Foreign Chamber Council Executive Meeting

Attached are some photos taken during our Foreign Chamber Council executive meeting on July 6, 2010 at Queens Restaurant. This is the formal turnover of chairmanship to FICCI:

Attended by:

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce
1. Pres. Ramesh Dargani
2. IPP Chairman Ram Sitaldas
3. former VP Dilip Budhrani

Singapore Philippines Association
1. Mr. Peter Tay

French Chamber of Commerce
1. Pres. Didier Chalumeau
2. Henri Ortis

Philippine Finland Association
1. Pres. Petteri Makitalo

Israel Chamber of Commerce
1. Pres. Isidor Gilan

Spanish Chamber of Commerce
1. General Manager Fernando Munoz

Taiwan Chamber of Commerce
1. Vice Pres Peter Lin
2. Mr. Jason Nien
3. Hon Chairman Philip Chien

Eye Camp at Makati Police Station June 19

Eye Camp at Makati Police Station
June 19, 2010

Oath Taking at OSG Office for Naturalization

We are happy to inform the members that nine ( 9) Indian nationals endorsed by your Federation obtained the approval of their petitions for Naturalization.

The following successfully took their oath on June 23 , 2010 at the Office of the Solicitor General ;
1.) Ravi Laxmandas Idnani
2) Rajesh Laxman Idnani
3) Navin Ishwar Sadarangani
4) Anju Uttam Dargani
5) Geeta Chutani
6) Neetu Rijhumal Melwani
7) Rajiv Vinod Kumar Hardasani
8) Janoo Vinod Hardasani
9) Reshma Gurmukhdas Mirpuri

Interested parties who wish to apply for Filipino Citizenship may submit their applications thru the Federation.

For further inquiries please call FICCI secretariat office at telephone nos. 814-0918/ 844-7222 .

Eye Camp in Paniqui Tarlac June 26

Eye Camp in Paniqui Tarlac
June 26, 2010

Pictures of the recently concluded Eye Camp in Paniqui, Tarlac can be found in the ePaniqui Online Facebook. Please check out this link to see pictures of the FICCI Eye Camp at Paniqui, Tarlac:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=20098&id=121014507917586#!/album.php?aid=20098&id=121014507917586

Congratulations to the FICCI Team that was there and represented the Chamber in the City!

For those members / individuals / companies that would like to sponsors succeeding eye camps please touch base with the FICCI Secretariat...look for Ellen.

Below is the Secretariat's Report of the Paniqui, Tarlac Eye Camp:

Our Eyecamp held last June 26 in Municipal Hall of Paniqui, Tarlac was successful. About 318 patients benefited from this eyecamp.

The room where we conducted the check up is good as it is has aircon and big space. The Ik Onkar provided snacks ( porridge & drinks ) for the patients.

There were 3 optometrist with me + Larry & my son Kson who helped Larry in dispensing reading glasses. Mrs. Sethi also helped us.

The constituents of this eyecamp were mostly senior citizens. They looked happy and grateful to FICCI.

The new Mayor of Paniqui, Tarlac Hon. Miguel Rivilla arrived and thanked the group of The Ik Onkar and Mr. Sethi who represented the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce.

Media personnel from local networks were also invited to covered the eyecamp, they also interviewed Mr. Sethi for local news coverage.

We briefly met the Vice Mayor Gin Linsao she sent her appreciation to FICCI.

Please visit their official webpage www.epaniqui.com for some pictures