East West Interconnect: February 2014

Friday, 7 February 2014

Visit to Gangtok & Pelling

Kanchenjunga Me n My loving wife

Chow mien and Thukpa Worst road possible NH31A

Roads Nearing Kalimpong

M. G. Marg Around our room and from the balcony

Lots of fog

Stupa

View from Cable Car

Sikkim Leglislative Assembly Rumtek Monastry

Momos Town view from room balcony

Fire place in room Courtesy Denzongpa Regency

From Singtam crossover to South Sikkim road Gayzing then Legship onward into

to Namchi and onward to East Sikkim Pelling West Sikkim then 20 km to Pelling

Into West Sikkim Legship

Netted rock wall construction Mount Pandim Hotel Elgin

Mount Pandim Hotel Elgin

Millet Beer

Anniversary Dinner with Wine and Cake Kanchanzonga!!

Objectives of EWI Development Initiative Foundation

EWI Development Initiative Foundation
(A Sec 25. Company for North East Development)
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Projects /Programs in the North East Region - for Area Development Programs, Social Entrepreneurship, Rural Development & Empowerment & Livelihood Creation in Backward Districts, to include

1. Organic Farming – small holdings and self help groups
2. Primary Health Centres
3. Primary Education
4. Water & Waste Management
5. Social Entrepreneurship Development
6. Skills Development
7. Micro Enterprise Development - eg. food processing

We work out of Mumbai and Pune - for NER Youth Development see http://bit.ly/ewif_youth1.

Write to us at info@eastwestinterconnect.org.in and/or call 022-22672561

You need help, which is why we are here for you ...... Development will lead to peace, progress and resulting prosperity !

Founder & Director of EWI DIF

Rajiv Bhatia is the Founder and Director of EWI Development Initiative Foundation (aka East West Interconnect).

He is based out of Mumbai and Pune he has been connected with the North East since the past 12 years. (Jan 2004)

His focus has been to study entrepreneurship development potential in the NER as a way to the creation of prosperity in the region.

He has a deep desire to help develop leaders and entrepreneurs who could carry the responsibility of capital and investments & create jobs, as a preferred way forward for the development of the NER.

He educated in Mumbai from the Cathedral and John Connon School and then completed his Masters in Commerce with Banking Finance from HR College and Diplomas in Computer Programming.

He has work experience of around 30 years in diverse functional areas of Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, IT & Systems, Finance, Stocks & Investments, Property, Law & Compliances, Marketing, Human Resource Development, Training, Organisational Development & Business Strategy. He has worked across sectors.

He has managed his management service companies, foundations and trusts as well as personal family property and investments.

Today he is well regarded as a Director, Business Counsellor, Strategy Consultant, Entrepreneurship Mentor, Philanthropist and Trustee.

His profile is available online at http://bit.ly/rajivdbhatia

His approach to Entrepreneurship Development in the NER is explained at http://bit.ly/dne2016_start_pdf and http://bit.ly/dne2016_start

You can stay in touch with him. An online form is at http://bit.ly/rdb_fb