Philippines Business Mission to India at Neerja International Facility on 23rd August 2012

A recent delegation was commissioned by the Philippines Trade & Investment Center through the Office of the Honorable Congressman Mr. Randolph S. Ting to visit India on a Business Mission from 23rd to 27th August, 2012. Mr. Randolph S. Ting is the representing head of Metro PIESTTA which is the 3rd district in the Cagayan province of the main island of Luzon.

Metro PIESTTA's Business Mission entails a vision to become a competitive agriculture-industrial economy, an eco-cultural tourism center and an Information Communications Technology destination with adequate and efficient infrastructure, an empowered labor force, responsive enabling services, in an eco-system that promotes sustainable utilization of natural resources to the hilt.

The Mission's basic idea was to take an insight into building self-reliant village industries and commercial zones in the Metro PIESTTA areas. For this purpose they selected Neerja International which is synonymous with building self-reliant village industries in India in the field of Blue Pottery.

The Business Mission comprising of 25 members of local and national government officials of Philippines arrived at the Neerja International Showroom facility at Anand Bhawan, Jacob Road, Civil Lines, Jaipur, India around 3.30 p.m. on 23th August, 2012.

They were met personally by the owner herself Ms. Leela Bordia who gave them an exhaustive briefing and tour of more than an hour and a half. The tour members were awed by the impressive array and the beauty & grace of the Blue Pottery items. The tour members were particularly interested in the way Ms. Leela Bordia had helped in uplifting the means of livelihood of the villagers and converted their villages into proud and self-reliant business hubs.

Their genuine smiles and words of appreciation spoke accolades for the good work done by Ms. Leela Bordia and her guidance to them for initiating the power of the people and the natural resources of their own regions.

The group members namely Hon. Randolph S. Ting - Head of Delegation, Representative, 3rd District of Cagayan Province, Hon. Perpetua Mila C. Lauigan - Board Member, Province of Cagayan, Mr. Vichael Angelo D. Roaring - Commercial Attache, Embassy of the Philippines, Ms. Catalina G. Banatao & Ms. Lorna B. Pido - Entrepreneurs in Pottery Making, Atty. Raymond Reynold R.  Lauigan - Judge, Regional Trial Court, Department of Justice, Engr. Bernardino G. Mabborang - Provincial Director, Department of Trade & Industry-Cagayan Provincial Office and Ms. Renea Marian M. Cruz - Consultant, UNIDO Philippines were some of the distinguished guests who visited Neerja International.