Zonal Assignments 2005

Note: In the interest of enhancing the readability of this document, we have simplified the entries by omitting the country names "India", "USA", "UK", and "Canada".

I. Zonal Assignments for GBC Members

Badrinarayan Das

Zonal Secretary for:

California: Southern, except Los Angeles, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming

Co-Zonal Secretary with Virabahu Das for:

California: Los Angeles

Bhakti Bhrnga Govinda Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Mauritius, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia: Volga Region, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria,Yemen

Bhakti Bhusana Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Paraguay

Co-Zonal Secretary with Guru Prasad Swami and Virabahu Das for:

Venezuela

Co-Zonal Secretary with Guru Prasad Swami for:

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua, Panama,Colombia

Bhakti Caitanya Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vaibhava Swami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Eastern Siberia, Russia: Western Siberia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vijnana Goswami, Devamrita Swami and Niranjana Swami for:

Russia: St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk

Co-Zonal Secretary with Niranjana Swami and Prabhavisnu Swami for:

Latvia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Niranjana Swami for:

Estonia, Lithuania

Bhakti Caru Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Madhya Pradesh: Ujjain

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami, Jayapataka Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

West Bengal: Mayapur

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

West Bengal: Calcutta

Bhakti Marg Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Quebec

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami and Hari Vilas Das for:

British Columbia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami for:

Canada: Maritime Provinces, Canada: Prairie Provinces, Canada: The Territories,Ontario

Bhakti Purusottama Swami

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami and Ekanath Das for:

Arunachal Pradesh

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami and Jayapataka Swami for:

Assam,Orissa: Northern & Puri

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami, Jayapataka Swami and Ekanath Das for:

Meghalaya, Tripura

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

North Korea, South Korea

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami, Jayapataka Swami and Bhakti Caru Swami for:

West Bengal: Mayapur

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Bhakti Caru Swami for:

West Bengal: Calcutta

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Prabhavisnu Swami for:

Bangladesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Nepal, Sikkim

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami for:

Bhutan,West Bengal, except Mayapur and Calcutta

Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Purusottama Swami and Ekanath Das for:

Arunachal Pradesh

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhanu Swami and Jayapataka Swami for:

Andhra Pradesh

Co-Zonal Secretary with Ekanath Das for:

Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

Assam, Orissa: Northern & Puri

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami for:

Orissa: Central & Southern, except Puri

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami, Bhakti Purusottama Swami and Ekanath Das for:

Meghalaya, Tripura

Co-Zonal Secretary with Prabhavisnu Swami for:

Myanmar

Bhakti Tirtha Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Guru Prasad Swami for:

Mexico

Co-Zonal Secretary with Kavicandra Swami for:

Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Rio Muni, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zaire

Co-Zonal Secretary with Malati Devi Dasi and Radhanatha Swami for:

West Virginia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Ravindra Svarupa Das and Malati Devi Dasi for:

Michigan: Detroit

Co-Zonal Secretary with Ravindra Svarupa Das for:

Pennsylvania: Port Royal,Washington DC and Potomac MD

Bhakti Vaibhava Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Mongolia, Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Macedonia, Poland, Slovakia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Eastern Siberia, Russia: Western Siberia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Niranjana Swami for:

Belarus, Russia: Kaliningrad, Ukraine

Co-Zonal Secretary with Prabhavisnu Swami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Far East

Co-Zonal Secretary with Sivarama Swami for:

Romania

Bhakti Vijnana Goswami

Zonal Secretary for:

Abkhazia, Georgia (CIS), Russia: Ural Region, Israel

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami and Bhakti Vaibhava Swami for:

Russia: Eastern Siberia, Russia: Western Siberia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami, Devamrita Swami and Niranjana Swami for:

Russia: St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

North Korea, South Korea

Co-Zonal Secretary with Devamrita Swami and Hari Vilas Das for:

Armenia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami and Niranjana Swami for:

Russia: Moscow

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami and Prabhavisnu Swami for:

Russia: South

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami for:

Russia: Golden Ring

Co-Zonal Secretary with Niranjana Swami for:

Russia: Central Region

Co-Zonal Secretary with Prabhavisnu Swami and Bhakti Vaibhava Swami for:

Russia: Far East

Bhanu Swami

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami and Jayapataka Swami for:

Andhra Pradesh

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Sarvaisvarya Das for:

Kerala,Tamil Nadu: Western

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami for:

Comoros, Karnataka, except Belgaum, Lakshadweep, Maldives, Pondicherry, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu: Eastern

Co-Zonal Secretary with Kavicandra Swami for:

Japan

Co-Zonal Secretary with Radhanatha Swami, Jayapataka Swami and Devamrita Das for:

