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LADIES NITE FELLOWSHIPCLUB ASSEMBLY

DISTRICT AWARDS

R OTARY T W EETS - Vindhya Sanjana

Dear All, pertinent responses. We welcomed all Over the course of the last year, hundreds This column was aimed at allowing our responses and at times were overwhelm- of tweets came in. I do hope you keep in members a platform in which to air their ed with them also, the idea was to be touch with me atthoughts, grievances, and to basically FREE, FRANK AND FEARLESS in vindhyasanjana@yahoo.com or SMS / have a voice. We presented a new topic voicing your thoughts!! Time will tell

Whatsapp or even call me on 9423103916 every month and published your whether the voices were heard by the / 9890715526. responses with your photos. powers that be of our Club, but for now,

Prizes were awarded to three most this is my last communication. Thanks and God bless!

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Last month we asked you “Name a project and area of service under which it would fall which you believe is worth taking up in the next Rotary Year 2015-16”

Hi vindhya,To me best thing to take up is to rehabilitate the kids begging on signals , we work against child labour but never raise a voice against such people who force them for begging, maybe after eradication of polio in coming few years we might force the law to help such kids

Sandeep Vaid

stWinner 1 Prize

I think there are m a n y s u c h projects. Hemalkasa ?Udaan for sure.

Walkathon. Blood Donations. Surgical Camps. There are so many. I though, would also like Youth fest, International Food Fest & Micro Credit to be restarted. Ultimately its the President's call! Manju Shahani

Hi vindhyaEARTH is EH withouta Art...My Art is my writing, my imagination,I would choose column writing in GO.. And scripting for fellowships.

N reciting poems for a change,,And raise a toast when ever get a chance.Rotary has given me so many chances to grow, to learn, to show my talent,, etc etc..Hence... I will work n work n work till i can for this awesome super active club!!!Thnx Veenita pasari

" h o w excellent is m y o w n bus iness , v o c a t i o n ,profession

-- A self Analysis on a structured basis to assess where am I in Ro ta ry ' s i dea l o f Service thru excellence in own vocation"---- vocational serviceVilas Kale

How about "Be nice to Rukshad" project.....sorely needed and will be much appreciated.Rukshad Bhagwagar

Each Rotarian to pledge expenses on education and school uniforms of at least 1 girl child from among children of his/her Sweeper/Maid servant/Gardner/ Cook/Driver for RY 15-16.2. Each Rotarian to pledge making at least One senior citizen in the family, neighborhood computer literate.In a special program in December, these 750+ children and senior citizens will be invited and a few will share their experience.3. At Club level to construct and monitor at least 5 toilets each in 5 schools in nearby municipal/village school. The three projects suggested by me would come under RI's areas of Focus viz. Literacy and water and sanitation.I suggest that these committees have are monitored by separate Directors rather than clubbing them under Community service non medical.

Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee

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Project that comes to my mind for 2015-16 is "eLearning" in our "Literacy-TEACH" Program. It is something we can easily relate to and also because the program will define Rotary in the next 100 years. Education is and will be the cornerstone of Rotary.

Vijay Naidu

rdWinner 3 Prize

One project on traffic management should be done to target adopting 5 intersections, which have heavy traffic but are either unmanned or where signals do not operate. These can be properly done up, traffic lights and zebra crossings painted, and adopted for a year. This would come under Community Service, as well as PR

-Nimish Sutaria

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THURSDAY TH O U G HTSinto fragments but three soothsayers, who warned me By narrow domestic walls about the ides of March.Where words come out from the depth of The 1st very wisely made me aware of the truth changed dynamics of the club. I said to Where tireless striving stretches its arms him that I shall set my own dynamics & towards perfection people shall see our club in a new light.Where the clear stream of reason has not The 2nd troubled soul said that this is a lost it's way totally chairperson driven club- what will Into the dreary desert sands of dead habit u achieve?Where the mind is lead forward by thee I said friend, have you not heard of the Into ever- widening thought & action famous toast ? "Here's to Boston -where Into that heaven of freedom my Father let Lowells speak only to Cabots & Cabots my Country awake. speak only to God?"

Good day, my Rotary family ..... Into that heaven of freedom my Father Similarly, the CPs look up to the Directors let my Club awake. & the Directors look up only to the

After a year of untiring & dedicated President. So if the President is not active service to our club as it's President, I Now, I will request each of you to read - the directors are not driven & if they are would like to take your leave and every single line, carefully, & judge not driven, the poor chairpersons drive farewell, but would like to share a few yourself honestly- is your mind without away! final thoughts with you, my Rotary fear? The third was a lady so I shall refrain from family. commenting. She very kindly informed

I must candidly admit, that the wonderful me that our club runs itself, the President When I started writing this message, the years spent in Scindia School, had a very is just a figurehead. whole year went by through my mind in a strong bearing on my character as it is I smiled & said- Amen.flash, for no rhyme or reason my today, of being a perfectionist. I know it is So my dear family, savour the coffee, not wandering mind settled on the poem irksome when applied to teamwork. But, the cupswhich we had to recite every morning at as you all can see, the ends are worth The happiest people don't have the best of The Scindia School Gwalior, my Alumni, unperturbed mind, proper budgeting (I'm everythingas part of our morning prayers.aware of my nickname - the budget They just make the best of everything It hit me that every line of this wonderful president), consolidation and teamwork Live simply, Love generouslypoem, penned by Noble Laureate are the pillars that support any Care deeply, Speak kindlyRabindranath Tagore, is so apt even organisation. For we have just this one lifetoday. It applies to all walks of life, to our

club, to our members. Most of you know Before I step down and pass on the torch I sign off with a goodbye for now, for, a it but for those of you who do not to Rtn Khushnoor, there are three things president I was - but a Rotarian I shall remember, let me jostle your memory-----that I just have to get of my chest, dear always be. Thank you dear friends for family so bear with me. being so supportive & involved.Where the mind is without fear and the

head is held highWhen I was nominated as Vice- Bharat GoenkaWhere knowledge is freePresident, I too was cautioned by not one, PresidentWhere the world has not been broken up

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Shakespeare, in As You Like It, V.1.2217 wrote “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool”.

whether money or organs, and also create awareness amongst non-Rotarians. To make it a complete magazine, we brought in even non-members writing on Like the same proverbial fool, even I travel or on various topics “In Short”. The thought I was wise, when I took on the idea was to again involve people from challenging assignment of editing an outside and at the same time give award winning magazine. In my last something to whet their interest. Once they communication as Editor, it is time to take find a magazine with some general content, stock and hold up the mirror for a reality even the casual readers can be exposed to check. Rotary. Every issue had many new We set certain goals at the outset, and contributors – whether writing features or clearly presented them to the members, reports. The number of people was more went ahead and even printed them in than 100 eventually spread across 12 August last year. permanently allocate a couple of pages of issues, indicating we have succeeded in the magazine to the young lot of Interactors The issues from August to this last one in involving so many more who otherwise and Rotaractors, to create their own July, put together, represent a day by day were dormant. (Photos on Pages 28-30)

st th c o n t e n t , s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r t h e i r account from 1 July 2014 to 30 June Hectic social and professional calendars generation(s). The idea was not for them to 2015. We have chronicled for posterity, need to be managed. The attractive write poetry or articles, but rather to give every event in this Rotary year, and centerspread calendar aimed to move from them a platform and enable discovery of reported as they happened without fear or the limited scope of the erstwhile tear away innate creative talent.favour. strip, and offer a bird's eye view of the Undoubtedly, the entire Committee was a month including club events / projects / This was the first year when we actively source of support through the year in rotary dates / birthdays and anniversaries / sought opinions from readers on popular ensuring that not a single issue was delayed the city's cultural professional events, all defects and to engage with them by inviting in release, and have my deep gratitude. It colour coded for ease of understanding.their ideas and comments through the would be remiss to not specially thank Tweets Column. One very important need is for an Sharmila and Shivkumar Rao, who have organization to look outside for The magazine can no longer be considered been extremely important pillars of inspiration. To that end, the magazine to be an internal bulletin. Of this I am support, advice, my sounding boards and covered various rotary and non-rotary certain. We are engaged in service to also a treasure trove of ideas. Chinu, our projects from other parts of the world. society, and this, The Golden Orange is the designer who did the very difficult job of These can give us ideas for the future, most potent tool to share, communicate, converting my hair- brained ideas into because surely there are replicable and advertise, publicize, involve and engage reality, has been truly patient and amazing. relevant.with the world at large. By world, I mean I have literally harangued and pestered him potential and current sponsors and It is gratifying that we have definitely to do the most challenging tasks, but to his financial supporters, as well as future managed to increase readership, singular credit, he always delivered with a members and well-wishers. Through the particularly amongst non-members. We smile. year, we ran columns to demonstrate the have been placing the magazine in public

invaluable work which we carry out in the As I sign off, I am reminded of one of my locations, to spread awareness of Rotary service to society, by attempting to most favourite expressions, written by and our club in particular. The magazine quantify the outcomes of individual Richard Bach “What the caterpillar calls has endeavoured to, and ensured that our activities and projects, both in numbers and values as an organization were safeguarded the end of the world, the master calls a value. and every voice was heard. butterfly”.

