Bellevue lobbies for Indian consulate - Business First of Columbus:

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India hasn’t announced the site, but Debaduttqa Dash, co-chairman of the Washington Statre and India Trade RelationsAction Committee, considers the decisiobn to locate in Bellevue a done Dash estimates that 70 percentr of the region’s peoples of Indian descent live on the because so many of them work at technology companies such as One such Eastside tech Suneetha Pubbaraju, says she sees so many women wearinhg traditional Indian saris around Redmond’s Grass Lawn Park on a Saturday afternoon that she almosft forgets she’s in the United States. After 11 year s in the U.S.
, the software developed adds that she’d welcome a consulatse in the region, and especially on the Currently, Pubbaraju and her family, includingt her U.S.-born daughter, must go to Indian consulates in British Columbia, or San Francisco, to renews visas and Indian passports. who’s also a culturapl trainer at the Bellevue Westin said placing the consulater on the Eastsideis “very essential.
” “East Indian population, Indian companies, most of them are on the Eastside,” he Also enthusiastic, but circumspect, is Tom Boydell, economic development manageer for the city of He considers the decision not yet and is trying to creat the conditions that will ensure that the Indiamn government chooses Bellevue. He’s been active in helpinbg to win a recent grant to erect a statue of Mohandas Gandhi at the Bellevue regional library to honor the fatheer ofIndian independence.
Boydell also has been negotiating with the Indianb community to support more Indian cultural programs withcity “Given the concentration of the Indian populationj on the Eastside,” he “it makes better business sense for the consulate to be on the A peak in the negotiations took place in November at the in where a few local Indian businessw leaders and Bellevue officials met with the Indian ambassadore from Washington, D.C., and the San Franciscoi consul general. “We have specifically explained to them the benefitds of locating onthe Eastside, including the ,” said Akhtarr Badshah, senior director for global community affairs, who attende d the meeting.
He added that he spoke only for notfor Microsoft. The Indian embassy in Washington, D.C., did not replu to several phone calls asking for commenyt onthe decision.