AIA Team Presents An Award To Moti Agarwal

AIA Honors Moti Agrawal at Annual Banquet

Rich Tributes Paid To Ghanshyam Pandey.

CHICAGO – Under the leadership of its President, Hina Trivedi, the AIA hosted its annual banquet during which rich tributes were paid to AIA patriarch Late Ghanshyam Pandey; and the Chairman of Millennium Bank Moti Agrawal was honored. Illinois State Treasurer Michael W Frerichs was the Guest of Honor. Nick Dizonno was the keynote speaker.

AIA (Associations of Indians in America) hosted the annual banquet on 16 Oct 2022 at the Ashyana Banquets near here. In her inaugural speech, moist-eyed Hina Trivedi noted the demise of Ghanshyam Pandey, a big loss to the Chicago community of which he was a gigantic leader. She said Ghanshyam Pandey’s support to the NRIs in Chicago have had far reaching effects in strengthening Indians’ socio-political existence. She described him as the backbone of AIA and narrated how he nurtured the organization to come to the commanding level where it exists today. It need be mentioned that Late Ghanshyam Pandey, 85, succumbed to the old age complications that surfaced post-surgery.

At the event Dr Subhasree Joshi, Kajal Patel, Sujal Patel, AUCI’s CEO Avani Trivedi, and Prem Mehrotra were also facilitated.

Vice President of the AIA, Salil Mishra paid an official tribute to Late Ghanshyam Pandey. He detailed the illustrious biographical account of Late Ghanshyam Pandey’s discoveries as a scientist in the flied of Pharmacology at the University of Illinois where he was a Professor of Pharmacology and headed the department of research in Mood Disorders and suicide prevention. Salil Mishra said that “in his demise, we have lost a great man, a great leader and a great friend of the Indian community.”

Chairman of the Millennium Bank, Moti Agarwal described Late Ghanshyam Pandey as a “good fellow” who excelled in his professional field of research besides being deeply involved in the community politically and socially. At the function, Moti Aggarwal also chaired the Business Panel Discussion that Salil Mishra moderated.

Sujal Patel, Chicago’s top business leader also participated in the Panel Discussion. Later addressing the audience, Sujal Patel announced that AIA is going to start a Business Networking Meet, which will take place once-a-month. He called upon the audience to “overwhelmingly join the Business Networking.” Sujal Patel complemented Hina Trivedi for her AIA’s pro-business community endeavors.
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