Nimish SutariaSpecially designed inserts were used One failure I have no hesitation in Editorthrough the year to inspire people to give – conceding has been the inability to

JUST SAYI N G ...

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Probus - the RCN's extension club held sleeplessness. The members were program on “Insomnia for senior informed about sleep cycle, the causes citizens”recently at Chitnavis Centre. and hazardous effects of sleep deficit. The At the onset of the program IPP Rotarian members were given the feel of PMR Prashant Kale and President Bharat Exercises and Relaxation techniques.Goenka informed about the Probus group Dr. Gidwani made the members aware and their energetic activities. Rtry Ann about the importance of l ight , Neeru Bhatia introduced the speaker, temperature and sound in the room when Ayurvedic Physician & Corporate trainer you sleep. Various issues related to sleep Rotarian Dr. Bharati Gidwani. She like medication, snoring, dreams, e x p l a i n e d v a r i o u s a s p e c t s o f sleepwalking, talking in sleep were

discussed in the question answer session. Rotarian Rakhi Bhatia put in lot of efforts for the success of the program. PP Rotarian Rajan Bhatia and PP Rotarian Gulab Mahant were prominently present during the program. The members of Probus club highly appreciated the program.

PR O BUS29th May

W EEKLY MEETI N G – Katha Kathan 4th June

story telling. Written by Vilas himself, his stories involve people and incidents which most of us can relate to and instances which we are well aware of.A couple, married for a good many years, knowing each other's idiosyncrasies is faced with a situation where the wife thinks her husband is going rough The second story was around a political something like male menopause. She

background, about a woman who marries thinks that it's not the same man she into politics. She realizes only too quickly married, say thirty years ago. She wants There were two stories, one of a married that she had been used by her husband and him to behave with norms that go well couple having their homely domestic set her dignity is hurt. To get her pound of with her circle of high society and elite of problems and the other was more flesh she decides to blackmail them by friends. The husband on the other hand is politically oriented about a rustic yet by now quite fed with the socializing writing an autobiography which would

ambitious woman! scene and would rather spend his time in show the world what these people It's always nice and even comforting to his haven which for him is his home. They actually are. have an inhouse speaker, the audience is take counseling and at the end the Introduced by Anita Chitaley, vote of at ease and to add to our comfort what counsellor realizes that sometimes it's thanks was by Parag Paranjape. Once could be better than to hear stories! best to leave couples the way they are! again thank you Vilas was a lovely katha This was katha kathan by Vilas Kale on Vilas's diction and narration were so good kathan session!the 4th of June. It's not the first time we one could almost visualize the frustrated Anita Chitaleywife and the somber and cool husband. have heard Vilas and his simple style of

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R o t a r y ) A k a s h A g r a w a l , USP of this skit was that all actors Mohammed Master and Pranav communicated by using the very popular Singhal regaled us with superb dialogues of Hindi movies. In between thHeld on 7 June at the Centre Point Hotel, dancing. there was a dance by our very pretty

this last fellowship of Team 14-15 was as After this there was a short skit showing Rotaryannes on Chittiyaan Kalaiyan and promised - full on fun, laughter and Jangu Singh firing his 3 cooks with the one by the 'stylebhais' of Rotary doing a glamour. In just 7 days of practice the support of his Manfriday Behram, for popular mime act on the music.organising committee led by the very giving him vegetarian Food. How he After the performances, the stage was talented Madhavi Naidu put up a shivers when his wife speaks and how he kept open for all our budding and fantabulous show. is terribly excited when a pretty foreigner seasoned dancers to show their moves The evening started with an enactment of invites his family for a meal. As usual and enjoy grooving to a fantastic Veeru telling Basanti not to dance (a Shabbir Shakir, playing the overweight collection of songs played by the DJ.famous scene f rom the movie Jangu kept us in splits.All in all, a fantastic evening !Sholay).The Fab 4 including Shilpa This was followed by one more skit

A g r a w a l ( D a n c i n g Q u e e n o f showing a Rotary Meeting in session. The -Hetal Sampat

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F O URTH CLUB ASSEMBLY7th JuneThe assembly was called to order by the President at 9:30 AM after a 5-Star breakfast that he had specially arranged. Half a minute silence was observed in memory of the departed. This was a Joint Club Assembly of both the boards i.e., Board 14-15 & the incoming Board 15-16. The incoming board gets appraised of to read out the reports of work done a clear picture of all projects and activities during the year.undertaken during the current year, for PDG Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee summed

ththem to carry on. held on 19 March, 2014. The President up proceedings of the entire meeting and Hon. Secretary Manjot Kahai read out the then called upon Chairpersons of Hon. Secretary Manjot Singh Kahai minutes of the previous Club Assembly proposed vote of thanks.different committees, under all Directors,

VO CATI O N AL TRAI N I N G9th June– Paranjpe School

A workshop was organised at Bal Sadan, Paranjpe School, Khare Town, Dharampeth, Nagpur.The Inmates & Teachers were trained in Envelope making from waste unused papers.The workshop was conducted by Rt.Ann Sadhana Paliwal. She was assisted by RtAnn Asha Joshi & Rtn Sharad Paliwal.They were also given an order to make Envelopes for our Club Greetings.-RtAnn Sadhana Paliwal

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W EEKLY MEETI N G11th JuneThe meeting was animal conflict and the steps taken to

mitigate the same in and around the called to order by tiger reserves of Maharashtra. President Bharat Conflict means unable to coexist, Goenka and a incompatibility, change in behaviour, half minute silent loss of habitat, loss of water and food p r a y e r w a s source. As of 2014 there are 190 observed. The 4 tigers in Maharastra, 406 in way test was Karnataka and 348 in Uttarakhand. r e c i t e d . T h e Maharashtra consists of 20% of President called forest cover. The basic reason for the

out the Birthdays and anniversaries. conflict is food, space and shelter, Rtn. Pratap Chandarana regaled the forests etc. It is necessary to provide deforestation, agriculture. 100 years ago audience with a power point presentation alternative employment to the people of the world population of tigers was on his trip to the US and his visit to One the surrounding villages to reduce 100,000 and the human population was Rotary Centre at Illinois, Chicago. conflict. A lot of self help groups, Village, less by 6 billion humans.The dais was then handed over to Mr. There should be a proper corridor for Ecosystem development committees Meipokyim Aier – Addl Principal Chief tigers to increase their survival rate. The have been formed to impart training to Conservator of Forests (East). He along main reason for this conflict is the the villagers so that they have alternative

survival of the man and the beast. with his team which included Mr Reddy – means of livelihood.Uneducated men tend to hunt in the Director – Pench Tiger Reserve Vote of thanks was proposed by Rtn. forest, do agriculture bordering the highlighted the many reasons for man Vinay Thakur.

DISTRICT AWARDS 2015 14th JuneNasik

It was the day of reckoning for the Chief Guest. The awards presentation assembled Rotarians as the stage was set was done at the hands of District for acknowledging work done by Clubs Governor, Dada Deshmukh, who was and Rotarians of our District. The District flanked by PDG Ramesh Khanzode, PDG 3030 Awards for the Rotary year 2014-15 SangramsinghBhonsle and DGE (16-17) were to be announced soon. The venue Mahesh Mokalkar. In order to

Bharat, Secretary Manjot, Treasurer was perfect; the sprawling Gupta Lawns acknowledge good work done by clubs Kapil, Directors Monal Malji, Prashant on Gangapur Road at Nasik was packed smaller in size by membership, the Rajurkar and Mamta & Manish Jaiswal. with some 350 odd Rotarians from District, this year, instituted awards under Of the total 36 awards, our club had various locations of our District 3030, two categories – clubs with membership applied for 32. We were nominated for 24 ranging from Gondia in the East up to of less than 63 and those with awards of which, we were finally Nasik in the West. The ceremony was membership of more than 63.

