Thursday, 31 January 2013
Monday, 21 January 2013
Indian winner Binning Lyngkhoi to use prize money to treat ailing father
Indian winner Binning Lyngkhoi to use prize money to treat ailing father
Lyngkhoi Binning may not be happy as far as his timing is concerned, but he was nevertheless delighted with his win yesterday. The USD 6,500 (approximately Rs 4 lakh) will help him treat his father, who is suffering from tuberculosis.
Defending champion Binning clocked 2:21:16 to emerge the fastest Indian among the men's full marathoners in the eighth edition of the Mumbai Marathon yesterday. Angad Kumar (2:24:32) and Ram Singh Yadav (2:25:33) finished second and third respectively.
Binning, who hails from a small village in Meghalaya, said he desperately needed the money for his father's treatment.
"We were taking some temporary treatment, but doctors had advised us to take him to a specialised hospital as his illness is quite severe now.
"There is no proper medical facility where I live. To provide better treatment, I have to bring him to a city hospital. But I didn't have enough money for that. Thankfully, after this win, I can immediately start my father's treatment. I will speak to the doctor now and get my father admitted in a good hospital rightaway, probably in Bangalore or Mumbai because these two cities have some of the finest medical facilities," Binning told MiD DAY.
Binning wanted to collect the money himself and so never sought any help from his employers, the Indian Army.
"I wanted to do as much as I could for my father. I was confident of doing well in the Mumbai race, so I didn't ask anyone for help," he said.
Though, Binning was yet to talk to his father about his win, his brother heaved a sigh of relief when he learnt of the victory.
"He was relieved when I told him that I won. He said was: 'ab pitaji ka ilaaj achche se kar paayenge' (We can now give a better treatment for our father)," Binning signed off.
Lyngkhoi Binning may not be happy as far as his timing is concerned, but he was nevertheless delighted with his win yesterday. The USD 6,500 (approximately Rs 4 lakh) will help him treat his father, who is suffering from tuberculosis.
Defending champion Binning clocked 2:21:16 to emerge the fastest Indian among the men's full marathoners in the eighth edition of the Mumbai Marathon yesterday. Angad Kumar (2:24:32) and Ram Singh Yadav (2:25:33) finished second and third respectively.
Binning, who hails from a small village in Meghalaya, said he desperately needed the money for his father's treatment.
"We were taking some temporary treatment, but doctors had advised us to take him to a specialised hospital as his illness is quite severe now.
"There is no proper medical facility where I live. To provide better treatment, I have to bring him to a city hospital. But I didn't have enough money for that. Thankfully, after this win, I can immediately start my father's treatment. I will speak to the doctor now and get my father admitted in a good hospital rightaway, probably in Bangalore or Mumbai because these two cities have some of the finest medical facilities," Binning told MiD DAY.
Binning wanted to collect the money himself and so never sought any help from his employers, the Indian Army.
"I wanted to do as much as I could for my father. I was confident of doing well in the Mumbai race, so I didn't ask anyone for help," he said.
Though, Binning was yet to talk to his father about his win, his brother heaved a sigh of relief when he learnt of the victory.
"He was relieved when I told him that I won. He said was: 'ab pitaji ka ilaaj achche se kar paayenge' (We can now give a better treatment for our father)," Binning signed off.
Friday, 4 January 2013
8th North East Business Summit
Dear friends from North East India
A very happy new year 2013 to you!
As a veteran of the North East Business Summits run by the Indian Chambers of Commerce (ICC) of Kolkata, I will be attending the 8th North East Summit in New Delhi on January 9th & 10th at the Le Meridian. This will be the 6th summit I would have attended since 2003. The details are online at http://bit.ly/8thnebs
I have recently promoted the EWI Development Initiative Foundation (aka. East West Interconnect, website at www.eastwestinterconnect.org.in) as a Sec. 25 Company, not for profit. The purpose is to assist in bridging the Western India Region (mainly Maharashtra & Gujarat) with the 8 North East States in a manner to contribute to North East Development. The activity focus would be on Entrepreneurship Development as I do believe that it is only when North East Entrepreneurs match their counterparts in the rest of the country, will true prosperity be created in the North East. Partnering with Western India Enterprises and Investors would be an asset for North East Entrepreneurs. To better understand the North East Region, advocacy for and about the region is required in Western India.
