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Social idiosyncratic G. Deepak from Belthangady has been chosen for the Mangaluru Press Club Annual Award 2025-26.
The grant volition beryllium presented to him astatine the Press Club Day connected May 24 successful Mangaluru. It carries a citation and a purse of ₹10,001, said a release.
Hailing from a humble background, Mr. Deepak works arsenic a autobus operator for the ‘Sanidhya’ Skill Training Centre and manages a tiny business. Despite his constricted income, helium has been rendering societal service.
To streamline his efforts, Mr. Deepak agreed like-minded section youths to found the Rajakesari Service Trust. Under his leadership, the spot has executed implicit 600 work projects, including providing escaped houses to 34 stateless families, organisation of 21 sewing machines for aforesaid employment, providing 38 wheelchairs to the needy, organising escaped wide matrimony for 12 mates etc.
Son of B. Gopala, a autobus driver, and Kusuma, an worker of SKDRDP, Mr. Deepak began his vocation arsenic a backstage autobus conductor. His travel into societal enactment began with helping a four-year-old kid having bosom ailment. With the assistance of friends, helium collected required funds and was capable to prevention the child’s life.
Founded successful 2012, the Rajakesari Service Trust has grown from a section radical to a district-level organisation with implicit 400 members. Notably, the members are not affluent philanthropists but daily-wage workers, including auto drivers, mechanics, painters, and plumbers.
