April 2015 - The Golden Orange

April 2015

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R OTARY T W EETS - Vindhya Sanjana Dear All, This column is aimed at allowing our members a platform in which to air their thoughts, grievances, and to basically have a voice. We will present a new topic every month and publish your responses with your photo, subject to space availability.

Prizes will be awarded to three most pertinent responses. However, please let it be understood that we value ALL the tweets coming in. This is a democratic organization and we value every single sentiment or opinion that is sent to us. So

interact with us, tell us what you think, and

let others too hear your voice!

Technology has changed the speed and reach of communication beyond belief.

Professional bodies as also some Rotary Clubs now meet online to exchange notes and conduct their business. Our Club has also moved from a paper driven to a more techno-savvy organization. Our website is constantly updated, our circulars reach us on mail and even reminders and information is shared through electronic media.

In this background, the question for the

coming month is:“Do you think there would be more participation from members if our club became more tech friendly and conducted a percentage of our meetings online?”

Please send in your tweets ASAP to vindhyasanjana@yahoo.com or SMS / Whatsapp or even call me on 9423103916 / 9890715526. Do remember that the tweets should not be more than 140 CHARACTERS or LETTERS, & NOT 140 WORDS. That's far too long!! On the other hand, if you have a little More to say, then please don't hold back, just say it!

Awaiting your views! Remember - the idea is to be FREE, FRANK AND FEARLESS!!

Happy Tweeting!

Vindhya Sanjana

Last month, we asked you “As a member do you like the innovative changes and new ventures that have been taken up this year in Rotary?” st

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Winner 1 Prize

Winner 2 Prize

As they say, all religions r just paths leading to a common goal- the attainment of God. Similarly, all rotary presidents- past, present & future come with their own ideas n innovations with a common goal-service to humanity. It is their collective efforts which have brought the club to this stature as it stands today- tall & proud. Every member is a contributor- Rotary does not bask in any presidents glory; the president shines in the light of Rotary.

Jyoti Goenka

Yup !! I like the Tweet Initiative, and positive changes in structure of Golden Orange and Weekly Communique. I congratulate the team for successfully accomplishing Club's existing ventures properly. I am happy to work with encouraging Directors, supporting Chairperson, and enthusiastic Rotarians and Rotractors.

Sarang Upganlawar

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Innovations are like a breath of fresh air, make the organization dynamic and as such are always welcome! We must not be prisoners of past, yet never disrespect olden and golden time tested values. I am happy our club strikes a fine balance of old and new, year after year !

Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee

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Oh yes... This year was simply superb wid lots of new activities..

Kudos to d chairpersons of ladies comm for that learning n dancing dandiya camp,, to RAGS for amazing picnic cum fun stay at Tathastu..cricket IPL women,, editor Nimish to introduce new birthday anniversary page in GO,, a fund raising eve wid saxophone player..

Then "One fellowship wid all.". A rotary carnival..

A colorful rajesthan show wid outdoor shooting exp..

New venue CVC ..

Nice efforts n superb confidence..

Congrats prez n team Veenita Pasari Dear Vindhya, Change is the need of hour, without getting into new ventures how will we know whats the prospects, even if we fail, we learn, so thumbs up to new ventures, along with old ones, and one should remember, the old Changes and Ventures were Once new for the team at that particular time.

Sandiip CS Vaid

One innovation observed has been the self sufficiency of activities (many of these greenfield) which actually yielded surplus to the Club. One change observed has been the tremendous vocal activism by members on several issues, as also the willingness of members to step up and contribute for causes. Two areas which are on the agenda, and what one looks forward to – protocol for assets donated whether under JV or not, as well as the permanent office (secretariat) of the Club. One more change to look forward to is the adoption of technology aimed at paperless operations to the maximum extent feasible – whether for attendance / record keeping/ communications, et al.

Nimish Sutaria I am not a member of Rotary and as such i do not know much about the working originally or the change but i can see a change in the GO and that too for the better.

More articles of interest and definitely can see the effort taken Deepali Kale

Progress and continuous improvements can be seen in Rotary every year. This term too, creating awareness about recycling of e-waste and making it convenient for members to contribute towards this effort, I feel is a big achievement and should be done at a national level if it is not already been going on.

For non-members and those members who are not very actively participating in the weekly meetings and hence are not able to donate their e-waste, collection centers in other parts of town can be set up - just a bin marked 'Recycle e-waste' can be put up at suitable locations / outlets, that have cooperated in the past for distributing Rotary forms and tickets.

Divya Sharma I think this year has seen many firsts. The light hearted introduction of the board through caricatures, the wonderful new content in the GO, the many interesting and rewarding meetings, projects, the collection of e-waste, the all-girl rock band,..its been an interesting year.

Vindhya Sanjana

THURSDAY TH O U G HTS

We rightfully take immense pride in identifying ourselves as members of one of the largest Rotary club in India, trying to live in reality the Rotary motto “Service above Self”. Every President, year after year tries to better his predecessor's achievements and – yes we do a lot of meaningful work in the field of youth, literacy, health, hygiene, water, sanitation, international understanding etc etc. But have we ever done an introspection whether all our projects, activities are really bringing about a revolutionary change in a mind set and a

long term social impact on the community. The nation and everybody also talks of women empowerment, but what have we really done about it?

In an atmosphere where every morning, our newspapers greet us with stories of girls being tormented, raped, killed or treated like a doormat in one way or another, trust India's “village republics” to bring in some good news from time to time.

A new word emerges “Eco-feminism”.

There is an obscure village called Piplantri in Rajasthan. For the last several years, Piplantri village panchayat has been saving girl children and increasing the green cover in and around it at the same time.

Here, villagers plant 111 trees every time a girl is born and the community ensures these trees survive, attaining fruition as the girls grow up. Village residents collect Rs. 21,000 between themselves and Rs.10000 from the girl's parents. This sum of Rs.31000 is made into a 20-year fixed deposit for the girl.

But here's the best part. The village

panchayat makes these parents sign an affidavit promising that they would not marry her off before the legal age, send her to school regularly and take care of the trees planted in her name. The village panchayat, which has a studio-recorded anthem and a website of its own, has completely banned alcohol, open grazing of animals and cutting of trees. Villagers claim there has not been any police case here for the last 7-8 years.

This wonderful eco-conscious tradition ensures that an increase in human population will never come at a cost to the environment. It is literally helping to ensure a greener future with each new generation.

This is a heart warming and inspiring story that MUST be shared and replicated as much as possible across India and the world. ? ?? ????? ??? ? ? ?? ?.

Bharat Goenka President

Terribly Tiny Tales is a forum which encourages 140 character stories on variegated topics where anyone can participate and contribute. Sample this gem from one such contributor Amrit –

There is a gun on my back And books on yours Ah how Each of us fears what the other carries This defines our world today, hemmed in with orthodox indoctrination aimed at taking us back into the past centuries.

From the village panchayats and khaps of Ichalkaranji and Haryana to the boko haram/ ISIS, they are all waging a war whether on freedom, development or progress. Education, which leads the people to independent thought, economic wellbeing and freedom, is clearly their Enemy #1.

American journalist and author Carl Rowan said that the library is the temple

of learning and learning has liberated more people than all wars in history.

Another American, Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author famously stated “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing which ever has” Narsinh Mehta did not perhaps imagine that his immortal verses (vaishnava jana toh), composed as an ode to the true Vaishnav in the 16th century would find a home in the Rotary credo – feeling the pain of others, help those in misery, remaining at all times unconceited, keeping their words, actions and thoughts pure, respect women and speak the truth always.

Rotary International, numbering a mere 1.2 million members representing a small percentage of the world population, has been at the forefront of change addressing such issues since decades. Since the last few years, having won the battle against Polio, it has taken on, in South Asia, the mammoth task of educating the illiterate, not just to read and write, but to be

employable which is the first stepping stone to better income, better lifestyle leading to improved health and overall wellbeing. The aim is now literacy for all in South Asia by 2017. (check http://www.rotaryteach.org ) Rotary's Total Literacy Mission aims for success akin to the Polio mission, which has resulted in complete eradication in India. Our mission is now cut out.

Nimish Sutaria Editor

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23rd February 2015 Dear Bharatji, Please convey my hearty congratulations to Bulletin Editor Nimish Sutaria for bringing out a very informative, educative and interesting bulletin every month.

I am enclosing some anecdotes from Parliament. If you find them interesting, you may send these to the Editor for publication.

With Warm regards Yours sincerely Sudarshan Agarwal Past RI Director, Former Governor - Uttarakhand & Sikkim

R OTARY'S WASH & W I N S PR O G RA M In the Rotary Institute held at Chennai from 12th to 15th December 2014, on behalf of Rotary India, RI Director P.T. Prabhakar signed a MOU with Union Minister for Urban Development Shri Venkaiyah Naidu, the key note speaker on Rotary's commitment to promote, facilitate and work for Water, Sanitation & hygiene in Schools.

Rotary declared its Pan India support to the national campaign ' Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya' launched by Government of India.

What is WinS (WASH in Schools) Access to sufficient quantities of safe water for * Drinking * Hand washing after defecation, and before eating, for cooking and personal hygiene.

Sufficient water for * Cleaning school premises * Cleaning and flushing toilets * Cleaning food vessels used for Mid day meals Toilet Facilities that are *Gender specific, adequate, well equipped and well maintained Hygiene promotion and education *Posters, wall painting,messaging, events and competitions, * Promote personal and school hygiene, hand washing Key benefits of WinS program *Provides healthy and protective school

environment minimizing risk of disease child abuse,protecting child's right to good education; *Promotes equity, ensuring privacy and dignity of girl child in schools ( startling statistics: more then 70 % girls in villages leave school after 5th standard since there are no toilets for them in those schools); *Providing inclusive and accessible facilities for children with special needs; *Discouraging/stopping habit of defecation in open by children and their parents and children insisting for a toilet at home; *Supporting healthy school nutrition program; *Encouraging children to be the agent for change in improving water, sanitation and hygiene practices.

