Know your Chief GuestR.I. President's Message 2010

Dr. Devi Singh, Director Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow is a well known Professor in the area of International Finance and Management. Before joining IIM Lucknow, he was the

director of MDI Gurgaon, for good 4 years and under him MDI reached great heights.He is an Alumnus Fellow of the the Institute of World Affairs, Connecticut. He has done his PHD in International finance from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked in various prestigious organizations like, AICTE, PHDCCI, SCOPE, AIMA etc. Dr. Singh is the author of three books in finance and management. He has been a consultant to many leading Public and Private Sector companies.Dr. Singh was awarded the prestigious Ishan National Award for the “Best Director’’ of a Business school in 1999.It is indeed a proud privilege to have him as a Chief Guest of the XV installation ceremony of RCKG.

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NEWSLETTER OF ROTARY CLUB OF KANPUR GREATER

MilestonesJuly-2010

Volume 8Issue 1

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Dear Fellow Rotarians & Anns,Thank you for entrusting me to head the RCKG family for 2010-11 alongwith my board members. My p r e d e c e s s o r s h a v e s e t t o u g h benchmarks for us to follow and I assure

you that with your support, we will make the best out of the situation.We plan to have projects under all service heads namely Community, Vocational, Club and International, and continue with the special programmes for Anns and Annets. During the year we would also like to have programmes on Rotary, to refresh us on the purposes and objectives of Rotary in the 21st Century.Strong fellowship and meaningful community and service projects characterize Rotary. Fellowships are a major part of Rotary guidelines for promoting friendships and building ethical practices in all spheres of life and profession. For doing all the above projects, we will need funds which will be generated by way of subscription, fund raising programmes and donations. I am sure with your active support, funds will not be a constraint.The good work done by us will be spread through our in-house magazine ‘Milestones’ and also through better coverage in GML and Rotary News.What Rotarians get out of Rotary, depends largely what they put in; so friends lets get ready to sow.Jai Bharat, Jai Rotary! -Rtn. Sanjay Chowdhary

District Governor's Message

Winds of Change

What an amazing world! Advances in technology are happening so quickly that they cause constant changes in our businesses and professions. Yet about one-third of the world's population is still

living at a subsistence level with little change in their lives. It is a stark contrast and a cause for concern.

Rotary has both a distinguished heritage and a bright future. My primary task as president is to enhance the vitality and viability of Rotary clubs and to enable them to succeed in the midst of societal changes.

Wind of change was a new and significant phrase when I was a Rotary Scholar in South Africa in the early 1960s. It is serendipitous that the phrase that was first publicized in my host city of Cape Town is now applicable to Rotary as we contemplate the changes in society that dictate some corresponding changes in our organization. The phrase is now better known as winds of change.

Rotary lives and breathes in our 33,000 clubs, and it is the clubs that improve lives by Building Communities-Bridging Continents. If we succeed in helping clubs to become Bigger, Better, and Bolder in the next year, then it will be clear that the best days of Rotary are still ahead. We are fortunate to be Rotarians! Together, we can make the world a better place!

- Rtn. Ray Klinginsmith

RCKG President's Message

Dear Rotarians & Anns

As the incoming Board buckles up for the New Rotary Year, we together are determined to make the year

full of events and programmes for services to society, for which Rotary stands.

Also we wish to give even better colour to the club fellowship and effectiveness to the service activities

making every one of us more interested for the Rotary Cause.

With Rotary Greetings !

Rtn. Rishi KapoorSecretary, 2010-11

From the desk of the Secretary

Know Rotary International

Formation 1905

Type Service club

Headquarters Evanston, Illinois

Membership 1.2 million

Official languages English, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Korean, and Japanese

President Ray Klinginsmith (2010-11)

Key people Paul P. Harris (Founder)

Website www.rotary.org

Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. It is a secular organization open to all persons regardless of race, colour, creed, gender, or political preference. There are more than 32,000 clubs and over 1.2 million members worldwide.

The members of Rotary Clubs are known as Rotarians. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Members usually meet weekly for breakfast, lunch or dinner, which is a social event as well as an opportunity to organize work on their service goals.

Rotary's best-known motto is "Service above Self", and its secondary motto is "They profit most who serve best".

