The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bhutanese Society of New Zealand held on July 29, 2011 at Rangiora Community Hall has elected Sudarshan Adhikar as its new president.
A senior member of the community Lucky Rai, vice president of the society, chaired the AGM. Founding chairman Bal Krishna Ghimire resigned a few months ago due to personal problems. There was a huge gathering of Bhutanese people in the meeting. Dilli Ram Neopane, the General Secretary addressed the mass highlighting the major achievements the society made during the year while Pampha Gautam, Treasurer, presented the financial report and other activities carried out to generate financial resources and assets of the society.
“Resettling process is a quite challenging one for all of us and at such time it is important for everyone that we work together to rebuild our life,” the new president said. The new president in his address to the gathering sought continuous support, participation and cooperation of the community members to successfully materialise the future plans of the organisation.
Surya Bahadur Rai, in his vote of thanks, remarked the gathering as the fruitful and historic one.
The society amidst the mass gathering honored seven senior member of the Bhutanese community with a shawl each as a token of respect and declared Mrs Sancha Maya Subba the eldest member of the community.
Following the election, Adhikari called the first executive meeting of the society on August 5 to discuss future plans of the society. The meeting discussed educational issues, resource mobilisation, building relations with other community among others.
The Bhutanese community of Palmerston North has congratulated the new president and thanked him for his interest in community welfare despite himself being a student at university.
Bhutanese Society of New Zealand was established on the third day of December 2008 couple of months after the arrival of second lot of Bhutanese at Palmerston North.
Congratulation to the new team of the New Zealand Bhutanese Community. Hope, our people will recieve the best service from the newly elected team of the organisation.
Congratulation to Sudarshan and the entire team.I believe Mr.Adhikari and his team would do better job for the Bhutanese society of New Zealand.I wish all the best.
By Prem, UK.
Congratulations to the team. A lot of success ahead.
Lakshmi Prasad Dhakal
Amsterdam
CONGRATULATION
Congratulation to the team and leadership for taking this initiative. The Diaspora organization and operation of programs like this are vital for community cohesion and working together. Lets hope that you will be able to take up more responsibilities for the group to work together.
Congratulation to all the newly elected executive members of Bhutanese cummunity of New Zealand. The united effords have been always good result oriented for single member of the society.There are lots many challenges ahead.
CONGRTULATION ! TO ALL THE NEWLY ELECTED ENTIRE TEAM OF BHUTANESE SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND.ALSO I THANK TO MR.BAL KRISHNA A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE TEAM.BESIDE THESE,I HOPE THESE TEAM WILL NOT ONLY LUNCH PROGRAM IN NEW ZEALAND BUT WIL ALSO CONDUCT SOME EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM IN REFUGES CAMPS IN NEPAL.
COngratulaztion to friend Sudarshan Sharma.
Hope your team shall start paving road for Success under yourleadership