July 2015 - The Golden Orange

July 2015

2013 4 201 5 2015 BOARD INTERVIEWS

PROJECT HISTORIES

DISTRICT AWARDS

COMMUNITY SERVICE

CLUB ASSEMBLY

LADIES NITE FELLOWSHIP

GLOBAL GRANTS

SCHOLARSHIPS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

R OTARY T W EETS Dear All, This column was aimed at allowing our members a platform in which to air their thoughts, grievances, and to basically have a voice. We presented a new topic every month and published your responses with your photos.

Prizes were awarded to three most

- Vindhya Sanjana

pertinent responses. We welcomed all responses and at times were overwhelmed with them also, the idea was to be FREE, FRANK AND FEARLESS in voicing your thoughts!! Time will tell whether the voices were heard by the powers that be of our Club, but for now, this is my last communication.

Over the course of the last year, hundreds of tweets came in. I do hope you keep in touch with me at vindhyasanjana@yahoo.com or SMS / Whatsapp or even call me on 9423103916 / 9890715526.

Thanks and God bless!

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

Winner 1st Prize

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

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Winner 2nd Prize

Each Rotarian to pledge expenses on education and school uniforms of at least 1 girl child from among children of his/her Sweeper/Maid servant/Gardner/ Cook/Driver for RY 15-16.

2. Each Rotarian to pledge making at least One senior citizen in the family, neighborhood computer literate.

In a special program in December, these 750+ children and senior citizens will be invited and a few will share their experience.

3. At Club level to construct and monitor at least 5 toilets each in 5 schools in nearby municipal/village school. The three projects suggested by me would come under RI's areas of Focus viz. Literacy and water and sanitation.

I suggest that these committees have are monitored by separate Directors rather than clubbing them under Community service non medical.

Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee

I think there are many such projects.

Hemalkasa ?

Udaan for sure.

Walkathon. Blood Donations.

Surgical Camps. There are so many.

I though, would also like Youth fest, International Food Fest & Micro Credit to be restarted.

Ultimately its the President's call!

Manju Shahani

Winner 3rd Prize

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

Vijay Naidu

Hi vindhya EARTH is EH withouta Art...

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

N reciting poems for a change,, And raise a toast when ever get a chance.

Rotary has given me so many chances to grow, to learn, to show my talent,, etc etc..

Hence... I will work n work n work till i can for this awesome super active club!!!

Thnx Veenita pasari

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

Rukshad Bhagwagar

" h o w excellent is my own business, vocation ,profession -- A self Analysis on a structured basis to assess where am I in Rotary's ideal of Service thru excellence in own vocation"---vocational service Vilas Kale

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

Good day, my Rotary family After a year of untiring & dedicated service to our club as it's President, I would like to take your leave and farewell, but would like to share a few final thoughts with you, my Rotary family.

When I started writing this message, the whole year went by through my mind in a flash, for no rhyme or reason my wandering mind settled on the poem which we had to recite every morning at The Scindia School Gwalior, my Alumni, as part of our morning prayers.

It hit me that every line of this wonderful poem, penned by Noble Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, is so apt even today. It applies to all walks of life, to our club, to our members. Most of you know it but for those of you who do not remember, let me jostle your memory----Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up

into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way Into the dreary desert sands of dead habit Where the mind is lead forward by thee Into ever- widening thought & action Into that heaven of freedom my Father let my Country awake. ..... Into that heaven of freedom my Father let my Club awake.

I must candidly admit, that the wonderful years spent in Scindia School, had a very strong bearing on my character as it is today, of being a perfectionist. I know it is irksome when applied to teamwork. But, as you all can see, the ends are worth it. An unperturbed mind, proper budgeting (I'm aware of my nickname - the budget president), consolidation and teamwork are the pillars that support any organisation.

but three soothsayers, who warned me about the ides of March.

The 1st very wisely made me aware of the changed dynamics of the club. I said to him that I shall set my own dynamics & people shall see our club in a new light.

The 2nd troubled soul said that this is a totally chairperson driven club- what will u achieve?

I said friend, have you not heard of the famous toast ? "Here's to Boston -where Lowells speak only to Cabots & Cabots speak only to God?" Similarly, the CPs look up to the Directors & the Directors look up only to the President. So if the President is not active - the directors are not driven & if they are not driven, the poor chairpersons drive away!

The third was a lady so I shall refrain from commenting. She very kindly informed me that our club runs itself, the President is just a figurehead.

I smiled & said- Amen.

So my dear family, savour the coffee, not the cups The happiest people don't have the best of everything They just make the best of everything Live simply, Love generously Care deeply, Speak kindly For we have just this one life

Before I step down and pass on the torch to Rtn Khushnoor, there are three things that I just have to get of my chest, dear family so bear with me.

I sign off with a goodbye for now, for, a president I was - but a Rotarian I shall always be. Thank you dear friends for being so supportive & involved.

When I was nominated as VicePresident, I too was cautioned by not one,

Bharat Goenka President

Now, I will request each of you to read every single line, carefully, & judge yourself honestly- is your mind without fear?

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THURSDAY TH O U G HTS

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JUST SAYI N G ...

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

Like the same proverbial fool, even I thought I was wise, when I took on the challenging assignment of editing an award winning magazine. In my last communication as Editor, it is time to take stock and hold up the mirror for a reality check.

We set certain goals at the outset, and clearly presented them to the members, went ahead and even printed them in August last year.

The issues from August to this last one in July, put together, represent a day by day account from 1st July 2014 to 30th June 2015. We have chronicled for posterity, every event in this Rotary year, and reported as they happened without fear or favour.

This was the first year when we actively sought opinions from readers on popular defects and to engage with them by inviting their ideas and comments through the Tweets Column.

The magazine can no longer be considered to be an internal bulletin. Of this I am certain. We are engaged in service to society, and this, The Golden Orange is the most potent tool to share, communicate, advertise, publicize, involve and engage with the world at large. By world, I mean potential and current sponsors and financial supporters, as well as future members and well-wishers. Through the year, we ran columns to demonstrate the invaluable work which we carry out in the service to society, by attempting to quantify the outcomes of individual activities and projects, both in numbers and value.

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Specially designed inserts were used through the year to inspire people to give –

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whether money or organs, and also create awareness amongst non-Rotarians.

To make it a complete magazine, we brought in even non-members writing on travel or on various topics “In Short”. The idea was to again involve people from outside and at the same time give something to whet their interest. Once they find a magazine with some general content, even the casual readers can be exposed to Rotary. Every issue had many new contributors – whether writing features or reports. The number of people was more than 100 eventually spread across 12 issues, indicating we have succeeded in involving so many more who otherwise were dormant. (Photos on Pages 28-30) Hectic social and professional calendars need to be managed. The attractive centerspread calendar aimed to move from the limited scope of the erstwhile tear away strip, and offer a bird's eye view of the month including club events / projects / rotary dates / birthdays and anniversaries / the city's cultural professional events, all colour coded for ease of understanding.

One very important need is for an organization to look outside for inspiration. To that end, the magazine covered various rotary and non-rotary projects from other parts of the world.

These can give us ideas for the future, because surely there are replicable and relevant.

It is gratifying that we have definitely managed to increase readership, particularly amongst non-members. We have been placing the magazine in public locations, to spread awareness of Rotary and our club in particular. The magazine has endeavoured to, and ensured that our values as an organization were safeguarded and every voice was heard.

One failure I have no hesitation in conceding has been the inability to

permanently allocate a couple of pages of the magazine to the young lot of Interactors and Rotaractors, to create their own content, specifically for their generation(s). The idea was not for them to write poetry or articles, but rather to give them a platform and enable discovery of innate creative talent.