The sectoral focus includes:
1) Hospitality – 3 & 4 star hotels, Motels, Resorts, Heritage Properties, MICE & restaurants
2) Hospitals & Wellness – Small hospitals (25-50 rooms) and clinics, SPAs and fitness centers
3) Sports – Infrastructure and facilities (grounds, stadiums, courts, golf courses etc.) training – private and public
4) ITaS – IT as a service – Hosted Solutions for SMEs – cloud computing, virtualisation and open source development
5) HRD – Education – coaching & training for the above sectors
6) Environment
a) Water Management
b) Waste Management
7) Townships & Rurbanisation, including rurban market areas
8) Power Infrastructure - Hydro & Thermal Power, Solar Power
9) SME's in
a) Agro - bamboo, agriculture, horticulture, sericulture
b) Animal husbandry - pigs & cattle
c) Poultry
d) Fish farming
e) Apiaries
f) Manufacturing
g) Handicrafts
My team and I would take up such projects on a turn key basis covering - market studies, product/service positioning, feasibility, business strategies & plans, identification and negotiation with service partners (HMCs etc.) identification and negotiation with debt and equity investors and related documentation. East West Interconnect would address Entrepreneurship Development - HRD – Education – coaching & training for the above sectors. Our consulting arm, Advanced Strategies Pvt. Ltd. would assist with commercial project inputs. Bee Management Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. would assist in bringing in overseas participation, as the project may require. If you wish to be a sponsor of East West Interconnect, I would be pleased to discuss your participation & involvement.
I would be happy to meet you in New Delhi on January 9th & 10th at the Le Meridian and discuss your requirements, based on which a proposal would be provided to you later. Please note that Advanced Strategies Pvt. Ltd. which would assist with commercial project inputs charges fees customized to suit project requirements.
My assistants Ms. Vinika Kasar & Ms. Hiral Shah are available in Mumbai at 022-22672561 and emails to info@astrategies.com would reach them and me.
So if you own property, have some start up funds to invest and a zest to develop your entrepreneurship prowess, lets go together.
yours truly,
for East West Interconnect
Rajiv Bhatia
Promoter & Principal Mentor
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Naga IAS officer builds 100-km road in Manipur without govt help
Times of India
Manimugdha S Sharma, TNN | Nov 3, 2012, 10.26PM IST
IMPHAL: Villagers of Manipur's Tourism sub-division in Tamenglong district are a busy lot these days. At least 150 of them on a daily basis are clearing away a thicket with their machetes and daos. Some are lugging away heavy branches of recently felled trees; and others are operating bulldozers and earthmovers to give themselves the "best Christmas gift ever".
Theirs is one of the remotest corners in the country, where the India shining story has not yet reached; but the villagers are part of modern India's most ambitious road project embarked upon by one man, a young Naga IAS officer, without any funding from the government.
A 2005 graduate from St Stephen's College in Delhi, Armstrong Pame is the sub-divisional magistrate of Tamenglong, his home district, and the first IAS officer from the Zeme tribe. He has, of his own volition, begun the construction of a 100-km road that would link Manipur with Nagaland and Assam. Incidentally, the Centre had sanctioned Rs 101 crore in 1982 for the construction of this road, but for some unknown reason the project never took off. "Last December, then Union home minister P Chidambaram visited Manipur and asked what happened to the road.
The state government declared that it would be 'done soon', but nothing moved on the ground. Then in June-July this year, there was an outbreak of tropical diseases like typhoid and malaria. It takes two days for anyone in the village to make it to the nearest hospital on foot in the absence of a motorable road. Hundreds of patients had to be carried on makeshift bamboo stretchers, but very few made it to the town alive.
Also, town doctors were unwilling to come to the village because of its inaccessible terrain," Pame told TOI over phone from Tamenglong.
