Mysuru: The installation ceremony of the new team of Builders’ Association of India (BAI), Mysore Centre, for the year 2025-26, was held recently at MBCT (Mysore Builders Charitable Trust) Auditorium in Vishweshwaranagar.

Sharanya rendered invocation. Outgoing Chairman A.S. Yoganarasimha welcomed. Outgoing Hon. Secretary K.R. Prabhakara Rao presented annual report for 2024-25.

N. Subramanya was installed as State Chairman of BAI-Karnataka for 2025-26 by K. Sriram, former National Vice-President of BAI.

Dr. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane, Padma Shri Awardee and retired Director of Kidwai, Bengaluru, who was the chief guest, was introduced by B.R. Badarinath, Past Chairman BAI Mysore and felicitated on the occasion.

Installing Officer N. Subramanya administered the oath of office to incoming BAI Mysore Centre Chairman V. Srinath and his team. Speaking on the occasion, Srinath emphasised the need to address the burning issues related to construction industry. He announced this year’s theme as ‘Think We, Not Me.” 

The list of new office-bearers and Executive Committee of BAI Mysore Centre is as follows:

Chairman: V. Srinath;    Vice-Chairman:  K.R. Prabhakara Rao;   Hon. Secretary: C.D. Krishna;  Hon. Treasurer: S. Vasudevan; Joint Secretary: S. Shashiraj; Imm. Past Chairman: A.S. Yoganarasimha.

Advisors: A.V. Sridhar and Ravindra Bhat; GC Members: K. Sriram, N.S. Muralidhara and N. Subramanya; Co-opted GC: U.M. Gurushanthappa, M.C. Mallikarjun and Nagaraj V. Bairy.             

Executive Committee Members: Ashwin Pallegar, Bhargav V. Shinde, M.D. Chandrashekar, A. Dinesh, K.T. Govindaraju; V. Gurudatta, T.S. Gurudatt, K.L. Gururaj,  K.S. Prakash, K.M. Raghunath, K.N. Ravishankar, Santhosh Mirle,  C.S. Srikanth, S.H. Srinivas, M.V. Vinod Kumar.         

Co-opted EC Members: G. Ashok, Mahabaleshwara Bairy, K. Sathish Mohana, Venkatesh Prasad, C. Vishwanath, Udai S. Kumar.               

World Environment Month Committee Chairman: K.R. Prabhakara Rao; Hon. Secretary: Praveen Pal;  Advisor: S. R. Swamy.                    

MYREALTY – 25 Chairman:  K.C. Nandakumar; Hon. Secretary: Akshay Kumar (CREDAI); Advisors: N.S. Muralidhar and U.M. Gurushanthappa.    

BUILDTECH – 25 Chairman:      B.S. Chandrashekar Bharadwaj,    Hon. Secretary: H.B. Ravi Ratnakar; Advisor: K. Subramanya Rao.         

MYBUILD – 25 Chairman:     R. Ramesh Rao, Hon. Secretary: N. Lokesh Gowda; Mentor: K. Sriram;   Advisors: M.C. Mallikarjun and Nagaraj V. Bairy.             

Mysore Shilpi Editorial Team: V. Mohan Kumar and Lalitha Mohan; Shilpi Co-ordinators: M.S. Balaji, M. Ghanshyam, Nikil P. Koundinya, K.S. Pavan and P. Pranav.                      

Membership Committee: B. S. Dinesh, R. Raghunath.                 

Programme Committee: H. Ashwath Narayan, C.U. Diwakar, Pritham, Prasanna Kumar, B. Rajesh Darira, Rakesh Manickyam, R. Ravi, Sampath, Shreeraj    and B.N. Shivakumar.           

Technical Tour & Talk: H.S. Deepak, K.U. Ganapathi, M. Nikilesh and R. Ravi.                          

Overseas Tour Co-ordinators: S.l. Dinesh, K. Ravi, B. Jagadesh.                   

Cultural Committee: S. Umesh, Anupama Sriram and Vijaya Ashwin.             

Outgoing Hon. Treasurer K.M. Raghunath handed over the accounts of the year 2024-25 to the incoming Hon. Treasurer S. Vasudevan. The programme concluded with vote of thanks by C.D. Krishna, Hon. Secretary. Ashwin R. Pallegar  compered.