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Venue: Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel

Date: 08 September 2015

Time: 5:00 pm for 5:30 pm

Program: To be advised

DHAKA ROTARY NEWS ISSUE 08> VOLUME 79> YEAR 2015-16>Dated 01.09.2015

REGULAR WEEKLY MEETINGS

Today’s Program

Venue: Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel

Date: 01 Septembr 2015

Time: 5.00 pm for 5.30 pm

Program: Details as follows:

Speaker: Mr N K A Mobin, FCA, FCS, CFC

Managing Director & CEO

Emerging Credit Rating Ltd.

Topic: Credit Rating

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September is New Generation Month!

Rotary is committed to “Service to Society” through the five

Avenues of Service – Club Service, Vocational Services,

Community Service, International Service, and New

Generations Service, which are the foundation of Clubs

activity. Club Services focuses on strengthening fellowship

and ensuring the effective functioning of a Club. Vocational

Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their

vocations and to practice high ethical standards.

Community Service covers the projects and activities a Club

undertakes to improve life in their community. International

Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s

humanitarian reach around the world and promoting world

peace. New Generations, they are the future of society, an

enigma well recognized by the Rotary through the New

Generations Service. It recognizes the positive change

implemented by youth and young adults through leadership

development activities and creating international

understanding.

The month of September is New Generations Month,

focusing on the motivation and activation of the New

Generations in Rotary which is comprised of Interact,

Rotaract, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), and

Rotary Youth Exchange programs. Interact is the service

club for young people ages 12 to 18; Rotaract clubs are for

18 to 30 year olds and are either community or university

based; RYLA is the leadership training program for ages 14

to 30; and Rotary Youth Exchange is an opportunity for

selected students to spend up to one year living with host

families and attending school in a different country.

Rotary Club of Dhaka, as the premier club of the country, is

extremely fortunate to have the oldest and most active

Rotaract clubs; Rotaract Clubs Dhaka, Dhaka Premier and

Udayan in the district. The Club is also active in the Rotary

Youth Exchange programs in the District. Representatives

from all of the programs have been instrumental in comm-

unity service on own and jointly with the club, including

Sleeping Kits program, PolioPlus, Dental Camps, etc. Many

of the members of Rotaract clubs are now responsible

Rotarians for present and future leadership of Rotary.

Rtn PP Khandker Badrul Hasan, PHF

Editor

DISTRICT & OTHER PROGRAMS

Venue: None

Date:

Time:

Program:

Registration:

Communication & Bulletin Sub-committee:

Chairman & Editor:

Rtn PP Khandker Badrul Hasan, PHF

Members:

Rtn PP Rafiqul Islam I Rowly, PHF Rtn PP T I M Nurul Kabir MPHF, B, PHS, Rtn Mirza Hossain MPHF, Rtn Barrister Shafayatullah PHF, Rtn Mahmud Hasan RFSM

Contact:

Rotary Bhaban, National Institute for Cancer Research & Hospital (NICR&H) Mohakhali, Dhaka - 1213 Tel: 9892465 E-mail: [email protected] www.rcdhaka.org

Club of Dhaka

esteemed organization. Rtn Md Sohel said that he is

very proud to become a member of such a

prestigious Club and expressed his desire to get

involved in the projects and dedicate his time and

resource in service of humanity.

Rtn PP Rafiqul Islam Rowly, PHF to enlighten the

members about a new project of distributing

Hygiene Kits to the underprivileged girls. The project

is named “Days for the Girls”. Rtn Afroza Akter made

the Chairman of this Project. Rtn PP Rafiqul Islam

Rowly PHF also shared his beautiful experience in

Australia and New Zealand where he has been

travelling.

Rtn PP Capt Md Khaliquzzaman PHF gave the latest

updates of the SKD Project.

The President requested the new Rotarians, Rtn

Quamruzzaman, Rtn Afroza Akter and Rtn Md Sohel

to handover a flower bouquet to the day’s speaker

Rtn DGN F H Arif, PHF. Rtn DGN F H Arif PHF

accepting the bouquet showed a great gesture of

fellowship and presented the same to Rtn PP Rafiqul

Islam Rowly, PHF for his beautiful description of

various places of Australia and New Zealand.