Rotary Club of Kanpur Greater

Board 2010-11

President (2010-11) PHF Rtn. Sanjay Kr. Chowdhary

Imm. Past President Rtn. Vipul Jain

President Elect (2011-12) Rtn. Archana Khaitan

Secretary Rtn. Rishi Kapoor

Treasurer Rtn. Dinesh Gupta

Vice President-I Rtn. Vijay Parikh

Vice President-II PHF Rtn. Shree Ram Agarwal

Joint Secretary Rtn. Rakesh Kapoor

P.R.O. PHF Rtn. Gopal Bhargava

Sgt. at Arms PHF Rtn. Sanjay Gupta

Director Club Services PHF Rtn. Ramesh Agarwal

Chairman Club Services Rtn. Nafees Ahmed

Director Community Services Rtn. Rajendra Gupta

Chairman Community Services Rtn. Anil Agarwal

Director Vocational Services PHF Rtn. Suchitra Singh

Chairman Vocational Services Rtn. Pankaj Tandon

Director International Services Rtn. Kanwarprit Singh Saluja

Chairman International Services Rtn. Nadeem Rehman

Director T.B. Clinic Ann. Poonam Gupta

Chairman T.B. Clinic Ann. Nita Parikh

Editor Club bulletin Ann. Nivedita Tandon

Joint Editor Club bulletin PHF Rtn. Sandeep Garg

Chairperson Ann Wing Ann. Sobby Saluja

Coordinator Ann Wing Ann. Sandhya Mohla

Director Ann Wing Ann. Madhu Kanodia

Director Balgrah (Girls & Boys) Ann. Manju Agarwal

Director Pacemaker Rtn. Harsh Agarwal

Coordinator Annet Wing Ann. Aparna Kejriwal

Board Mentors PHF Rtn. Atul Kanodia

PHF Rtn. Atul Kapoor

PHF Rtn. Ravi Mohla

PHF Rtn. Rajiv Agarwal

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Emblem

The other day after my routine morning walk at 5.30 a.m., I plonked myself on a sofa at my terrace, to soak in first the local news and then, the editorial of my favourite English daily. All of a sudden a sparrow perched on top of the parapet on my roof caught my attention. From a distance it looked like a female. Soon her companion alighted from nowhere and sat next to her. Together they both chirped for a few seconds before they flew and settled under the prolific Quisqualis (madhumalti) bough. I must have spotted a sparrow after a long time. It was reminiscent of my childhood and a reel started unfolding in front of my eyes. I used to come back from school every day from March through August to see a number of sparrows feeding on wheat grains which were washed and spread on a sheet to dry before they could be ground into flour. Their “cheencheen”, and the sight and sound of almost hundreds of sparrows flying away fluttering their wings on hearing our footsteps defies evanescence of childhood memories. Their solidarity was inimitable. When I actually looked around, I spotted a pair of “bulbul” and appreciated their distinct whistle, a full throated “kooo” of “koyal”, the heavy husky sexy voice of “mayna”, and the staccato of a woodpecker. A parrot and a blue bird flew past my terrace and a pair of pigeons sitting at my neighbour’s roof top was moving its adam’s apple as if in a flurry. Amidst all the soft and high pitched sounds were the piercing unmistakable cries of crows. To me it appeared as an amalgamation of tweets and chirps, and whistles and coos and guturgoons into a soft soothing music…a mellifluous one at that. I felt as if I had known these for ever, been with them, grew up with them. Their plumage was so familiar because as kids we used to name a bird by its feathers and beaks. Dull brown sparrows and larks, dark brown red whiskered bulbul, yellow and black mayna and robin, the unmistakable green of parrot, the long beak of woodpecker. Most interesting of them was a flycatcher because it would deftly pick up the flies in its beaks and we as kids would be intimidated. The slender bodied kingfisher, lovely blue bluebird, dark koel, baya, and so many more…. Their names were coming to my mind with stark familiarity and fluency. I was able to discern one’s plumage and tweet from the other. I was mesmerized by the richness of nature.

The eclectic mix of baritones started resonating and to me it was like a philharmonic! I was wondering if these melodious vibrations from the vocal chords of these avian experts had been there all the while and I was oblivious to them, or, I was listening to them without actually hearing, or these birds took a fancy to my terrace that special day?