As a follow up of Chennai declaration mentioned above, Rotary India has entered in to an understanding with Ministry of Human Resource Development, School education and Literacy: * To undertake and construct adequate separate toilets and urinals for boys and girls in 489 schools in 10 states in India maintaining a ratio of at least one toilet for every 40 students; * To adopt 10,000 schools PAN India for maintenance of water and sanitation facilities, and monitor behavioral changes on hygiene habits; * Providing menstrual hygiene

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management including soap,space for changing and disposal facility for menstrual waste including dustbins, incinerators etc; *Sufficient group hand washing facilities with groups of 10 students washing hand simultaneously; * Daily provision of safe drinking water and clean water for sanitation and hand wash, soap,brooms, disinfectants,buckets etc; *Conducting educative sessions on hygiene and menstrual management for girls; *Training and capacity building of teachers school staff and students.

Rotary has collaborated with UNICEF on WASH in Schools to work towards shared goals and vision of Swachh Bharat Vidyalaya campaign Together, they will be addressing various key institutional, policy and financial bottlenecks that prevent sustainable WinS in India and ensure that such investments are sustained and lead to better health and education for the targeted children.

Our Past President PDG Dr Satish Sule has been made Coordinator for WASH and WinS program in RID 3030. He will be working in tandem with RI Director (201517) Dr Manoj Desai and motivate and guide all clubs in our District.and will be assisted by team of Zonal coordinators.

PDG Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee

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Rotary-OCHRI Skin Bank On 27th of February history was written and the much awaited : India's 4th Skin Bank, a joint project of Rotary Club of Nagpur and Orange City Hospital & Research Institute saw the light of day when Shri.Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Energy Minister, Maharashtra and Guardian Minister, Nagpur dedicated it to the Nation.

S h r i . A n o o p K u m a r, D i v i s i o n a l Commissioner - Nagpur also paid a courtesy visit. Shri Anoop Kumar had taken a lot of interest to pursue related paperwork for an early initiation of this project. The Rotary OCHRI Skin bank is a result of

tripartite agreement amongst RCN, OCHRI and National Skin Bank, Airoli, Mumbai After a floral welcome to the Minister and Divisional Commissioner by President Bharat Goenka, the guests were felicitated

by Shri Udaybhaskar Nair, Chairman, NAIRSONS Group of Companies. This was followed by ceremonial lamp lighting and ribbon cutting.

Dr Usha Nair, Director OCHRI also joined the ceremony. In his welcome President Bharat highlighted the dedicated team work done for starting the skin bank and applauded all those who worked hard for this goal, while Shri Udaybhaskar Nair reiterated OCHRI's drive for social cause.Dr.Anup M a r a r, H o n .

Director, Rotary-OCHRI Skin Bank read out the names of a l l t e a m members who had contributed for development of RotaryOCHRI Skin

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Bank.

Rtn Shri. Prashant Kale, Rtn Dr.Sameer J a h a g i r d a r, R t n . U m e s h S h a r m a , Rtn.Chandru Sahni, Rtn.Dr.Ravi Wankhede, Rtn.Dr.Manmohan Daga, Shri Sunil Sure, Shri Roy Thomas, Shri Santosh Mykalwar and Shri.Umesh Bhoyar were honored by the Guardian Minister with a scroll. Public awareness posters were also released by the dignitaries present.

In his address, Shri Bawankule conveyed his pleasure to note that Rotary-OCHRI is the 1st skin bank of Central India. He said history is being written today wherein Nagpurians are pledging to take ahead the deceased Donor Organ Donation program to help humanity.

This natural skin will not only relieve complete pain of burn victims but will also reduce death ratio by 50%. It will be available at 1/10th of the cost of artificial products. He commended the passion of Rotary Club of Nagpur and OCHRI for envisaging such a path breaking novel project. He assured all help of the State Government for this undertaking.

Dr. Deepak Dongre was master of ceremony and vote of thanks was proposed by Rtn.Dr.Sameer Jahagirdar, Hon. Project Incharge, Rotary-OCHRI Skin Bank. He thanked all who were present for the function and all those who helped in making a Skin bank at Nagpur.

He also thanked all the donors, particularly Mr Ajay Sancheti, MP for his

generous donation for the bank. He emphasized that although starting the Skin bank was a pioneering step, it is just the first baby step and the team needs to continuously work for public awareness as Skin banking is relatively a new concept. He recited a hindi shairi “Sirf ujalahi kafi nahi hota, sawera honeke liye, Aankhebhi kholni padti hai, Roshni keliye�

Amongst those who were prominently present for the function were DGE (District 3030) Dr Nikhil Kibe and his family. The function was attended by eminent Rotarians and doctors and staff of the hospital. Others present were Mrs Jyoti Goenka, RCN Secretary Manjot Singh Kahai, PDG Vishwas Sahastrabhojanee, PP Chandru Sahani, Rtn Manju Sahani, Rtn Vikram Naidu, PP Vijay Naidu, Rtn Sunil Bhatia, Rtn Gogi Bhasin, Rtn Shiraz Doongaji, Rtn Kapil Bahri, Rtn Sarang Kale, Rtn Dr Ravi Wankhede and PP Dr Manmohan Daga.

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PR O BUS MEETI N G An evening full of gupshup, entertainment and golden words of wisdom! Yes, it was a Probus get together at Chitnavis Centre, a mesmerising session by Rtn Hemant Lodha,

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a CA by profession and a motivational writer by hobby."A-Z for senior citizens" was the topic. All Probus members were present except for a few who were out of town.

Alphabetically he explained everyone on how to improve their lives by bringing certain changes in their lives. Chairperson Rakhi Bhatia introduced the guest. PP Gulab Mahant and PP Rajan Bhatia graced the occasion. A momento was given by PP Gulab Mahant. Vote of thanks was given by Probus member Savita Masand. Nectar of

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The student organization during their annual gathering arranged a blood donation camp at their training and placement hall. The blood donation camp was ably handled by Miss Sofia and her team. They played a big role in motivating the students engaged in various activities during the mass gathering. It was indeed a great involvement of the students to bring 56 boys and girls to donate blood.

Director Gogi Bhasin, Chairpersons Rtn Mohammed Master, Rtn Raj Shah, Rtn Sheela Mundhada appreciated the sincere hard work put by student coordinators to make the camp a great success.

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Wisdom, a book written by Mr Lodha was given to all Probus members. Sumptuous snacks were served by Zenia. Chairperson Ruchi Uppal and ever enthusiastic chairperson Neeru Bhatia were perfect hosts for the evening. Rtn Zareen Rana and Rtn Harpreet Uppal also attended the talk.

-Rakhi Bhatia

The flagship project of our club was held from Feb 19th to F e b 22nd, had two facets - the medical arrangements looked after b yD i r ector Medical Dr Rajesh Singhania and the supporting systems and other non medical activities at Hemalkasa looked after by Director Non Medical Rtn Gogi Bhasin and his chairpersons. There was an involvement of numerous Rotarians & Anns to make this Signature project a soul satisfying success.

Rtn Dilip Chhajed of Hansa Travels deserves our gratitude for confirming the two buses at discounted rate for the round trip and PP Vijay Naidu for following up on the buses and placing them on schedule.

Chairperson Rtn Ashish Mehadia with the help of Director Gogi Bhasin, PP Shabbir Shakir, Shabbar Shakir, Dinesh Naidu, Rajesh Datar organised and planned the procurement of provisions, which was completed in a matter of 3 days. All the provisions were delivered at a central location to be properly packed and labelled for use at the Prakalp. It was like making preparations for a large scale marriage. The Prakalp sent their truck to be loaded with the Medical & Non medical supplies, and the balance supplies & consummables were carted in another truck arranged by the Club.

Many conscientious members of our club generously contributed for the camp as requested and the team collected about rupees two lacs in a short span of an hour.

The meeting point for breakfast was organised in front of the President's office

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on Amravati Road. The buses and cars departed from the Venue on schedule after a ceremonioal send off at the hands of Mr Ashutosh Tripathi the factory head of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Mr Pradeep Zoting GM and other officers of M&M also graced the occasion. The contingent stopped at Ballarpur for a fantastic lunch at Zaweri College, arranged by Rtn. Shabbar Shakir through Mr Ibrahim Zaweri. The team proceeded with a customary halt for Tea at Allapali and reached Lok Biradari Prakalp on schedule. By the time the team reached, the advance team of Dr. Aarti Anand had completed the screening of patients, while PE Khushnoor Chugh, Jyoti Goenka and Sabiha Maimoon were busy with other arrangements. th

The Non-Medical projects started on 20 morning with drawing and painting competition organised by Director Namita Sharma and a highly Motivational lecture by Rtn. Rajendra Jaiswal. On 21 s t it was Rangoli Competition, Langar, Cricket Match, Paper bag making classes by PE Khushnoor Chugh and talk on leadership

by Rtn. Mahendra Kamat and R'Ann Kanchan Naidu. There was another spirited talk by the Mahindra team where they explained to the fascinated students how a tractor could be assembled in a short time. Rtn. Umesh Sharma and R'Ann Sushma Sharma helped by being the judges for the competition. Sports equipment were donated to the school with a large part of it sponsored by Rtn. Neeru Kapai. As expected the cricket match was won by the School team. st

On the 21 evening fellowship dinner at DFO, the IGGMC Rotaractors made the

evening very lively with presentation of foot tapping songs accompanied by a guitar.

An important element was to have ensure proper management of the OT Kitchen, which was entirely managed by R'Ann Neeru Bhatia, Rtn. Kirit Thakkar and Devanshi Mehadia, Rotaractors Mukesh, Parag, Vaibhav and Abhishekh along with other members. Devanshi Mehadia even made a portrait of Dr. Prakash Amte.