Our club was represented by President presented with the following 14 District graced by PRID Ashok Mahajan as the

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club awards and 5 individual awards/ of serviceThe individual awards/citations citations:were presented to Mamta Jaiswal Best work done for Polio Plus, Physically for 'Support of IYE activity', PP Handicapped, Literacy promotion, Shabbir Shakir for 'Outstanding Tribals, Best Community Service, Best work as District officer'. President Internat ional Service act ivi t ies , Bharat Goenka was presented with Outstanding Vocational Service activity, 'Best President Zone XVII' & 'Keep Upliftment of Women in society, Blood India Polio Free' awards and 'RI donation, Best bulletin, Best Interact

Rotary Club of Nagpur Ishanya and Presidential Citation'.activity, Best Rotaract activity, Trophy for Rotary Club of Jalgaon who were found All these awards were dedicated by upliftment of women during Silver to be very active and also won several President Bharat to the members of our Jubilee year, Rotary wheel of honour for important awards during the function.club and their families. This awards outstanding work done under all avenues Rtn. Ashok Mahajan, DG Dada function also was a Deshmukh and PDG Madhu Rughwani, testimony to the in their brief but impressive speeches m a s s i v e interspersed with Hindi & Urdu couplets, humanitarian work admired the work being done by being rendered by

various clubs of our Rotarians of the District and also exhorted District 3030, in the gathering to work for and contribute India and abroad. more objectively towards TRF.Special mention The ceremony culminated with singing of may be made here of the National Anthem.

DISTRICT AWARDS 2015 14th JuneNasik

TAKE R OTARY H O ME15th JuneIt was a wonderfully planned evening Music it was, and Rotarians sang to their parcel. Patodi rassa, vaange-chi-bhaji, with all the elements....normally a hearts content on karaoke...leading the patal-bhaji, aloo-bhaat, srikhand, Monday would not have been ideal, but floor was PP Sati...the game that followed basundi, and the list goes on....food is this day was different.... dressed smartly was innovative and Veenita got people to

always the main part of the evening and in ethnic Maharashtrian attire came the show their sportsmanship!!! PP Sati had a everyone forgot their calories that day!!!Rotarians and their spouses!!!! quiz on Rotary that caught some off-

Behals are known for their interest in guard!!! Special thanks to Amita and Rajiv Behal music and their beautiful home warmed Food brought by the Rotarians was indeed for offering their lovely home, and to up to the guests. Rotary fellowship is authentic Maharashtrian fare and a Veenita for coordinating the evening with always enjoyed best at each other's homes gastronomical delight...be it snacks or the

full honours!!!and when it is mixed with some fun main course dishes, food was aplenty and games, the participation is total. some lucky ones even got a take-away Vijay Naidu

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LADIES C O MMITTEE18th June

traditional songs say and speak everything that we see, feel and want. They are the mirror of our day-to-day feelings. And our ladies very well did it all!!O n t h e b e a t o f Tabla.... we danced to the tunes of Punjabi, Marwari, Marathi While coming to the end of tenure, the

and Sindhi folk songs. The Ladies Committee decided to give this tapping feet and applause said it year a simple singing adieu by dedicating moment for all of us.all; that it was indeed an enjoyable an evening with folk songs. Our -Nidhi Gandhi

scholarships. Tejaswini of Guru Gobind great feeling and appreciated by the school secured 98% in her 10th exam. audience with equal enthusiasm. It was a Rtn Namita Sharma announced that under pleasant surprise to witness this new Project Dignity, toilets were being avatar of PP Shabbir. It was excellently constructed in Sevanand Vidyalaya

compered by Veenita Pasari and I must which has about 700 underprivileged mention I never knew Rtn Mohammed children studying. The children had no Master has such hidden talent. Each of the access to toilets so were forced to defecate

in the open. 9 toilets, 4 for boys and 5 for 5 participants were awesome and it was girls have been built with the help of an enjoyable evening made all the more Rotary club of Nagpur. President Bharat Goenka started the fun by Mohammad's friends who hooted The President with a beaming smile also meeting by observing half a minute and cheered for him. The evening was a mentioned the 19 District awards won by silence for the departed soul of Rtn grand finale for the program committee our club which is a milestone by itself. Pavneet Singh's mother who passed away during President Goenka's tenure. The compere of the evenings program on June 18th. After the birthday and R'ann Veenita Pasari kickstarted the Throughout the year the Programs Anniversary greetings, he congratulated program in her own unique style with a committee under the Directorship of Rtn Rtn Sachin Paliwar for taking part in shayaari and introduced the 5 participants Rina Sinha have been churning out very Bravity(ie) he cycled 200 kms in 13 PP Shabbir Shakir, Rtn Rajiv Behal, Rtn interesting and innovative programs and hours. Mohammed Master, Rtn Beena Mattew

they saw to it they ended the year in a Rtn Sandeep Dhodapkar, Chairperson of and R'ann Anagha Jaiswal. Shayaaris on the Scholarship committee announced poetic way. various topics such as love, rain, alcohol, one of the beneficiaries of the - Shalini Naidu.God and philosophy were delivered with

W EEKLY MEETI N G 18th JuneEk Behtareen Shaam, Shaayarana andaz mein....

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B O O K D O N ATI O NNikhil Bhumralkar, is an Interact members collected whole lot of books and Manjot, Director Namita, Interact President of I West Ranch High School of sent them to us bearing all the expenses of Chairpersons Ritika, Chetna, Anisha and California State. In the month of May, he shipping. There were two cartons of Shalini and other Rotarians were present contacted us as he wanted to setup a books. We decided to donate these books

on the occasion. library in one of the underprivileged to St Ursula Girls School. school in India. His Interact club President Bharat and Jyoti, Secretary Team Interact

The Scholarships Committee, at an good performance of the students and also impressive function organised by thanked the Rotary Club for their support.St.Ursula Girls' High School, gave the academic careers of 151 deserving, but needy students of the school a boost by presenting a cheque of Rs.3.775 lakhs to the Principal, Rtn.Rachna Singh, under PROJECT SMILING FACES.President spoke on the occasion and exhorted the students to progress in studies and continue their dedication towards academic pursuit while maintaining that the ultimate aim is to become a good human being. Chairperson Rajiv Behal also gave a motivational speech to the students and thanked all the donors who contributed large heartedly towards sponsoring the students. He also assured the school and the students of even further support wherever required. Principal Rachna Singh informed the audience about the

Dhodapkar.-Sandip Dhodapkar

Students of St.Ursula offered their thanks by singing prayers and hymns. The program was attended by the first couple President Bharat and his wife, Hon. Secretary Manjot Kahai, PDG Vishwas, PPs Gulab Mahant, Rajan Bhatia, Vijay

Bharat Goenka Naidu, Shabbir Shakir, Akhtar Parvez Maimoon, Tauby Bhagwagar and a host of other Rotarians and Anns together with Chairpersons Rajiv Behal and Sandip

SC H O LARSHIP DISTRIBUTI O N – St Ursula Girl's High School24th June

From across the world 24th june

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thOn 25 June, 2015 PPs Gulab Mahant and Shabbir Shakir along with Chairperson Rtn. Sandip visited Prabodh Educational Trust, which not only supports students in schools at Butibori but also complements education imparted in schools by assimilating formal education and imparting life skills in the students. Rotary Club has sponsored 30 such students and a cheque of Rs.75,000/- was duly handed over to Mr.Prabodh, the Managing Trustee, by Rtn. PP Gulab Mahant.

