List of Arya Vaishya people

This is a list of notable people associated with the Arya-Vaishya community of the state of Maharashtra, India.

Government

• Justice SD Gundewar : Justice of the Bombay High Court who led the Gundewar Commission to investigate the Bombay riots in 1992-93.
• Vilas Muttemwar : Minister of States,Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representative from Nagpur
• Sudhir Mungantiwar : Member of the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra from Chandrapur

• Sudhakar Palkritwar : Former Member of Panchyat Samiti,Manora dist-Akola Maharashtra

Tring to Develop the village Poharadevi to a better place

Winner of 2 Krushi Awards from Maharashtra govt.

Industry

• Rajiv Uttarwar : Founder and CEO of PRIYA INTERNATIONAL. PRIYA INTERNATIONAL Founded in 2004 has Associates across the world and deals with Commodities like Urea, Sugar, Cement, D2, M-100, AU, Diamonds, Currencies, MTN, BG etc. PRIYA INTERNATIONAL has International office in Utah, in United States. The company has target of doing business of 1 trillion USD in next five years.

• Mohan Uttarwar : Founder and CEO of Bio-Imagine of Cupertino, CA. Formerly was the President and Founder of SoftPlus, a leading provider of eCRM software for telecom carriers around the world. In February 2000, SoftPlus was sold to US Interactive for $360 million.
• Arvind Uplenchwar : Director (Pipelines), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Voted the best alumnus of the College of Engineering, Pune COEP in 2004.
• PL Bongirwar : Joint Managing Director, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd., Mumbai. Distinguished alumnus award from IIT Bombay in 2001.
• Arun Bongirwar : Board of Directors Videocon Industries. Former Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, the leading civil servant in the state government.

• Sameer Uplenchwar, CPA : Energy analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York, NY. Formerly at KPMG LLP in their Mergers and Acquisition division in New York, NY.
• Manoj Betawar : Co-Founder and Vice President of Sapphire Infotech a software provider for Telecom and Networking Industry. Co-Founder and CTO of Sapphire Automation a leading software automation provider to the semiconductor industry. Has 3 U.S patents.
• Krishna Chidrawar : Propriter of Anant Trading company, Market Yard Jintur.
• Santosh Wattamwar : Propriter of Rudra Trading company, Market Yard Jintur.Bold text
• Santosh Wattamwar : M.Tech in VLSI , VLSI Engr

Academics

Dr. Vijay Ainchwar: M.Phil. Director Of Kanyaka Sahakari Bank,Principal of S.P Collage,Chandrapur,Chandrapur ( M.S ). Dr. Arun Ainchwar: D.H.M.S. Grain Merchant Chandrapur (M.S).

• Dr. Sachin Nunewar: M.B.B.S. From Grant Medical College , Mumbai. M.P.H. ( Masters In Public Health ) , Florida International University, Miami Florida , U.S.A. Doing Residency in M.D. ( Pediatrics) at Mount Sinai School Of Medicine at Elmhurst Hospital Center,Elmhurst, New York.
• Dr. BM Domkundwar : Formerly the Principal of the College of Engineering, Pune COEP, and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Pune, India.
• Dr. VM Domkundwar : Principal, K J Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai. Author of a famous textbook on Thermodynamics.
• Dr. Labshetwar : Formerly the Principal of B.J. Medical College, Pune, India.
• CA. Akash Kokadwar: Chartered accountant,Jintur - providing consultuncy services to MNC

• BE Sarang Chalikwar, Senior System Engineer, Pune- Working with IBM India Pvt. Ltd
• VISHAL JONNALWAR from Wani : B.E.(Mech) , Working as an IT Consultant - SAP (QM), ITC Infotech India Ltd., Bangalore
• Mangesh Uplenchwar from Wani : Manager, vehicle design, Tata Motors limited engineering research centre
• Prafull Jagalpure  : Software engineer,Mumbai ,working in ASPIRTEK pvt ltd.
• Mr.Vishal Vaishya  : Software Engineer,Nashik.
• Chandrashekhar.Shripadrao.Gampawar = Project Manager in Philips Singapore (www.csgampawar.blogspot.com)
• Nilesh C. Zarkar : Founder Of Nikhil Computers, This one is one of the most popular institute in Marathawada
• Suresh Shanmugam System Analyst ,Regal Beloit Corporation . Tamil Nadu .
• Mr.Dnyaneshwar Kamthane : IT Consultant.

• Rajkumar S Palkritwar : MSC Agri working as Asst. Manager in SBI Latur,Maharashtra
• Shreepad Deepak Rewanwar : B.E. (IT) from VIT, Pune.
• Venkat  : Software Engineer, Hyd
• Kamthane Gundappa: Civil Engineer,Latur.
• Naga Mahesh Kumar: Jr.Engineer, Essar Steel Ltd., Hazira, Surat Dist.

• Piyush B. Madhamshettiwar: Research Scholar (PhD),IMB, University of Queensland, Australia. MS Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Leeds, UK. UK-IERI Research Scholar, University of Nottingham, UK.

• Mr.Gangadhar N Jannawar : Msc Agri, L.L.B, C.I.I.B, Ast General Manager in Union Bank of India

G M Rao, a mechanical engineer, is the founder Chairman of GMR Group, the Bangalore based global Infrastructure major. The Group is well diversified and professionally managed with focus on business verticals of Airports, Energy, Highways and Urban Infrastructure including SEZs, apart from interests in Agri-business.

References & External links

• [1] - Distinguished Alumni IIT Bombay 2001 : P L Bongirwar
• [2] - Bio-Imagine : Mohan Uttarwar
• [3] - Indian Oil Corporation : Arvind Uplenchwar
• [4] - Videocon Industries : Arun Bongirwar

• [5] - Arya Vysya marriage link : Sujan Saha