On the return leg, the team left after breakfast on Feb 22nd and again stopped at Zaweri College Ballarshah for a superb lunch. Most sincere appreciation thanks are due to Mr Ibrahim Zaweri and his son for this kind & exemplary hospitality. The buses reached the starting point by 6 pm and the tired pilgrims were back home all safe & sound with fantastic memories.

We are grateful to PP. Rtn. Shabbir Shakir, PP. Vijay Naidu, PP. Rajan Bhatia, Rtns. Shabbar Shakir, Rajesh Datar, Dinesh Naidu, Gogi Bhasin, Namita Sharma, Khushnoor Chugh, Shashank Pande, Amitabh Sharma, Sanjay Sethi, Manju Shahani, Neeru Bhatia, Kirit Thakkar, Shweta Singh and others who have helped in completing all the arrangements in short time and making the camp a great success. Credit is also due to Rtn. Amitabh Sinha for getting the contribution from Mahindra and Mahindra for the project. We are grateful to Rotary staff Dinesh Vaidya and Rajesh Indorkar staff of President for working ceaselessly right from packing, store keeping and other errands at Hemalkasa.

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WALKATH O N In spite of rain gods playing with the

Singh, Jt. Commissioner of 1st March Police & Mr. Kiran Bhingarde of Godrej Anandam; and 3 kms by Mr. Alok Kansal, Divisional Railway Manager, South East Central Railway, AG Rtn.Vinay Tule & Mr, Nilesh Nagarkar, Jaika Insurance.

Also present at the flag off ceremony were Rtn.Manjot Singh Kahai, Secretary and Rtn.Sunil Bhatia. The proceedings were conducted by Past President Dr Sanjeev Prakash Chugh and Sandip Dhodapkar.

enthusiasm of walkers, Rotary Club of Nagpur's annual event Walkathon-Walk for Life, Walk for Heart was held on a rainy Sunday at Jogger's Park, Nagpur.

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The event which was first held in 2005 has now completed 11 successful years with ever growing interest from the citizens of Nagpur city. This year more than 5000 people registered and walked in the event which was flagged off from Ramgiri.

The participants were divided into various categories such as Veterans, Men, Ladies and children who walked distances covering 3kms, 6 kms and 9 kms. The 9 kms walk was flagged off by President Bharat Goenka, Dr.Jaspal Arneja, Director of Arneja Heart Institute

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Dr.Indu Arneja & Mr.Buta Singh, Principal Commissioner, Income Tax-1; 6 kms was flagged of by Mr.Anup Kumar

The crowd at the starting lines was controlled by various Rotarians and Rotaract volunteers. The thousands at the starting line were also entertained by Rotarian Kishore Thutheja of Laughter Club & his team. Marshals ensured safety of the participants over the entire route of the Walkathon which started from

ceremonial activities were compered by Rotarian Rajiv Behal and Dr.Sanjiv Chugh. After the walk, IGMC College Rock Band entertained the participants.

Each participant was provided a T-shirt, cap and free refreshments. The event was

sponsored by Arneja Heart Institute, Adaani Wilmar, Godrej Anandam Properties along with Jaika Insurance Brokerage, supported by Cartel & Axis Bank. Free eye checkup coupons were distributed by Jaika Insurance Brokerage Ramgiri, continued to Police Gymkhana, Ladies Club, High Court, Central Excise HQ and back to Jogger's Park.

Pre and Post event activities were at Jogger's Park where Walkathon jingle was played to encourage the walkers. The

for all present. In addition, there was a special Organ Donor Registration Counter where persons enquiring were explained the benefits to society of organ, tissue and skin donations as well as to

smoothly. Rtn.Sunil Bhatia, Manish Bhati & Dipesh Ajmera worked very hard to make this event a grand success.

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register themselves for the same.

Environment committee also promoted Organic colours for Holi.

Other prominent personalities present at the event were Mr. Abra Chatterjee (Adaani Wilmar), Mr.Sudhir Kunte (Jaika Group) and Assistant Governor Vinay Tule. Group participation from RBI, Fire College, R&Y Logistics, Smart Data Systems helped increase the walkers numbers this year. Prizes for all the categories consisting of Home Appliances of Morphy Richards were distributed, which created an excitement

and happiness in the minds of Walkers.

Club also recognized Mr.Abhishek Junarkar, the Marathon runner who completed 89.90 km of Marathon held in South Africa, the longest marathon in the world. Rotary Club of Nagpur is thankful to all the club members, Sponsors, Sister clubs, media partners, Rotaract and Interact club members, CP Club, the press reporters who helped in spreading the message of Walk for health, Walk for life to the masses through their respective publications and also to Police department for helping to run the event

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BUSI N ESS MEETI N G The 8th business meeting was called to order by President Bharat. After half a minute's silent prayer, the President welcomed all members present and read out the Four Way Test and greeted members for their birthdays and anniversaries. Secretary Manjot Singh read out the minutes of the business meeting held on 5th February. The Golden Orange was released by PP Vijay Naidu and the prizes to the winners for the Tweets, Sudoku and Crosswords were given away. Rtn Parag Date read out the Rotary Information and next week's

projects were announced. Treasurer Kapil Bahri read out the Treasurer's report. The President informed the house of the acceptance of three new membership proposals of Vikas Garg, Sachin Mulani, Lokesh Chandra Shrivastava, after preliminary discussions. President referred to the comment made by PP Shiraz Gimi during the last business meeting held on Feb 5th regarding the whatsapp group functioning under the banner of Rotary Club of Nagpur. PP Shiraz had asked whether this was an official group to which the members had

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For the first time in Rotary we celebrated International Womens Day. The Ladies Committee decided to felicitate “Power Women” of Rotary Club of Nagpur who have excelled in their professions, contributed a lot to Rotary yet managed a balance in their family. What a Daunting Task!!! Each RCN Lady is an Achiever. The Annes and Lady Rotarians are an exclusive lot and selecting was an Impossible Task. It was decided to felicitate a select few comprising of PP Tauby, Dr Vandana Hazra, Dr Archana Patel, Sadhna Paliwal, Rachna Singh, Vindhya Sanjana, and Reema Sial along with President Elect Rtn

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5th March replied in the negative. President asked the board whether we should make this group official or ask the administrators to change the name of the group. The board replied in unison that this group should be discontinued as it does not echo the sentiments of the club. PP Atul & PP Tauby also spoke in favour of changing the name of the group. The Attendance Report was read out by Rtn. Ashok Malani, and 100% attendance Awards for the month of December 2014 were distributed. The meeting was adjourned after the national anthem.

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Khushnoor Chugh.

Cute Power Women Badges were distributed and Mementoes presented by First Lady Jyoti Goenka and Joint Secretary Rina Sinha to all in a Hall Of Fame presentation! No celebration can be complete without music and the first ever maiden “Rock Power Band” of Vinita Bahri, Nilufer Rana, Shivani Bidaye, Anita Chitaley, Geeta Rao and Archana Jhavery clad in distressed jeans and white shirts donning bandanas gave a rocking performance as if they were our own Beatles/ Abba/ Honey Singhs' matching each celebrity with a befitting song !! They

sang as Pros!

The Committee Chairpersons felicitated Director Rina Sinha with a personalised coffee mug.

More than 50 ladies participated waving “lights” and dancing away to the Band!

Nidhi Gandhi and Sonia Khurana conducted the proceedings. Under the guidance of the Rina Sinha, Captain of our Ship, Nidhi Gandhi, Archana, Keerti Jain and Sonia khurana worked very hard and enjoyed presenting our First Womens Day...a Day to Remember!

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It was a rainy day, which spoiled our outdoor arrangements.. But then everything worked out indoors at our hosts Appu and Laxmi’s Empress Villa.

The theme was singing and dancing on

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holi, colors and vasant. To to our great surprise they all did it... Rajiv Behal, Shibu and Beena sang along with all the members; PP Gulab Mahant's dance was a treat to watch... Chairpersons Neeta

Gupta and Veenita Pasari took care of all the arrangements including floral decoration, holi caps and menu...

Bheegi bheegi shaam thi vo…

Rotary ke naam thi vo.... Veenita Pasari

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IGGMC ROTARACT 10th March Rotaract club of IGGMC completed its make paper bags and sold to earn some 'Project Clothes Donation' today on 10th money which is used for funding the kids' march 2015. They donated the clothes education. collected by students to DAAN The clothes will be distributed at PARMITA CHARITABLE TRUST. The * Vardaan hostel, Abhyankar nagar trust works for underprivileged kids. * Swami Vivekanand Mission Hostel, They collect clothes and newspapers Khapri across the city. While clothes are washed * Vasundhara Society School, near Kamal and ironed and distributed among the kids Talkies. living in hostels run by the trust and some The rotaractors are very happy to other hostels, the newspapers are used to contribute indirectly for the noble cause

-A talk by Mrs Shalini Arora and Mrs Kavita Singhal Rtn Rina Sinha introduced the two speakers for the evening. Shalini Arora has a diploma in commercial arts, teaches Yoga and is an active AAP volunteer, passionate about Organic food as also working for the girl child. Rtn.Kavita Singhal has been inspired by Gandhiji’s philosophy of equality and is also an active AAP volunteer.

Kavita said AAP's main agenda is to bring about equality between rich and poor. She shared her experiences of visits to many slums and also Varanasi during the recent

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12th March elections. She said Aap's first priority is to provide clean drinking water to the Aam Aadmi. She feels we should make every city in India a better place to live in, rather than focusing on creating Smart cities.

Shalini then spoke of how AAP stood for equality in the Happiness quotient.