Undoubtedly, the entire Committee was a source of support through the year in ensuring that not a single issue was delayed in release, and have my deep gratitude. It would be remiss to not specially thank Sharmila and Shivkumar Rao, who have been extremely important pillars of support, advice, my sounding boards and also a treasure trove of ideas. Chinu, our designer who did the very difficult job of converting my hair- brained ideas into reality, has been truly patient and amazing.

I have literally harangued and pestered him to do the most challenging tasks, but to his singular credit, he always delivered with a smile.

As I sign off, I am reminded of one of my most favourite expressions, written by Richard Bach “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly”.

Nimish Sutaria Editor

sleeplessness. The members were informed about sleep cycle, the causes and hazardous effects of sleep deficit. The members were given the feel of PMR Exercises and Relaxation techniques.

Dr. Gidwani made the members aware about the importance of light, temperature and sound in the room when you sleep. Various issues related to sleep like medication, snoring, dreams, sleepwalking, talking in sleep were discussed in the question answer session.

Rotarian Rakhi Bhatia put in lot of efforts for the success of the program. PP Rotarian Rajan Bhatia and PP Rotarian Gulab Mahant were prominently present during the program.

The members of Probus club highly appreciated the program.

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There were two stories, one of a married couple having their homely domestic set of problems and the other was more politically oriented about a rustic yet ambitious woman!

It's always nice and even comforting to have an inhouse speaker, the audience is at ease and to add to our comfort what could be better than to hear stories!

This was katha kathan by Vilas Kale on the 4th of June. It's not the first time we have heard Vilas and his simple style of

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– Katha Kathan 4th June

story telling. Written by Vilas himself, his stories involve people and incidents which most of us can relate to and instances which we are well aware of.

A couple, married for a good many years, knowing each other's idiosyncrasies is faced with a situation where the wife thinks her husband is going rough something like male menopause. She thinks that it's not the same man she married, say thirty years ago. She wants him to behave with norms that go well with her circle of high society and elite friends. The husband on the other hand is by now quite fed with the socializing scene and would rather spend his time in his haven which for him is his home. They take counseling and at the end the counsellor realizes that sometimes it's best to leave couples the way they are!

Vilas's diction and narration were so good one could almost visualize the frustrated wife and the somber and cool husband.

The second story was around a political background, about a woman who marries into politics. She realizes only too quickly that she had been used by her husband and her dignity is hurt. To get her pound of flesh she decides to blackmail them by writing an autobiography which would show the world what these people actually are.

Introduced by Anita Chitaley, vote of thanks was by Parag Paranjape. Once again thank you Vilas was a lovely katha kathan session!

Anita Chitaley

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Probus - the RCN's extension club held program on “Insomnia for senior citizens”recently at Chitnavis Centre.

At the onset of the program IPP Rotarian Prashant Kale and President Bharat Goenka informed about the Probus group and their energetic activities. Rtry Ann Neeru Bhatia introduced the speaker, Ayurvedic Physician & Corporate trainer Rotarian Dr. Bharati Gidwani. She explained various aspects of

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Held on 7th June at the Centre Point Hotel, this last fellowship of Team 14-15 was as promised - full on fun, laughter and glamour. In just 7 days of practice the organising committee led by the very talented Madhavi Naidu put up a fantabulous show.

The evening started with an enactment of Veeru telling Basanti not to dance (a famous scene from the movie Sholay).The Fab 4 including Shilpa Agrawal (Dancing Queen of

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Rotary)Akash Agrawal, Mohammed Master and Pranav Singhal regaled us with superb

dancing.

After this there was a short skit showing Jangu Singh firing his 3 cooks with the support of his Manfriday Behram, for giving him vegetarian Food. How he shivers when his wife speaks and how he is terribly excited when a pretty foreigner invites his family for a meal. As usual Shabbir Shakir, playing the overweight Jangu kept us in splits.

This was followed by one more skit showing a Rotary Meeting in session. The

USP of this skit was that all actors communicated by using the very popular dialogues of Hindi movies. In between there was a dance by our very pretty Rotaryannes on Chittiyaan Kalaiyan and one by the 'stylebhais' of Rotary doing a popular mime act on the music.

After the performances, the stage was kept open for all our budding and seasoned dancers to show their moves and enjoy grooving to a fantastic collection of songs played by the DJ. All in all, a fantastic evening !

-Hetal Sampat

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F O URTH CLUB ASSEMBLY

The assembly was called to order by the President at 9:30 AM after a 5-Star breakfast that he had specially arranged.

Half a minute silence was observed in memory of the departed. This was a Joint Club Assembly of both the boards i.e., Board 14-15 & the incoming Board 1516. The incoming board gets appraised of a clear picture of all projects and activities undertaken during the current year, for them to carry on.

Hon. Secretary Manjot Kahai read out the minutes of the previous Club Assembly

held on 19th March, 2014. The President then called upon Chairpersons of different committees, under all Directors,

– Paranjpe School

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A workshop was organised at Bal Sadan, Paranjpe School, Khare Town, Dharampeth, Nagpur.

The Inmates & Teachers were trained in Envelope making from waste unused papers.

The workshop was conducted by Rt.Ann Sadhana Paliwal. She was assisted by RtAnn Asha Joshi & Rtn Sharad Paliwal.

They were also given an order to make Envelopes for our Club Greetings.

-RtAnn Sadhana Paliwal

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to read out the reports of work done during the year.

PDG Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee summed up proceedings of the entire meeting and Hon. Secretary Manjot Singh Kahai proposed vote of thanks.

V O C ATI O N AL TRAI N I N G

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animal conflict and the steps taken to mitigate the same in and around the tiger reserves of Maharashtra.

Conflict means unable to coexist, incompatibility, change in behaviour, loss of habitat, loss of water and food source. As of 2014 there are 190 tigers in Maharastra, 406 in Karnataka and 348 in Uttarakhand.

Maharashtra consists of 20% of forest cover. The basic reason for the conflict is food, space and shelter, deforestation, agriculture. 100 years ago the world population of tigers was 100,000 and the human population was less by 6 billion humans.

There should be a proper corridor for tigers to increase their survival rate. The main reason for this conflict is the survival of the man and the beast.

Uneducated men tend to hunt in the forest, do agriculture bordering the

DISTRICT AWARDS 2 0 1 5 It was the day of reckoning for the assembled Rotarians as the stage was set for acknowledging work done by Clubs and Rotarians of our District. The District 3030 Awards for the Rotary year 2014-15 were to be announced soon. The venue was perfect; the sprawling Gupta Lawns on Gangapur Road at Nasik was packed with some 350 odd Rotarians from various locations of our District 3030, ranging from Gondia in the East up to Nasik in the West. The ceremony was graced by PRID Ashok Mahajan as the

forests etc. It is necessary to provide alternative employment to the people of the surrounding villages to reduce conflict. A lot of self help groups, Village, Ecosystem development committees have been formed to impart training to the villagers so that they have alternative means of livelihood.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Rtn. Vinay Thakur.

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Chief Guest. The awards presentation was done at the hands of District Governor, Dada Deshmukh, who was flanked by PDG Ramesh Khanzode, PDG SangramsinghBhonsle and DGE (16-17) M a h e s h M o k a l k a r. I n o r d e r t o acknowledge good work done by clubs smaller in size by membership, the District, this year, instituted awards under two categories – clubs with membership of less than 63 and those with membership of more than 63.

Our club was represented by President

Bharat, Secretary Manjot, Treasurer Kapil, Directors Monal Malji, Prashant Rajurkar and Mamta & Manish Jaiswal.

Of the total 36 awards, our club had applied for 32. We were nominated for 24 awards of which, we were finally presented with the following 14 District Continued on page 10

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The meeting was called to order by President Bharat Goenka and a half minute silent prayer was observed. The 4 way test was recited. The President called out the Birthdays and anniversaries.