-Sandip Dhodapkar

SC H O LARSHIP DISTRIBUTI O N25th June– Prabodh Educational Trust

For the last time in his tenure, president awards meet.Bharat Goenka began the meeting by · U d a a n - A d a y l o n g spelling out the Four Way test. Secretary cultural event attended by Manjot Singh Kahai read out the minutes 750 physical challenged

thof the meeting held on 7 May 2015. They children. were approved by the members present. · S t r a t e g i c p l a n n i n g Treasurer Kapil Bahri presented the committee came into persons were also felicitated with gifts. accounts. President Bharat announced the existence for the first time. A book by This part of the award ceremony was decisions taken at the board meeting Rtn Sati Khanna is in the pipeline. conducted by Shilpa Agrawal and Sapna especially regarding awards to be · CSR committee Vastani. Rina Sinha did the final honors established in the memory of late Shri · Surgeons on behalf of the club were the by honoring “Man of the Moment” Arun Bhargav and Mrs Sahani (w/o PP first ones to perform surgeries in “the president Bharat Goenka. Shri D K Sahani). state of the art O.T. at Hemalkasa in

Past president Sati Khanna summed up as Parag Paranjape extended an invitation to 2014”.“You have just now witnessed the all present for the installation ceremony · Skin bank –brainchild of IPP Prashant panorama of activities on the screen. of President elect Khushnoor Chugh on Kale inaugurated.

nd Leadership is never single, it is plural. In a Thursday the 2 of July. · Pedo Pathshala. 350 school children of well run organization the success cycle is President conveyed the details of district Hemalkasa were sensitized as to how to on account of new leaders springing up. awards received by our club. keep their teeth clean and healthy. They are our future presidents. A special The president presented “A Few · Disha- In January 2015 career guidance word of appreciation for the first lady Mrs Glimpses of our Rotary Year”. Some of was rendered to 510 school children at Goenka. “Bharat raj” mein wakai ache the striking events are as under: St Ursula School. din aaye, aur ab khushi hi khushi aayegi · 25 members added to the club during · Project dignity at Sewanand Vidyalay, Khushnoor ke raj me”.the year. Koradi. Nine bathrooms to be handed

th Vote of thanks was offered by Secretary · For the first time Rotary Carnival was over on 26 June 2015.organized. With a whooping response Manjot. He spoke from the heart. He · At Snehangan of MSS- Matru Sewa of 1400 Rotarians. expressed that it was an interesting year Sangh, 3000 sq feet totally renovated

th· Walkathon with 5000 participants was a and genuine team work has resulted in area shall be handed over on 29 June great success. for the benefit of physically challenged fourteen awards and five citations at the

· The skit on women empowerment children. district awards meet. presented at the happy street sponsored The president along with the first lady and The meeting ended with the National by Times of India. the secretary handed over the awards to Anthem.

· Golden orange. There is no parallel to it the directors and other office bearers of - Sharad Bhaveas expressed by all present at the district his team. Subsequently all the chair

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PR O JECT DI G N ITY26th June

open, which we find against hygiene and we handed over the newly constructed, below dignity. Hence we decided to work ready to use toilets to school. President on the Project Dignity. We have Bharat along with Jyoti, Secretary constructed 9 toilets there. Four for boys Manjot, President Elect Khushnoor, PP and five for girls. For last one month, Gulab Mahant, PP Rajan Bhatia, Director work was going on war footing as Youth Services Namita, CP Shalini Naidu monsoon was close. and Manisha Agrawal were present on the Instrumental in getting this done, was occasion. Students were briefed about Our Club has long association with President Bharat and Secretary Manjot. basic hygiene and nail cutters and biscuits Sevanand Vidyalaya. It is a school with

tharound 700 children from poor were distributed on the occasion.On 26 of June on the first day of school background. Every year with a multi committee project we help the students with books, stationery, bags, school uniforms and health checkup camps. For many years, students, especially, girls were facing a problem due to lack of proper toilet facility in school. In case of need, they would walk home and half of them never came back to school on the day. The option was defecation in the

On 27th June, the Scholarship Committee Thereafter, they moved to Shri Guru In the evening, President Bharat, PP was in action at 3 places. It started by Gobind Singh School where they were Gulab Mahant and Sandip visited the giving a cheque of Rs.50,000/- to St. joined by President Bharat and PP Rajan offices of Friends of Tribal Society who Michaels High School, Kamptee Road at Bhatia. President Bharat handed over a

run 60,000 schools all over the country in the hands of PP Gulab Mahant. Secretary cheque of Rs.135,000/- to the Secretary of Manjot, Rtn Namita Sharma and Sandip the Managing Committee Mr.Dadiala. A backward and tribal areas. A cheque of Dhodapkar were present as the cheque beneficiary student Tejaswini Parteki Rs.80,000/- as annual assitance for 5 was handed over to the Supervisor. The who secured 98% in her SSC exam was schools was handed oer by President committee was informed and also also introduced. PResident Bharat,

Bharat to the Secretary of the Nagpur introduced to a beneficiary student who Secretary Manjot and Sandip spoke on the secured 88% marks in SSC exam. occasion. chapter. -Sandip Dhodapkar

SC H O LARSHIP27th June-Multiple Schools

Glimpses of Business Meeting 25th June

Sevanand Vidyalaya

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TO SERVE W ITH L OVE30th June– Welfare of Specially Abled Committee

What a way to end a Rotary Year! The the occasion were the Trustees of Project “To Serve With Love” took place Matru Sewa Sangh President Dr. on the last day of this Rotary year i.e. Tues Mrs. Aruna Babhulkar, Dr. Lata

thJune 30 '2015. Our club has sponsored Deshmukh , Rotarians Pres. Elect the entire 3000 sq.ft. Vitirified Tiles Khushnoor Chugh, First Lady flooring at the Matru Sewa Sangh Hostel Jyoti Goenka, Dr. Sharad Bhave, for specially abled children. The work Kapil Bahri, Manish Agrawal, was completed amazingly in just 8 days Vikram Naidu, Parag Paranjpe, under the able supervision of Manjot &

Prashant Rajurkar, Pritesh Tank & Monal. The project is a brainchild of our most prominently Rt.Ann. Dr. very own Hon. Sec. Rtn. Manjot Kahai. Pushpa Bhave who was also Kudos to him.instrumental & very supportive in The handing over ceremony took place on making this project a big success.at the hands of President Bharat Goenka

and Secretary Manjot. Also Present on -Monal Malji

Our member Pratap Chandrana was in US last month and had visited One Rotary Centre. He spent sometime there meeting people and going around the place.The photograph shows him presenting the Rotary Flag to Ms. Emily Whitmer, Visitor Coordinator of Rotary Support Center.

Evanston Visit

ThuWedROTARY CLUB OF NAGPUR CALENDAR FROM 1st July 2015 - 4th August 2015

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All the events listed are on the basis of available information. While all care has been taken, errors and omissions, if any, are unintentional & may be excused. Please confirm details / schedules with the concerned organization for changes, if any – Ed.

Mon Tue 2143AUGUST AUGUST

WEEKLY MEETINGAnnual Report

2AUGUST

Prema SrinivasShivani Bidaye

Alpana Agrawal Mohini SanghaviDipesh Ajmera

Dr.Satish SuleAnita Sharma

Vishal Agrawal ( Old )

Akash AgrawalRajan MulaniNikhil Bansal

Pooja Poddar Dr.Sanjay Jaiswal Satish RainaShilpa Agrawal

Gouri Malji

Charanjeet BawaAmitabha Sharma

Abad BapunaAnagha JaiswalNavnit Jain

Shiv Kumar RaoNilima MalaniAshish KaswaAnand Garodia

Vishwajeet Kshirsagar

Jayshree SingheeDr. Sunita Lawange

Harshwardhan DhanwateyBobby SrinivasSwati Agrawal

Pranoti Parekh Rasheeda AminManmeet Dheer

Surendra JaiswalSadashiv BholeKiran Wankhede

Indira Khurana Surinderpal SinghDr. Ravi Wankhede

Praveen Chourasia

Prashant S. RajurkarHarish Thakur

Renu ThaparNeerja ShukulDr. Rajesh SoniShree Krishna ButyManisha Agrawal

Nishi Hansles Hasmukh PanchmatiaPramod Jain

Madhav Kinkhede Shridhar PasariSandeep BadjatiaHemant Doshi

Yogesh ThakerRakhi Bhutani

Rohit AgrawalPrashant Kale

Vishwajeet & Sapna Kshirsagar Aashish & Shweta Rathi

Pramod & Anita JainNeelu & Prashant Garg Dr. Sanjay & Radhika Marwah Harish & Amruta Thakur Dr. Jitendra & Deepika Mehta Manish & Swati Agrawal

Nitin & Gunjan DeveshwarDr. Ravindra & Archana Sarnaik

Vinay & Anjali Thakur Sheela & Kantilal Singhee

Project Nutrition at Antar Bharati Ashram School, Khamala 12.30 PM Blood Donation for

members and spouse at Hotel Centre Point, 8 AM

INSTALLATION

Blood Donation at VCMDWA Neem Seeds distribution at Twinkle Club Membership Drive

WEEKLY MEETING

Interact and Multi Committee Project at Sevanand, Koradi

WEEKLY MEETING

Managing People, an important aspect of Human

Resource in TiE-WE

The world in 2020 - An overview of some transformational

& disruptive global changes, with Mr. Arvind Singhal, Chairman -

Technopak in TiE Knowledge Series

TiE Over Coffee with Mr. Ajay Kapoor, President and

Founder Director Ascent Business Solutions

AUGUST

Classical Vocal - Pandit Vyankatesh Kumar

Renuka Deshkar Presents- Sagun-Nirgun (Ashadi Ekadashi)

Anand Ovari - One act Play Cinema Adaption

Westren Ghats in the rains / Konkan in the rains & Dharni in the rains

Sister Arts: Thumri - Kathak Fusion by Dhanshri Pandit & Aditi Bhagwat

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MI N D IT The Winners of each of these mind games will win a Tub of

Dinshaw’s Ice Cream.In case of

Multiple correct entries, lots would be drawn and

winner declared.