Electricity, Water and Health are the main concerns of AAP. She shared the philosophy of AAP which aimed at ensuring introduction of Jan Lok Pal Bill, and to rid politics of corruption. She conceded that it was wrong on the part of AAP government to resign after 48 days in office. AAP now aims at introducing selfgovernance based on Gandhiji's principles.

Shalini is very passionate about organic farming and helps in the marketing of organic produce. She also feels farmer suicides can be avoided by doing away with the loan sharks. Shalini and Kavita also had an interactive session with the audience but they refused to discuss the

crisis in the party.

Kushnoor Chugh gave a vote of thanks and praised them for their motivation and passion for AAP. She felt some of the questions by the audience were not answered, and personally she felt the speakers spoke more about the

shortcomings of governance in India and didn't give an insight of the man- Arvind Kejriwal.

Rtn Ann Shalini Naidu.

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The Unveiling of the Muffler Man

and have expressed thanks to Rtn. Manish and Rtn. Namita for their constant support.

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presented their reports based on the work they did, both their individual projects as well as their contribution to our clubs major projects.

It was followed by Award Ceremony for recognising the work done by our Rotaractors through out the year 2014-15.

Best President-Madhur Rathi of IGMC, 13th March is Celebrated as World Rotaract Day, so in accordance our club too celebrated the same with our ever helpful and hard working Rotaractors.

The programme was a well organised event by team youth services and aptly supported by Tirpude Education Society

for the venue.

Our team of Rotaractors from 8 colleges

Best Secretary-Ajay Gajbhiye of Hislop, Upcoming Rotaract Club- SB Jain College, Best Community Projects-Tuli College and Sadabai Women's College, Best Rotaract Club Hislop College.

Teacher In-charge of Sadabai Dr Shakti Sharma and Hislop College Teacher-inCharge, Mrs Jigisha Naidu, were also acknowledged for their unstinted support.

The awards were given away by President

BLO O D D O N ATI O N Blood donation camp was conducted at M/s A.K.Gandhi Cars Pvt. Ltd., owned by our very own Rtn. Achal Gandhi. It started at 10.30 AM and concluded at around 2.00 PM. Achal motivated the donors who were called from various branches of M/s A.K.Gandhi. Total 35 units of blood were collected. Hon.

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Secretary Manjot Singh, Director Gogi Bhasin, Chairpersons Sheela Mundhada, Mohammed Master and Raj Shah were present. Rtn. Sanjay Sethi, Rtn Sunil Bhatia, Rtn. Sanjay Bhargav were also present and appreciated the compassion and zeal for doing such social work.

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Training plays a critical role in successful implementation of any project. Rotary right at the RI, as well as district level conducts many programs for future leaders. The incoming president Rtn Khushnoor Chugh initiated and with the help of PP Dr Sanjiv Chugh conceptualised an orientation program for her board 2015-16. Rtn Khushnoor hosted it on 15th March at Hotel Tuli Imperial. PDG Vishwas kicked off the proceedings by elaborating the duties and responsibilities of board members. PP Ganesh Joshi covered important subject

Bharat Goenka and President Elect Khushnoor Chugh.

Rotaractors from Hislop, IGMC and Sadabai performed songs, dance and skit respectively.

Our Rotaractors had a gala time feasting on Pizzas and shaking a leg to the tunes of the DJ. Principal of Sadabai, Mrs Ameena Vali, Rtn Prashant Rajurkar, Rtn Parag Paranjpe, Rtn Rajendra Jaiswal, Rtn Mahendra Kamat were present to grace the occasion along with co chairpersons Shalini Naidu, Raj Shah and Manish Agrawal. Director Youth Namita Sharma in her speech applauded our rotaractors for their zeal and never say no attitude.

Mugs were given out to them as a token of appreciation.

-Pranav Singhal

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of planning, team building, budgeting and communication. To ensure that good planning gets rewarded it is essential that it is executed properly. PP Shabbir explained nitty-gritties of executing plan and projects. PP Tauby then reminded incoming board to follow rotary protocols and how an effective public relation within and outside the club can enhance Rotary's image manifolds. Finally PP Vijay Naidu explained the structure of Rotary International, District and Rotary Foundation. He also stressed on need to work along with other clubs within

district and club's obligation to work towards the Rotary's thrust area. All the board members attended this insightful program. Rtn Parag Paranjpe proposed a vote of thanks.

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flagship PR exercise the Walkathon was also very well organised with over 3500 registrations. Treasurer Kapil Bahri read out that the funds of the club were well within requirements and he applauded the scholarship committee for being self sufficient and donating large sums of money after sourcing the same.

Joint Secretary Rina Sinha who is charge of the pulse of the club's activities like the programs committees, the Golden Orange and the mentoring committees thanked all her chairpersons for being proactive. Special mention of the Back to Basics workshop held for the members of less than 5 years, by the stalwarts and PPs of the club. Sergeant At Arms Sanjay Sethi remarked that the year has been very fulfilling and thanked all the chairpersons who have worked under him. Director Administration Prashant Rajurkar read out the reports of the work done by his committees and stated the attendance of members in the last 3 mths was between 28-35% and it needs to be looked into.

Director Finance Pritesh Tank stated that the limit of Micro Credit has been raised from Rs. 5000 to Rs. 10,000 and also read out reports of the committees under him.

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Director Non Medical Gogi stated that 1380 units of blood have been collected during the year and also commended the slum development committee for spending Christmas with HIV + patients.

Director Medical Dr. Rajesh Singhania was lauded for being the first one to carry out Non Invasive advanced Laproscopic surgery at Hemalkasa. Rtn. Rita Aggarwal on behalf of the Director Vocation spoke about DISHA - the career guidance camp where career counselling was done to over 560 children. Director TRF stated that they had targeted 75 PHFs in the current year. The Director Youth had a very eventful year with both the youth oriented projects RYLA and AIM being very successful. Director PR – Monal Malji thanked his chairpersons and commended their efforts. The Green City committee had collected 125 kgs of ewaste in the last 3 months. The Sports and Yoga committee organised the Inter District cricket match for the visually impaired.

PP Ganesh Joshi summed up the entire meeting and Hon Secretary Manjot Kahai gave the vote of thanks.

BL O O D D O N ATI O N In association with Nav Yuvak Sarafa Association, blood donation committee conducted a camp at Khandelwal Bhavan sarafa bazaar itwari on 20th march.

Camp started at 10.00am and concluded at around 5.00pm. Camp was followed by a free health check-up camp. Special Thanks are due to the President Rakesh Gupta (NYSA) and his entire team for their support as a total 82 units of blood were collected. Dr. Harish Rathi, Chairperson Sheela Mundhada, Mohamad Master and Raj Shah worked hard for this project.

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The meeting was called to order by the President at 6:30 pm. Half a minute silence was observed due to the sad demise of Mrs. D.K Sahni. Hon. Secretary Manjot Kahai read out the minutes of the 2nd Club Assembly held on December 13, 2014. The President then called upon each Director to read out the reports for the activities carried out in the last three months.

President Elect – Khushnoor Chugh read the reports of the activities undertaken the committees under her, notable amongst them being of membership development and classification. Out of the 29 new members proposed this year 21 have been enlightened till date. VP Alok Goenka stated that the Charter Nite was a very successful programme and the Clubs

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Star Motors 21st March

A Single drop of blood can save someone's life. It gives us an immense satisfaction when our own Rotarian comes forward and supports for such a wonderful noble cause.

A Camp was organized at Star Motors, Kamptee Road on 21st march at 11.00 am. where 22 units of blood were collected. Director Gogi Bhasin and Chairperson Mohamed Master were present.

-Raj Shah

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Life after death, no reincarnation, no paranormal phenomenon. A simple humanitarian act. A young girl Zoya, daughter of Rtn. Rozina Rana who had just begun to live, lost her life to a tragic accident. However in spite of this trauma, her parents donated her kidneys, as this was their daughters last wish, truly a humane act. Dr. Ravi Wankhede a kidney donor himself, and Dr. Samir Jahagirdar, spoke on organ donations before the regular meeting. Dr. Jahagirdar spoke about skin donation, still in its infantile stage, but highlighting its importance. An eighty eight year old woman Nirmala

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Daoo was the first to donate her skin after her death. Both doctors stressed on organ and skin donation and how this could help save lives!

When there is vision, action has a purpose and only then can one see transformation.

Vision with no action is useless. This is the story of a man who worked, nay toiled his entire life for the vision he believed in.

The story of Eknathji Ranade, the man

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instrumental for building the Vivekanand Memorial at Kanyakumari. A story as told to us through the eyes of Vishwas Lapalikar, who throughout was actively involved in the cause. Introduced by Parag Paranjape, Mr. Lapalikar narrated the events so vividly and with such zeal, that I'm afraid my words might not do justice.

Eknathji Ranade was not an architect, was not in construction, in no way was he

qualified to build a memorial, but he believed in spreading the message of Swami Vivekanand, and the need for Indians to understand what Swamiji stood for.

The memorial is not just a tribute to Swami Vivekanand, but to show the world what India really stands for.

Vivekanand was born in Calcutta so why choose Kanyakumari? Ranade believed that a man is born twice. Once is his physical birth from the womb, and second is when he realizes his purpose in life.

After extensive travelling in India and understanding the pain and sufferings of our people, Vivekananda realized that despite poverty and other such bad stigmas, India had "Sanskruti", and this is what Vivekanandas foundation was based on.

It was not easy for Ranade, there were many hurdles, political, religious, but his sheer determination for the cause led him to fulfill his dream. With opposition, there

were also many who helped and encouraged him. To name a few, Golwalkar Guruji of the RSS, Swami Madhavanand the then head of Belur Math, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who was then the Home Minister and of course Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Money also was not easy. They started a coupon system where they managed to collect about 80 lakhs. Shortage of money led to problems of labour payment.

Ranade’s skill in motivating the people and workers saw the final completion of the project.

