Dimapu: In what could be termed a big achievement, a Naga woman launched her own Seven Sisters SPA and Training Academy in Haryana on April 8, 2014. In a small gathering of friends and well wishers, Shashi, a Haryana MLA inaugurated the academy.
A press release informed that Ating Newmai from Jalukie Town, the proprietor of the Academy, was one of the hundred youths sponsored by the State Government in 2009 under Youth Capacity Building and sent to Noida for training.
With a dream of having her own spa therapy centre, she dedicated herself to learning and gaining experience, the note stated. She worked five years in well known spa centres like The Headmaster, and Blossom Kochhar Day Spa in Chandigarh.
According to the release, Ating Newmai chose Haryana instead of Nagaland or any other North East states, because spa culture is not popular in the region yet. “Better get a good training and experience where such culture is popular and practiced in society.”
Asked about placement, she replied, “I can take a good number in my centre and the rest, I have a good contacts with big spa centres and hotels, I will refer to them. There is no problem of employment after training. We need to keep good links. Our youth need to work hard and persevere in their profession.”
On the name Seven Sisters, Ating explained, “It is my dream to reach out to the youth of the seven sister states of the NE India and also we are seven sisters in our family.”
