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Chamber of Commerce was 1982. However, he continued to take keen interest in the work of the Chamber making the fruits of his experience available to successive general committees. In recognition of his services to the Chamber, he was appointed Permanent
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British government. Sital was able to extract repeated assurances from the British that the interests of the ethnic minorities would be taken care of. This problem however, was solved satisfactorily and all
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Chamber. The years of his leadership saw many 'firsts' for the Chamber. He led the first-ever Chamber delegation to China in 1979 and the first-ever delegation to India in 1981, which had the privilege of being received by the then Prime Minister Mrs.
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Another organisation with which Sital was closely associated for a long period is the Hindu
Association. He was President of the Association for several years and continued to devote a lot of time to this body which, among other things, manages the Hindu Temple in
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Headquarters in New York and to the banking institutions handling the problem in London. These prolonged negotiations over a period of two years resulted in what was under the circumstances the best possible settlement.
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Hong Kong. Elected to this honorary office in 1986 following a long and close association with the chamber. Was chairman of the chamber in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1978, 1979,1981 and 1982.
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decades ago that Sital first mooted the idea and pursued it vigorously with the Indian authorities. The proposal seemed to gain ground and a site in the
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entrepreneurial talent. But success in business was not enough for Sital. He felt the vast reservoir of talent represented by the
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