11September, 1893, Swami Vivekanand's address at Chicago, and Hindu "tithee" that coincided with this date was chosen for the opening of the memorial.

In the midst of the Indian Ocean, at the Confluence of the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, stands the Vivekanand Memorial a landmark for the world to know what India and Indians stand for. Vote of thanks was given by Vilas Kale.

Dear readers, lack of space restricts us to write extensively. This is just a small narration of the meeting. Many details have not been mentioned Anita Chitaley

PASSI N G S PP ARU N BHAR G AVA I know him since his college days. He was in SFS College with my younger brother Dayal Mahant. Both had joined NCC ( Naval Wing).

I was in regular touch since 1975, when he joined Nagpur Jaycees. Very active in those days and we were together in various projects of Jaycees. He was resident of Nagpur Jaycees in the year 1982 and the Vice Presdent of Maharashtra Jaycees in 1983.

He was in the paper business and happily married to Kanak, a Delhi girl, a very simple and devoted housewife since 1971. We both joined Rotary in the same year, 1993. He was a regular Badminton player and quite active in Rotary. For many years he and Yatin Malji looked after the arrangement of supplying and managing the nonmedical activities of Hemalkasa Project. He became President in 2006-07.

We (Chandru, Yatin Malji, Ganesh Joshi and Vishwas) were together for many years and enjoyed many good days of togetherness. Recently, we ( myself and Padma) had gone to Kerala in Oct 2012 with him and Kanak, accompanied by Rajan /Neeru. He started experiencing back pain in this trip but none could realize it would be so serious an affair.

We tried to meet him and remained in touch nearly every week, i.e., on Sundays since last one year or so. This get-together of friends used to be at his residence as he was not confortable in outing. We named it as our Sunday Mehfil, the sad part of it was that it ended on last Sunday, i.e., 29th March.

- PP Gulab Mahant

SMT KA MLESH SHARM A 1928-2015 Mother of Amita Behal and Ajay Sharma, mother-in-law of Rajiv Behal and Namita Sharma, passed away on 23rd March

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MRS KAILASH RA N I SAH N I w/o PP D K Sahni passed away on 16th March 2015.

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Zoya, beloved daughter of Rozina and Shamsuddin Rana passed away following an accident on 24th March 2015. She lives on through her eyes and kidneys which were donated by her brave parents. May god give them the strength to tide over this terrible tragedy. Zoya was an IYE student in 2010-11 to District 7280, USA

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ROTARY CLUB OF NA GPUR C ALENDAR FRO M 2nd April 2015 - 2nd May 2015

Mon Shantanu Khedkar

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Fri Chetna Pranav Singhal

Sushma & Dhanjay Hedaoo

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7 Priti Badjate

8 Meenu Moryani Madhu Mrig

CP Club Mega Housie

TiE Nagpur Business Idea Presentations @ Incubation Centre

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Multi-District PETS – President Elects Training Seminar – Pune

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BUSINESS MEETING

Sharad & Prena Bhattad

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Rajiv & Amita Behal

14 Shreeram Marawar

Mohd. S. Vali

16 Rahul Sharma Neelesh Agrawal Shamsuddin Rana Atul Gupta

Dr.Shobha Daga Dr. Iqbal Khan

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Behram Patel Cyrus Watchmaker

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Dr. Raju Wilkinson Rana Tuli

24 Sonal Ajmera Sapna Vastani Manish Agrawal

Vivek & Sheetal Gupta

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Dilshad Doongaji

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Jayant & Uma Pendharkar Inderjit & Harbhajan Singh Ragini & Rajiv Sahu

Prashant & Smita Kale

Romal Panchmatia Sarang Upganlawar Varsha Jaiswal

Dr. Subhadha Gade

Shashi & Bela Thapar Baljeet & Poonam Sethi

Dr. Kishore & Bharti Taori Nikhil & Anju Bansal

26 Akhtar Parvez Maimoon

Membership Seminar (Nasik) - for Clubs in Western region of District 3030 upto Bhusawal. Host - RC Nasik.

Namita & Ajay Sharma

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31 Dr. Nandini Babhulkar Parul Garodia Vipul Gupta

Shashank Bidaye Aashish Rathi

Telehealth and Osteoporosis -Dr. Sanjeev Choudhary (Orthopedic surgeon)

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.

Sachin & Nisha Bafna

Birthday

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Durriya Akolawala Dinesh Chhabra SETS - Secretaries - Elect Training Seminar Rotary Club of Nasik Vision Nxt. TiEhub - The Future of Social Entrepreneurship Shailendra & Meena Verma

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Dr. Smita Harkare

DTTS - District Team Training Seminar – Sports Club, Akola Club Presidents-Elect and Secretaries -Elect are also welcome.

Hosts RC Akola Midtown.

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Shayari and Sangeet (our own members rendering Shayari)

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Dr. Vandana Hazra Umesh Agrawal

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Dr. Deepa Jamwal Archana Singhal

Sanjay & Richa Sethi

Mohabat Singh Tuli Aarti Kalode

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Panel discussion Gen-next in Rotary (The sons and daughters of Rotarians joining Rotary )

Alok & Anula Goenka

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Binita & Anil Goenka

TiE Workshop - Bring Velocity & Scale in your topline through Digital Marketing

Sohrab & Mamta Kanga

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Multi-District PETS – President Elects Training Seminar – Pune

Harsha Doshi Manju Bhatia

Deepika Mehta Hafeez Raiyani Kailash Rani Sahni

Shailendra S. Agrawal

Anjali Chaudhari

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Zamin Amin

Anushka S. Kale

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Jugalkishor & Sarita Agrawal Darshan & Kailash Rani Sahni

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Ruchi Chaudhary Shweta Rathi

Sanjay & Sandhya Agrawal Devendra & Sangita Parekh

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S O UTH ASIA LITERA CY SUM MIT AT PU N E Ever since Rotary India successfully achieved the target of eradication of Polio, higher echelons in Rotary decided to take up and concentrate on total literacy by 2017 mission in South Asia. An outcome of the hugely successful 2012 South Asia Summit at Hyderabad where all areas of concern such as water, sanitation, disease prevention etc were also discussed, two more literacy summits were organized at Kathmandu (2013) and Delhi (2014). The result was the TEACH module targeting the problem of illiteracy through Teachers ranting, E learning ( & distant education), Adult l i t e r a c y, C h i l d development and Happy schools, a brain child of past RI Director Shekhar Mehta, the program has made giant strides in last three years.

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To push this further, a mega South Asia Literacy Summit was organized at Pune from 13th to 15 February 2015. This event was attended by 1250 delegates from all over India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and other countries.

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RI Director P.T.Prabhakar and PRID Shekhar Mehta served as Convenors.

PRIP Kalyan Banerjee is the Chief Adviser of Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM). RI President 2015-16 K.R.(Ravi) Ravindran from Sri Lanka was the star attraction while TRF Trustee chair PRIP John Kenny, PRIP Raja

Saboo, RI Director Sangkoo Yun(South Korea), PRIDs Sushil Gupta, Panduranga Setty, Ashok Mahajan, Noraseth Padmanand (Thailand), Y.P. Das also addressed the audience. Approximately 100 delegates from our RID 3030 attended the summit, however I was the

employment. He assured all help from Union Government in Rotary's Literacy initiatives. 'Literacy Hero' awards were presented to five eminent persons from South Asia who have rendered yeomen service in this field.

Plenary session 2'Happy Schools' included presentations

by PDG Dr Ravi Vadlamani, Mr Suman Voora of Round Table India and PRID Sudarshan Aggarwal who showcased the work done in bringing up happy schools.

Plenary Session3 on W I N S ( Wa s h - i n Schools) was addressed

by PRID and TRF Trustee Sushil Gupta who spoke on 'Swachh Vidyalaya', PRIP Raja saboo on Swachh Bharat while global scenario of WINS was presented by Ms Mamita Bora Thakkar of UNICEF India.

only Rotarian from our premier club to be there. Rt Ann Dr Archana Patel also attended the Summit wherein she put up a WHO stall promoting removal of lead from paints, a major health hazard.

Plenary Session 1 on 'Our commitmentTotal Literacy was addressed by Hon'ble Union Minister for Skill Development , Entrepreneurship and Youth affairs Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy who challenged Rotarians to help youth develop vocational skills for their self-

Plenary Session 4 on 'Adult Literacy' included interesting talks by Shri FC Kohli, founder of TCS,and YSK Seshu Kumar, Director General, National Literacy Mission authority. Ms Rajashree Birla spoke of her corporate initiatives in promoting literacy and rural development. She was loudly applauded for her announcement of contribution of USD 1Million to The Rotary Foundation.

With this, she has thus far donated USD 10. Millions to TRF and is the second biggest contributor to TRF after Bill and Melinda Gates.

Plenary Session 6 on 'Teacher Support' was addressed by Ms Usha Rane , D i r e c t o r, P r a t h a m Education Foundation, Ms Shaheen Mistry, CEO, Teach for India.

A very interesting 'Panel discussion on CSR' was part of Plenary Session 8, wherein Shri Arun Firodia (Kinetic), Ms Sapna Moudgil, Habil Khorakiwala ( Wockhardt), Ram Raman ( Metlife), AV Suresh (Eureka Forbes); all big names in the corporate sector offered cooperation in promoting literacy and collaboration

Entertainment in the evening came through mesmerizing performances by Kathak dancer Sharvari Jemenis and group, Tabla maestro Ptd. Vijay Ghate and singer Shayne David Hyrapiet.

The hugely successful summit was the outcome

Thereafter, 'Idea Exchange' breakout sessions on each aspect of TEACH were held concurrently for suggestions and participation of delegates at large. I participated in the session on adult literacy and proposed utilizing the force of Interactors and Rotaractors by helping them educating adults in nearby slums and villages in their vacations, and Rotarians & Rotary Anns helping housemaids, cooks, gardeners, drivers etc learn.

