Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy former president and entrepreneur Ronald (Roy) Castelino has tendered his resignation to the post of the chairman of Konkani Museum Foundation, sponsored by the Mandd Sobhann, a premier Konkani institution of coastal Karnataka.
In his resignation letter submitted to the president of Mandd Sobhann Louis Pinto, he stated that he is grateful to the organisation for selecting him as the chairman of the Konkani Museum Foundation.
He said in the resignation letter: "Though the foundation succeeded in getting a budgetary allocation of Rs 2.5 crore and further Rs 2.5 crore was assured by the state government, certain unexpected developments of the recent times, compel me to keep away, respectfully, from the activities of the Konkani Museum Foundation."