Monday, October 7, 2024

BNI Hyderabad region launches World’s first Telugu Chapter, BNI Akshara at Nagole!

Hyderabad, April 2024: BNI Hyderabad region, launched the world’s first Telugu  Chapter, BNI Akshara at Nagole, today. The Telugu Chapter which has forty six entrepreneurs from different business categories as members, held its first meeting with 46 members and 128 visitors at SVM Grand Hotel, Nagole. BNI Akshara will be hosting its Chapter meeting every Tuesday for its members to exchange referrals and business, in Nagole Area. The Telugu chapter enables the members to communicate and conduct their business conversation and transactions conveniently in Telugu language.

During the meeting which began at 8.00 and concluded at 9.40 am, each of the 46 members introduced their businesses and services and exchanged 80 business referrals among themselves. The meeting witnessed five new members being inducted into the chapter, who were administered the oath on BNI code of ethics by Ms Sanjana Shah, Executive Director, BNI Hyderabad Region. Two of the new members, Venugopal Rao Peechara and Nagendra Kumar inducted over six members each to the Chapter and were presented the Gold pin and they became a part of the BNI Gold Club, an elite club of biggest givers.

Over 128 business persons from different walks of businesses attended the meeting as visitors. Several of them were impressed with the meeting and expressed interest in joining the Chapter. The Meeting was attended by Executive Director, BNI Hyderabad Region Sanjana Shah; Area Director Satish Kumar; Asst. Area Director Radha Krishna; Sr Launch Director Kawaljeet Singh; Launch Director Dr Veeramaneni Venugopal Rao; Sr. Director consultant Rambabu; Support Ambassador Vidhyadhar Reddy; Sr. Director consultant Sreenivasulu KM; Director consultant Aruna Vakulabharanam and BNI Dream Team members.

Speaking on the occasion Ms Sanjana Shah said, often entrepreneurs are more comfortable conversing and transacting their business in their mother tongue, Telugu. They shy away from joining BNI due to their not so good English communication skills, as BNI meetings are conducted in English. They are apprehensive of not striking a chord with other members due to this communication gap, which they believe could impact their ability to leverage the platform effectively and generate business. BNI believes language can’t be a barrier to do business, however to make such members comfortable and be a part of BNI, the first Telugu Chapter, BNI Akshara was launched, today. We will be launching more Telugu Chapters in the days to come to provide the benefit of this platform to Telugu speaking entrepreneurs.

BNI, a 39-year old world’s largest business networking and business referral organization, has over 3.2 lakh members across 79 countries and has generated $22.01 bn., worth of business among its members, last year alone. GIVERS GAIN is the core value of BNI and offers its members the opportunity to network, collaborate, share insights, and most importantly Business Referrals.

About BNI India

BNI is 17 years old in India and has 57220 members in 1191 Chapters across 130 cities in the country. The BNI Members in India passed over 35,58,995 referrals among themselves in the last twelve months alone.

About BNI Hyderabad

BNI Hyderabad is 12 years old and is on the verge of touch a membership of 3000. Hyderabad Region’s growth has be phenomenal, especially this year with the region creating a world record by inducting 1000 members on a single day. Hyderabad Region is acknowledged by BNI, as the fastest growing BNI regions in the world.

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