Plenary Session 7 on 'eLearning' had a very comprehensive presentation by PDG Pramod Jejurikar.

Other speakers Dr Sunita Gandhi of Council for Global Education, Shri Vivek Samant , MD, Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation and Prof. Sugata Mitra from Newcastle University.

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dedication of PRID Shekhar Mehta and his teams. Specially noteworthy were the efforts of Summit Chair PDG Dr Mahesh Kotbagi, host District Governor Vivek Aranha, PDGs Kamal Sanghvi, Vinay Kulkarni, Deepak Shikarpur and several members of Rotary family from Pune.

The three day Summit with Rotary where ever possible.

In Plenary Session 9 speakers from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan presented their vision for promoting literacy in those countries. Mr Mostafizur Fizar, Hon'ble education minister from Bangladesh was the key-note speaker for

provided great impetus to the Rotarian delegates from all India who committed themselves to achieve the RILM of total literacy in India by 2017.

PDG Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee

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Plenary Session 5 on 'Child Development' covered talks by Ms Anchal Dhar (on Igniting the young mind), President of Apne Aap Ms Ruchira Gupta and Ms Indu Shahani , Member UGC.

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13 Charged particles

5 Dawdler

14 Regulation

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7 Urgent acronym

17 High-flying toy 18 Framed (2 wds.)

19 Actor____ Cruise 20 Male chicken 23 Penn and Connery 25 Make a boo-boo 26 The Grim ___ 28 Actress ____Richards 31 Cowboy's rope 34 Loved Dearly 36 Amtrack depot (abbr.)

37 Citrus fruit 39 Tranquilized 42 Beerlike brew 43 Metal fastener 44 Fido's treat 46 Anonymous 50 Elects 51 Imeprsonated 52 Utilize 53 Intermissiom 54 Coops 55 Tyrannpsaurus ___

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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 FEBRUARY PUZZLES CROSS WORD

10 Rock star __ John 11 Judges 16 Braying beast 20 Maroon 21 Lode yield 22 Decorations 23 Watering place 24 Always, in poems 27 City officials 29 Altar vow (2 wds.)

30 Male descendant

No correct solutions received SUDOKU

32 Had brunch 33 Tiny bit 35 Flee 37 Work 38 Secretly marry 40 Feats 41 Carpenter's tool 43 Break sharply 45 superlative suffix 47 Denmarks's cont.

48 Opposite of NNW 49 Male or female

February Winner Parag Date and Jerry Watchmaker PS: Winners names were drawn by lot out of the correct entries received.

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MEAD Archeological evidence dates wine made from honey to as far back as 7000 BC – and its about to be more popular than ever

INSECT BARS Edible bugs–a novelty for many –get snackified with a wave of protein bars. Exo, Chapul and others are now selling bars made with cricket flour, a gluten-free powder that's high in protein and healthy fats.

FERMENTED FOOD Research about the benefits of probiotic-rich foods like kimchi, yogurt and sauerkrautis mounting, but the health-conscious are not waiting for food before digging in FANCY JERKY You can thank the paleo craze : this once pedestrian snacknow comes in a various lean proteins, from bison to salmon to crocodile.

KALETTES Fans of Kale and brussel sprouts will find plenty to like in kalettes, a non-GMO hyrid with the savoury flavour of its parent crops – and their nutrional qualities too ARCTIC CHAR Wild salmon costs a fortune, tuna can be high in mercury, and shrimp faces concerns about sustainability.So what to eat? Char. Salmon's flavour cousin is packed with protein and is usually farmed in a way that poses minimal risk of pollution.

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The mobile application allows retrieval of all information about the wine, by scanning the bottle label. The makers of this app call it the shazam for wine, much like the eponymous shazam app which helps in identifying lyrics, music and songs.

A start-up employing just 10 people, Kasual Bordeaux has taken an unconventional approach in building the database. The winemakers themselves are asked to ensure the accuracy of all information: soil varieties, aged in vats or barrels, flavors, tasting tips and conservation pairing wine or country of sale ... not less than one hundred criteria in total!

include 8000 Bordeaux Chateaux and 17000 affiliated

brands in the price range of 3-15 Euros, since the promoters believe that great

wines are already known to the customers ! This accounts for nearly 80% of the French wines, and will soon encompass Spanish and Italian wines also by end 2015.

The consumer will also discover new wines according to their tastes, rate them and share comments with friends and winemakers, manage their cellars and buy wine on partner sites or online. The app is available for Apple and Android users and has been downloaded 155000 times by end March 2015.

-Team GO

- Nimish Sutaria

Gandhi CEO by Alan Axelrod We all have opinions and differences on some of the methods of the most prolifically chronicled persons in recent modern history,

Mohandas K Gandhi; He, the master of persuasion through suasion, intense spirituality, a veritable one man army and a visionary reformer to boot. This book brings out a distillation of his principles which can guide a manager, CEO or

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leader towards ethical and profitable enterprise. Alan Axelrod has cemented in a wonderfully segmented manner, 14 key principles spread across 100 simple lessons, each introduced with quotes from Gandhiji's writings and speeches.

LIFE A N D THEATRE -Vikash Khurana The immortal bard once wrote, “All the world's a stage…” He may have written with equal appositeness that a stage reflects the entire world since history dawned; even prehistoric man enacted his hunts after feasting. From this humble beginning sprang the theatre as we know it today – an unending source of entertainment and inspiration to human beings throughout the world.

In India, theatre has never been as popular as it is today. Plays are being staged in almost all cities and towns, in English, Hindi and all other regional languages, to enthusiastic and appreciative audiences. But the question arises – What is the purpose of theatre? Is it to influence and change society? Or is it to entertain? Or is it both? The dichotomy would disappear if entertainment were construed to mean more than just stimulation at the emotional level. However, one would think it

is no big deal for the audience to r e s p o n d favourably to something that stimulates as well as activates the rational side of the mind.

The strength in any individual, be it the actor on stage or the man behind the scenes or the person seated in the audience, lies in his or her ability to establish contact between Theatre and Life. One can whole-heartedly subscribe to what Tolstoy had to say on Theatre as an Art Form, “One must first cease to look on it as a source of pleasure and view it, rather as one of the requisites of human life.”

– Dr Jayshree Masand 1) Stay Hydrated - drink at least two liters of fluids a day as it flushes out toxins, prefer water, fresh fruit juices, buttermilk. Avoid Aerated drinks.

2) Protect from sun - stay indoors between 11 am to 3pm, use sunscreen with SPF 30 at least half an hour before you step out.

3) Tone - To keep your skin cool, use rose water 4) Moisturise - At night, use water based moisturisers 5) Cleanse - At least twice a day with plenty of cold water 6) Avoid sugary foods instead prefer Aam Panna, coconut water. Also avoid tea, coffee and alcohol as they cause dehydration 7) If you have dark patches, melanoma, get yourself examined by a dermatologist.

8) For hands and feet, soak them in salty water to boost circulation 9) If you swim use sun protected formula every hour to overcome sun burns and rashes 10) Avoid closed shoes/socks, instead prefer sandals You cannot avoid the harsh effects of sun but you can take care of your skin and look healthy!

Happy Summers!

Changes = Big Difference DIET LA N E -Small Sneha Fafat

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Healthy Weight TASK 7 – Start Eating for Health Why – do you eat? Try to list down the reasons for which you eat every day.

What – Eating for nourishment is the key to good health. Weight is a small part of the big picture called health. Weight is not health.

How – Being fit and healthy is possible at any weight. No weighing scale can reflect your inner health and personality.

Add to the list or ask your question on www.facebook.com/dietlane Sneha is a registered dietician and consulting Nutritionist practicing in Nagpur.

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Environmental Doom

Vidarbha is the power centre these days with high profile ministers from this region. It also is a power hub with perhaps the highest concentration of power plants. Vidarbha has been considered an ideal place for a power plant due to availability of coal in near proximity and from eastern India. But it also alleged that too many power plants will eventually ruin the ecology of the region.

Team GO, with a view to update the members of the existing scenario spoke to Mr. Sudhir Paliwal, staunch environmentalist & Secretary of Vidarbha Environmental Action Group on 路 The current power scenario in Vidarbha 路 Our requirement visa-a-vis generation 路 Implications on the environment due to generation in our area.

-Shivkumar Rao

Sudhir Paliwal

Maharashtra has become power surplus permission to 132 new coalbased thermal power plants in Vidarbha mainly due to commissioning of more and more new power plants in Vidarbha region where generation has exceeded 10,000 MW. However, Vidarbha's demand has stagnated to only 1200 MW mainly due to negative growth of Industries. Balance 8800 MW is transmitted to rest of Maharashtra to fulfill the ever-growing demand. The transmission losses are over 250 MW resulting in loss of about Rs 1,000 crores per year.

These losses are equally recovered from

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50000 acres of fertile land will be required only for Ash disposal.

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consumers all over Maharashtra, thus a consumer in Nagpur is compelled to pay the cost of transporting power to Mumbai Pune Region. In contrast for petroleum products a consumer in Mumbai region is charged less on account of transportation cost.

In spite of Vidarbha region being power surplus, Maharashtra Government, in 2013, granted permission to 132 new coalbased thermal power plants in Vidarbha which will generate over 86,000 MW of electricity.

The implications on environment due to high power generation are mind boggling - The 132 plants will need around 1 lakh acre farm land and 3,600 mm3 water. This quantity of water can irrigate over 5.5 lakh hectare land.

It will lead to rise in temperatures by 3 to 4 132 plants will need around 1 lakh acre farm land and 3,600 mm3 water. degrees. Temperature in several cities in the region has already touched 48 degrees in peak summer.