Rtn. Pratap Chandarana regaled the audience with a power point presentation on his trip to the US and his visit to One Rotary Centre at Illinois, Chicago.

The dais was then handed over to Mr. Meipokyim Aier – Addl Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (East). He along with his team which included Mr Reddy – Director – Pench Tiger Reserve highlighted the many reasons for man

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DISTRICT AWARDS 2 0 1 5 club awards and 5 individual awards/ citations: Best work done for Polio Plus, Physically Handicapped, Literacy promotion, Tribals, Best Community Service, Best International Service activities, Outstanding Vocational Service activity, Upliftment of Women in society, Blood donation, Best bulletin, Best Interact activity, Best Rotaract activity, Trophy for upliftment of women during Silver Jubilee year, Rotary wheel of honour for outstanding work done under all avenues

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of service The individual awards/citations were presented to Mamta Jaiswal for 'Support of IYE activity', PP Shabbir Shakir for 'Outstanding work as District officer'. President Bharat Goenka was presented with 'Best President Zone XVII' & 'Keep India Polio Free' awards and 'RI Presidential Citation'.

All these awards were dedicated by President Bharat to the members of our club and their families. This awards function also was a testimony to the m a s s i v e humanitarian work being rendered by various clubs of our District 3030, in India and abroad.

Special mention may be made here of 15th June

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It was a wonderfully planned evening with all the elements....normally a Monday would not have been ideal, but this day was different.... dressed smartly in ethnic Maharashtrian attire came the Rotarians and their spouses!!!!

Behals are known for their interest in music and their beautiful home warmed up to the guests. Rotary fellowship is always enjoyed best at each other's homes and when it is mixed with some fun games, the participation is total.

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Rotary Club of Nagpur Ishanya and Rotary Club of Jalgaon who were found to be very active and also won several important awards during the function.

Rtn. Ashok Mahajan, DG Dada Deshmukh and PDG Madhu Rughwani, in their brief but impressive speeches interspersed with Hindi & Urdu couplets, admired the work being done by Rotarians of the District and also exhorted the gathering to work for and contribute more objectively towards TRF. The ceremony culminated with singing of the National Anthem.

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Music it was, and Rotarians sang to their hearts content on karaoke...leading the floor was PP Sati...the game that followed was innovative and Veenita got people to show their sportsmanship!!! PP Sati had a quiz on Rotary that caught some offguard!!!

Food brought by the Rotarians was indeed authentic Maharashtrian fare and a gastronomical delight...be it snacks or the main course dishes, food was aplenty and some lucky ones even got a take-away

parcel. Patodi rassa, vaange-chi-bhaji, patal-bhaji, aloo-bhaat, srikhand, basundi, and the list goes on....food is always the main part of the evening and everyone forgot their calories that day!!!

Special thanks to Amita and Rajiv Behal for offering their lovely home, and to Veenita for coordinating the evening with full honours!!!

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traditional songs say and speak everything that we see, feel and want. They are the mirror of our day-today feelings. And our ladies very well did it all!!

On the beat of Tabla.... we danced to the tunes of Punjabi, Marwari, Marathi and Sindhi folk songs. The tapping feet and applause said it all; that it was indeed an enjoyable

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President Bharat Goenka started the meeting by observing half a minute silence for the departed soul of Rtn Pavneet Singh's mother who passed away on June 18th. After the birthday and Anniversary greetings, he congratulated Rtn Sachin Paliwar for taking part in Bravity(ie) he cycled 200 kms in 13 hours.

Rtn Sandeep Dhodapkar, Chairperson of the Scholarship committee announced one of the beneficiaries of the

moment for all of us.

-Nidhi Gandhi

Ek Behtareen Shaam, Shaayarana andaz mein....

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scholarships. Tejaswini of Guru Gobind school secured 98% in her 10th exam.

Rtn Namita Sharma announced that under Project Dignity, toilets were being constructed in Sevanand Vidyalaya which has about 700 underprivileged children studying. The children had no access to toilets so were forced to defecate in the open. 9 toilets, 4 for boys and 5 for girls have been built with the help of Rotary club of Nagpur.

The President with a beaming smile also mentioned the 19 District awards won by our club which is a milestone by itself.

The compere of the evenings program R'ann Veenita Pasari kickstarted the program in her own unique style with a shayaari and introduced the 5 participants PP Shabbir Shakir, Rtn Rajiv Behal, Rtn Mohammed Master, Rtn Beena Mattew and R'ann Anagha Jaiswal. Shayaaris on various topics such as love, rain, alcohol, God and philosophy were delivered with

great feeling and appreciated by the audience with equal enthusiasm. It was a pleasant surprise to witness this new avatar of PP Shabbir. It was excellently compered by Veenita Pasari and I must mention I never knew Rtn Mohammed Master has such hidden talent. Each of the 5 participants were awesome and it was an enjoyable evening made all the more fun by Mohammad's friends who hooted and cheered for him. The evening was a grand finale for the program committee during President Goenka's tenure.

Throughout the year the Programs committee under the Directorship of Rtn Rina Sinha have been churning out very interesting and innovative programs and they saw to it they ended the year in a poetic way.

- Shalini Naidu.

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While coming to the end of tenure, the Ladies Committee decided to give this year a simple singing adieu by dedicating an evening with folk songs. Our

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B O O K D O N ATI O N Nikhil Bhumralkar, is an Interact President of I West Ranch High School of California State. In the month of May, he contacted us as he wanted to setup a library in one of the underprivileged school in India. His Interact club

– St Ursula Girl's High School 24th June

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The Scholarships Committee, at an impressive function organised by St.Ursula Girls' High School, gave the academic careers of 151 deserving, but needy students of the school a boost by presenting a cheque of Rs.3.775 lakhs to the Principal, Rtn.Rachna Singh, under PROJECT SMILING FACES. President Bharat Goenka spoke on the occasion and exhorted the students to progress in studies and continue their dedication towards academic pursuit while maintaining that the ultimate aim is to become a good human being.

Chairperson Rajiv Behal also gave a motivational speech to the students and thanked all the donors who contributed large heartedly towards sponsoring the students. He also assured the school and the students of even further support wherever required. Principal Rachna Singh informed the audience about the

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From across the world 24th june

members collected whole lot of books and sent them to us bearing all the expenses of shipping. There were two cartons of books. We decided to donate these books to St Ursula Girls School.

President Bharat and Jyoti, Secretary

Manjot, Director Namita, Interact Chairpersons Ritika, Chetna, Anisha and Shalini and other Rotarians were present on the occasion.

Team Interact

SC H O LARSHIP DISTRIBUTI O N good performance of the students and also thanked the Rotary Club for their support.

Students of St.Ursula offered their thanks by singing prayers and hymns. The program was attended by the first couple President Bharat and his wife, Hon. Secretary Manjot Kahai, PDG Vishwas, PPs Gulab Mahant, Rajan Bhatia, Vijay Naidu, Shabbir Shakir, Akhtar Parvez Maimoon, Tauby Bhagwagar and a host of other Rotarians and Anns together with Chairpersons Rajiv Behal and Sandip

Dhodapkar.

-Sandip Dhodapkar

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On 25 June, 2015 PPs Gulab Mahant and Shabbir Shakir along with Chairperson Rtn. Sandip visited Prabodh Educational Trust, which not only supports students in schools at Butibori but also complements education imparted in schools by assimilating formal education and imparting life skills in the students.

Rotary Club has sponsored 30 such students and a cheque of Rs.75,000/was duly handed over to Mr.Prabodh, the Managing Trustee, by Rtn. PP Gulab Mahant.

-Sandip Dhodapkar

For the last time in his tenure, president Bharat Goenka began the meeting by spelling out the Four Way test. Secretary Manjot Singh Kahai read out the minutes of the meeting held on 7th May 2015. They were approved by the members present.

