Houston: North American Telugu Association (NATA) launched the convention registration drive with a kickoff dinner on April 13, 2012 at the local Mayuri restaurant in Houston.
The NATA team also held two such events earlier in Austin and San Antonio as part of the greater effort towards the NATA first convention and related Telugu events in Houston.
The event was very successful with over 100 registrations done onsite or promised to do so online, said the organizing team lead by RVP Manohar Medi and Dr. Samba Reddy. This event was sponsored by Manohar Medi and regional coordinators Durga Prasad, Vinod Madadi and Venkat Bontha.
For the last 2 months, the NATA Houston team has been very successfully organizing such community outreach events with the help of regional coordinators team comprising Dr. Rajender Aparasu, Durga Prasad Seloj, Sanjeeva Reddy, Girish RamiReddy, Raghavender Nednur, Siva Konduri, Dr. Manchi Reddy, Narayan Reddy Indurty, Sivarama Sakamuri, Umakanth Potula, Arvind Reddy, Ranapratap Reddy, Chanakya Swamy, Narayana Reddy Gandra, Sai Kumar Mamandur, Srini Peddigari, Ramana Kondapalli, Chandrasekhar Sripadam, and Babu Rajendra. The team explained about NATA, distributed registration forms, convention flyers and information brochures to participants. The team is working hard to make the convention a grand success.
The two main objectives of NATA are to provide community services and to advance the Telugu culture worldwide, said Media chair Dr. Samba Reddy.
The Association has been formed to provide a platform to develop and strengthen the Telugu community identity; to promote the rich Telugu culture among the youth of the community and facilitate interactions with homeland India. This year, the association will be conducting the First Mega Convention in Houston from Jun 29th to July 1st at George Brown Convention Center. Guests and members are encouraged to take advantage of this convention in hometown Houston, and help NATA in doing community services such as health camps, educational, immigration and business seminars. Houston is home to over 15 thousand Telugus. The organizers are expecting over 4 thousand to attend the convention.
RVP Manohar Medi welcomed the guests, RCs, and Chairs & co-chairs of various Convention Committees and explained the ongoing efforts for the NATA convention. Prasad Kalva outlined a brief cultural program. Convener Jithender Reddy and co-convener Harinath Medi also addressed the gathering explaining convention program and registrations. Registration team assisted members with onsite registrations.
There was huge crowd of Telugu guests. Food is part of every NATA event and the team arranged a delicious Andhra bhojanam to all participants, including several children.
