is  the Director of  Jungle Travels India and Assam Bengal Navigation Company with offices in Guwahati, Kolkata, Delhi and Cochin. Jungle Travels India is the pioneering travel company as the first IATA agent of the Northeast. This company will turn 25 years in end 2014. Assam Bengal Navigation is the pioneer which put India to the international river cruising map with the first long distance river cruising in the country. Both are National Tourism Awards winners, the only companies based in the NE to have achieved this recognition to date. Jahnabi has been an entrepreneur in the travel and tourism, river cruising and hospitality business for over two decades. She is passionate about Eco Tourism as the only sustainable model for the Northeast. A Northeast brand Konyak was created by them in 2008, which is an platform for grassroots artisans of the region. Konyak billed as ‘The Treasury of Native Handicrafts’ operates in Guwahati and Dibrugarh. This has created a sustainable livelihood for artisans and weavers, with the necessary design intervention and product upgradation. Jahnabi is Member on the National Board of Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) under the Ministry of Small Medium Micro Enterprises (MSME) since 2012. She was one of the ten representatives from India in the South East Asian Entrepreneurship Symposium in Dhaka in Feb 2013 and is an Alumni of the US Govt Exchange Program .There were ten women from ten countries invited for this symposium. She is presently the founder Chairperson of India Women Network started by CII in 2013. She is also Member, Executive Committee,CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) of Assam chapter. Jahnabi is an alumni of Indiana University, USA , Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) and Calcutta University.