Lokvani Presents Inspire Award - II<br>Narain And Vidya Bhatia

Lokvani Presents Inspire Award - II
Narain And Vidya Bhatia

Nirmala Garimella
11/22/2018

For their path breaking initiatives that helped create many a "firsts" in the Boston South Asian Community, Lokvani is pleased to honor Dr. Narain and Vidya Bhatia with the Lokvani "INSPIRE" award.

â€‹Narain Bhatia has lived in Lexington for 45 years along with his wife Vidya. They have two accomplished daughters--Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia a professor in Medical Engineering at MIT and Sujata Bhatia a Senior Vice President at American Express in London. He graduated with an M.S. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York; B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Sardar Patel University and Adv Dip in Industrial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute in India..

He was a management consulting partner at KPMG in their Boston Office prior to successfully launching Minuteman International a premier firm in the field of fireplace and wood stove accessories and Suitable Match Inc., an Internet based matchmaking organization for Indian Americans. After retirement from business he focused on Nonprofit sector and co-founded Lexington based Nonprofit Net Inc.,which has been successfully bringing nonprofit organizations together and teaching them how to succeed at no cost to them; currently he serves as its Chairman Emeritus

He believes in giving back to community at local level. He has served in Lexington as Vice Chair of Capital Expenditures Committee and founding Director of both Cary Memorial Library Foundation and Lexington Education Foundation, two premier nonprofit institutions in Lexington. He is active in Lexington town affairs where he is a long time Town Meeting Member and currently Vice Chair of the Economics Development Advisory Committee. He served as treasurer at Lexington Interfaith Clergy Association and as a member of Stewardship Council at New England Hindu Temple in Ashland MA.

He believes in grass root politics.. He is former co-founder and President of Massachusetts chapter of Indian American Forum for Political Education, former co-chair of Lexington Democratic Town Committee and pioneer of the latest Lexington movement to increase Indian American participation in the town government with formation of Getting Involved Group (GIG) with remarkable success--GIG now has 18 Indian American Town Meeting Members and several Town Committee appointments.

Vidya has M.Com from University of Bombay and Adv Dip in Business Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute where she was the first woman to graduate.

She worked as internal auditor at Siemens in India and as controller in Campo Industries and Minuteman International in the USA.

She was also active in community, and was the first Indian American appointed to the Fair Housing Committee in Lexington. Her husband says " I used to travel a lot, Vidya managed the home front while working full time and bringing up our two wonderful daughters. She was important part of all my social and business initiatives. I would not be who I am without her."

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