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e-Vaishali BJANA NEWSLETTER Issue 1 Aug 2020 BIHAR JHARKHAND ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA A 501C NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION BJANA WELCOMES A NEW TEAM FOR 2020-21 AND THANKS THE OUTGOING TEAM OF 2018-19 The year started with the election of the new executive team for the year 2020-21 and thanking the outgoing team for a job well done. BJANA always takes great pleasure in IN THIS ISSUE welcoming Super30 founder and pride of Bihar Shri Anand Kumar. In his address to BJANA welcomes new executive team for the year BJANA family and friends he appreciated 2020-21 BJANA for bringing community together and making it stronger every passing day Pravasi Bhartiya Award to BJANA President Dr. far away from its native land. On behalf of Avinash Gupta BJANA Shri Anand Kumar presented the out-going BJANA president Shri Vinay BJANA's participation in Dance pe Chance organized Singh a photo book beautifully depicting by FIA his presidential journey. Past BJANA presidents, mentors and election Super 30 fame Anand Kumar graced the farewell of committee members were also present. the outgoing team Bihar flood relief final phase successful completion COVID-19 awareness - videos and webinars BJANA Virtual Talent Show, BJANA Kids Talent Show, Gazal Program by Amrish Mishra BJANA at the International Day of Yoga COVID-19 Relief work in Bihar, Jharkhand and USA. Collaborated with Dr. Uma Shankar Sinha of AASTHA in Patna and Mr. Ajay Kumar Jaiswal of ASHA in Ranchi, and SAATH Foundation in Bokaro. Farewell dinner and send off to Hon'ble Shri Sandeep Chakravorty, CGI, NY, USA and welcoming Mr. Randhir Kumar Jaiswal as the new CGI NY. Webinars on Financial Planning and Impact on Higher Education WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 1 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST FROM THE PRESIDENT Happy 74th Independence Day to all BJANA members PRAVASI BHARTIYA AWARD and families. TO BJANA PRESIDENT I welcome you all to the inaugural edition of our DR. AVINASH GUPTA BJANA Newsletter on behalf of our TEAM BJANA. As I look back at all the years, I have spent in BJANA, I In the words of Dr. Avinash Gupta have realized that BJANA has given me more than I himself, \"Community service does have given to BJANA in return. The comraderies, take time but I can tell it’s fulfilling connections, and convictions that came with my and rewarding. Thanks to Indian association with BJANA are priceless. BJANA has in Consulate in New York for fact become my second family. All the emotions that recognition for leadership and characterize a family, like love, connections, contributions in Community Service and challenges are also a part of BJANA. on the occasion of Pravasi Bhartiya We were preparing for our Holi event when Divas 2020.\" the  COVID-19 struck. The BJANA leadership and Dr. Gupta received Pravasi community rose  to the challenge quickly with Bharatiya Award from NY Consulate enthusiasm. I am proud to say that BJANA got for commitment and contributions involved in various projects that were very to community service. meaningful, rewarding, and fulfilling. I understood the higher meaning of being a physician, especially https://worldsystembuilder.com/ even more now, in the time of COVID-19. Our term will be noted as unconventional in unconventional https://partner.netlawinc.com/#/ times. I thank my Executive Committee for awesome teamwork in successfully bringing  so many programs to you, past  presidents  for advice, doctors, leaders, and officials who gave their valuable  time for webinars, sponsors and donors which made BJANA relief work possible with AASTHA in Patna and ASHA in Ranchi,  and finally, the BJANA members who participated in the events we organized. BJANA