The Pravasi Bharatiya Community Service Award is an Indian non-governmental diasporic award

Indian non-governmental diasporic awards

This article refers to awards presented to members of the Indian diaspora by non-governmental organisations.-Objectives and Private Enterprise:Persons of Indian origin residing outside India are an important factor not only for the Indian economy, but also for the international political...

 granted annually by the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), to honour persons of Indian ancestry for their contributions to countries they are members of.

One of the 2004 awards went to Mahendra Chaudhry

Mahendra Chaudhry

Mahendra Pal Chaudhry is a Fijian politician and the leader of the Fiji Labour Party...

, a former Prime Minister of Fiji. In 2005, the recipients of the award were:

• Ganesh Chand
  Ganesh Chand
  Dr. Ganeshwar Chand, better known as Ganesh Chand, is a Fijian academic and former politician of Indian descent. He is a founder of the University of Fiji and serves as a Trustee of the Fiji Institute of Applied Studies and as Editor of Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji .From 1999 to...
  
  , a Fiji
  Fiji
  Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
  
  an politician.
• Diljit S. Rana, of Ireland.
• Dr. B.R. Shetty, an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist based in Abu Dhabi
  Abu Dhabi
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  , UAE.
• Sudha Acharya, executive director of the South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS).
• Pavan Kumar Darisi, of the World Arya Vysya Mahasabha (special recognition award).