Treasurer Kapil Bahri presented the accounts. President Bharat announced the decisions taken at the board meeting especially regarding awards to be established in the memory of late Shri Arun Bhargav and Mrs Sahani (w/o PP Shri D K Sahani).

Parag Paranjape extended an invitation to all present for the installation ceremony of President elect Khushnoor Chugh on Thursday the 2nd of July.

President conveyed the details of district awards received by our club.

The president presented “A Few Glimpses of our Rotary Year”. Some of the striking events are as under: · 25 members added to the club during the year. · For the first time Rotary Carnival was organized. With a whooping response of 1400 Rotarians. · Walkathon with 5000 participants was a great success. · The skit on women empowerment presented at the happy street sponsored

by Times of India. · Golden orange. There is no parallel to it as expressed by all present at the district

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awards meet. · Udaan-A day long cultural event attended by 750 physical challenged children. · Strategic planning committee came into existence for the first time. A book by Rtn Sati Khanna is in the pipeline. · CSR committee · Surgeons on behalf of the club were the first ones to perform surgeries in “the state of the art O.T. at Hemalkasa in 2014”. · Skin bank –brainchild of IPP Prashant Kale inaugurated. · Pedo Pathshala. 350 school children of Hemalkasa were sensitized as to how to keep their teeth clean and healthy. · Disha- In January 2015 career guidance was rendered to 510 school children at St Ursula School. · Project dignity at Sewanand Vidyalay, Koradi. Nine bathrooms to be handed over on 26th June 2015. · At Snehangan of MSS- Matru Sewa Sangh, 3000 sq feet totally renovated area shall be handed over on 29th June for the benefit of physically challenged children.

The president along with the first lady and the secretary handed over the awards to the directors and other office bearers of his team. Subsequently all the chair

persons were also felicitated with gifts.

This part of the award ceremony was conducted by Shilpa Agrawal and Sapna Vastani. Rina Sinha did the final honors by honoring “Man of the Moment” president Bharat Goenka.

Past president Sati Khanna summed up as “You have just now witnessed the panorama of activities on the screen.

Leadership is never single, it is plural. In a well run organization the success cycle is on account of new leaders springing up.

They are our future presidents. A special word of appreciation for the first lady Mrs Goenka. “Bharat raj” mein wakai ache din aaye, aur ab khushi hi khushi aayegi Khushnoor ke raj me”.

Vote of thanks was offered by Secretary Manjot. He spoke from the heart. He expressed that it was an interesting year and genuine team work has resulted in fourteen awards and five citations at the district awards meet.

The meeting ended with the National Anthem.

- Sharad Bhave Continued on page 14

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Glimpses of Business Meeting 25th June

Sevanand Vidyalaya 26th June

Our Club has long association with Sevanand Vidyalaya. It is a school with around 700 children from poor background. Every year with a multi committee project we help the students with books, stationery, bags, school uniforms and health checkup camps. For many years, students, especially, girls were facing a problem due to lack of proper toilet facility in school. In case of need, they would walk home and half of them never came back to school on the day. The option was defecation in the

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open, which we find against hygiene and below dignity. Hence we decided to work on the Project Dignity. We have constructed 9 toilets there. Four for boys and five for girls. For last one month, work was going on war footing as monsoon was close.

Instrumental in getting this done, was President Bharat and Secretary Manjot.

On 26th of June on the first day of school

-Multiple Schools

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27th June

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On 27th June, the Scholarship Committee was in action at 3 places. It started by giving a cheque of Rs.50,000/- to St. Michaels High School, Kamptee Road at the hands of PP Gulab Mahant. Secretary Manjot, Rtn Namita Sharma and Sandip Dhodapkar were present as the cheque was handed over to the Supervisor. The committee was informed and also introduced to a beneficiary student who secured 88% marks in SSC exam.

Thereafter, they moved to Shri Guru Gobind Singh School where they were joined by President Bharat and PP Rajan Bhatia. President Bharat handed over a cheque of Rs.135,000/- to the Secretary of the Managing Committee Mr.Dadiala. A beneficiary student Tejaswini Parteki who secured 98% in her SSC exam was also introduced. PResident Bharat, Secretary Manjot and Sandip spoke on the occasion.

we handed over the newly constructed, ready to use toilets to school. President Bharat along with Jyoti, Secretary Manjot, President Elect Khushnoor, PP Gulab Mahant, PP Rajan Bhatia, Director Youth Services Namita, CP Shalini Naidu and Manisha Agrawal were present on the occasion. Students were briefed about basic hygiene and nail cutters and biscuits were distributed on the occasion.

SC H O LARSHIP

In the evening, President Bharat, PP Gulab Mahant and Sandip visited the offices of Friends of Tribal Society who run 60,000 schools all over the country in backward and tribal areas. A cheque of Rs.80,000/- as annual assitance for 5 schools was handed oer by President Bharat to the Secretary of the Nagpur chapter.

-Sandip Dhodapkar

– Welfare of Specially Abled Committee

30th June

the occasion were the Trustees of Matru Sewa Sangh President Dr. Mrs. Aruna Babhulkar, Dr. Lata Deshmukh , Rotarians Pres. Elect Khushnoor Chugh, First Lady Jyoti Goenka, Dr. Sharad Bhave, Kapil Bahri, Manish Agrawal, Vikram Naidu, Parag Paranjpe, Prashant Rajurkar, Pritesh Tank & most prominently Rt.Ann. Dr. Pushpa Bhave who was also instrumental & very supportive in making this project a big success.

-Monal Malji

Evanston Visit Our member Pratap Chandrana was in US last month and had visited One Rotary Centre. He spent sometime there meeting people and going around the place.

The photograph shows him presenting the Rotary Flag to Ms. Emily Whitmer, Visitor Coordinator of Rotary Support Center.

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What a way to end a Rotary Year! The Project “To Serve With Love” took place on the last day of this Rotary year i.e. Tues June 30th'2015. Our club has sponsored the entire 3000 sq.ft. Vitirified Tiles flooring at the Matru Sewa Sangh Hostel for specially abled children. The work was completed amazingly in just 8 days under the able supervision of Manjot & Monal. The project is a brainchild of our very own Hon. Sec. Rtn. Manjot Kahai.

Kudos to him.

The handing over ceremony took place on at the hands of President Bharat Goenka and Secretary Manjot. Also Present on

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ROTARY CLUB OF NA GPUR C ALENDAR FRO M 1st July 2015 - 4th August 2015

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AUGUST

Mon Yogesh Thaker

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AUGUST

Rakhi Bhutani

Tue Rohit Agrawal

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Prashant Kale

Wed Prema Srinivas

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Shivani Bidaye

Project Nutrition at Antar Bharati Ashram School, Khamala 12.30 PM

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Akash Agrawal Rajan Mulani Nikhil Bansal

Pooja Poddar

Thu Alpana Agrawal

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Fri Mohini Sanghavi Dipesh Ajmera

Sun

Vishal Agrawal ( Old )

Anita Sharma Blood Donation at VCMDWA

Blood Donation for members and spouse at Hotel Centre Point, 8 AM INSTALLATION

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Sat Dr.Satish Sule

Neem Seeds distribution at Twinkle Club Membership Drive

Vishwajeet & Sapna Kshirsagar

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Dr.Sanjay Jaiswal

Aashish & Shweta Rathi

11 Satish Raina Shilpa Agrawal

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Gouri Malji Managing People, an important aspect of Human Resource in TiE-WE

WEEKLY MEETING

Interact and Multi Committee Project at Sevanand, Koradi

Classical Vocal - Pandit Vyankatesh Kumar

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Dr. Sanjay & Radhika Marwah

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16 Abad Bapuna Anagha Jaiswal Navnit Jain

Charanjeet Bawa Amitabha Sharma

17 Shiv Kumar Rao Nilima Malani Ashish Kaswa Anand Garodia WEEKLY MEETING

Vinay & Anjali Thakur

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20 Pranoti Parekh

22 Rasheeda Amin Manmeet Dheer

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Prashant S. Rajurkar Harish Thakur

Renu Thapar Neerja Shukul Dr. Rajesh Soni Shree Krishna Buty Manisha Agrawal

30 Nishi Hansles

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.

