a recipient of several awards including India's third highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.
Vidya Vikas Academy(VVA) is an English medium school co-educational in Goa. The school is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) previously ICSE. The school has 29 classrooms. The school offers classes from Nursery to 12th standard. It was established in the year 1994. The school had humble beginnings housed in the same rented premises that had earlier used by Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics and Govind Ramnath Kare College of Law. Today the school occupies a spacious building in the Vidya Vikas Mandal Campus and offers its pupils state of art facilities. In 2012, Vidya Vikas Academy decided it would have higher secondary section(11th and 12th).
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