It was a proud moment for the founder of the popular Barajee restaurant on Broad Street when Princess Anne presented him with his MBE last week.
Dr M G Moula Miah had been awarded the honour in King Charles III’s New Years Honours List and he took his close family down to Buckingham Palace to watch him receive it.
The chairman of the Rajnagar Business Group received the honour to highlight his services to the Bangladeshi community and to charity.
Mr Miah: “I am delighted to have received my MBE honour in the company of my family. It has remarkably coincided with the period of Eid celebrations and is another great achievement for me and my family.”
Mr Miah is a long-established entrepreneur and community activist who is well known across the West Midlands via his award-winning Rajnagar International restaurant in Solihull, operating since 1987, and the Barajee on Westside, which opened in 2002.
The Rajnagar Business Group also has interests in hotels, recruitment, superstores and other businesses in the UK and Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, the Moula Foundation is a family-run organisation which has run charitable activity in Bangladesh during floods, disasters, COVID-19, food shortages and on an ongoing basis over the last three decades.
The foundation has helped to develop schools, colleges, village roads, shelter and prayer facilities in aim of improving the quality of life for those struck with poverty or with difficulties with their standards of living.
Mr Miah, who lives in Solihull, is also currently president of the UK Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry, a mainstream British Bangladeshi business organisation which aims to promote bilateral trade between Britain and Bangladesh.
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