Nitin & Gunjan Deveshwar Dr. Ravindra & Archana Sarnaik

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Jayshree Singhee Dr. Sunita Lawange

Harshwardhan Dhanwatey Bobby Srinivas Swati Agrawal

Anand Ovari One act Play Cinema Adaption TiE Over Coffee with Mr. Ajay Kapoor, President and Founder Director Ascent Business Solutions

Indira Khurana

Surendra Jaiswal Sadashiv Bhole Kiran Wankhede

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Vishwajeet Kshirsagar

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Sheela & Kantilal Singhee

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

Manish & Swati Agrawal

Dr. Jitendra & Deepika Mehta

Harish & Amruta Thakur

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25 Surinderpal Singh Dr. Ravi Wankhede

Praveen Chourasia

The world in 2020 - An overview of some transformational & disruptive global changes, with Mr. Arvind Singhal, Chairman Technopak in TiE Knowledge Series

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

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Hasmukh Panchmatia Pramod Jain

Birthday

AUGUST

Anniversary

Renuka Deshkar PresentsSagun-Nirgun (Ashadi Ekadashi)

Madhav Kinkhede

City Events

AUGUST

Shridhar Pasari Sandeep Badjatia Hemant Doshi

Meeting

Project

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Pramod & Anita Jain Neelu & Prashant Garg

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MI N D IT ACROSS 1 Thinly-sliced raw meat or fish (9) 8 Kingdom (5) 9 Well satisfied (7) 10,17 Generally respected senior public figure? (8,8) 11King of Mercia, d. 796, with a dyke named after him (4) 13 Nuance - icy net (anag)(6) 14 Giant planet (6) 16 Daring (4) 17 See 10 19 Fauna (as opposed to flora) (7) 20 Express audibly (5) 21 Convention governing clothes to be warn on a particular occasion (5,4)

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.

DOWN 1 See 12 2 Revoke — annul (6) 3 Gentle utterance to attract attention (4) 4 Mozart opera (4,3,5) 5 Spanish moss — traveller’s joy — bad red salmon (anag) (3,4,5) 6 On it clothes get pressed (7,5) 7 Distance of approximately 2,000 yards at sea (8,4) 12,1 Life’s little pleasures!

(8,8) 15 In quick tempo (6) 18 Watering holes — units in musical scores (4)

SOLUTIONS TO MAY PUZZLES CROSS WORD

NOTE PAD

June Winner Jerry Watchmaker SUDOKU

June Winner Ritika Sahu PS: Winners names were drawn by lot out of the correct entries received.

Editor

CREDITS

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SH O W C ASE

P a r o m i t a Goswami-A Master in Social Work from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Service, relocated herself from the maximum city Mumbai to Mool tehsil of Chandrapur, just to empower some of India's poorest and most marginalized citizens: the residents of the Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts of Maharashtra.

Paromita has long valued volunteerism and activism from her college days.

Quitting her Masters program in English Literature, Paromita enrolled in the Tata Institute to study social work. After interning at a variety of public service organizations and working full-time with Shramajeevi Sanghatana, Paromita moved to Chandrapur because of her interest in tribal people.

She took up a job with a UNICEF school program through which she learned about the problems rural people face. In August 1999, Paromita confronted local authorities about the illegal detention of a villager and persuaded the authorities to release the man within twentyfour hours. News of her success spread and the National Human Rights Commission invited Paromita to conduct a survey on local problems in the criminal justice system. As more people came to her for help, Paromita realized that by limiting her work to "tribals," she was

overlooking the untapped potential of the other four-fifths of the population facing many such problems.

To protect their rights and help them access justice, she created several nonprofit organizations including 'Elgar Pratishthan', which concentrates on the economic and educational development of rural communities, and 'Shramik Elgar' (The Marching Army of Workers),

a 10,000-member union of rural workers.

Trained as a lawyer, Paromita has brought legal challenges on behalf of these members to India's Supreme Court.

Regarded as one of the top labor organizers in the region, she built a training center for rural community organizers. She is also involved in strengthening elected representatives of

local self governance, organizing women against violence and implementation of social justice legislation.

What brought to liquor ban?

"Women have been demanding this for years. The licences from Wardha and Gadchiroli were shifted to Chandrapur, and beer bars, wine shops and country liquor shops were set up in villages without any regard to area and population norms. For instance, a village with 500 people had three fold increase in the liquor shops which increased the alcohol consumption which led to families being destroyed, even schoolchildren took to drinking and women and girls felt unsafe in public places. Economy of liquor in villages is different from big cities. Social awareness is low, effects of it are disastrous in the rural poor. Domestic violence, poverty, child abuse, diseases and premature death are a few consequences more common in the rural areas. This issue was closely linked with ladies and the revolution ultimately came to surface as a 'Morcha'.. In the winter session of 2010 of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Nagpur,

Paromita Goswami mobilized 5000 women from villages of Chandrapur who walked 200 kilometers over three days, to Nagpur, leaving all their household work to demonstrate against the sale of liquor in their villages. These were daily wage earners, mostly illiterate ladies, who struggle everyday to get 2 square meals.

What made these women leave their work for a task which is perceived impossible?

What gave them the courage to defy their husbands, to whom they had to return when the protest ended? Ladies who participated in morcha said, 'ghar me maar khake marne se accha hai morche me maren'. This was not a show of strength, but feelings, that the ladies were harboring for years altogether.

After the 2010 march, the state government set up a committee in February under then environment minister and Chandrapur's guardian minister Sanjay Deotale.

Goswami submitted to the committee memorandums signed by around 1 lakh people.The committee submitted its report to then chief minister Prithviraj C h a v a n a y e a r l a t e r, recommending prohibition. However, the government's inaction and reluctance to make the report public led to resentment and jail bharo agitations. During the Lok Sabha polls, Devendra Fadnavis, who was the BJP state chief, and then home minister RR Patil were gheraoed by protesters. This led Chavan to announce that the district would go dry after the polls, but the promise also did not materialise, forcing Paromita Goswami and other womens to tonsure their heads outside Deotale's house on 14th August 2014.

Finally after a long battle the newly elected BJP Government imposed liquor ban in the District of Chandrapur 1st April 2015.

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

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B O ARD 2 0 1 4-1 5 It was a wonderful & challenging Rotary year under the able leadership of Pres. Bharat Goenka.

As a Director PR I thoroughly enjoyed working under him & with my entire Board team. Most importantly I take this opportunity to thank & congratulate my entire team of dynamic & enthusiastic Chairpersons who gave their 100% & made all the projects hugely successful.

My team came out with some real good innovative ideas like Donate E-waste, Rotary Ladies cricket league to name a few, which went on to become super hit projects.

Monal Malji

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During the course of this year we made a record of -sorts by enlightening 41 proposed members.

29 have already been inducted and the rest spill over into the coming year.

Efforts were made by our Past Presidents to go through the proposals at length and assigning appropriate Classifications to the new members.

It has been a very satisfying year.

Khushnoor Chugh

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Dear Rtn. Vindhya, Thank you for your mail and would like to confirm with pleasure having fulfilled the following tasks set for the year 2014-15.