The proposed power plants will burn 18 lakh tonne coal per day at full capacity, turning "Vidarbha into an ash dump". As per estimates, 50000 acres of fertile land will be required only for Ash disposal. It is a misconception that 100% fly ash will be used for brick making and by cement plants. This is impossible, as they

Vidarbha's demand has stagnated to only 1200 MW consume not even 10% of the 60,000 tons of fly ash generated every day.

The transmission lines for these power plants will pass over about 90,000 acres rise in temperatures by 3 to 4 degrees. power plants will burn 18 lakh tonne coal per day of fertile agriculture land which may become unproductive and loose its commercial value due to laying of transmission lines.

There isn't enough coal available in Vidarbha for the proposed power plants, therefore most of the coal will be transported from Captive Coal Mines allotted in the State of Orissa and Chhattisgarh or imported from other countries like Indonesia, Australia or Africa. It is now established that transportation of coal over long distances adds significantly to pollution.

The current scenario does paint a grim picture considering the ongoing agrarian crisis, irrigation backlog, farmer distress 90,000 acres of fertile agriculture land which may become unproductive & suicides. I hope corrective measures are initiated.

-PP Atul Shah

IMPA CTI N G LIVES

Rotary Club of Nagpur is known for envisaging and

through their resources.

implementing “need of the hour” kind of projects. In 2007-08

Over the last 7-8 years these equipments have served close to

one such idea of “Mobile Mortuary” was floated by a member to

6000+ families. Our partners in service charge up to Rs.300/- as

the Club's Governing Board. It did not take long for our Club to

hire charges and the same is available in the market for Rs1800/-

take this up. Only a couple of such equipments were available, in

. The money saved by the user families is Rs.1500/-.

Considering that 6000+ times these have been

such a large population of Nagpur and that too at a cost beyond a common man's reach. In a short span the requisite amount was raised internally for procuring these Mobile Mortuaries and the project aptly named “Dignity for Dead”.

Between 2007 and 2010 nearly 9 such Mobile

6000+ times these have been used and each time the user saves Rs.1500/- the total amount saved till date is Rs.90 lacs by these needy people.

One may call Rs90 Lacs as a saving or may call it Service to the Society by our Club!

Mortuaries were made available to the people of Nagpur at a very nominal cost (compared to market rates).

The total investment made by our Club in these equipments is about Rs 5 lacs but for last 7-8 years these have been serving the people of Nagpur and not only that, many other Rotary Clubs

used and each time the user saves Rs.1500/- the total amount saved till date is Rs.90 lacs by these needy people.

One may call Rs90 Lacs as a saving or may call it Service to the Society by our Club!

This is a great example of our Club's yeoman service to the society– It is many a time incomprehensible how small ideas and

investment can yield great service and satisfaction for years to come.

as well as NGO's across Vidarbha, found this to be very novel and noble project and thus started

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implementing it

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LET US F O R TO G O

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Many of us know about Rameshwaram, the famous Jyotirlinga Temple. About 30 km ahead, on the southern tip of Pamban Island in Tamil Nadu, is a ghost town known as Dhanushkodi. The place, just 28 kilometres away from Sri Lanka, is famous for its mythological importance.

It is said that Lord Rama and his vanara sena together with his brother Lakshmana, Hanuman and Ravana's brother Vibhishana, built a bridge using floating stones. This bridge helped them to reach Lanka to rescue Sita from Ravana.

After returning victorious from Lanka, Vibhishana, the new king, asked Rama to destroy the bridge. So, Rama broke the bridge using one end of the bow, giving the place its name - Dhanush meaning bow and Kodi meaning end.

It is believed that there is geological evidence suggesting that this 28-km bridge known as Rama Sethu or Adam's Bridge once connected the Pamban Island tip to Talaimannar in Mannar Island, Sri Lanka.

The locals in Dhanushkodi claim that the bridge, which was once visible, was completely destroyed following a cyclone in the 15th century. Another cyclone that hit the region in 1964, ravaged the region to such an extent that it has remained a ghost town since. The railway link that connected mainland India to Dhanushkodi was destroyed

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Dhanushkodi – Rahul Kale

completely. According to a local guide, it is also said that on the fateful day, a daily passenger train known as Boat Mail carrying 115 passengers was washed away as it approached the Dhanushkodi station. The news of this devastation reached the mainland three days later because the area was completely cut off.

And the only vehicle that will take you to the tip of Dhanushkodi is a speciallymodified jeep. The first 12-kilometre drive from Rameshwaram to Dhanushkodi is on a normal road with gusts of wind blowing sand on your face. Once you reach the check post, only a modified jeep (4x4) or big vans can go further. The drive from the check post to the devastated region is like a roller coaster ride on the beach. As you go farther you will see the endless deep blue sea on either side of your vehicle. While on one side there is the Indian Ocean, on the other side is the Bay of Bengal.

And the difference is completely stark between the two — one side of the sea is calm and blue while the other side sea is green with choppy waters.

You will also see the remains of the Dhanushkodi station and the railway track. After a few minutes you can see the mighty gateway of the old devastated city and a little later you reach the tip, 'Dhanushkodi'. The tip is just 28 kms from Sri Lanka. We even got a message on our mobiles welcoming us to a Sri Lankan mobile network! The place is so pristine, isolated and far away from the crowd that one would not want to return to

civilization.

While returning from Dhanushkodi, other remains of structures such as the buildings, railway water tank and others can be seen, making the whole place look

like a shell of its former self.

The locals will also tell you that Dhanushkodi, which was once a city in the Rameshwaram mainland and had all the regular amenities like a post office, school and railway station, is now home to only ruins. Visitors to Dhanushkodi are only allowed to be there till 5.30 p.m. As the night falls, the sea advances into the mainland making it difficult for the drivers to manoeuvre their vehicles on the beach.

A surreal and magical experience that was worth every penny although I wish we could have spent more time there!

TRAVEL D O CTO R

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Dear Travel Doctor, We would like to travel somewhere close, off the beaten track. Famous monuments, hill stations‌.have done them all, and I want to experience something new, perhaps some place that shows the rich heritage and culture of India?

A.There are many options that come to mind. The Saree and Handloom villages across the country are unique, living, examples of our rich heritage and culture.

Near Jhansi is Chanderi which makes for a fascinating visit especially when combined with Orchcha Located 110 km from Jhansi, Pranpur is well known for its Chanderi Sarees, which, being fairly light are just perfect for the Indian summers.

Before machine made yarn came to be used in Chanderi, the sarees from Chanderi were comparable in lightness to Dhaka's muslin. The Chanderi Saree is traditionally woven with pure, hand-spun cotton yarn, where the silk is used as warp and cotton is weft. For a family in Chanderi, it takes close to a day to weave just two meters of cloth.

A visit to Pranpur is all about getting a glimpse into everyday life of weavers, dyers, potters, metal casters, and braisers.

Pranpur is one of the few villages in the country, which is a fine blend of enthusiastic art forms, flourishing culture and romance of life.

Pranpur is located on a hill, southwest of the Betwa river. Surrounded by hills, lakes and forests, Pranpur has a number of monuments of the Bundela Rajputs and Malwa Sultans. Apart from weaving, Pranpur is also known for traditional crafts such as bamboo weaving, stone cutting and pottery.

Places to see There are quiet a few places of tourist interest, which one can explore when a trip to Pranpur. Chanderi Fort located on a lofty hill was built by the Muslim rulers of Chanderi. Parmeshwar Tal to the northwest of Chanderi was built by Bundela Rajput Kings. An ancient temple and scores of memorials are located close to this impressive water tank.

You can combine a visit to Pranpur with a trip to Orchha, just 18 Kms from Jhansi.

This historic village on the banks of the boulder-strewn Betwa River showcases some fabulous architecture similar to that of nearby Khajuraho, albeit without such high-quality artistry. The atmosphere in Orchha, though, is far more laid-back and hassle-free, which makes for a relaxing stay. There are great resorts and homestay options as well as opportunities to enjoy the surrounding countryside, with walking, cycling and rafting all on the agenda.

How to reach: Jhansi is about 10 hrs by train from Nagpur, from there you can easily take a taxi or bus to Pranpur and/or Orchha.

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SMILI N G FA CES Feel the Joy of Giving “Rotary Club of Nagpur members are like god for me and I will call you my father from now on” is what Shivani told me over the phone when I informed her about the support garnered for her education, and then she broke down. I have been smiling ever since and to me, that statement is my “Lifetime Achievement Award”.

Shivani Dongre is a bright young Nagpur girl from a poor family, now in B.E. (1st Year, 2nd Semester) at MIT, Pune. She lost both her parents some time back and was dependent on her maternal uncle for funding her education (Rs 85,000/- to 90,000/- per year) as also her younger brother, who is in Class X. More tragedy befell the family when her uncle lost his job

recently and could not afford to continue with Shivani's education.

Rt.Ann. Dr. Indu Arneja recommended Shivani's case for support in the form of scholarship. We met Shivani's uncle the same day, assessed the problem and understood the gravity of the situation. An appeal was immediately made on our Rotary Whatsapp chat group and followed with an appeal the same evening at the Business Meeting. Much beyond our expectations, we had commitments for Rs 42,000/- from our club members & spouses to support Shivani's education within 6 hours of the appeal. By the next day, Scholarships Committee could collect Rs 64,000/-.

My salutations to the contributors to the

cause of carving out meaningful lives! May your breed rise & shine forever!! Shivani has pledged to support at least one needy girl student after she completes her education and starts earning. Remember the good old Hindi song - “Jyot se jyot jalaate chalo, prem ki ganga bahaate chalo…..”?

Put a smile on a needy child's face and feel the joy of giving!

-Rajiv Behal

from Shivaji Science Collge, Nagpur. He has done a General Bsc in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

He stayed at the Ramakishna Math during the duration of his graduation and remembers those days as the golden years of his life. Though he is now residing in Calcutta he still likes to keep in touch with the Maharajjis of the math to get a fresh perspective in every tough situation that he faces. He is also deeply grateful to the Rotary Club of Nagpur who gave him a

scholarship of Rs. 2000 and thus enabled him to buy books for his studies.

