Mohan Jashanmal Conferred Indian Honor

(source: Khaleej Times)

ABU DHABI — Indian businessman in the UAE, Mohan Jashanmal, has been selected for the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman 2011 and will be honoured on Friday in New Delhi at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD).

Jashanmal, Regional Manager of the Jashanmal National Company (Abu Dhabi) and Chairman of the Indian Business and Professional Group, will leave for New Delhi tonight to receive the prestigious award from Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.

The Indian Government confers this award to Indians living abroad for bridging the cultural gap, furthering brotherly relations, promoting trade and commerce and rendering services to the Indian community in the countries they live.

Jashanmal has been selected for this award for his continued efforts for the promotion of cultural and traditional relations between India and the UAE. Talking to Khaleej Times on Wednesday, Jashanmal said: “Eleven people from the Indian diaspora abroad have been selected for the Samman (honour). I have been elected from the UAE.”

He said: “This is a very prestigious samman from the Indian Government to expatriates living abroad, which has been conferred on me. I feel very honoured to receive it from the President.”

Among his prominent community services is the Abu Dhabi Indian School, which is a premier community school in the Gulf, which came into being in the year 1971. The school began functioning in 1975 from the premises of the India Social Centre, to cater to the needs of the children of the Indian community in Abu Dhabi.