Perplexed and frustrated with the situation, the officer decided to reach out to doctors in his friend circle. A woman friend agreed, and Pame promised to sponsor her stay. "She treated over 500 patients and conducted quite a few minor surgeries. Many lives were saved in this way; but I realized how perilously poised the situation was in the absence of a road. That was the catalyst," Pame said.
To construct an all-weather, motorable road in an area untouched by the progress made by Independent India in the last six decades was an uphill task. And with no help coming from the government, Pame turned to his family and well-wishers.
"Armstrong and I grew up in a village in Tousem amid a lot of hardships. Our father was a schoolteacher and had a limited income. We used to walk down to the district headquarters—about 60km away—and carry 25 kilos of rice back home. It used to take us four days to go and come back and the rations used to last for two weeks. When we came to Delhi for higher studies, we would survive on biscuits for days without enough money to buy food. The remoteness of our village ruined its economy; and we knew that unless there was a road, there would be no development. So, when Armstrong proposed to undertake the venture, we all threw our lot with him," said Jeremiah Pame, an assistant professor at the Delhi University and elder brother of Armstrong.
"My wife and I donated our one month's salary, Armstrong paid five months' of his, and our mother paid our dad's one month's pension of Rs 5,000. Our youngest brother, Lungtuabui, recently started working. He donated his entire first month's pay for the project," he added.
Manimugdha S Sharma, TNN | Nov 3, 2012, 10.26PM IST
IMPHAL: Villagers of Manipur's Tourism sub-division in Tamenglong district are a busy lot these days. At least 150 of them on a daily basis are clearing away a thicket with their machetes and daos. Some are lugging away heavy branches of recently felled trees; and others are operating bulldozers and earthmovers to give themselves the "best Christmas gift ever".
Theirs is one of the remotest corners in the country, where the India shining story has not yet reached; but the villagers are part of modern India's most ambitious road project embarked upon by one man, a young Naga IAS officer, without any funding from the government.
A 2005 graduate from St Stephen's College in Delhi, Armstrong Pame is the sub-divisional magistrate of Tamenglong, his home district, and the first IAS officer from the Zeme tribe. He has, of his own volition, begun the construction of a 100-km road that would link Manipur with Nagaland and Assam. Incidentally, the Centre had sanctioned Rs 101 crore in 1982 for the construction of this road, but for some unknown reason the project never took off. "Last December, then Union home minister P Chidambaram visited Manipur and asked what happened to the road.
The state government declared that it would be 'done soon', but nothing moved on the ground. Then in June-July this year, there was an outbreak of tropical diseases like typhoid and malaria. It takes two days for anyone in the village to make it to the nearest hospital on foot in the absence of a motorable road. Hundreds of patients had to be carried on makeshift bamboo stretchers, but very few made it to the town alive.
Also, town doctors were unwilling to come to the village because of its inaccessible terrain," Pame told TOI over phone from Tamenglong.
Perplexed and frustrated with the situation, the officer decided to reach out to doctors in his friend circle. A woman friend agreed, and Pame promised to sponsor her stay. "She treated over 500 patients and conducted quite a few minor surgeries. Many lives were saved in this way; but I realized how perilously poised the situation was in the absence of a road. That was the catalyst," Pame said.
To construct an all-weather, motorable road in an area untouched by the progress made by Independent India in the last six decades was an uphill task. And with no help coming from the government, Pame turned to his family and well-wishers.
"Armstrong and I grew up in a village in Tousem amid a lot of hardships. Our father was a schoolteacher and had a limited income. We used to walk down to the district headquarters—about 60km away—and carry 25 kilos of rice back home. It used to take us four days to go and come back and the rations used to last for two weeks. When we came to Delhi for higher studies, we would survive on biscuits for days without enough money to buy food. The remoteness of our village ruined its economy; and we knew that unless there was a road, there would be no development. So, when Armstrong proposed to undertake the venture, we all threw our lot with him," said Jeremiah Pame, an assistant professor at the Delhi University and elder brother of Armstrong.
"My wife and I donated our one month's salary, Armstrong paid five months' of his, and our mother paid our dad's one month's pension of Rs 5,000. Our youngest brother, Lungtuabui, recently started working. He donated his entire first month's pay for the project," he added.
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