1) Probus Club :- We have inducted additional senior citizens not only from Rotary families but also from outside . Meetings w e r e e ff i c i e n t l y c o n d u c t e d w i t h authoritative speakers on the subjects touching upon aspects most important at this stage of life. Members were invited for Rotary programmes, picnics and the programmes being regularly conducted by Chitnavis centre.

Considering the same, we have been receiving new membership proposals and I am sure that in time to come, this club will definitely fulfill the social needs felt by the senior citizens.

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

2) The constitution review committee was formed by inducting the members of our Club who responded. Very important issues were discussed with CP as Dr. Satish Sule.

Amendments to our constitution so arrived at, are being placed before the board for further adoption by General Body.

3) Skin Bank - I am very happy to have got over the hurdle of statutory permissions etc. resulting in inauguration of the Skin Bank.

It has already received five cadeveric skin donations and is now fully equipped to treat the BURN PATIENTS. 4) Wild life conservation committee: Discussed the role that Rotary Club can play in making a difference in the lives of the villagers in the buffer zones. We have also been promised support by Govt. of Maharashtra's (KVIC) Khadi and Village Industries Commission.

I am very thankful to the members of various committees for their whole hearted support in achieving success in the tasks undertaken IPP Prashant Kale Dear Vindhya, All I can sum up the year as : "I came, I saw, and realised ......... I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.

But darnit, every lead I take it takes me to another tangle". Regards, Kapil Bahri My goal was to learn a bit more about the August institution called Rotary and to enjoy that learning process. I think I am fairly happy with my learning process. It made me happy to see that the first outing of PHF fellowship committee was a huge success and it has set a benchmark of sorts.

Vinita Chaturvedi Certainly think that we tried to achieve what we had set out to this year!

My sincere thanks to Director Adm Prashant the way he handled his job due to him I could attend almost all the

Projects and motivate the Directors and also giving Free Hand to the Directors has shown the Results we have bagged 18 District Awards this is a new Benchmark.

Don't you feel something better and different in Circulars this year? We invited PP's who aired their views. Yes I achieved what I thought, this was possible because of the collective team work of the Directors and their Chairpersons. I congratulate them for the wonderful job they all did and also supported me through out the year. My special thanks to my wife and sons as also my family members.

Thank you all !!!

Manjot Kahai Sure all committees working with me as Director community (non medical) have more than achieved the goals and targets we had set this year..... The district awards received by our club at Nasik prove it clearly for blood donation and community services.

Gogi Bhasin Yes! But I feel I could have done more..... But f o r m y w o r k committment, could not do full justice....

Alok Goenka A year is perhaps a long time, a landmark, where people count their ages, where a new history is created. If you look at any year from a Rotarian perspective, and especially when you are the director of some of the club activities, a year passes like a greased lightening.

Things become more complicated when you are reminded of the promises you had made at the start of the year.

If I look back now, I get the satisfaction of having done my bit through various activities that brought smiles on the faces of all.... TRH's/ RAG' s fellowship/Udaan/ Hemalkasa /PHF Dinner had my involvement with support of my team of

I had the privilege of having the committees that kept me and my team of chairpersons close to the members, spouses and their families through the year. My superb CPs and Editor set out to bring innovation in whatever we did and we all worked as a well-oiled machine giving many FlRSTS to the club.

Programs : Introduction of the Board through an Insight into their plans and vision through the year, maximum number of members, involvement, discussions and debates etc., a launch of the Golden Orange in its new Avatar !

Ladies : A First Mega Garba fellowship complete with Fund Raising, enabling donation to Flood Relief of J & K for Women's sanitation; Felicitation of Women of our club on International Women's Day; Formation of an All Women Power Band. A massive PR exercise in participating with more than 15000 Happy Nagpurians and 300 Rotary families in Happy Streets with TOI on Women empowerment!

Mentoring:Back To Basics ... an orientation for members to prepare future Leaders !

District Awards and Events : Record number of Awards by our club !

Golden Orange : A magazine in its new avatar made excellent reading in Content, Quality & Innovative columns ! Giving members a voice through Tweets, quantifying service through man hours and financial contribution to the society.

While it was an exciting and fulfilled journey most importantly got an opportunity to touch base with RCN families. Scope for improvement is always there . Made lots of new friends and strengthened the old !

Rina Sinha We have won the District award for best Vocational Service. We conducted 30 life skill workshops in 26 days and career guidance for 570 students. Vocational

awards were given to different professionals this time with artists, doctors and businessmen with a new award for senior citizens. Vocational training with a special mention of Sadhana Paliwal went fabulously. Had planned on four vocational visits for the year, but only had two. There was special emphasis on the four way test, where President Bharat, made it a point to say it during the weekly meetings. A new venture was explaining the four way test in Hindi thru Radio My FM. This was successful.

Beena Mathews Rotaract colleges adopted poorer schools and made a difference by helping them in various school projects. Special was that these Rotaractors celebrated holidays with them and went an extra leg by spending quality time with these children. There were traffic awareness workshops in different colleges.

This year in Rotary with full support from the President gave me a deeper insight into human behaviour. It was a great year! We had a good team of committee members and this made for a lifetime of rewarding memories.

Namita Sharma

ends. UDAAN was a big success with more than 700 children participating and more than 300 volunteers helping including members and Rotaractors.

CSR is a committee where we could not initiate anything.

Pritesh Tank My team of Board of Directors and Chairpersons was fabulous, always ready for any task. I came with a clear mind of taking on as the President so nothing came before Rotary for me this year, so much so that I went to my daughter's wedding after completing Rotary projects.

It was an extremely rewarding year with the accounts ending with a big surplus, which in turn led the Board to spend it on a much needed toilet for girls and a clean foyer at the Matru Sewa Sangh.

I had a special bond with my Directors, and felt that my presence was needed to set an example for them to follow.

It's now easy to sum what a President feels at the end of the year, because there are pockets that touch your lives forever. It is an enriching experience.

Bharat Goenka

I was the co-ordinator for GO, where I tried to do my best. I would like to make a special mention about the chairpersons who gave a new look to the circulars. An area which did not go so well was the non conventional energy project, even the concept of take rotary to office could have gone off a little better than what actually materialized.

Prashant Rajurkar Regarding global grants our club this year has made a debut by being on the other side of the table as we did not ask for funds but offered funds to one of the clubs in Uganda for a sanitation project, 2nd activity (Melghat hospital project) under global grants is underway and we might announce that before the year

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Rotarians / Rotarannes...

I am sure all these activities were an assimilation of happy moments. ...I could see the smiles Sanjay Sethi

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PR O JECTS W ITH SUSTAIN ABLE IMPA CT FRESH WATER is life‌It is important and vital, a source of food, health and energy, ensuring continuity of our lives and livelihood. No freshwater means no health. Human actions have put fresh water at risk. Let us conserve it and reap rewards for generations to come.

As population grows, so does demand for fresh water, whether for agriculture, for drinking purpose, for industries or for everyday activities. We need a transformation of the way we manage fresh water. Most of rainwater runs straight to the sea and goes waste.

The question is, can something be done to conserve this freshwater. One of the many answers is to build check dams. It may be surprising to know that the roof on a 'typical' four room family home captures more than 100,000 litres (100 cu.m) of rainwater a year. Just think about the open spaces we have and imagine what kind of water we can store.

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Check dams are low cost dams, which are built across streams to prevent rain water from flowing away into the rivers and ultimately to sea. They serve mainly two purposes: the first is to provide direct irrigation when rain fails, and the second is to facilitate the recharging of surrounding wells through percolation of water. They also provide water for other uses.

Washing, bathing and drinking water for domestic and wild animals get drinking water are just some of the uses. Small check dams should be built for water conservation at the micro level and to help farmers for support irrigation.