Karnataka: Belgaum

Bir Krishna Das Goswami

Zonal Secretary for:

Fiji, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Hari Vilas Das for:

Oregon: Portland

Co-Zonal Secretary with Hridayananda Das Goswami for:

Georgia (US)

Devamrita Swami

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami, Bhakti Vijnana Goswami and Niranjana Swami for:

Russia: St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vijnana Goswami and Hari Vilas Das for:

Armenia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Virabahu Das for:

Chile,Peru

Giridhari Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Arkansas, Oklahoma,Texas

Gopal Krishna Goswami

Zonal Secretary for:

Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, except Vrindaban

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Marg Swami and Hari Vilas Das for:

British Columbia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Marg Swami for:

Canada: Maritime Provinces, Canada: Prairie Provinces, Canada: The Territories, Ontario

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Golden Ring

Co-Zonal Secretary with Hari Vilas Das for:

Pakistan

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jasomatinandana Das for:

Gujarat

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami, Bhakti Caru Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

West Bengal: Mayapur

Co-Zonal Secretary with Mahaman Das for:

Chattishgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, except Ujjain, Punjab, Uttaranchal

Co-Zonal Secretary with Niranjana Swami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Moscow

Co-Zonal Secretary with Prabhavisnu Swami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: South

Co-Zonal Secretary with Radhanatha Swami and Bhima Das for:

Maharashtra: Mumbai except Chowpatty

Co-Zonal Secretary with Radhanatha Swami for:

Goa, Daman and Diu,Maharashtra: Pune

Guru Prasad Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Arizona, Trinidad

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Bhusana Swami and Virabahu Das for:

Venezuela

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Bhusana Swami for:

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua,Panama, Colombia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Tirtha Swami for:

Mexico

Co-Zonal Secretary with Hridayananda Das Goswami for:

Nebraska, New Mexico

Co-Zonal Secretary with Paramgati Swami for:

Brazil: Roraima and Amapa Portions of Amazon Region

Hari Vilas Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Alaska, California: Northern, Oregon, Washington State

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Marg Swami and Gopal Krishna Goswami for:

British Columbia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vijnana Goswami and Devamrita Swami for:

Armenia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bir Krishna Das Goswami for:

Oregon: Portland

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami for:

Pakistan

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami for:

Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,United Arab Emirates

Hridaya Caitanya Das

Co-Zonal Secretary with Paramgati Swami and Praghosh Das for:

France, except Dole

Hridayananda Das Goswami

Zonal Secretary for:

Tennessee

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bir Krishna Das Goswami for:

Georgia (US)

Co-Zonal Secretary with Guru Prasad Swami for:

Nebraska, New Mexico

Jayapataka Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bolivia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Purusottama Swami and Bhakti Caru Swami for:

West Bengal: Calcutta

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

Bhutan, West Bengal, except Mayapur and Calcutta

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

Assam, Orissa: Northern & Puri

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami and Bhanu Swami for:

Andhra Pradesh

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami for:

Orissa: Central & Southern, except Puri

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami, Bhakti Purusottama Swami and Ekanath Das for:

Meghalaya, Tripura

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhanu Swami and Sarvaisvarya Das for:

Kerala, Tamil Nadu: Western

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhanu Swami for:

Comoros, Karnataka, except Belgaum, Lakshadweep, Maldives, Pondicherry, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu: Eastern

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami, Bhakti Caru Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

West Bengal: Mayapur

Co-Zonal Secretary with Hari Vilas Das for:

Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Co-Zonal Secretary with Kavicandra Swami for:

Singapore,Thailand

Co-Zonal Secretary with Prabhavisnu Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

Bangladesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Nepal, Sikkim

Co-Zonal Secretary with Prabhavisnu Swami for:

Brunei, Malaysia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Radhanatha Swami, Bhanu Swami and Devamrita Das for:

Karnataka: Belgaum

Co-Zonal Secretary with Virabahu Das and Devamrita Swami for:

Chile, Peru

Co-Zonal Secretary with Virabahu Das for:

Ecuador

Kavicandra Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Cyprus, Greece

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Tirtha Swami for:

Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Rio Muni, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zaire

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhanu Swami for:

Japan

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami for:

Singapore,Thailand

Co-Zonal Secretary with Ramai Swami for:

Indonesia

Madhu Sevita Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Belgium, Italy, except Veneto Region and Centro Studio Bhaktivedanta, Luxembourg, Malta, San Marino,The Netherlands

Malati Devi Dasi

Zonal Secretary for:

Florida, except Alachua, Gainesville, and Orlando

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Tirtha Swami and Radhanatha Swami for:

West Virginia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Tirtha Swami and Ravindra Svarupa Das for:

