Anudip begins expansion into North Bengal
The Indian tea industry in North Bengal and Assam has
been in the doldrums for many years and has led to severe
difficulties among tea plantation workers to make a living.

Anudip has completed a study funded by the Sir Dorabji
Tata Trust to establish that the feasibility of its livelihood
enhancement model that has been proven for the
Sundarbans poor, can be replicated in the northern district
of Jalpaiguri.

Anudip expects to commission the first three Linkage
Centers in North Bengal in December 2009

Anudip Foundation for Social Welfare, a section 25 Indian non-profit company headquartered in Kolkata,
provides enhanced livelihood opportunities for marginalized people through rural training centers that
develop skilled information technology professionals and entrepreneurs

Our vision is to bring India’s IT-based prosperity to rural and semi-urban regions and to create a large pool
of trained workers for the new economy
Anudip India
Three new NGOs join the Anudip family
Continuing its rapid expansion, Anudip has begun
operations at three new NGO locations.  These are Samaj
Unnayan Kendra in Raidighi, Ramanrayanpur Kalika
Sangha in Mandirbazar and Karma Kutir in Kolkata.

Classes have already begun at these centers.

Special Board Session on strategy
development
Anudip India's Board of Directors and senior staff recently
met at its headquarters office in Salt Lake for an intense
tsession to analyze the past year's experiences and set
directions for the coming year. Several new initiatives were
approved and will be developed in the coming weeks.
Anudip Directors, Utpal Ghosh, DK Chaudhuri,
Pradeep Kakkar, Radha Basu, Dipak Basu, Ganesh
Natesan and Arup Das, at the strategy meeting
Leila Chirayath Janah, founder and CEO of
Samasource (front row, in green), with students at
a Anudip Linkage Center
Seen with Anudip staff are Brad Mattson,
entrepeneur and renowned venture capitalist
(front center) and Vicky Mattson, strategy
manager for Santa Clara University's Global
Social Benefit Incubator
Jessica Sawhney, Clinton Fellow
Anudip's Entrepreneur Development
Program received a boost with the arrival of
Jessica Sawhney,
AIF Clinton Fellow.
Jessica, who until recently was with JP
Morgan,  will focus on developing and
testing processes to maximize success of
Anudip-trained entrepreneurs.