The members present expressed their desire to hear

about the “BDR Mutiny”, which was fixed on

September 08, 2015.

The President expected the following donations and

contributions from Rotarians in various service

projects of RC Dhaka:

i) Rtn Prof Dr Md Abdul Aziz PHF Taka 25,000/-.

ii) Rtn Engr Md Nurul Islam PHF Taka 25,000/-.

iii) Rtn Mirza Hossain MPHF Taka 20,000/-.

The President also reminded all the members to pay

the semi-annual dues. Minutes of the earlier

meeting were unanimously passed by the members.

Club Secretary Rtn Barrister Shafayat Ullah PHF

announced the date of the next weekly club meeting

to be held on Tuesday, 18th

August, 2015 at Pan

Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka at 05.30 pm. Sgt-at-

Arms report was read out by Rtn S A M Yousuf PHF.

There being no other important point to discuss the

President adjourned the meeting.

Rtn Barrister ShafayatUllah PHF

Club Secretary

MINUTES OF THE REGULAR WEEKLY MEETING OF ROTARY CLUB OF DHAKA

HELD IN PAN PACIFIC SONARGAON HOTEL, DHAKA ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2015

Regular weekly meeting of RC Dhaka was held on

Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Club President Rtn Mohd

Nasim Majumder PHF called the meeting to order at

5.30 pm. Rtn Engr Md Nurul Islam, PHF led the

invocation. Rtn Mahmud Hasan RFSM introduced his

guest Dr. Fawzia Hossain, who was the guest speaker

in the Club on 11 August meeting. Birthday and

Wedding Anniversary greetings were offered by Rtn

Afroza Akter.

Rtn Dr Niaz Abdur Rahman PHF B MD presented a

report about SEE Project held on August 24, 2015 in

T&T Adarshaw Girls High School, Mohakhali Wireless

Compound, which published in the weekly bulletin.

Rtn Dr Niaz Abdur Rahman PHF B MD also handed

over to the President the Installation Bulletin of RC

Luyang of Malaysia which he received while visiting

Malaysia.

The President Rtn Nasim Majumder briefed the

members on various projects undertaken by the Club

in August 2015 and also mentioned about the

upcoming projects details of which were published

in the Club bulletins. Rtn Mahmud Hasan, RFSM,

Chairman of the Rotary Children’s Art Competition

on World Peace, explained to the members present

on the project. He also mentioned that the details of

the project are printed in the bulletin.

Rtn DGN F H Arif PHF spoke on the Ownership of the

Rotarians in the Club Projects including Club

meetings. He highlighted the importance of involve-

ment of all the members in the Club Projects. He

emphasized that the members should prepare

themselves to rise up to the occasion and ensure

that they own not only the Club Projects but also a

lot of District Projects as the District 3281 as the

premier Club of the district.

Later Rtn DGN F H Arif, PHF inducted Mr Md Sohel as

a proud member of the RC Dhaka with the classifica-

tion of plastic product manufacturing. Rtn DGN F H

Arif, PHF congratulated Rtn Md Sohel for becoming a

member of an International Community dedicated to

world peace and inspired by the motto of ‘service

above self’.

Rtn Md Sohel in his short speech expressed his

gratitude to the Board and the members of RC

Dhaka for accepting him as a fellow member of this

Meeting Statistics (11-08-2015)

Total Members 59

Members exempted 04

Members Present 21

Percentage of attendance 38.18%

Last week’s attendance rose to 33.92%

(from 27.27%)

Visiting Rotarians Nil

Club Guests Nil

Members’ Guests 01

Sunshine Box Collection (Tk). 420.0

01 September

R-Let Elham

S/o Rtn PP Rafiqul Islam Rowly

03 September

R-Let Mehraz Rahman Chowdhury

S/o Rtn Dr M Rahman Chowdhury

04 September

R-Let Sharmina Ahsan

D/o Rtn PP Samiul Ahsan

R-Ann Dr Hafiza Sultana

W/o Rtn Pro Dr Md Abdul Aziz

05 September

R-Let Abrar Faiaz

S/o Rtn Nasimul Hoq Mazumder

R-Let Carina Teresa Cruze

D/o Rtn Mukut Subal Cruze

06 September

R-Let Emad Haque

S/o Rtn Dalil ull Haque

R-Ann Monira Hasan

W/o Rtn PP T I M Nurul Kabir

None

Project:

Joint Tree Plantation at Bhawal Baria Union

High School & Baria Govt Primary School

RC Dhaka along with 15 other

Rotary Clubs distributed 1000

saplings among the students

of the above 2 schools in

Gazipur District on Saturday,

the 29th August 2015. A few

number of saplings were also

planted in the school prem-

ises. The idea of distributing

among the children was to

inculcate ownership of

upbringing the plant by

themselves and to encourage

them to plant more saplings

each year to ensure a sustainable environment in the

coming days. The recipient children were very happy to

get saplings for their home and expressed that they will

take care of the plants by themselves.

Rotary Club of Bhawal took the lead of organizing the

program and 15 other Rotary Clubs from Gazipur and

Dhaka joined hands with them. About 100 Rotarians,

R-Anns, Rotary Lets and guests from different Rotary

Clubs participated in the

program. PDG Dr. Mir Anis uz

Zaman from District 3282

was also present on the

occasion. Presidents and

representatives from the

participating clubs spoke on

the impor-tance of tree

planta-tion. Rtn Ranjan

Neogi, Rtn Shaheed Siddique

and R-Let Simran (Daughter

of Rtn PP Shaheed Siddique)

participated on behalf of RC

Dhaka.

Nail Cutter Distribution at Baria Govt Primary School

Apart from the tree planta-tion

and distribution of trees the

students of Baria Govt Primary

School were given nail cutter

with a view to maintain their

personal hygiene. This was also

a joint project of the 16 clubs

that took part in the tree

plantation.

The program was followed by

a fellowship lunch sponsored

by RC Bhawal

The participating Rotary Clubs were:

• Aabartan Dhaka,

• Agargaon Dhaka,

• Basundhara Dhaka,

• Bhawal, Dhaka, Dhaka

Heritage,

• Dhaka Kawranbazar,

• Dhaka Mid City,

• Dhaka One,

• Dhaka Paragon,

• Dhaka Premier,

• Dhaka Royal, Gazipur,

• Gulshan Green, Gulshan

Lake City and

• Uttara.

Both programs was covered by a number of electronic

media like 71 TV, My TV and a good number of print

media. The news has also been published in few

national dailies on 30 August 2015.

ABCD (Aust-Bangla Care for Dental) Project Team will arrive Dhaka on September 7, 2015. Two Rural camps in the

schools of Brahmmanbaria (2 days) and SylhetHobiganj (3 days) and one camp will be in Urban area; Mirpur Surovi

School (2 days) Dhaka. Thesecamps will be completed within September 8 to 12, 2015. RAWCS, Rotary Club of Dhaka,

Rotary Club of Dee Why Warringah, NGO Forum and 3 Rotaract clubs will implement the projects jointly. For 12 Camps

in the Rotary year the budget is of Tk 50,000.

The draft Itenary is given below.

Itinerary Aust-Bangla Care for Dental (ABCD) September 2015

Doctors: Dr Sandra Meihubers, Dr Nahid Sayma, Dr Hans Raets and Dr Yvonne

Day Date Activity Requirements Accommodation

1 Tue, 8 Sep Dental team meets NGOF

Attend RC Dhaka 6.30pm

Dear Members, Please

attend weekly meeting.