Michigan: Detroit

Co-Zonal Secretary with Radhanatha Swami for:

Kentucky, Ohio

Co-Zonal Secretary with Ravindra Svarupa Das for:

Pennsylvania: Western

Niranjana Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Moldova, New England, North American Festival of India

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami and Prabhavisnu Swami for:

Latvia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami for:

Estonia, Lithuania

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami, Bhakti Vijnana Goswami and Devamrita Swami for:

Russia: St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vaibhava Swami for:

Belarus, Russia: Kaliningrad,Ukraine

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Central Region

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Moscow

Paramgati Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland (and Dole, France), Brazil, except Roraima and Amapa Portions of Amazon Region

Co-Zonal Secretary with Guru Prasad Swami for:

Brazil: Roraima and Amapa Portions of Amazon Region

Co-Zonal Secretary with Hridaya Caitanya Das and Praghosh Das for:

France, except Dole

Prabhavisnu Swami

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Caitanya Swami and Niranjana Swami for:

Latvia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami for:

Myanmar

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vaibhava Swami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: Far East

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami and Bhakti Vijnana Goswami for:

Russia: South

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

Bangladesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Nepal, Sikkim

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami for:

Brunei, Malaysia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Ramai Swami for:

Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand

Praghosh Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Channel Islands, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales

Co-Zonal Secretary with Hridaya Caitanya Das and Paramgati Swami for:

France, except Dole

Radhanatha Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Italy: Veneto Region and Centro Studio Bhaktivedanta, Maharashtra: Mumbai Chowpatty

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Tirtha Swami and Malati Devi Dasi for:

West Virginia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami and Bhima Das for:

Maharashtra: Mumbai except Chowpatty

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami for:

Goa, Daman and Diu, Maharashtra: Pune

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami, Bhanu Swami and Devamrita Das for:

Karnataka: Belgaum

Co-Zonal Secretary with Lokanath Swami for:

Maharashtra, except Mumbai and Pune

Co-Zonal Secretary with Malati Devi Dasi for:

Kentucky,Ohio

Ramai Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

Co-Zonal Secretary with Kavicandra Swami for:

Indonesia

Co-Zonal Secretary with Prabhavisnu Swami for:

Australia, New Caledonia,New Zealand

Ravindra Svarupa Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Austria, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Sweden, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan, except Detroit, Pennsylvania: Eastern

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Tirtha Swami and Malati Devi Dasi for:

Michigan: Detroit

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Tirtha Swami for:

Pennsylvania: Port Royal, Washington DC and Potomac MD

Co-Zonal Secretary with Malati Devi Dasi for:

Pennsylvania: Western

Romapada Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York,Wisconsin

Sesa Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Florida: Alachua, Gainesville, and Orlando

Sivarama Swami

Zonal Secretary for:

Hungary

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Vaibhava Swami for:

Romania

Virabahu Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Caribbean, except Trinidad, French Guiana, Guyana, Puerto Rico, Surinam, Argentina, Falkland Islands, Uruguay

Co-Zonal Secretary with Badrinarayan Das for:

California: Los Angeles

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Bhusana Swami and Guru Prasad Swami for:

Venezuela

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami and Devamrita Swami for:

Chile, Peru

Co-Zonal Secretary with Jayapataka Swami for:

Ecuador

II. Zonal Assignments for Special Committees

European Executive Committee

Zonal Secretary for:

Norway

Vrindavan Executive Board -- Members: Gopal Krishna Goswami, Ravindra Svarupa Das, Sesa Das, Bhima Das, Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radha Krishna Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Uttar Pradesh: Vrindaban

III. Zonal Assignments for Non-GBC Members

Bhima Das

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami and Radhanatha Swami for:

Maharashtra: Mumbai except Chowpatty

Devamrita Das

Co-Zonal Secretary with Radhanatha Swami, Jayapataka Swami and Bhanu Swami for:

Karnataka: Belgaum

Ekanath Das

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

Arunachal Pradesh

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami for:

Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhakti Svarupa Damodar Swami, Jayapataka Swami and Bhakti Purusottama Swami for:

Meghalaya,Tripura

Jasomatinandana Das

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami for:

Gujarat

Lokanath Swami

Co-Zonal Secretary with Radhanatha Swami for:

Maharashtra, except Mumbai and Pune

Mahaman Das

Zonal Secretary for:

Jammu and Kashmir

Co-Zonal Secretary with Gopal Krishna Goswami for:

Chattishgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, except Ujjain, Punjab,Uttaranchal

Sarvaisvarya Das

Co-Zonal Secretary with Bhanu Swami and Jayapataka Swami for:

Kerala, Tamil Nadu: Western