SOLUTIONS TOMAY PUZZLES

SUDOKU

June Winner

CROSS WORD

Ritika SahuPS: Winners names were drawn by lot

out of the correct entries received. Editor

June Winner Jerry Watchmaker

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ACROSS1 Thinly-sliced raw meat

or fish (9)8 Kingdom (5)9 Well satisfied (7)10,17 Generally

respected senior public figure? (8,8)

11King of Mercia, d. 796, with a dyke named after him (4)

13 Nuance - icy net (anag)(6)

14 Giant planet (6)16 Daring (4)17 See 1019 Fauna (as opposed to

flora) (7)20 Express audibly (5)21 Convention governing

clothes to be warn on a particular occasion (5,4)

DOWN1 See 122 Revoke — annul (6)3 Gentle utterance to

attract attention (4)4 Mozart opera (4,3,5)5 Spanish moss —

traveller’s joy — bad red salmon (anag) (3,4,5)

6 On it clothes get pressed (7,5)

7 Distance of approximately 2,000 yards at sea (8,4)

12,1 Life’s little pleasures! (8,8)

15 In quick tempo (6)18 Watering holes — units

in musical scores (4)

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P a r o m i t a Paromita Goswami mobilized 5000 Goswami-A Master women from villages of Chandrapur who in Social Work from walked 200 kilometers over three days, to the prestigious Tata Nagpur, leaving all their household work

Institute of Social Service, relocated to demonstrate against the sale of liquor in herself from the maximum city Mumbai their villages. These were daily wage to Mool tehsil of Chandrapur, just to earners, mostly illiterate ladies, who empower some of India's poorest and struggle everyday to get 2 square meals. most marginalized citizens: the residents What made these women leave their work of the Chandrapur and Gadchiroli for a task which is perceived impossible?

a 10,000-member union of rural workers. districts of Maharashtra. What gave them the courage to defy their Trained as a lawyer, Paromita has brought Paromita has long valued volunteerism husbands, to whom they had to return legal challenges on behalf of these and activism from her college days. when the protest ended? Ladies who members to India's Supreme Court. Quitting her Masters program in English participated in morcha said, 'ghar me Regarded as one of the top labor Literature, Paromita enrolled in the Tata maar khake marne se accha hai morche organizers in the region, she built a Institute to study social work. After me maren'. This was not a show of training center for rural community interning at a variety of public service strength, but feelings, that the ladies were organizers. She is also involved in organizations and working full-time with harboring for years altogether.strengthening elected representatives of Shramajeevi Sanghatana, Paromita After the 2010 march, the state

moved to Chandrapur because g o v e r n m e n t s e t u p a of her interest in tribal people. committee in February under She took up a job with a then environment minister and UNICEF school program C h a n d r a p u r ' s g u a r d i a n through which she learned minister Sanjay Deotale. about the problems rural Goswami submitted to the people face. In August 1999, committee memorandums Paromita confronted local signed by around 1 lakh authorities about the illegal p e o p l e . T h e c o m m i t t e e detention of a villager and submitted its report to then persuaded the authorities to chief minister Prithviraj release the man within twenty- C h a v a n a y e a r l a t e r , local self governance, organizing women four hours. News of her success spread recommending prohibition. However, the against violence and implementation of and the National Human Rights government's inaction and reluctance to social justice legislation. Commission invited Paromita to conduct make the report public led to resentment What brought to liquor ban?a survey on local problems in the criminal and jail bharo agitations. During the Lok "Women have been demanding this for justice system. As more people came to Sabha polls, Devendra Fadnavis, who years. The licences from Wardha and her for help, Paromita realized that by was the BJP state chief, and then home Gadchiroli were shifted to Chandrapur, limiting her work to "tribals," she was minister RR Patil were gheraoed by and beer bars, wine shops and country

protesters. This led Chavan to announce liquor shops were set up in villages that the district would go dry after the without any regard to area and population polls, but the promise also did not norms. For instance, a village with 500 materialise, forcing Paromita Goswami people had three fold increase in the and other womens to tonsure their heads liquor shops which increased the alcohol

thoutside Deotale's house on 14 August consumption which led to families being 2014.destroyed, even schoolchildren took to Finally after a long battle the newly drinking and women and girls felt unsafe elected BJP Government imposed liquor in public places. Economy of liquor in ban in the District of Chandrapur 1st villages is different from big cities. Social April 2015.awareness is low, effects of it are overlooking the untapped potential of the

disastrous in the rural poor. Domestic other four-fifths of the population facing violence, poverty, child abuse, diseases many such problems.and premature death are a few To protect their rights and help them consequences more common in the rural access justice, she created several non-areas. This issue was closely linked with profit organizations including 'Elgar ladies and the revolution ultimately came Pratishthan', which concentrates on the to surface as a 'Morcha'.. In the winter economic and educational development session of 2010 of Maharashtra of rural communities, and 'Shramik Legislative Assembly in Nagpur, Elgar' (The Marching Army of Workers),

SH O W CASE– Dinesh Naidu

Paromita Goswami –The Woman who brought the liquor ban in Chandrapur.

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B O ARD 2014 -15It was a wonderful & 2) The constitution review committee was Projects and motivate the Directors and also challenging Rotary year formed by inducting the members of our giving Free Hand to the Directors has under the able leadership Club who responded. Very important issues shown the Results we have bagged 18 of Pres. Bharat Goenka. were discussed with CP as Dr. Satish Sule. District Awards this is a new Benchmark. As a Director PR I Amendments to our constitution so arrived Don't you feel something better and thoroughly enjoyed at, are being placed before the board for different in Circulars this year? We invited working under him & further adoption by General Body. PP's who aired their views. Yes I achieved with my entire Board 3) Skin Bank - I am very happy to have got what I thought, this was possible because of

team. Most importantly I take this over the hurdle of statutory permissions etc. the collective team work of the Directors opportunity to thank & congratulate my resulting in inauguration of the Skin Bank. and their Chairpersons. I congratulate them entire team of dynamic & enthusiastic It has already received five cadeveric skin for the wonderful job they all did and also Chairpersons who gave their 100% & made donations and is now fully equipped to treat supported me through out the year. My all the projects hugely successful. the BURN PATIENTS. special thanks to my wife and sons as also My team came out with some real good 4) Wild life conservation committee: my family members.innovative ideas like Donate E-waste, Discussed the role that Rotary Club can play Thank you all !!!Rotary Ladies cricket league to name a few, in making a difference in the lives of the Manjot Kahaiwhich went on to become super hit projects. villagers in the buffer zones. We have also

Monal Malji been promised support by Govt. of Sure all committees Maharashtra's (KVIC) Khadi and Village working with me as Industries Commission. During the course of this Director community

year we made a record - I am very thankful to the members of (non medical) have more of -sorts by enlightening various committees for their whole hearted than achieved the goals 41 proposed members. support in achieving success in the tasks and targets we had set 29 have already been undertaken this year..... The district inducted and the rest spill IPP Prashant Kale awards received by our over into the coming Dear Vindhya, club at Nasik prove it clearly for blood year. All I can sum up the year donation and community services.Efforts were made by our as : "I came, I saw, and Gogi BhasinPast Presidents to go through the proposals realised ......... I have at length and assigning appropriate promises to keep and Classifications to the new members. Yes! But I feel I could miles to go before I sleep. It has been a very satisfying year. have done more..... But But darnit, every lead I Khushnoor Chugh f o r m y w o r k take it takes me to another

committment, could not tangle". Regards,Dear Rtn. Vindhya, do full justice....Kapil BahriThank you for your mail Alok GoenkaMy goal was to learn a bit more about the and would l ike to August institution called confirm with pleasure A year is perhaps a long Rotary and to enjoy that having fulfilled the time, a landmark, where learning process. I think I following tasks set for people count their ages, am fairly happy with my the year 2014-15. where a new history is learning process. It made 1) Probus Club :- We created. If you look at me happy to see that the have inducted additional any year from a Rotarian first outing of PHF senior citizens not only from Rotary p e r s p e c t i v e , a n d fellowship committee families but also from outside . Meetings especially when you are was a huge success and it were e ff ic ien t ly conducted wi th the director of some of the club activities, a has set a benchmark of sorts.authoritative speakers on the subjects year passes like a greased lightening.Vinita Chaturvedi touching upon aspects most important at Things become more complicated when this stage of life. Members were invited for you are reminded of the promises you had Certainly think that we Rotary programmes, picnics and the made at the start of the year. tried to achieve what we programmes being regularly conducted by If I look back now, I get the satisfaction of had set out to this year! Chitnavis centre. having done my bit through various My sincere thanks to Considering the same, we have been activities that brought smiles on the faces of Director Adm Prashant receiving new membership proposals and I all.... TRH's/ RAG' s fellowship/Udaan/ the way he handled his am sure that in time to come, this club will Hemalkasa /PHF Dinner had my job due to him I could definitely fulfill the social needs felt by the involvement with support of my team of attend almost all the senior citizens.