thanks FIA for its support over the years and mourns the  untimely passing of its Chairman Ramesh Patel Ji. God bless you all. Stay safe, Stay healthy. We will be back with a bang next year. Avinash Gupta, MD, FACC, President, BJANA PH - +1 (732) 598-2480 WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 2 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST DANCE PE CHANCE BY BJANA ORGANIZED A FIANYNJCT FAREWELL DINNER FOR OUR HON'BLE SRI SANDEEP CHAKRAVORTY AND A WELCOME DINNER FOR OUR CURRENT CGI, HON'BLE SRI RANDHIR KUMAR JAISWAL FIANYNJCT organized Dance Pe Chance event which Shri Sandeep Chakravorty with Team BJANA had over 500 participants and 21 performances. Celebrity Judges and distinguished invitees included - DCG NY - Hon'ble Shatrughna Sinha, Actor & Kathak dancer  Prachee Shah Paandya, Actor and Athlete  Prachi Tehlan  and the super 30 fame mathematical maestro  Anand Kumar, who was the Chief Guest. We were proud to see Sri Alok Kumar, President, FIA, also a BJANA executive committee member, as one of the major organizers. BJANA committee member Rohi Singh was one of the EMCEE at the event. Shri Randhir Kumar Jaiswal with Team BJANA BJANA organized a farewell dinner for Hon'ble Shri Sandeep Chakravorty, CGI, NY, USA to thank him for the tremendous support that he has been for us in his tenure. We wish him luck in all of his future endevours. We welcome our current CGI, NY, Shri Randhir Kumar Jaiswal and wish him all the best for his term here. BJANA wishes all its members and families a very WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 3 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST BJANA TALENT SHOWS BJANA came up with their first ever virtual talent show. BJANA members entertained us with poetry, songs and dance, much to the excitement of the audience. The members joined online with the DJ and enjoyed dancing together. BJANA organized a first-ever talent-show for kids, and we are so glad we did. Due to high level of participation, the event was split over two days. We were pleasantly surprised seeing such talented kids perform. Each one left us captivated. Our special guest Sparsh Shah, who was secretly watching the performances, was amazed by the talent showcased by BJANA kids. He also motivated the kids to go after their dreams until they achieve them. Special applause for all our kids who did a tremendous performance. BJANA Kids Talent Show Participants List : Divyanshis Mishra, Shreyansh Singh, Daksh Dwivedi, Dhriti Narayan, Adya Anand, Ahaan Amit, Darsh Goswami, Eshani Goswami, Aryaman Choudhary, Savya Vatsa, Ishi Vatsa, Yeshika Vaid, Krishika Vaid, Shriya Deshna, Anamika Aavya, Shiv Patel, Aayushi Mallik, Akshat Akhouri, Urvi Akhouri, Aahana Anupam, Amrisha Singh, Jasleen Gupta, Anaya Kumar, Ritu Sinha, Mishika Gupta, Mohita Belwariar, Tanush Singh, Ojas Kumar, Navya Sinha, Niti Sinha, Ipsita Barnwal, Vivaan Pandey, Shlok Jaiswal, Ayushman Singh, Shashwat Das, Arushi Kashyap, Anika Kashyap, Satvika Singh, Garima Yadav, Sonit Ambashta, Keya Ambashta, Saanvi Chaurasia, Vanshika Mishra, Adwit Singh, Anaya Singh, Elina Banerjee, Suyesha Banerjee, Anusha Sahay, Adyant Kaushal, Nia Shukla BJANA FLOOD RELIEF WORK - FINAL PHASE In February, our senior member Mr. Alok Kumar coordinated with the Association For Promotion of Creative Learning in conducting a Flood Relief Camp at Patna for BJANA at Ritu Sinha Auditorium. BJANA initiated flood relief in various phases and this was the final phase helping small business owners. This was our last phase of Flood relief where BJANA helped 11 business owners. WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 4 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST COVID-19 AWARENESS VIDEOS BJANA started a awareness video series on our social media to make the viewers aware of the COVID-19 