New York: Indian Consulate in New York hosted a meeting of major community groups from the Northeast Region of the United States with the new Indian Consul General Binaya Srikanth Pradhan at the Indian Consulate last Friday.
Around 50 community representatives from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio in the meeting. Organization representatives present at the meeting included the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) and its chapters, Federation of Indian Associations – FIA (NY, NJ, CT), FIA Columbus (Ohio), Association of Indian America (AIA), Asian Indian American of Central Pennsylvania (AIACPA), Federation of Malayalee Association of North America (FOMA), Uttar Pradesh association of America, Tamil Sangam, Telugu Association of North America (TANA), Telugu Literary and Cultural Association (TLCA), Bihar Jharkhand Association, Oriya Society, Indo-American Press Club, and Hindu Center.
Heads of several national and umbrella organizations were present at the meeting and included GOPIO Chairman Dr. Thomas Abraham and President Lal Motwani, FIA NY-NJ-CT President Dr. Avinash Gupta, AIA President Gobind Munjal, FIA Columbus President Sriram Menneni, AIAPCA Founder and Chair Deep Gupta and FOMA President Dr. Jacob Thomas.
Deputy Consul General Dr. Varun Jeph introduced the Consul General Pradhan at the meeting. Consul General Pradhan thanked all community groups for the tremendous work helping the consulate and their contribution to improved US-India relations.
“If there is a need for a Visa camp for passport, OCI or other consular services, the consulate will come to the community group, if there are enough people in need. The Consulate wants to be connected with students coming from India specially in the first year to help them out,” he said.
