Division of Telugus in US, TATA from TANA

Post the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the division of various influential and networking NGO institutions is bound to happen. So it was easy to guess that Telugu Association of North America (TANA)’s division also would follow suit. On regional divide basis, Telangana people are going to make TATA (Telangana American Telugu Association) operational from 5th April, 2015.

TRS MP from Nizamabad, K.Kavitha is going to attend the inaugural ceremony to be held at Royal Albert Palace in New Jersey. The founder of TATA in North America, Anugu Srinivas reddy from Washington DC confirms the news and says that Telangana people are interested to have a seperate association for themselves and hence he is confident of a whooping membership of above 10,000 on the inaugural day.

TANA, a non-profitable NRI association found in 1977 has been very influential in North America connecting various Telugu people across Atlantic in North America, especially in US and Canada. However, the association was dominated by Telugu people from Andhra region as the majority of Telugus living in NA belong to Andhra region.

Though the Andhra population in North America is considerably much higher (around 8.5 lakhs), Telangana population of around 1.5 lakhs wants to celebrate the diversity by floating a separate NGO. Hence the division of Telugus into Telanganites and Andhrites is going to become formal in America hereafter with TATA’s launch in April.