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"Check-dams" are small barriers built across the direction of water flow on shallow rivers and streams for the purpose of water harvesting. The small dams retain excess water flow during monsoon rains in a small catchment area behind the structure. Pressure created in the catchment area helps force the impounded water into the ground.

The broad objectives of Check Dams (In-stream Storage Structures) are: To provide drinking water facilities in the villages along both the sides of the streams after monsoon period.

Ground Water recharge To provide incidental irrigation by storing water at the end of monsoon mainly

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through lifting devices.

physical site and its topography.

Check dams may be installed:

Geological Survey: A study of the geology of the dam-site. This is to ascertain and establish conditions for water storage and percolation.

In small open channels.

During the establishment of grass linings in drainage ditches or channels.

In temporary ditches where the short length of service does not warrant establishment of erosion-resistant linings.

The steps: Need Assessment and Site Selection: This involves visiting affected villages and assessing the severity of the problem.

Once a couple of villages have been selected as possible sites, a suitable site for a dam is chosen. This needs suitable topography as well, as suitable landholding, location of the dam vis-a-vis the

Water-Shed and storage analysis: This will establish the storage at various dam heights.

Technical Proposal: Based on the above data, a dam-height is fixed. For this height, a design and cost-schedule is prepared.

Working Agreement: This involves an agreement between ROTARY and the village about official permissions, guarantees, labour tariffs, documentation.

F o r m a t i o n o f PA N I WA PA R SANSTHA (Water Usage Body).

Construction: The construction of the dam.

Handing over ceremony.

village and its agricultural holdings.

Social Survey: An understanding of the village population, its livelihood, possible benefits from a dam and subsequent water distribution. A study of the village in terms of construction skills, organizational skills and resources. This also assesses possible partial repayments models such a s Wa t e r u s a g e Surcharge, Shram-daan (labour to compensate).

Topographi cal Survey: A detailed survey of the

Rotary International has been promoting building more and more check dams, as an appropriate intervention for working to restore the degraded natural resource based all over the globe and thereby help the local inhabitants to escape the widely prevalent debt-povertymigration trap. This strategy for regenerating aquifers and increasing fresh water resources for agriculture was chosen in part because it is in keeping with the Rotary's overall mission to create sustainable livelihoods. Checkdams appear to be a more appropriate technology for poor rural areas.

The District team for 2015-16 has set up a Committee and is geared up to take on the task for conserving FRESH WATER to great extent. They assure whole hearted support and cooperation to all Clubs.

Rtn. Uday Vaze

High Impact Projects during the year -Atul Shah

Walkathon – indicates the Club's capability to plan, organize, raise large sponsorship, corporate connect and execute an event where people from all walks of life participate in thousands,

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

over past 10 years.

Surgical Camps – indicates the desire of members, especially the medical fraternity, to provide best medical procedures to the under privileged section of the society, year on year without any

charges.

Blood Donation – indicates our continuing effort in creating awareness and trying to involve all sections of the society in serving the community by setting up a mechanism of being a

wonderful facilitator.

NICU – indicates our ability to understand the pressing needs of the society, to make medical services

globally.

Skin Bank – indicates our vision to understand the future needs and create state of the art facilities which will surely be game changers for the society, which no other organization or the state has

envisaged till now.

70 years of legacy which each one of us boasts of has been created on such landmarks. These are testimonies of our willingness to lead from the front and adapt to the changing scenario and dynamics of the society. Every generation of Rotarians of our Club have created these landmarks.

I am confident that the Gen Next of our Club is thinking and envisaging implementation of such landmarks of which they would be proud creators, especially in a world where there are more talkers than doers!

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Rotary Club of Nagpur's few established projects/programs which created high impact during the year were – 1. Surgical Camps 2. NICU 3. Scholarships 4. Blood Donation 5. Skin Bank 6. Walkathon I call them high impact because of the numbers, value of service rendered and the PR generated because of them.

Walkathon and Scholarships on one hand directly contribute to the Income and Expenditure of our Club and once the annual accounts are finalized I am sure they together would have contributed more than 1/4th of our annual budget.

On the other hand Surgical Camps, NICU, Blood donation and Skin Bank would have contributed more than our annual budget in terms of the value of the services rendered.

These projects indicate the inherent strengths of our Club.

Scholarships – indicates the willingness of our members to participate in a cause through their direct cash contribution and which is almost 10% of our annual budget.

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LET US F O R TO G O

The UAE – a fresh perspective!

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In the last week of February six friends [Alok, Anula, Nimish Sharmila, Shefali and I] decided to attend the Sting concert in Dubai. We travelled to Dubai and extended our journey to other Emirates Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Fujerah. While the music show was at the top of our agenda, we also wanted a bit of fun & leisure. We also wished to indulge in gastronomic pursuits (since most of us were Foodies), sightseeing, and sports (The Dubai Open Tennis Tournament).

The Sting show at Dubai Jazz festival the ambience, arrangements, acoustics was superb, despite the biting cold in Dubai! For me personally the support act

by Lindsey Stirling – a dancing violinist was the stand out! I had never seen anything like that before –mesmerizing!

The physical arrangements and the F & B Zone within the premises were outstanding and enjoyable. (FYI - the Dubai Jazz Fest dates for 2016 are 24-26 Feb, although the acts are yet to be announced).

We also drove to the beach resort town of Dibba, about 160 km from Dubai; one of the most scenic locations - full of high end resorts. En route you pass by the Friday Market (in Old Masfi Town). It is a mandatory stopover for all travelers (almost like a Dhaba joint) where you can sample amazing varieties of fruits, and see a very famous carpet market as well.

On the way one also passes through the Hajr Mountain range/Khorfakkan mountains. Alongside there are the traditional Arabic villages where the locals are traditional date farmers.

Unfortunately we could not go deep into the mountain ranges as the road was closed for maintenance. This mountain range is called Wadi Wuraiyah.

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- PP Atul Shah

Other than that, the Sheikh Zayed Mosque (Grand Mosque) in Abu Dhabi is beautiful and a must see. The Global village during the Dubai Festival is also worth visiting. Water sports in S h a r j a h a r e recommended as well.

Planning the trip was pretty straightforward, it was a combination of things – ticketing was arranged by a travel agent, basic planning for places to see was done through online research, hotel selection and booking through a friend. For sightseeing and leisure, we were accompanied by our local friends.

If you are planning to visit the UAE and want to see a different side of the country, I would suggest that you plan well in advance, or else you will end up hopping from one mall to the other, and do the typical desert safari and dune bashing. We were fortunate to have adventure minded local friends - Jameel and Sameena - who guided and accompanied us, which changed our perception of the UAE, so much so that I plan to travel every year to explore more of the beautiful, scenic country.

Between November and February there are a lot of International events taking place – be it music,

sports, cultural and so on.

As for the food, there lots of Vegetarian joints around, especially Indian Restaurants but if you are a foodie, I would suggest you try the local cuisine – Arabic, Turkish and Lebanese. It's fresh, healthy and delicious! Do try their sweets, especially the Baklava. Just one tip for vegetarians – do not accompany someone who is f o n d o f SHAWARMAAAAA!!

Q. Dear Rahul, I have always heard of some very special Navratri celebrations across the country.

Can you suggest one such place to travel to this year?

A. Gujarat and Bengal are well known for their Navratri celebrations, we went to Kolkata two years back and it can be a

great way to experience the festivities and electric atmosphere! Kolkata is at its best during the Puja!

The easiest way to participate in the celebrations is to take a Durga Puja festival tour, such as the ones organized b y t h e We s t B e n g a l To u r i s m Development Corporation Calcutta Photo Tours, Calcutta Walks, and Let's Meet Up Tours. We just rented a taxi with a smart driver and he knew the shortcuts to avoid the traffic and crowds.

Some things to do: 1. See Durga Idols Being Made The beautifully handcrafted idols of Goddess Durga sure are stunning.