Why did I fail to perceive the enchanting background music for so long? Why was I not able to appreciate that pleasure was around me until today? Perhaps, in the rigmarole of life and to win a rat race, I did not give a moment to myself, to stop and listen and see and regale and relish and savour………………………… this nature’s splendid vernacular!!

I inadvertently was reminded of “Leisure” by William Henry Davies.“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. ...”

- Ann. Dr. Rashmi Kapoor

When the country started the Go Green campaign how could R.C.K.G be left behind.The New Rotary year started with the celebration of "Rotary Van Mahotsav" which was organized all over our Rotary District 3110, under directions of D.G. Rtn. P.P. Singh.

We in our drive planted Plants of Chandni & Har Shringar in the 1st Phase of Tree Plantation at Bal Grah (Boys) in the morning at 8.30 A.M. It was pleasant to find many Rotarians at a rather early morning hour at the venue, which shows that members of our club, are not only aware but very poised for the cause of mother nature and ever ready to fight the ill effects of pollution and green house gases.

Nature’s Vernacular Rotary Van Mahotsav

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Looking Back – And Smiling!

Rotary Year 2009-10 has ended, and RCKG remains the foremost club in Kanpur for its social and charitable activities, a recognition which makes us all proud !

It was just one year back when we had completed a very successful Rotary year 2008-09 under the leadership of Rtn Rajiv Agarwal. At that time, there was apprehension whether the momentum of that

year could be sustained, or better still, increased. With the standard being set high, it was a challenge to think that we could do better.

Looking back, I think there is a sense of satisfaction of a job well done. Not only have we been able to maintain the high standards of the club, but have set higher standards for future Presidents to aspire for. So I hope that President 2010-11 Rtn Sanjay Choudhary is able to reach the pinnacle of achievements.

Though there are many things that I think made the year unique, I would like to only share some of them with you :

• Annet Wing – I believe one of the biggest achievements this year has been the start of the Annet Wing. RCKG truly became one big family once the children started being involved in all activities. The six exclusive events that were solely for the Annets such as the Harry Potter movie, Annet Counselling, the Chetan Bhagat evening, Bowling competition, the A-Team movie etc. all made them a valuable part of the club. The portrait of each Annet on their birthday (which was managed by First Lady Ruchi Jain) made each of the children feel special and remembered. My hope is that the Annets will fondly remember this year and Vipul Uncle !

• Fellowships – The fellowship events this year were taken care of by the Ann Wing. Under the able chair of Ann Nandita, the fellowship events were each different, outstanding and the talk of the town. Certainly responsible for getting even sleeping members excited !

• Bollywood at the Installation – Shatrughan Sinha as the Chief Guest at the installation gave the club immediate recognition, and good publicity amongst the Rotary fraternity.

• MILESTONES – the 12 issues of the Club Bulletin were a runaway success with the members, and were highly appreciated by the other Rotary clubs in any gathering. All kudos to Editor Ann Kiran for the superhuman effort in bringing out these 12 quality issues! Though the 12 issues have been done once before in RCKG (in B&W), print in colour and the quality were outstanding this year.

• Ann Wing - The exclusive six meetings of the Ann Wing with Ann alone was also a new start, and gave the Anns an opportunity to do things which were of their interest. The Coffee with Nandita capped the six meetings.

• Board Meeting with spouses – Made the Board meetings less formal and increased the attendance.

• Holding Board meetings at members' place and dinner meets – not only did this make Board meetings something that people looked forward to (in the week), the importance of being a Board member went up hugely !

• Start of a Presidents Club – A new exclusive Presidents Club has been started by the name of 'Gr8pc' (read Grapes), which will meet once in a quarter. It is hoped that this club will make the President's post that much more sought after.

• New Members Directory – Released after a gap of so many years.

• Creating the post of mentors – In the Board, Past Presidents were given the post of mentors, and all other positions were given to members who had never been Presidents, thus encouraging newer members to participate in positions of responsibility.

• Awaking sleeping members – Except for a couple of members, all members participated and contributed during the year. Wonderful fellowships were a reason, but a bigger reason was that they were encouraged to participate. Anyway, nobody can say 'No' to Ann Nandita, at least not easily !

• Emails – Replaced the written circular almost permanently. Reporting was done within 3 days, along with the photos of the event.

• Every Anniversary was remembered by a personal gift by the President and First Lady.