spread, the do's and don'ts, the actual stats. This was done by our own BJANA doctors in the form of small informational videos. BJANA kids also came forward to spread the awareness. The videos were circulated all over our social media and also shared with our people back home in Bihar and Jharkhand. BJANA'S AWARENESS PROGRAM FOR COVID-19 While we try to keep up with these LEFT - Sri Arjun Munda in the BJANA webinar, difficult times, we at BJANA strive hard to RIGHT - FIA Webinar bring to the community, the best possible help and care we can. BJANA, through a BJANA was honored and grateful to have series of Facebook live sessions, brought a Shri Arjun Munda, Hon'ble Minister of panel of reputed doctors along with a Tribal Affairs, Govt of India, Ex Chief meditation expert to the viewers, who Minister, Jharkhand, Hon'ble Shri Sandeep were more than happy to discuss, clarify, Chakravorty, Consul General of India, New and answer the concerns and queries York, USA and Dr. Subir Pal MD, Ranchi related to COVID-19. There were total of 6 along with Dr. Avinash Gupta, President, sessions conducted till date where we had BJANA. great panelists help us out with any and We were fortunate to have Hon'ble every query we had about COVID-19. The Minister of State for External Affairs V doctors who participated in the live Muraleedharan, Hon'ble MP Shri P. N. sessions were Dr. Avinash Gupta,  Dr. Anil Singh, Dr. Krishna Gopal, Philanthropist, Sigh, Dr. Arvind Das, Dr. Nishi Sahay, Dr. Social Worker, & Joint Secretary of RSS, Prabhat Sinha, Dr. Sudhanshu Prasad, Dr. Mr. P. P. Chaudhary, MP, Ex Union Jai Kumar Jalaj, Dr. Sanjiv Sharma, Dr. Minister of State for Law and Justice and Chitra Kumar, Dr. Tanu Pandey, Dr. Sanjay the minister of Corporate Affairs, Kumar, Dr. Archana Naran, Dr. Mukesh Mr. Prem Bhandari, Chairman, Jaipur Foot Roy, Dr. Saumya Das, Dr. Jeewan Mitra, Dr. USA, and Social Activist, Mr. Anand Subir Pal, Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Dr. Meena Kumar, Founder, Super 30, Mr. Anil Bansal, Sinha, Dr. Somya Ramrakhyani and Dr. President, FIA as our panelists on our Ravi Kolli. webinars. WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 5 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST ROAD BACK TO WORK - OUR WOMEN ACHIEVERS TALK A successful talk show conducted by BJANA. Esteemed panelists, Dr Geeta Gupta, Ms. Kushi Sinha, Ms. Prabha Jha and Ms. Nupur Nishith shared their inspiring stories “back to work”. Panelists from varying fields were able to address a multitude of questions from the audience. Audience had an opportunity to ask questions directly to the panelists making the show highly interactive. A first of its kind poll was introduced in a BJANA show to get feedback and generate active participation from the audience. Past president Ms. Anjali Prasad emphasized the benefits of volunteering and getting involved with BJANA. BJANA has been proudly led by past women presidents Dr. Kavita Sinha, Ms. Saroj Kumar and Ms. Anjali Prasad. They all have become our role models. BJANA ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA WITH FIA “Yoga is not a work-out it is a work-in... It’s not just self improvement, it’s self acceptance...” BJANA came together on this International day of Yoga, with the  Federation of Indian Association NY NJ CT  and the  Consulate General of India, NY  for a virtual yoga meet and learn the way to a more balanced life. WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 6 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST COVID-19 RELIEF WORK IN JHARKHAND The BJANA Team and the entire community members are working in full swing during this pandemic to fulfill our commitment towards community service. BJANA’s persistent effort to help the community in every crisis by its on-going relief work. COVID-19 