Indian Cultural & Arts Society (Incas) president Joppachan Thekkekutt is appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of ‘Kerala Non-Resident Keralites Welfare Board’. The government order states that the notification shall come into effect on December 1, 2012. The appointment is made for a statutory period of three years.
The board is constituted as per the Non-Resident Keralites’ Welfare Act, 2008 enacted to provide for the constitution of a Welfare Fund to grant relief and to ensure welfare of and to pay pension and other benefits to the Non-Resident Keralites and to promote companies or Co-operative societies or societies or other institutions of Non-Resident Keralites’ for their welfare.
Non-Resident Keralites’ Welfare Act provides for a board of directors for the administration of the welfare fund. Of these, five directors represent the non-resident Keralites living outside India, two directors represent non-resident Keralites living within India and four officials representing the government of Kerala. Joppachan is a director representing non-resident Keralites living outside India.The Peninsula
