Puran Dang ('59) appointed as Chairman Emeritus of Vision-Aid
India New England NEWS (October 7, 2021)
Vision-Aid appoints Puran Dang as Chairman Emeritus, and Veena Handa as Vice Chair
LEXINGTON, MA–The Board of Directors of Vision-Aid, a Lexington, MA-based nonprofit organization, has appointed Puran Dang as Chairman Emeritus, a life-time position, and Veena Handa as Vice Chair of the Advisory Board for a term of five years, in recognition of their contributions to the cause of the visually impaired.
Mr. Dang has been a community leader for over fifty years. He has founded many organizations of international repute. He founded the very first IIT Alumni Association of the IIT Alumni, which has evolved into PAN-IIT all over the world. Over the last 25 years, he has been Chairman and now Chairman Emeritus of MIT Heritage of The Arts of South Asia – MITHAS and Ekal Vidyalaya. He has played important role in TIE-Boston, Akshaya Patra, Indian Americans of Lexington (IAL), are a few other organizations where he held leadership roles. (Read More)
Puran is a Life-Time Trustee of the IITKGP Foundation US and has written a number of articles for our newsletter in a segment named "Inspiration". Below you can read past articles.
INSPIRATION: A journal by Puran Dang (Class of 1959, IIT-KGP, RP Hall)
INSPIRATION: "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."--Helen Keller
INSPIRATION: Two IIT Kharagpur Alumni take the lead to help the Vision Impaired in India
INSPIRATION: Puran Dang's (Class of 1959) Reflections on Vision-Aid's Annual Event