BCA Organises Annual Dinner Party 2007   BCA will host its Annual Dinner Party 2007, a Bangladeshi Curry Night on 2nd December 2007. The event will mark the 47th anniversary of the establishment of the association and will be attended by Bangladeshi restaurant owners from across the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. Members of the local community are invited to join the Gala night. The event will take place at Hilton Park Lane London (22 Park Lane, London, W1K 1BE). This will be an event to celebrate the achievements of Bangladeshi curry industry in the UK and the role of BCA in promoting the Bangladeshi Diaspora here. The theme for BCA Annual Dinner 07 is ' Tastes to Share, Food to Admire', which provides a focus on Bangladeshi foods so popular among the local citizenry but in a different name. It will help people to remember the glorious past of this food and reflect on the changed tastes it is creating which is being added to British tastes everyday. Bangladeshi chicken-tikka-masala has become the British National dish, as some gourmets prefer to name it. The annual dinner event was launched for the first time in the last year specifically to congratulate and award the organisation's veterans, applauding them for their continuous loyalty and hard work since the inception of the BCA in 1960, and the efforts of community leaders who have devoted their time and effort within their respective institutions and industry. It also recognises and awards the talents of the children of caterers who have achieved higher education at colleges and universities throughout the UK. It is the biggest annual congregation of the restaurateurs engaged in the curry business aimed to, among others, meet and exchange views with other fellow restaurateurs, to share their success and to formulate future policies affecting curry business, to award the most successful entrepreneurs of the year, to meet the high level Government policy makers. A number of other dignitaries including Secretaries, MPs, former Ministers, High Commissioners, and business magnates are expected to be present. Speaking about the event Mr Bajloor Rashid, President of BCA said, "We are looking forward to see our local community coming together to remember the services of our veterans in the curry industry and to encourage our British born children who accomplished excellent academic results despite facing numerous odds. "The 'Tastes to Share, Food to Admire' theme helps us to think about the impact of how Bangladeshi foods have long been admired by the British society over the ages and consider what we can do to work to protect our legacy of food and culture and hand it down to the next generation"- said Mr N R Khandaker Pasha, the Secretary General of BCA. Tickets for what promises to be a fantastic night are just £50 per person and £500 per table of ten. BCA welcomes the participation of friends and family members of anybody related with Bangladeshi curry industry. The Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA), UK Ltd. has been playing a vital role in promoting a bilateral relation between Bangladesh and Great Britain since its establishment. The Association is now proud to represent approximately 10,000 Bangladeshi restaurants and takeaways employing over 90 thousand employees with a turnover of £3.5 billion. The BCA has had a profound impact on the recruitment of skilled and unskilled labourers from Bangladesh (the then Pakistan) and through their knowledge and work contributed greatly to Great Britain's economy of the 1960s. In recent times, the BCA has worked closely with the British government with the sector-based scheme a programme that was introduced to recruit unskilled labour from Third World Countries into the UK's catering industry, renowned for suffering a shortage of labour. Since restaurateurs of Bangladeshi origin own the majority of catering businesses in the UK, the BCA lobbied to ensure that the pool of labour was derived from Bangladesh since unskilled labour originating from non-Subcontinent countries such as European countries would have time and communication related barriers. top