BGP honours three on Gorkha Gaurav Diwas

Suren Singh Rasaily receives the Gorkha Gaurav memento from BGP Working President Dil Kumar Bhandari

GANGTOK, 24 Nov: The Central Programme Cell of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh conferred the Gorkha Gaurav Samman on three - two individuals and a corporate house - in New Delhi on 24 November as part of the BGP’s nationwide Gorkha Gaurav Diwas programme, a press communiqué informs.
At a function held at the NCUI Complex, New Delhi, Suren Singh Rasaily, Dambarmani Pradhan and CK International were held up as the pride of Gorkhas for having excelled in their respective fields and as nation-builders. They were presented with traditional Gorkha scarves and mementoes by BGP president and former Lok Sabha member Dil Kumari Bhandari.
Mr Rasaily, an engineer originally from Darjeeling, worked in the field of Information Technology and was the vice-president of NIIT before he left that company. Today he is involved with a host of IT companies, where as he did with NIIT, he continues to provide to leadership with his innovation and vision.
Mr Pradhan, currently with All India Radio, came to Delhi from Assam and is involved in many community-related activities. He has excelled as a literary writer and translator and has been active in many Gorkha associations in the capital.
CK International, in turn, was cited as a business house that has seen success in a very short time while serving the community by creating employment opportunities. The Gurgaon-based CK International, represented at the function by brothers CK Sharma and Rajeev Sharma, originally from the Dooars, provides BPO services, promotional services and is also in the travel and insurance businesses.
The Gorkha Gaurav Diwas was started by the BGP both to honour achievers in the Gorkha community as well as to hold them up as role models for the young and aspiring Gorkhas.
In her address, Ms Bhandari said that in honouring Gorkhas who have achieved success in diverse fields, the community was also ensuring that the country did not forget the contributions of the Gorkhas in nation-building.
Earlier, six children recited poetry in Nepali to highlight the need for Gorkhas living in different parts of India to make Nepali the family language, seeing how difficult it was for Gorkha children whose language of social interaction was the language of the state or area they lived in. “The loss of their mother tongue can often alienate the children from their community and it is, therefore, all the more important that we inspire them by showcasing our own Gorkha stalwarts and achievers,” said Mrs Bhandari.
The Gorkha Gorkha Diwas is observed by the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh in mid-November every year. On the day, the units of the BGP in 22 states of India line up icons of excellence before the community and the nation as Gorkha Gauravs.