MR. B.L. PUNJABI

Mr. B.L. Punjabi completed Hotel Management course from Institute of Hotel Management, Pusa, New Delhi in the year 1971. Then he did a diploma in wines from California Board of wines in 1973. He is a member of Hotel and Catering International Management Association (HCIMA), U.K.

Mr. Punjabi is a certified trainer in Hospitality Management from Indian Society of Training and Development (ISTD). He was on the faculty list of I.H.M. Pusa, New Delhi for 15 months and I.H.M. Srinagar, Kashmir for 5 years.

Mr. Punjabi joined Hotel Broadway, Srinagar, a 5 star hotel as Assistant Manager (F&B) and promoted to Manager (F&B). Then he joined JKTDC as Manager of their units and worked with them for a period of 3 years. He has also worked with Hotel Pamposh, Srinagar as Manager for tenure of 1 year.

Mr. Punjabi has an experience of 15 years with Jay Pee Group of hotels as Training officer looking after the training needs of employees of their 5 star deluxe hotels. He left Jay Pee as Additional General Manager Training.

He had practical exposure of about 1 year at Hotel Steignberger Frankfurter Hof, Frankfurt, Germany. He went to Denmark (Copenhagan) on a fellowship from DANIDA for one year and assigned hotel SAS Royal.