• Starting of the Pacemaker program – which had been the identity of RCKG in its initial years. It was restored to its past glory by the funds for the program being given by the club, and Regency Hospital. A total of Rs 3.6 lakhs was spent on the 6 pacemakers implanted.

• Adoption of the Boys Bal Grah – the new Community services project this year. Spent more than Rs 3.5 lakhs this year on a new room and reconstruction of the Bal Grah.

• A very first time New Years Eve program – which was an outstanding success ! A feather in the cap for the team this year.

• A trip to Jim Corbett – Nobody thought that the huge distance would look so small ! Four evenings together, and still the Rotarians could not get enough of it !

All the above activities were not in isolation but in continuation of all the programs that RCKG is known for. The TB Clinic continued its good work, and we were able to comply with all Rotary Foundation norms, something which is unique for Rotary clubs in India. The Girls Bal Grah continued its monthly activities. There were other contributions to charitable activities such as the Garbage Bin placements in Railway Station, and literacy programs (Spastics Center, Boys Bal Grah, Girls Bal Grah). These all activities had their foundation in the huge fund raising done this year in the play “Teri Bhi Chup Meri bhi Chup'.

I believe all of the above was possible due to the unprecedented team work in the club. The responsibility shouldered by the team members, the complete freedom of team leaders within their sphere of activity and their willingness to actively perform their duties, all this has resulted in the success of the year gone by or Rotary Year 2009-10 ! The district has recognized the overall performance by bestowing 11 Awards on the Club !

At the end, I do not want to name any individual member since the list is too long. But I have to thank the First Lady Ann Ruchi Jain for her ever willing, strong and silent support. For a President, the old adage should be read as 'Behind every successful Rotary President there is a supporting First Lady”. All so true ! Also, I would be missing some important persons who need to be remembered – my children Annets Shubhi, Nehal and Vatsal - for their understanding and encouragement during the year. The Annet idea was theirs and theirs alone !

Looking back, I am surprised by all the achievements, coupled with the fact that I do not feel a sense of fatigue. I believe the credit for this goes to you, the members of RCKG. I hope that the year 2009-10 will be remembered not only as a year that all the members were proud to be RCKGians, but also by the fact that RCKG rightly deserves to be called as the best Rotary Club in Kanpur.

IPP Rtn. Vipul Jain

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Captivating 2009-10 : Some Snap Shots

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TITLE AWARDED TO

OUTSTANDING ROTARIAN OF THE YEAR RTN DR ATUL KAPOOR

OUTSTANDING ANN OF THE YEAR ANN NANDITA GUPTA

OUTSTANDING MEGA PROJECT OF THE YEAR TB CLINIC TEAM, RTN SANJAY GUPTA & ANN SUMAN AGARWAL

OUTSTANDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR GIRLS BAL GRAH, ANN SOBBY SALUJA

BEST FELLOWSHIP PROJECT OF THE YEAR BLACK & WHITE PARTY RTN NAFIS & ANN SHAHINA AHMADRTN MEHBOOB & ANN RUSHDA REHMANRTN NADEEM & ANN SAMEENA REHMAN

OUTSTANDING NEW PROJECT OF THE YEAR BOYS BAL GRAH RTN ARCHANA KHAITAN & RTN RAJIV AGRAWAL

BEST FUND RAISING FOR THE CLUB TRIO OF RTNS RAMESH AGARWALARCHANA KHAITAN & DR ATUL KAPOOR

BEST PR PROJECT OF THE CLUB MILESTONES, & EDITOR ANN KIRAN AGARWAL

OUTSTANDING REJUVENATED PROJECT PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION RTN DR HARSH AGARWAL

MOST INNOVATIVE PROJECT OF THE YEAR HUSBANDS’ COOKOUT, ANN RITU JHUNJHUNWALA

BEST SURPRISE COUPLE OF THE YEAR RTN NIRAJ & ANN NIVEDITA PRASAD

BEST BOARD MEMBER SILENT WORKER, RTN ANIL AGARWAL

BEST TEAM WORK IN THE YEAR THE TRIO OF ANN NANDITA GUPTA,ANN MADHU KANODIA & ANN MINU SUTWALA

BEST ANNET OF THE YEAR ANNET DEVIKA GUPTA

CLUB AWARDS (2009-10)