Guesthouse

2 Wed, 9 Sep Dental Camp Surovi Need RCD Volunteers Guesthouse

3 Thu, 10 Sep Dental Camp Surovi Need RCD Volunteers Guesthouse

4 Fri, 11 Sep Rural camp travel and set up B.Baria

5 Sat, 12 Sep Rural camp Need RCD Volunteers B.Baria

6 Sun, 13 Sep Rural camp Need RCD Volunteers B.Baria

7 Mon, 14 Sep Travel Sylhet and set up Sylhet - location tbc

8 Tue, 15 Sep Rural camp Sylhet Need RCD Volunteers Sylhet - location tbc

9 Wed, 16 Sep Rural camp Sylhet Need RCD Volunteers Sylhet - location tbc

10 Thu, 17 Sep Rural camp Sylhet Need RCD Volunteers Sylhet - location tbc

11 Fri, 18 Sep Pack up and return Dhaka Guesthouse

12 Sat, 19 Sep Free Day Guesthouse

13 Sun, 20 Sep Debrief, travel

Mr. Mobin is one of the sponsor

Directors of the Emerging Credit

Rating Ltd. (ECRL). Currently he is

the Managing Director and CEO

of the company. Professionally a

Chartered Accountant and the

fellow member of the Institute

of Chartered Accountants of

Bangladesh (ICAB) since 1992

and was an Articled student of

KPMG-Rahman Rahman Huq, Chartered Accountants

during 1982-1986. He is also the fellow member of the

Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB)

and a member of the Institute of Financial Consultants

(IFC) of USA. He did completed his BBA and MBA in

Finance from University of Dhaka during 1977-1982.

Mr. Mobin has vast experience in the field of Finance,

Accounting, Taxation, System design, implementation of

computerized Accounting and Management (ERP)

system, Financial Planning, Budgeting, Internal Controls,

Investment Decision, and Company Secretarial Practices.

He has specifically worked for arrangement of huge

financing from local and international Banks and World

agencies couple of times. He had quite some

international training and management courses namely

UPCOMING PROJECTS

N K A Mobin FCA, FCS, CFC

in Stockholm Business School in Sweden, National

University of Singapore, INSEAD in France and also AOTS/

HIDA in Japan.

He has an illustrious 23 years professional career (13 years

in top management and Board position) in 4 multinational

companies. Prior to joining ECRL, he worked at the biggest

multinational telecommunication Co. named

Grameenphone Ltd. for 10+ years in various capacities as

Director Finance, Director Administration, Director

Projects and Company Secretary. Before joining Grameen-

phone in 1998, he worked in the Swiss pharmaceuticals

Co. named Novartis Bangladesh Limited (Ex Ciba–Geigy)

for 3 years as Director Finance and Company Secretary, in

multinational fertilizer company named Karnaphuli

Fertilizer Co. Ltd. (KAFCO) for 5 years as Manager Finance

& IT, and in Swedish Match/STORA named Dhaka Match

Industries Co. Ltd. for 5 years as Chief Accountant.

Mr. Mobin is currently the Vice President of Bangladesh

Society for Total Quality Management (BSTQM) and

Advisor to the Executive Committee of Bangladesh

Association of AOTS Alumni Society (BAAS) for 2015-17.

Being a permanent member of Kurmitola Golf Club (KGC),

he is a regular Golf Player and managed to bag couple of

trophies. He is married and having 3 sons.

Profile of Guest Speaker

Dear Rotarian Member,

Please accept my warm greetings on the first day

and first Weekly Meeting day of September, Rotary’s

“New Generations” month. New Generations refers

to the youngest generation in the family of Rotary.

You all are aware that In Rotary’s calendar,

September is the “New Generations” Month.

One of our club’s major committees is the New

Generations Standing Committee chaired by Rtn Abu

Nawaz Bhuiyan PHF. There are two Sub Committees,

Partners in Service committee chaired by Club

Secretary Rtn Barrister Shafayat Ullah PHF and

Career Guidance Committee Chaired by Rtn IPP

Shaheed Siddique PHF. All Rotarian Chairs are

requested to hold committee meetings and

implement the plans. We have the target of forming

one Rotaract Club, one Interact Club and one Early

Act Club. I am hopeful formations of all three new

clubs are under processing. We Have Three Rotaract

Clubs, Rotaract Club of Dhaka, Dhaka Premier and

Dhaka Udayan. Our Partners in Service Committee

Chair Rtn Shafayat had meeting with the clubs. We

have engaged the Rotaractors in various club

projects like previous years. I would like to request

Committee Chair Rtn IPP Shaheed Siddique PHF to

take some initiatives on Career guidance of the

Rotaractors.

