‘NGI Initiatives’ launches Foundation in its first Anniversary

to create Entrepreneurship & Combat Terrorism
 

Chennai, 8th January, 2009: On the occasion of the 5th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas being organized in Chennai Trade Centre today, Boston and Pune based New Global Indian Initiatives, which is celebrating its first anniversary, has announced the launch of NGI Foundation to impact the Indian society in general and youth in particular in a major progressive way. The Foundation, to begin with, has its avowed objectives as entrepreneurship training, micro-financing of a new generation of social entrepreneurs, and taking up a campaign to combat terrorism and create awareness among the youth of India on issues connected to terrorism.

“The Foundation will seek to identify and train future entrepreneurs from disadvantaged families, and provide them with seed money through bank loans, angel investments and micro financing from our end. Going beyond dependence on government projects and foreign investments, Indian youth needs to create its own entrepreneurial talent pool and initiatives. The Foundation will facilitate this process. To begin with, the Foundation in 2009 will identify and train in entrepreneurship a hundred youths between 20 and 30 years of age, and provide them with the seed capital to start their initiatives”, informed Kanchan Banerjee, an Indian-American from Boston and Chairman of NGI Initiatives. He has already identified several willing angel investors from USA and is in conversation with banking and other financial organizations to implement this goal of the new Foundation.

NGI Initiatives as a monthly magazine and an online portal, www.newglobalindian.com, was launched in the last Delhi PBD of January, 2008, and has been publishing the magazine every month which has now reached a print order of 10,000 copies and is sent to subscribers among people of Indian origin in a total of 16 countries around the world. It is during this first anniversary of NGI Initiatives, that the Foundation has been established and announced.

The India-based partner of the iPremm Chairman Kanchan Banerjee of Boston, Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury, currently the Dean of Pune-based Symbiosis International University, brings in another dimension in the working of the Foundation in the wake of the recent terror strike in Mumbai.

“The recent spate of terrorism in India makes it necessary to create a 360 degrees communication campaign to create awareness about terrorism, its causes and manifestations, and ways and means of tackling it, socially, legally and at individual levels. Hence, the Foundation, in association with the Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, will launch an awareness campaign through workshops, on-ground events, on-air publicity, articles and features, posters and theatre on this issue among the youth of Indian in educational campuses and towns, trying to reach out to a million youth over this year,” notes Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury.

On February 5 next, NGI Foundation and SIMC will organize a Combat Terror Day in Pune bringing together a thousand youth and some stalwart speakers from media, art, culture, defense and social life, for a panel-discussion, a mobile exhibition of photographs and creative expressions against terrorism, and with a leading news channel shooting and telecasting a talk-show.

“Over the next one year, NGI magazine will aim to reach out to every nation in the world wherever a person of Indian origin lives. The NGI Foundation will tap into the knowledge and management expertise of Indian experts around the globe in different business sectors, technological and financial resources of many of our patrons and train and start entrepreneurial initiatives of a hundred graduate youth from disadvantaged families of India. This is apart from the NGI portal reaching out to more than a million of Indians across the world on-line, and a global NGI meet being organized later this year in Orlando of USA,” informs NGI Chairman, setting forth the goals of the year ahead.

For more information, please contact:

India Office

40, B/2 Wing,
Vrindavan Park,
Mahatma Society,
Kothrud,
Pune – 411029.

Contact:

Ujjwal K. Chowdhury.
Cell : +91-93733 11239

Marketing Manager:
Kangkan Mahanta.
Cell: 0-97635-94218

US Office

109, Gulliver Street,
Milton,
MA 02186 USA

Contact:

Kanchan Banerjee.
Cell : +1-617 306 6609
New Global Indian - Connecting India with its Diaspora

NGI launches Magazine & Portal for NRIs and globally linked Indians in the country.




New Delhi, 8th January, 2008: New Global Indian, an initiative of iPremm Inc, a US based (Boston) corporation, and ICONS Media, a Delhi based initiative, today unveiled an online portal ( www.newglobalindian.com) and an offline magazine (New Global Indian) for forward-thinking Indians living all across the globe on the occasion of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas being held between 7th to 9th January at Vigyan Bhavan.

The New Global Indian, a multimedia platform, will play an interactive role and aims to extend knowledge sharing among Indians living abroad and with us in India, for social networking, business and educational networking, and betterment of their lives, thereby further strengthening of India's positioning in the global arena. It is a platform for Indians across the world to express their concerns, views and issues.

"The 30-million Indian expatriates can very positively impact their motherland if they have a chance to find ways to do things in India, with India and also in the countries they are now residing in. There is a great need for the Indians worldwide to take advantage of the globalization process. Through informal and intimate networking using latest technology, ordinary Indians across the world would be able to connect via our various NGI media initiates. Our forum will enable the NGIs to connect, meet, build relationships, share ideas and resources, and improve their own lives and of their families as well as all other Indians," noted Kanchan Banerjee, the Editor-in-Chief of the media initiatives and the CEO of iPremm, now in Boston for the last three decades.

Speaking at the launch of New Global Indian magazine and portal, Prof.Ujjwal Chowdhury, co-founder New Global Indian, and also the Dean of Pune-based Symbiosis International University, said, "With the launch of NGI we aim to create a financially viable multimedia initiative towards the provision of interactive forums as a consistent medium that would bring together Indians living across the globe besides showcasing a wide range of topics that would be of interest to the expatriate Indian audience. The portal in particular has been envisaged on the plank of Web 2.0 as a platform for Indians abroad expressing their views and highlighting their concerns."

"With over 50 million internet users in India and nearly 142 million English daily readers, the market for NGI media in India is as vast as the 31 Million Indians the world over", he added.

Mr. Kanchan Banerjee is the CEO of iPremm Inc, a US-based PR and media company. He is a prominent member of the Indian Communication in USA. Kanchan, originally an IT professional, is an adjunct Professor at Quincy College. He has been involved in starting and running many cultural and social organizations in the U.S.A. Prof Ujjwal Chowdhury has been earlier working for The Times of India group and Zee Telefilms among other media organizations, and has been the Media Adviser of various bodies and organizations, like the Textiles Ministry, Government of India, World Health Organization, and The Nippon Foundation of Japan.

The NGI media through NGI magazine and portal will allow members the opportunity to trade and share all the necessary elements involved in the making of these entities by enabling informative exchange with forums created both online and offline. It plans to embark upon global networking events for NGIs across the world, make films focusing on the lives and times of NGIs, and create other initiatives with the same mission. Thus, NGI media, targeted to serve the Global Indians in the territory of India and the world-over, will soon move into other communication platforms like on-ground events for NGIs in different countries, audio-visual media including cinema, etc.