relief work in progress with Mr. Ajay Kumar Jaiswal of Association for Social and Human Awareness (ASHA, Ranchi) in remote villages of Ranchi, to name few areas , Ranchi District, Namkum Block, Lalkhatanga Panchayat, Hurwa & Chandaghasi villages. Uncooked food distribution to families of daily wage earners and migrant laborers, pregnant ladies and those with young children below age 3 is done. BJANA, through its most recent  food drive provided raw food packets to 1000 families in 10 days, which was good to sustain a family of 4 for a week. Along with ASHA, BJANA team has been working for COVID-19 relief with SAATH Foundation in Bokaro. We have provided relief materials in Phusro, Dhanbad. the relief materials included ration, masks and sanitizers. COVID-19 RELIEF WORK IN BIHAR The BJANA Team and the entire community members are working in full swing during this pandemic to fulfill our commitment towards community service. BJANA’s persistent effort to help the community in every crisis by its on-going relief work. COVID-19 relief work in progress in collaboration with Dr. Uma Shankar Sinha of AASTHA in Patna. MISSION 15 DAYS FOR 1500 FAMILIES, 100 families/day (Ration for one month for one family). Uncooked food distribution at Sabazpura, Khaleelpura Slum area of Patna is complete with 150 needy families, at Khagaul, near Kaali mandir, besides nahar (Slum area) of Patna has been completed to the 200 needy families, at the slum area of Teshlal Verma nagar near the Patliputra Railway Station, Patna (Bihar) has been completed to the 300 needy families, at Sabri Nagar area, Patna, etc. WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 7 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST COVID-19 RELIEF WORK IN USA Along with the COVID-19 relief work in Bihar and Jharkhand, BJANA has been working in New Jersey, USA as well. To mention the work areas covered, BJANA has ; - Provided contributions for masks to TheSewStrongProject. - Provided hot meals to staff at COVID-19 testing site at OCC via Salvation Army. - Provided meals to Penn Medicine Princeton Health & St Barnabas Medical Center. - Created 1000 face shield masks. COVID-19 CHALLENGE - FACE SHIELDS AND FACE MASKS BJANA  would like to give a shout-out to our kids who helped us with in our new initiative of making 1000 face-shields/facemasks. This initiative was joined by 31 middle and high school kids. BJANA has been donating these face-shields/facemasks to local school districts and essential workers in local communities in New Jersey and Florida, and also, to the CGI NY and FIA members. BJANA is proud of these your community members for getting engaged in this noble cause of helping and protecting our communities. WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 9 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST DISCUSSION ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON HIGHER EDUCATION BJANA organized a webinar to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on higher education in USA and India. Among the panelists, we had Dr. Anil Agrawal, Professor at the City College of New York, NY, Dr. Hani Nassif, Professor at the Rutgers University, Dr. Narasimhan Sundararajan, retired Professor of the Nanjing Technological University, Singapore and Ms. Megdha Ghaisas, Education Associate at the Indian Consulate in New York City. The discussion areas included new school/college year, F-1 Visas, including CPT and OPT impacts on tuition fees and financial aids etc. FREE WEBINAR ON FINANCIAL PLANNING WITH THE PROFESSIONALS BJANA conducted two free webinars for financial planning for the benefit of our members. We had great speakers including Dr Ravi Kolli on Mental Health, Sanjay Gupta, Chetan Wattamwar and Sangita Datta on Insurance, Mark Stirneman on Will and Trust, Matthew Rowack on real