He now works as an Executive Procurement at ACC Calcutta and is appearing for the CGL (Company Graduate Level) exams. He hopes to become a IInd class officer with the Central Government on clearing the exams.

From a small village to a post in one of the topmost companies of India, Indrajit is sure going places. Hope he achieves whatever he has set out to.

-Hetal Sampat

Indrajit Haldar – Recipient of scholarship funded

by Scholarship Committee – Rotary Club of Nagpur S i m p l e a n d unassuming, he has come a long way in life. Son of a farmer from Narendrapur village, Gadchiroli district, he is the oldest of four siblings. He did his early schooling in the village itself and then his graduation

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Anurag Kulkarni – Founder SA DIGITAL

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His parents are first g e n e r a t i o n entrepreneurs… His f a t h e r, Av i n a s h Kulkarni, is an industrial electronics expert & his mother, Suhas Kulkarni, one of the pioneers of computers & data processing in India. He learnt the piano from Mr. Charles Stevenson along with his friend and to be co founder - Susmit Limaye, he passed 3 grades in Solo Piano from Trinity College of Music, London.

Back then studios were prohibitively expensive for amateurs to try out stuff.. sounds.. music… ideas… Thankfully his early stint with computers made him aware of the fact that the PC was likely to replace the heavy studio equipment in the coming years… He also managed to tweak his

YO U N G A C HIEVER

mom's office computer to be able to record music.

Hence for an 18 year old the thought of being able to create what at that time only lakhs worth of equipment could, was the most liberating thing… Susmit and he were most sought after, not just in their batch, college but any event in those 2-3 years. By the time he completed his BE (Electrical) from RKNEC, his music had been on a couple of award winning short films & his obvious next step was - destination Mumbai.

Susmit & he teamed up to start Sa Digital, where Sa - Shadja - the starting point of Indian music merged with the digital landscape that was just opening up for common people back in 2001. They used to compose music for films, documentaries, ad films, TV and later on ventured into audiovideo postproduction. However, over the

years, Sa Digital has evolved a lot. From a self employed musician couple in 2001 to a professionally managed corporation as SA Digital Films Pvt Ltd. In its current form Sa Digital has two broad verticals - 1. Mew Media Content Creation, Handling & promoting solutions, & 2. Media Solutions for Business Communication.

Till 2005, Sa Digital was mainly a music production outfit, handling only a few video projects. The team size was under 5. It was only when they got introduced to the mobile multimedia revolution around 2006, Sa Digital started to grow. They started to make ringtones, caller tunes, mobile wallpapers, animated greetings, original content, etc.

Over the years the team size grew to 16 people, and additional freelancing domain experts are hired as per project requirements.

-Hetal Sampat

SH O W C ASE

'Sunshine Foundation' which is doing wonderful things for not so fortunate kids of our society.

Sunshine Foundation….Ignited Lives is a Non-profitable charitable organization registered in the year 2009, serving more than 400 disadvantaged and under privileged children from slums, sexually abused kids,

orphanages, red light areas and the kids infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Their mission is to empower these kids with materials and non-material resources to become transformed change agents within their communities and in the world.

Sunshine Foundation is actively working

consultants, they endorse modern trainings and techniques to help slum children to build and design their skill and competency in the areas of their interest.

The sunshine activities with these kids systematically address five major aspects of their life namely: Cognitive, Emotional, Physical, Social and Environmental development.

Sunshine foundation was formed with a sole purpose to undertake all those aspect which

were left out for some reason or the another.

With a progressive outlook and focused approach that covers psychological (mental & emotional strength), physical and social aspects of development for under privileged children, teen agers and women.

Key Highlights of Sunshine Foundation • Health Medical Camps: Twice in a year and distributing free medicines and health

- Dinesh Naidu

supplements for the under nourished kids • Regular Counseling for the Psychological well being of our kids.

• Mini workshop for skill development and creative learning • Art and Craft session every weekends

• English/general Knowledge/computer classes twice in a week throughout the year • Motivational Talks and session with specialist and professionals.

• Workshop on social responsibility and environmental awareness….like visit to old age home, empathy manners, compassion for animals etc • Awareness about our environment and our systems……Ecosystem, our Constitution, Fundamental rights etc • Major Annual Events like Annual Sunshine Masti Camp, Winter Carnival, Adventure camps • Visit to Outside world…… like visits to IceCream factory, Indian Armed force, Radio Mirchi station and talent hunt shows • Sport Events like Football Match and the Cricket match • Regular football classes throughout the year • Celebrating our Independence Day and other National Festivals.

Friends do visit this wonderful place to appreciate the humongous work done and extend your contribution; Sunshine Foundation is located at 1st floor, 162/A Mecosabagh Christian Colony Nagpur.

440004 Visit- www.sunshinefoundation.org.in w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / p a g e s / S u n s h i n e Foundation

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Sunshine Foundation….Ignited Lives Can you imagine a young girl with her zeal and determination is conducting Project Nutrition for 400 kids, working for Slum Development & Women's Upliftment, conducts Health Checkup Camps, serves the Senior Citizens, organizes training camps for slum children's similar to our RYLA and AIM, conducts various Vocational Training workshops, regularly takes slum kids on Vocational Visits, inculcate the importance of maintaining Environment and Green City amongst these kids, have a round the year Slum Soccer training program, arranges motivational speakers of repute to conduct various Life Skills Workshops for slum kids etc etc….

Yes friends this month we are focusing on our very own young and dynamic Nagpurian Ms. Deepti Karat who founded and manages

towards indentifying and carrying out a range of carefully planned activities in consultation with specialist and has accordingly contributed to best within their limit for the overall development of these vulnerable kids.

Along with well qualified professionals and

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FRESH ME N

New Members

-Manju Shahani

Rajkumar moved to Nagpur due to business. The Lime that is mined from the Dolomite Mines, that he owns, is converted into Putty and has a big market in Nagpur. Since Nagpur is more central, he finds business travel easier from here. Hence the transfer!

Married for the last 27 years to Sangita from Nagpur, they have 3 children - Ishaan - 26, Avisha - 21 and Shreeya - 14. Ishaan has joined his father in business. Avisha is pursuing BDS from Pune and Shreeya is a student of Centre Point School.

Rajkumar was active in IYE, and was a Rotarian of 10 years in Jalgaon, but doesn't know much about our club. Once he settles down, he would like to get involved, whenever business permits.

R C Club of Nagpur looks forward to seeing more of both you and Sangita. Welcome!

Rajkumar and Sangita Agrawal

Vijay and Asha Singhania

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He was most happy when Lehman Brothers closed down! Not because he had sold off their stock a fortnight back, but because his youngest son who worked there, would now come back home! One who believes only in positive thinking, Vijay Prakash, took the division in the family business, many years ago, also as an opportunity to be able to do something of his own. And this he did.

He started a Manganese Processing Unit in Nagpur, followed by one in Gujarat for which he needed all his three sons by his side. Today Ritesh, Anuj and Divyam have almost taken over the running of the business, while Vijay and Asha enjoy their 5 grandchildren ( 3 boys and 2 girls) and indulge in a lot of traveling.

Born and raised in Nagpur, Vijay did schooling at SFS, BE- Mech from VRCE and MS / MBA from Berkeley- California. He found a perfect match in Asha from Mumbai, who took to Nagpur like a fish to water. They have a lot of friends and enjoy playing cards.

This is Vijay's second stint with Rotary. He had joined our club during PP D K Sahni's tenure but with the boys all studying and business commitments, he couldn't do justice to both, so quit Rotary. Now that he has quality time on hand, he is back, this time to stay.

Welcome Vijay and Asha Singhania. We look forward to your active involvement.

Akanksha, their daughter in law is also our member.

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An old family friend of Rtn. Mahendra Kamath, Vinay Maheshwari was introduced to Rotary by Mahendra. An active Lion earlier, Vinay has been involved with a lot of Community Service projects.

Marketing for Kirloskar Generators all over Vidarbha calls for a lot of travel despite which Vinay manages time for Rotary.

With a Masters in Chemistry from Aligarh, Vinay has switched his career to Marketing and enjoys it a lot.

Married to Shubhra from Indore for the last 30 years, they have a 29 yr old daughter, Shivi, an Architect, who is married and settled in Sydney Australia , while son, Shubham with a Masters from UK is in the same business as his father.

Sonal the youngest is working on a degree in Chartered Accountancy. With grown children and a son to take care of the business, Vinay and Shubhra find time to indulge in traveling and photography. They have been associated with CAFE as well.

Director, Community Services - you know who to rope in! Welcome Vinay and Shubhra to Rotary Club of Nagpur.

Vinay and Shubhra Maheshwari

Polio Case Status – Globally as on March 25, 2015 Year -to-date 2015

Year -to-date 2014

Total in 2014

Total cases WPV

cVDPV

WPV

cVDPV

WPV

cVDPV

Globally

21

0

47

5

359

54

- in endemic countries

21

0

41

5

340

51

0

0

6

0

19

3

- in non-endemic countries

Year 2005

=

66 wild Polio cases

Year 2006

=

676 wild Polio cases

Year 2007

=

874 wild Polio cases

Year 2008

=

559 wild Polio cases

Year 2009

=

741 wild Polio cases

Year 2010

=

42 wild Polio cases

Year 2011

=

01 wild Polio case

Year 2012 -2014

=

NO CASE

Last case reported in Uttar Pradesh

=

P-3 with onset on 21 April 2010

Last case reported in Bihar

=

P-1 with onset on 1 September 2010

Last Case reported in India in West Bengal

=

P-1 with onset on 13 January 2011

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India – Polio status

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