Page 16 - The Indian EYE 032423

NORTH AMERICAN Newsline MARCH 24, 2023 | The Indian Eye 16

GOPIO International Team Sworn-in with Community

Leader Lal Motwani as the New President

OUR BUREAU GOPIO Officials who were sworn-in early this month. Top row: Lal Motwani, Umesh Chandra, Kewal Kanda, Prakash Shah and Nami Kaur. Bot-
New York, NY tom Row: Roger Latchman, Deo Gosine, Ashok Madan, Harmohan Singh Walia and Dhiraj Ahuja
lobal Organization of People
of Indian Origin (GOPIO) lows: Businessman Roger Latchman choice for all positions. Indian Diaspora in the larger soci-
Gconducted its election last from Johannesburg, South Africa The ceremony started with a ety and local communities wherever
month and the new team was sworn- as Africa Coordinator; Engineering universal prayer song by Ms. Devika they live,” said Dr. Abraham.
in on March 4th at a virtual Zoom Entrepreneur Deo Gosine (Trinidad Gadhavi, who is a young professional In his acceptance speech, Pres-
ceremony with veteran community and New York) as Caribbean Coor- working for the New York Times. Dr. ident Motwani said, “We will soon
leader from New York Mr. Lal Mot- dinator; Real Estate Investor Ashok Thomas Abraham, Chairman of GO- activate those regions which are not
wani as its president. Motwani has Madan of Southern California as PIO welcomed the participants from active now and we will get all the
been a Founder Life member from North America Coordinator; former all continents and provided a brief councils to become active again. We
GOPIO inception in 1989 and was engineer Harmohan Singh Walia of introduction to the birth of GOPIO need many volunteers to get involved
serving as the International Coordi- Sydney, Australia as Oceania Coor- and many of its achievements in the in the Councils such as Human
nator-at-Large and later as Executive dinator and New Delhi businessman last 34 years. Dr. Abraham also high- Rights, Cultural, Academic, Women,
Trustee of GOPIO Foundation in Dhiraj Ahuja as South Asia Coordi- lighted the great services provided Science and Technology, Youth and
his last term. Others sworn in at the nator. by GOPIO Chapters during the pan- Young Professionals, Media, Health
ceremony are media and communi- The election was conducted ac- demic such as providing food to the and Wellness and on Seniors. We will
ty leader Mr. Umesh Chandra from cording to the GOPIO bylaws by frontline workers at the beginning of officially launch GOPIO Chamber of
Brisbane, Australia as Executive a team of the Interim Committee the lockdown, getting N95 masks to Commerce (GICC) in different parts
Vice President; Los Angeles area which was appointed by the GO- the hospitals, replenishing food pan- of the world.”
community leader Kewal Kanda as PIO General Body Meeting held on tries and sending oxygen concentra- Congratulating the new team,
Vice President, New Jersey business- January 14th consisting of Mr. Ram tors to India when the pandemic was former GOPIO President Niraj Baxi
man Prakash Shah as Global Am- Gadhavi (Wayne, New Jersey, USA), at its highest level. said that the ceremony on March 4th
bassador and former IBM official Mr. Mahavir Arya (Sydney, Austra- “GOPIO chapters around the signifies marching forward for GO-
and community activist Ms. Jasbir lia) and Mr. Mridul Pathak (New world have been doing a lot of or- PIO.
‘Nami’ Kaur as International Coor- York). In a spirit of unity, nominees ganizational ground work in many The program ended with a me-
dinator-at-Large. with multiple nominations withdrew countries to promote leadership in lodious Bollywood celebration song
Five more Regional Internation- from their multiple nominations public service and the thrust have by GOPIO-Edison President Pallavi
al Coordinators were sworn-in as fol- except one, making it a unanimous been to promote and involve the Belwariar.

www.TheIndianEYE.com