estate, Anil Kumar on Mortgage and Refinance and Harish Kriplani on financial planning. With no cure and no vaccine in sight and cases surging again, Dr. Avinash Gupta spoke about prevention and precautions to be taken. Dr. Meena Sinha spoke about her expertise on naturopathy, a healthy lifestyle and how to boost up our immunity during this unprecedented pandemic. BJANA HELP PORTAL BJANA is proud to launch the BJANA HELP PORTAL. Submit your queries or details of help required to us at the given link below, and we will try to connect you to the best possible help we have among the members in our community. Click here : https://bjana.org/help WWW.BJANA.ORG PAGE 8 [email protected]

Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Aug 2020 E-VAISHALI POST Sanjiv Kumar Sanjiv Sharma A BIG THANK YOU! Santhosh Jha Satyendra Kumar We thank all BJANA members who have been Shaily Jha supporting our people back home in their hour of Shashi Roy need. Your donations have made BJANA COVID relief Shashi Sinha work possible in multiple cities in Bihar and Shatesh Shubhranshu Jharkhand, and here in NJ, USA. We are very thankful Shiwanand Pathak to you for your kindness and generosity. A big thank Smita Sinha you to our generous Anonymous donors as well. Subhendu Maity Subodh Kumar Abhijeet Kumar Bishwanath Sharma Mallika Srivastava Priya Ranjan Subramaniam Abhimanu Singh Cendance Systems Inc Mamta Jain Radhika Mehta Narayanaswamy Abhishek Kumar Chinmay Shrivastava Manish and Chitra Varma Rahul Ranjan Subrat Shaw Aditi Mohan Chitranjan Belwariar Charitable Fund Rahul Yadav Sudeep Mallik Alok Kashyap Debasish Sinha Manish Kumar Rajeev Singh Sudhaker Raj Alok Kumar Deepak Kumar Manisha Agrawal Rajesh Kumar Sugriv Barnwal Amit Anand Dhananjay Sinha Manoj Kumar Rajesh Sahu Sujit Sinha Anand Gupta Dharm Yadav Mansi Chadha Rajiv Akhaury Sunil Ojha Anand Mohan Dharmvir Singh Mantra Rajkumar Udedor Suresh Agrawal Anil Kumar Dheeraj Sinha Minal Gohil Rajul Kumar Sushant Krishen Anjali Prasad Dilip Nikita Jha Mukesh Srivastava Namrata Rakesh Azad TS Swaminathan Anju Singh Dilip Singh Singh Rakesh Kumar Uttam Kumar Ankita Sinha Dipal Parmar Navneet Kumar Rakesh Roushan Vikash Jha Anu Kumar Dipen Banerjee Navneet Prasad Rameshwar Gupta Vikash Kumar Anupam Anupam Divakar Sinha Neelam Prasad Ranjan Akhauri Vinay Singh Anupam Manish Dr. Naren Neeraj Singh Ranjan Kumar Vinita Bhardwaj Anupam Sinha Ellaiah Tapalla Netu Jaiswal Ranjeet Kumar Vishal Sinha Anurag Shrivastava Fnu Vivek Nilendu Srivastava RANJEET SINGH Vishwa Prasad Archana Naran Garima Gupta Nishikant Goutam Ranjit Sinha Vivekanand Singh Arpan Prakash Gaurav Kumar Niteen Kumar Ravi Kaushal Arvind Das Jaya Vatsyayan Pankaj Karan Ravindra Mohan Arvind Prakash Jayant Prakash Pankaj Sinha Rohi Singh Ashish Singh Jayanta Kar Prabha Jha Sam Sinha Ashutosh Kumar Jyotiman Singh Prabhat Sinha Sandeep Anand Atul Vatsyayan Jyotsna Jha Prabish Chaurasia Sanjay K Gupta Avinash Gupta Kumar Ranjan Praful Mishra Sanjay Keshava Baijnath Prasad Kumar Sambhav Singh Pranav Warman Sanjay Prakash Bhaskar Kumar Kumar Sumit Lakshmi Pranit Singh Sanjay Prasad Bhawesh Choudhary Kumari Lakshmi Narayan Pravin Dwiwedi Sanjeet Singh Bikram Chandra Singh Prem Bhandari Sanjeev Kumar Prem Prakash Sanjeev Singh OUR TEAM Executive Members \"We edit your words, your writing, your President Aditi Mohan sentences and Dr. Avinash Gupta Alok Kumar Dr. Anil Agrawal paragraphs... but never Vice President Dr. Anil Singh your voice.\" Anurag Kumar Prabish Chaurasia Rohi Singh - Rogena Mitchell-Jones General Secretary Sanjay Gupta Sanjeev Singh Shaily Jha Newsletter design and editing - Shilpie Sinha Shaily Jha Joint Secretary Sudhakar Raj Dr. Avinash Gupta Pranit Singh Sushant Krishen Sanjeev Singh Vandana Abhishek Kumar Treasurer Vishal Sinha PAGE 10 [email protected] WWW.BJANA.ORG