Team GO had interviewed the Board and presented an animated version of the same in July last year. As the Rotary year was ending, we asked the Board how they had fared. These are their responses -Ed.

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Rotarians / Rotarannes... awards were g iven to d i f f e ren t ends. UDAAN was a big success with more I am sure all these activities were an professionals this time with artists, doctors than 700 children participating and more assimilation of happy moments. ...I could and businessmen with a new award for than 300 volunteers helping including see the smiles senior citizens. Vocational training with a members and Rotaractors.

Sanjay Sethi special mention of Sadhana Paliwal went CSR is a committee where we could not fabulously. Had planned on four vocational initiate anything.

I had the privilege of visits for the year, but only had two. There Pritesh Tankhaving the committees was special emphasis on the four way test, that kept me and my team where President Bharat, made it a point to My team of Board of of chairpersons close to say it during the weekly meetings. A new D i r e c t o r s a n d the members, spouses venture was explaining the four way test in C h a i r p e r s o n s w a s a n d t h e i r f a m i l i e s Hindi thru Radio My FM. This was fabulous, always ready through the year. My successful. for any task. I came with superb CPs and Editor Beena Mathews a clear mind of taking on s e t o u t t o b r i n g as the President so

innovation in whatever we did and we all R o t a r a c t c o l l e g e s nothing came before worked as a well-oiled machine giving adopted poorer schools Rotary for me this year, many FlRSTS to the club. and made a difference by so much so that I went to my daughter's Programs : Introduction of the Board helping them in various wedding after completing Rotary projects. through an Insight into their plans and school projects. Special It was an extremely rewarding year with the vision through the year, maximum number w a s t h a t t h e s e accounts ending with a big surplus, which in of members, involvement, discussions and Rotaractors celebrated turn led the Board to spend it on a much debates etc., a launch of the Golden Orange holidays with them and needed toilet for girls and a clean foyer at in its new Avatar ! went an extra leg by spending quality time the Matru Sewa Sangh. Ladies : A First Mega Garba fellowship with these children. There were traffic I had a special bond with my Directors, and complete with Fund Raising, enabling awareness workshops in different colleges. felt that my presence was needed to set an donation to Flood Relief of J & K for This year in Rotary with full support from example for them to follow.Women's sanitation; Felicitation of Women the President gave me a deeper insight into It's now easy to sum what a President feels at of our club on International Women's Day; human behaviour. It was a great year! We the end of the year, because there are Formation of an All Women Power Band. A had a good team of committee members and pockets that touch your lives forever. It is an massive PR exercise in participating with this made for a lifetime of rewarding enriching experience.more than 15000 Happy Nagpurians and memories. Bharat Goenka300 Rotary families in Happy Streets with Namita SharmaTOI on Women empowerment!Mentoring:Back To Basics ... an orientation I was the co-ordinator for for members to prepare future Leaders ! GO, where I tried to do District Awards and Events : Record my best. I would like to number of Awards by our club ! make a special mention Golden Orange : A magazine in its new about the chairpersons avatar made excellent reading in Content, who gave a new look to Quality & Innovative columns ! Giving the circulars. An area members a voice through Tweets, which did not go so well quantifying service through man hours and was the non conventional energy project, financial contribution to the society. even the concept of take rotary to office While it was an exciting and fulfilled could have gone off a little better than what journey most importantly got an actually materialized.opportunity to touch base with RCN Prashant Rajurkarfamilies. Scope for improvement is always there . Made lots of new friends and Regarding global grants strengthened the old ! our club this year has

Rina Sinha made a debut by being on the other side of the table

We have won the District as we did not ask for a w a r d f o r b e s t funds but offered funds Vocational Service. We to one of the clubs in conducted 30 life skill Uganda for a sanitation workshops in 26 days project, 2nd activity (Melghat hospital and career guidance for project) under global grants is underway 570 students. Vocational and we might announce that before the year

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FRESH WATER is life…It is important through lifting devices. physical site and its topography.and vital, a source of food, health and Check dams may be installed: Geological Survey: A study of the energy, ensuring continuity of our lives geology of the dam-site. This is to In small open channels.and livelihood. No freshwater means no ascertain and establish conditions for health. Human actions have put fresh During the establishment of grass linings water storage and percolation.water at risk. Let us conserve it and reap in drainage ditches or channels. Water-Shed and storage analysis: This rewards for generations to come.

In temporary ditches where the short will establish the storage at various dam As population grows, so does demand for length of service does not warrant heights. fresh water, whether for agriculture, for establishment of erosion-resistant Technical Proposal: Based on the above drinking purpose, for industries or for linings. data, a dam-height is fixed. For this everyday activities. We need a

The steps: height, a design and cost-schedule is transformation of the way we manage prepared.fresh water. Most of rainwater runs Need Assessment and Site Selection:

straight to the sea and goes waste. Working Agreement: This involves an This involves visiting affected villages agreement between ROTARY and the and assessing the severity of the problem. The question is, can something be done to village about official permissions, Once a couple of villages have been conserve this freshwater. One of the many guarantees, labour tariffs, documentation.selected as possible sites, a suitable site answers is to build check dams. It may be

for a dam is chosen. This needs suitable surprising to know that the roof on a F o r m a t i o n o f PA N I WA PA R topography as well, as suitable land-'typical' four room family home captures SANSTHA (Water Usage Body).holding, location of the dam vis-a-vis the more than 100,000 litres (100 cu.m) of Construction: The construction of rainwater a year. Just think about the the dam.open spaces we have and imagine

Handing over ceremony.what kind of water we can store. Rotary International has been Check dams are low cost dams, promoting building more and more which are built across streams to check dams, as an appropriate prevent rain water from flowing intervention for working to restore away into the rivers and ultimately the degraded natural resource based to sea. They serve mainly two all over the globe and thereby help purposes: the first is to provide the local inhabitants to escape the direct irrigation when rain fails, and widely prevalent debt-poverty-the second is to facilitate the migration trap. This strategy for recharging of surrounding wells r e g e n e r a t i n g a q u i f e r s a n d through percolation of water. They increasing fresh water resources for also provide water for other uses. agriculture was chosen in part Washing, bathing and drinking because it is in keeping with the water for domestic and wild animals Rotary's overall mission to create get drinking water are just some of sustainable livelihoods. Check-the uses. Small check dams should dams appear to be a more be built for water conservation at appropriate technology for poor the micro level and to help farmers

village and its agricultural holdings. rural areas. for support irrigation. Social Survey: An understanding of the The District team for 2015-16 has set up a "Check-dams" are small barriers built village population, its livelihood, Committee and is geared up to take on the across the direction of water flow on possible benefits from a dam and task for conserving FRESH WATER to shallow rivers and streams for the purpose subsequent water distribution. A study of great extent. They assure whole hearted of water harvesting. The small dams the village in terms of construction skills, support and cooperation to all Clubs.retain excess water flow during monsoon organizational skills and resources. This rains in a small catchment area behind the Rtn. Uday Vazealso assesses possible partial repayments structure. Pressure created in the models such catchment area helps force the a s W a t e r impounded water into the ground. u s a g e The broad objectives of Check Dams S u r c h a rg e , (In-stream Storage Structures) are: Shram-daan

To provide drinking water facilities in the ( l a b o u r t o villages along both the sides of the compensate). streams after monsoon period.