It is the responsibility of each Rotarian to prepare

the New Generations —all young people up to the

age of 30 —by improving their life skills to ensure a

better future, while recognizing the diversity of their

needs. Our Club encouraged to undertake projects

that support the fundamental needs of the New

Generations: health, human values, education, and

self-development. Rotary International’s Structured

Programs for New Generations are: Early Act,

Interact, Rotaract, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards,

and Youth Exchange. We are almost in line of these

activities. This year we shall also sponsor Rotaractors

to RYLA – Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. As

Rotaractors and Interactors, they serve in

communities at home and abroad. Through Rotary

Youth Exchange, they explore new cultures. And as

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards participants, they

learn skills that will help them succeed as future

community leaders. We have the examples in our

Club where a number of ex-Rotaractors are the

proud member of our club and they are maintaining

important leadership roles in the club and District.

Dear members, we have to accomplish number of

challenges to meet the RI Presidential Citations.

Without your proactive involvements it is not

possible to attain. We are representing the oldest

club of long heritage. Please attend the Weekly Club

Meetings.

In this connection we want to see the implemented

suggestions of the Attendance Committee Chair Rtn

Mamun Akbar PHF on how to improve weekly

attendance is working well. In this month we shall

have a joint meeting with all the Rotaractors of three

clubs. Let us celebrate the New Generations month.

As the month will have five Weekly meetings, we

shall have a family get together and Eid-Reunion

Program hopefully on 29th

September, 2015.

Dear members please come forward from your

heart, attend weekly meetings and induce each

other club members to attend the meetings. Please

bring new members.

My Dear Rotarian Members, Please Pay your Semi-

annual Dues.

Thank you all.

Yours in Rotary,

Rtn Nasim Majumder PHF,

President, Rotary Club of Dhaka.

Quotable Quotes:

“Untold blessing have come…..with the conquering of disease and the lengthening of life, but

have we stopped to consider the wonderful growth of understanding…..the expanding

kindliness and goodness in our social relationship? These have come with a very natural desire

to enjoy a higher and higher plane of civilization”

– I B Tom Sutton, RI President (1928-29), 1929 RI Convention, Dallas, Texas, USA

Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first

convention ended. The convention of the Rotary

Clubs of America was held in Rotary’s birthplace,

Chicago, in 1910.

Ever wonder why the Rotary year begins 1 July? The

international convention initially played a key role in

determining the start date of our fiscal and

administrative year.

Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first

convention ended, on 18 August 1910. The 1911-12

fiscal year also related to the convention, beginning

with the first day of the 1911 convention on 21

August.

At its August 1912 meeting, the Board of Directors

ordered an audit of the International Association of

Rotary Clubs' finances. The auditors recommended

that the organization end its fiscal year on 30 June to

give the secretary and treasurer time to prepare a

financial statement for the convention and board,

and determine the proper number of club delegates

to the convention.

The executive committee concurred, and at its April

1913 meeting, designated 30 June as the end

ROVING AMBASSADORS

Name of Rotarian Name of Rotarian Name of Rotarian Name of Rotarian Club Event/Rotary ClubClub Event/Rotary ClubClub Event/Rotary ClubClub Event/Rotary Club DateDateDateDate

Rtn PP T I M Nurul Kabir MPHF, B, PHS RC of Light House Dhaka 15.08.15

Rtn PP T I M Nurul Kabir MPHF, B, PHS RC of Baridhara 16.08.15

Rtn Ranjan Neogi PHF e-Club One 20.08.15

Rtn PP T I M Nurul Kabir MPHF, B, PHS RC of Dhaka Royal 20.08.15

of the fiscal year. This also allowed for changes to

the schedule for reporting club membership and

payments. Even The Rotarian changed its volume

numbering system to correspond to the fiscal year

(beginning with vol. 5, July 1914).

Rotary continued to hold its annual conventions in

July or August until 1917. Delegates to the 1916

event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, approved a resolution

to hold future conventions in June, mainly because

of the heat in cities where most of them occurred.

The next one was held 17-21 June in Atlanta,

Georgia.

The term "Rotary year" has been used to signify

Rotary's annual administrative period since at least

1913. An article in The Rotarian that July noted, "The

Rotary year that is rapidly drawing to a close has

been signalized by several highly successful joint

meetings of Clubs that are so situated as to assemble

together easily and conveniently."

Since the executive committee's decision in 1913,

the end of the Rotary year has remained 30 June.

Source: Rotary News

WHY THE ROTARY YEAR BEGINS 1 JULY

The First Convention of Rotary Clubs

of America held in Chicago in 1910