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DIAMOND CLUB ROTARY CLUB OF KANPUR GREATER

BEST CLUB CONTRIBUTION TO THE ROTARY FOUNDATION

GOLD PRESIDENT RTN VIPUL JAIN

EXCELLENT CLUB HEALTH AND HUNGER

BEST CLUB BULLETIN MILESTONES, ANN KIRAN AGARWAL

OTHER CLUB AWARDS :

• AWARD FOR LITERACY • AWARD FOR YOUNG GENERATION

• AWARD FOR CLUB SERVICES • AWARD FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES

• AWARD FOR HOSTING GSE TEAM • AWARD FOR MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

District Awards (2009-10) bagged by RCKG

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What a Great year 2009-10 was, when we won so many awards in Rotary fraternity at the same time Milestones was awarded as the best club bulletin in the district. An onerous task to take over from such an enthusiastic and

zesty editor Ann. Kiran Agarwal, who has taken the bulletin to such great heights.

I am honoured to have PP Rtn. Sandeep Garg, founder editor of milestones on the editorial board to inspire and guide me in my journey to pursue excellence and greater heights.

Our quest cannot be complete without your contribution by way of articles, write-ups, reports, photographs, interesting information, philosophies which you chase and definitely annet achievements and their photos.

Looking forward to a year of events, social service, fellowships, featured in this bulletin with your kind co-operation.

Ann. Nivedita TandonPhone : 9415050145Email: nirajprasadn@gmail.com

We live in a nation,

• Where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance & police,

• Where you get a car loan @ 5 % and education loan @12 %,

• Where rice is Rs 40/- per kg but sim card is free,

• Where a millionaire can buy a cricket team instead of donating the money to any charity,

• Where the footwear we wear, is sold in AC showrooms, but vegetables that we eat, are sold on footpath,

• Where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous,

• Where we make lemon juices with artificial flavours and dish wash liquids with real lemon.

• Where people standing at tea stall reading an article about child labour from a newspaper and say, "yaar bachon se kaam karvane wale ko to phansi par chadha dena chahiye," and then they shout, " Oye chhotu, do chaye le aa."

From the Editorial Desk ... Many Happy Returns

Strange are our ways!

Annet Vatsal Dalmia 2-JulRtn. Uday J. Desai 2-JulAnn Anjali Agarwal 3-JulAnnet Siddarth Khaitan 4-JulAnnet Sanjana Desai 4-JulAnnet Kushal Dalmia 9-JulAnnet Ankita Gupta 10-JulRtn. Mahesh Kapoor 15-JulAnnet Anshuman Mohla 18-JulAnnet Shikha Garg 18-JulAnnet Arpan Agarwal 22-JulAnn Dr. Madhu Tandon 23-JulAnnet Mansi Agarwal 25-JulAnnet Saif Rehman 26-JulRtn. Ashok Seth 27-JulAnnet Esra Rahman 27-JulAnnet Radhika Chaudhary 31-JulAnnet Naureen Nafis 2-AugAnn Madhu Kapoor 3-AugAnnet Yash Malhotra 4-AugRtn. Pankaj Tandon 7-AugAnnet Revant 8-AugAnnet Rahul Bhargava 12-AugAnn Sangeeta Garg 13-AugAnnet Dhruv Agarwal 13-AugRtn. Shailendra Kumar Singh 15-AugAnnet Satyajit Singh 16-AugRtn. Sanjay Gupta 19-AugAnnet Saral Verma 19-AugAnn Shahina Tabassum 20-AugAnn Pooja Mehrotra 25-AugAnnet Vasundhara Gupta 25-AugAnnet Nehal Jain 29-AugRtn. Deependra Gupta 30-AugAnn Gauri Shriya 30-AugAnnet Pranav Lohia 30-AugAnnet Vatsal Jain 30-AugAnn Neeta Mehrotra 31-AugAnnet Siddharth Gupta 31-Aug

Editor :Ann. Nivedita TandonPhone : 9415050145nirajprasadn@gmail.com

Printed at :Solar Press, KanpurPhone : 0512-2534799solarknp@gmail.com

President :Rtn. Sanjay ChowdharyPhone : 9336121257skc@sempl.com

Secretary :Rtn. Rishi KapoorPhone : 9415404012kapson@sancharnet.in

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