Topographi Ground Water recharge cal Survey: A

d e t a i l e d To provide incidental irrigation by storing survey of the water at the end of monsoon mainly

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Rotary Club of Nagpur's few established projects/programs which created high impact during the year were –1. Surgical Camps2. NICU3. Scholarships4. Blood Donation5. Skin Bank6. WalkathonI call them high impact because of the numbers, value of service rendered and the PR generated because of them.Walkathon and Scholarships on one hand directly contribute to the Income and Expenditure of our Club and once the annual accounts are finalized I am sure they together would have contributed

thmore than 1/4 of our annual budget.On the other hand Surgical Camps, NICU, Blood donation and Skin Bank would have contributed more than our annual budget in terms of the value of the services rendered.These projects indicate the inherent strengths of our Club.Scholarships – indicates the willingness of our members to participate in a cause through their direct cash contribution and which is almost 10% of our annual budget.

affordable. It also showcases our strengths in partnering with local not-for-profit organizations and International partnership with other Rotary Clubs

over past 10 years.Surgical Camps – indicates the desire of members, especially the medical fraternity, to provide best medical procedures to the under privileged section globally.of the society, year on year without any Skin Bank – indicates our vision to

understand the future needs and create state of the art facilities which will surely be game changers for the society, which no other organization or the state has

charges.Blood Donation – indicates our continuing effort in creating awareness and trying to involve all sections of the society in serving the community by envisaged till now.setting up a mechanism of being a 70 years of legacy which each one of us

boasts of has been created on such landmarks. These are testimonies of our willingness to lead from the front and adapt to the changing scenario and dynamics of the society. Every generation of Rotarians of our Club have created these landmarks. I am confident that the Gen Next of our Club is thinking and envisaging Walkathon – indicates the Club's implementation of such landmarks of capability to plan, organize, raise large wonderful facilitator.which they would be proud creators, sponsorship, corporate connect and NICU – indicates our ability to especially in a world where there are more execute an event where people from all understand the pressing needs of the talkers than doers!walks of life participate in thousands, society, to make medical services

IMPACTI N G LIVES-Atul ShahHigh Impact Projects during the year

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Other than that, the The UAE – a fresh perspective!Sheikh Zayed Mosque In the last week of February six friends (Grand Mosque) in Abu [Alok, Anula, Nimish Sharmila, Shefali Dhabi is beautiful and a and I] decided to attend the Sting concert must see. The Global in Dubai. We travelled to Dubai and village during the Dubai extended our journey to other Emirates - Festival is also worth Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Fujerah. While visiting. Water sports in the music show was at the top of our S h a r j a h a r e agenda, we also wanted a bit of fun & recommended as well.leisure. We also wished to indulge in Planning the trip was gastronomic pursuits (since most of us pretty straightforward, it were Foodies), sightseeing, and sports sports, cultural and so on. was a combination of things – ticketing (The Dubai Open Tennis Tournament). As for the food, there lots of Vegetarian was arranged by a travel agent, basic The Sting show at Dubai Jazz festival - joints around, especially Indian planning for places to see was done the ambience, arrangements, acoustics - Restaurants but if you are a through online research, hotel selection was superb, despite the biting cold in foodie, I would suggest you try and booking through a friend. For Dubai! For me personally the support act the local cuisine – Arabic, sightseeing and leisure, we were by Lindsey Stirling – a dancing violinist Turkish and Lebanese. It's fresh, accompanied by our local friends.was the stand out! I had never seen healthy and delicious! Do try If you are planning to visit the UAE and anything like that before –mesmerizing! their sweets, especially the want to see a different side of the country, The physical arrangements and the F & B Baklava. Just one tip for I would suggest that you plan well in Zone within the premises were v e g e t a r i a n s – d o n o t advance, or else you will end up hopping outstanding and enjoyable. (FYI - the accompany someone who is from one mall to the other, and do the Dubai Jazz Fest dates for 2016 are 24-26 f o n d o f typical desert safari and dune bashing. We Feb, although the acts are yet to be SHAWARMAAAAA!!were fortunate to have adventure minded announced).local friends - Jameel and Sameena - who We also drove to the beach resort town of guided and accompanied us, which Dibba, about 160 km from Dubai; one of changed our perception of the UAE, so the most scenic locations - full of high end much so that I plan to travel every resorts. En route you pass by the Friday year to explore more of the Market (in Old Masfi Town). It is a beautiful, scenic country. mandatory stopover for all travelers Between November and (almost like a Dhaba joint) where you can February there are a lot sample amazing varieties of fruits, and of In terna t ional see a very famous carpet market as well. events tak ing On the way one also passes through the place – be it Hajr Mountain range/Khorfakkan music, mountains. Alongside there are the

traditional Arabic villages where the locals are traditional date farmers. Unfortunately we could not go deep into the mountain ranges as the road was closed for maintenance. This mountain range is called Wadi Wuraiyah.

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more if you see the effort that goes into complete without food! You'll find a wide making them. The majority of them are array of it everywhere -- on the streets, at crafted in one area -- Kumartuli in north the pandals, and in specialty Bengali Kolkata. restaurants. Pandal hopping does get 2. Go Pandal Hopping tiring, so eating the famous street food The highlight of Durga Puja is no doubt while you're out and about is a must. The visiting the many different Pandals of food served to visitors at the pandals is Goddess Durga, each with a unique called bhog (offerings to the god which theme. This activity is often referred to a are distributed). It commonly consists of

Q. Dear Rahul, "pandal hopping". There are thousands of mixed vegetable curry, a sweet dish, fried I have always heard of some very special pandals in Kolkata so it's only possible to item, and chutney. Kolkata's Bengali Navratri celebrations across the country. visit a fraction of them -- and even then it restaurants also have exclusive Durga Can you suggest one such place to travel requires a bit of strategic planning as Puja menus packed full of authentic to this year? they're spread out all over the city. You'll delicacies -- both buffet and a la carte. A. Gujarat and Bengal are well known for find the most well known ones in north 4. See the Immersion of Durga Idolstheir Navratri celebrations, we went to and south Kolkata, which is conveniently On the last day of Durga Puja, known as Kolkata two years back and it can be a connected by the Metro railway. The Dashami, the festivities commence with

most popular time for pandal married women placing red sindoor hopping is in the night when they're (powder) on the idols of Goddess Durga. lit up. If you go during the day, you They then smear it on each other. In the can avoid much of the crowd. evening, the idols are immersed in the I found the ones in North Kolkata water. One of the most popular immersion were more traditional and the ones in points is Babu Ghat (centrally located the South more contemporary, but near Eden Garden), although you'll be Pandals in both areas were absolutely able to catch the action at any of the ghats stunning! along the river. An excellent way of Some famous Pandals : Bagh Bazar, seeing it is by boat.Kumhartuli Park, College Square, Chalta Bagan, Mohammed great way to experience the festivities and

Ali Park, Suruchi electric atmosphere! Kolkata is at its best Sangha, Ekdalia during the Puja! E v e r g r e e n , The easiest way to participate in the S inghee Park , celebrations is to take a Durga Puja Badamtala Ashar festival tour, such as the ones organized Sangha, Mudiali b y t h e We s t B e n g a l To u r i s m Club.Development Corporation Calcutta Photo 3. Eat!Tours, Calcutta Walks, and Let's Meet Up There's never a Tours. We just rented a taxi with a smart better t ime to driver and he knew the shortcuts to avoid sample Kolkata's the traffic and crowds.famous Bengali Some things to do:c u i s i n e t h a n 1. See Durga Idols Being MadeDurga Puja. The The beautifully handcrafted idols of f e s t i v a l i s n ' t Goddess Durga sure are stunning. considered to be However, you'll appreciate them even

TRAVEL D O CTO R– Rahul Kale

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SMILI N G FACES - Hetal Sampat

Anjali Selokar– Recipient of scholarship funded by Scholarship CommitteeShe is currently in the final year at Datta Meghe Institute studying Computer Science and Engineering. Her scores are above first class for all the semesters. In addition to academics she is also fond of music and sports. She has been an avid table tennis player throughout.Her family consists of 3 members. Herself, her mother and her sister. Her mother Ratnamala, is an in demand beautician for alot of Nagpurians. The girls lost their father 14 years ago and their mother has supported them since then.She was a student of St.Ursula High School till Std 12 and also a recipient of scholarships given by Project Smiling Faces of the Rotary Club of Nagpur. It is indeed commendable that she has done so well with her grit and determination. She hopes to get placed through the college placement committee at the end of the year. Heres wishing Anjali the best for accomplishing her ambitions

th contributions that we were able to do support and also call upon those 26 June 2015whatever little we could towards helping Rotarians/Anns who were unable to do so Dear Editor,children from the deprived sections of this year, to avail of this opportunity to Through the GO, my co-chairpersons PP society to continue with their schooling. display their magnanimity in the comingGulab Mahant, Rajiv Behal and I would We were able to distribute scholarships year.like to profusely thank all the Rotarians, amounting to Rs.11.63 lakhs in the Rotary Best wishes.Rotary Anns and other individuals who year 2014-15 benefitting more than 500 selflessly came forward to contribute to students.the kitty from out of which we distribute Rtn. Sandip J DhodapkarWe look forward to their continued scholarships. It is because of their Co-Chairperson-Scholarship Committee

SMILING FIGURES (2014-15)Project Smiling Faces

Total amount handed over as Scholarships in 2007-08 : Rs 1.82 lacsTotal amount handed over as Scholarships in 2013-14 : Rs 9.0 lacsTotal amount handed over as Scholarships in 2014-15 : Rs 11.5 lacsPercentage increase since last year : 27.8%Corpus Funds for Scholarships : Rs 15.71 lacsInterest earned from Corpus Funds : Rs 1.45 lacsAmount of contribution received : Rs 10.05 lacsNo. of Rotarians/Rt.Anns who contributed : 139No. of non-members who contributed : 7No. of first time contributors : 41No. of contributors inducted as members in 2014-15 : 10No. of beneficiary students : +510

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PP Sati Khanna another architect of the programme, has this to say……..TRH initiated in 1990-91 was given a big push in the Centennial Year and revived to become a very popularprogram in our club.To cite the old but still appropriate objective - “ the development of acquaintance “ was one of the reasonsto start TRH. Members join Rotary for ' service ',may be, but stay because of friendship and connectionsthey make. We need to engage members with social activities besides service projects.In a ' Large -size ' club like ours, it is hard for new members to develop friendly companionship during our regular weekly meetings. TRH has succeeded because it gives members an opportunity to enjoy the trustand fellowship of one another, culturally with a desire for better understanding among each other.The fellowship that comes from sharing the ideals of Rotary, outside our weekly meetings, is so powerfulthat it extends far beyond our own local club.PP Sanjiv is very right that there is a drift in our objective for TRH and it needs to be addressed urgently.It is important that we make our TRH meetings more meaningful so that ' new and not so new members 'mix with older members to share friendly moments and feel close to Rotary among themselves.In our preparatory meeting for the next year we have decided to make amends so as to revive Rotary ideals and create a proper mix of members during each TRH meeting.Incoming President Khushnoor has revived the old team of PP Sati Khanna and Rtn Manju Shahani to restore the original spirit and objective of TRH during 2015-16 Rotary Year.

TRH was an important Rotary programme which had just faded away in our Club for a number of years simply because there were only 7-8 members in the Club who were repeatedly the hosts and the rest were permanent guests!!We decided to revive TRH in the Centennial year with a slight twist. The idea was that each member would be invited for at least one Take Rotary Home during the year and each invitee would bring some item of food or snacks with the hosts only organising the house of friendship and the logistics. It was also decided that there would be a healthy mix of new, not so new and old members in order to encourage interaction with a wide cross-section of the membership. A bit of Rotary trivia and information would be shared and the rest would be just fun and games.Chairperson for TRH that year PP Sati Khanna deserves all credit for getting this plan off the ground and not letting it flag throughout the year. Rt. Ann Manju Shahani helped him with her unstinted support. His enthusiasm and energy rubbed off on everyone and till date TRH is a very popular programme in our Club.Over the years some flaws seem to have crept in and maybe they need to be addressed subtly. The Rotary in TRH seems to have taken a bit of a backseat and maybe that could be brought back??The guest list seems to be more 'crony' than representative and some members seem to be there quite often while others just don't seem to make it to any list!!A lot of hosts get repeated while others never seem to make it to the host list!!Regardless of the above it is still a very healthy and popular programme and needs to continue with gusto, albeit with a few course correction measures!!

-Sanjiv Chugh

Vindhya Sanjana, Mamta Kahai, Gogi Bhasin, Vinita Bahri, Mohd Master, Jerry Watchmaker, Sharad Bhave, Anjuli Mnocha, Beena Mathew, Shalini Naidu, Anita Chitaley, Shiv and Geeta Rao, Farah Sanjana ( Mahajan), Sandeep Badjatia, Mithilesh Goenka, Sneha Fafat, Seema Jaisinghani, Dr Sanjay Marwah, Avinash Elezier, Sheela Singhee, Atul Shah, Rahul Kale, Dr Manu daga, Abnash Chander, Dinesh and Kanchan Naidu, Hetal Sampat, Manju Shahani, Bharat Goenka, Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee, PDG Bobby, Dipti Pandhi, Amitabha Sharma, Ajay Gajbhiye, Manish Agrawal, Vijay Naidu, Sonia Khurana, Kirti Jain, Nidhi Gandhi, Archana Javery, Jugalkishore Agrawal, Chetna Singhal, Sadhna Paliwal, Pranav Singhal, Shantala Bhole, Sohrab Kanga, Vipul Gupta, Sharmila Sutaria, Anula Goenka, Madhavi Naidu, Vinay Thakur, Kawinder Talwar, Prashant Kale, Shiraz Doongaji, Ajinkya Saraf, Raunaq Shah, Naushad Bhagwagar, Ruchi Choudhary, Hemant Jaitha, Shibu Mathew, Kiran Rathod, Rakhi Bhatia, Raj Shah, Sandip Dhodapkar, Anukaran Singh, Parheez Gimi, Sudhir Bhiwarpurkar, Namita Sharma, Suchiti Roy, Dr Rajesh Singhania, Ashwin Deo , Sanya Mulan i , Dur r iya Akolawala, Rupali Kale, Nilufer Rana, Vilas and Neeta Kale, Jaishree Massand, Sunil Bhatia, Veenita Pasari, Vikash Khurana, Rajiv Behal, Dr Madhur Rathi, Dr Pooja Poddar, Nikita Mhaisalkar, Dr Raju Wilkinson, Vidhi Daga, Amitabh and Rina Sinha, Shivani Bidaye, Dr Sheela Mundhada, Dr Ravi Wankhede, Pritesh Tank, Dr Iqbal Khan, Dr Jitendar Bhardwaj, Tarun Lala, Deepali Kale, Priyanka Sutaria, Dr Sanjiv Chugh, Khushnoor Chugh, Vinita Chaturvedi, Dr Rita Aggarwal, Sarang Upganlawar, Dr Samir Jahagirdar, Gulab Mahant, Medha Dixit, Kartik Kale and Chinnu.PS : Every care has been taken in compiling this list. Any error or omission is unintentional.

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heard Joyce I. Boye, President of Rotary most in district and well-to-do club can Club of Montreal during the breakfast contribute with our district too joining in. meeting of this 102 year old Rotary club, That same evening I spoke to DG Dada explaining about this project in Uganda Deshmukh and our President, Bharat where Rotary Club of Mbale had Goenka. I was happy to convince both of requested help for the two counties in them to come forward and GIVE, rather Uganda, aimed at ensuring safe drinking than TAKE all the time as we have doing water and sanitation. After an extensive in Matching Grants all these years.For the First Time in 70 years, our Rotary investigation and proper survey, RCM That's how this Global Grant project is Club of Nagpur is going overseas and agreed to do this gigantic project costing now taking shape. Our Club is contributing in GLOBAL GRANT USD $ 153,472 (INR 1 Cr). contributing $ 1500 and the District is project for “Addressing Water and RCM is the Principal Club contributing $ chipping in $ 3,000. Sixteen other Sanitation Needs in Bumalimba and 25,000 and they were seeking more Canadian clubs are partnering this Bukise Sub-Counties” in rural Uganda. Rotary partners for this project. After the

project. This International Partnership We shall be GIVING instead of meeting President Joyce invited me to with the leading Canadian Club in GETTING or Receiving all the time! The join her for lunch. During our luncheon Montreal, hopefully shall bring more Project is registered with TRF as Global meeting an idea struck me, why not our opportunities for Rotary Club of Nagpur.Grant Number - GG 1529526. Club join RCM in this project? I was sure

The proverbial penny dropped when I in my mind that our club being the senior- -PP Sati Khanna

G L O BAL G RA N TSGIVING rather than GETTING

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