However, you'll appreciate them even

more if you see the effort that goes into making them. The majority of them are crafted in one area -- Kumartuli in north Kolkata.

2. Go Pandal Hopping The highlight of Durga Puja is no doubt visiting the many different Pandals of Goddess Durga, each with a unique theme. This activity is often referred to a "pandal hopping". There are thousands of pandals in Kolkata so it's only possible to visit a fraction of them -- and even then it requires a bit of strategic planning as they're spread out all over the city. You'll find the most well known ones in north and south Kolkata, which is conveniently connected by the Metro railway. The most popular time for pandal hopping is in the night when they're lit up. If you go during the day, you can avoid much of the crowd.

I found the ones in North Kolkata were more traditional and the ones in the South more contemporary, but Pandals in both areas were absolutely stunning!

Some famous Pandals : Bagh Bazar, Kumhartuli Park, College Square, Chalta Bagan, Mohammed Ali Park, Suruchi Sangha, Ekdalia Evergreen, Singhee Park, Badamtala Ashar Sangha, Mudiali Club.

3. Eat! There's never a better time to sample Kolkata's famous Bengali cuisine than Durga Puja. The festival isn't considered to be

TRAVEL D O CTO R complete without food! You'll find a wide array of it everywhere -- on the streets, at the pandals, and in specialty Bengali restaurants. Pandal hopping does get tiring, so eating the famous street food while you're out and about is a must. The food served to visitors at the pandals is called bhog (offerings to the god which are distributed). It commonly consists of mixed vegetable curry, a sweet dish, fried item, and chutney. Kolkata's Bengali restaurants also have exclusive Durga Puja menus packed full of authentic delicacies -- both buffet and a la carte.

4. See the Immersion of Durga Idols On the last day of Durga Puja, known as Dashami, the festivities commence with married women placing red sindoor (powder) on the idols of Goddess Durga.

They then smear it on each other. In the evening, the idols are immersed in the water. One of the most popular immersion points is Babu Ghat (centrally located near Eden Garden), although you'll be able to catch the action at any of the ghats along the river. An excellent way of seeing it is by boat.

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SMILI N G FA CES

- Hetal Sampat

Anjali Selokar– Recipient of scholarship funded by Scholarship Committee She is currently in the final year at Datta Meghe Institute studying Computer Science and Engineering. Her scores are above first class for all the semesters.

In addition to academics she is also fond of music and sports. She has been an avid table tennis player throughout.

Her family consists of 3 members. Herself, her mother and her sister. Her mother Ratnamala, is an in demand beautician for alot of Nagpurians. The girls lost their father 14 years ago and their mother has supported them since then.

She was a student of St.Ursula High School till Std 12 and also a recipient of scholarships given by Project Smiling Faces of the Rotary Club of Nagpur. It is indeed commendable that she has done so well with her grit and determination.

She hopes to get placed through the college placement committee at the end of the year. Heres wishing Anjali the best for accomplishing her ambitions

SMILING FIGURES (2014-15) Project Smiling Faces Total amount handed over as Scholarships in 2007-08 Total amount handed over as Scholarships in 2013-14 Total amount handed over as Scholarships in 2014-15 Percentage increase since last year Corpus Funds for Scholarships Interest earned from Corpus Funds Amount of contribution received No. of Rotarians/Rt.Anns who contributed No. of non-members who contributed No. of first time contributors No. of contributors inducted as members in 2014-15 No. of beneficiary students

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26th June 2015 Dear Editor, Through the GO, my co-chairpersons PP Gulab Mahant, Rajiv Behal and I would like to profusely thank all the Rotarians, Rotary Anns and other individuals who selflessly came forward to contribute to the kitty from out of which we distribute scholarships. It is because of their

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contributions that we were able to do whatever little we could towards helping children from the deprived sections of society to continue with their schooling.

We were able to distribute scholarships amounting to Rs.11.63 lakhs in the Rotary year 2014-15 benefitting more than 500 students.

We look forward to their continued

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Rs 1.82 lacs Rs 9.0 lacs Rs 11.5 lacs 27.8% Rs 15.71 lacs Rs 1.45 lacs Rs 10.05 lacs 139 7 41 10 +510

support and also call upon those Rotarians/Anns who were unable to do so this year, to avail of this opportunity to display their magnanimity in the coming year.

Best wishes.

Rtn. Sandip J Dhodapkar Co-Chairperson-Scholarship Committee

THE TAKE R OTARY H O ME STO RY

TRH was an important Rotary programme which had just faded away in our Club for a number of years simply because there were only 7-8 members in the Club who were repeatedly the hosts and the rest were permanent guests!!

We decided to revive TRH in the Centennial year with a slight twist. The idea was that each member would be invited for at least one Take Rotary Home during the year and each invitee would bring some item of food or snacks with the hosts only organising the house of friendship and the logistics. It was also decided that there would be a healthy mix of new, not so new and old members in order to encourage interaction with a wide crosssection of the membership. A bit of Rotary trivia and information would be shared and the rest would be just fun and games.

Chairperson for TRH that year PP Sati Khanna deserves all credit for getting this plan off the ground and not letting it flag throughout the year.

Rt. Ann Manju Shahani helped him with her unstinted support. His enthusiasm and energy rubbed off on everyone and till date TRH is a very popular programme in our Club.

Over the years some flaws seem to have crept in and maybe they need to be addressed subtly. The Rotary in TRH seems to have taken a bit of a backseat and maybe that could be brought back??

The guest list seems to be more 'crony' than representative and some members seem to be there quite often while others just don't seem to make it to any list!!

A lot of hosts get repeated while others never seem to make it to the host list!!

Regardless of the above it is still a very healthy and popular programme and needs to continue with gusto, albeit with a few course correction measures!!

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PP Sati Khanna another architect of the programme, has this to say……..

TRH initiated in 1990-91 was given a big push in the Centennial Year and revived to become a very popular program in our club.

To cite the old but still appropriate objective - “ the development of acquaintance “ was one of the reasons to start TRH. Members join Rotary for ' service ',may be, but stay because of friendship and connections they make. We need to engage members with social activities besides service projects.

In a ' Large -size ' club like ours, it is hard for new members to develop friendly companionship during our regular weekly meetings. TRH has succeeded because it gives members an opportunity to enjoy the trust and fellowship of one another, culturally with a desire for better understanding among each other.

The fellowship that comes from sharing the ideals of Rotary, outside our weekly meetings, is so powerful that it extends far beyond our own local club.

PP Sanjiv is very right that there is a drift in our objective for TRH and it needs to be addressed urgently.

It is important that we make our TRH meetings more meaningful so that ' new and not so new members ' mix with older members to share friendly moments and feel close to Rotary among themselves.

In our preparatory meeting for the next year we have decided to make amends so as to revive Rotary ideals and create a proper mix of members during each TRH meeting.

Incoming President Khushnoor has revived the old team of PP Sati Khanna and Rtn Manju Shahani to restore the original spirit and objective of TRH during 2015-16 Rotary Year.

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

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PS : Every care has been taken in compiling this list. Any error or omission is unintentional.

-Ed.

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G L O BAL G RA N TS

For the First Time in 70 years, our Rotary Club of Nagpur is going overseas and contributing in GLOBAL GRANT project for “Addressing Water and Sanitation Needs in Bumalimba and Bukise Sub-Counties� in rural Uganda.

We shall be GIVING instead of GETTING or Receiving all the time! The Project is registered with TRF as Global Grant Number - GG 1529526.

The proverbial penny dropped when I

heard Joyce I. Boye, President of Rotary Club of Montreal during the breakfast meeting of this 102 year old Rotary club, explaining about this project in Uganda where Rotary Club of Mbale had requested help for the two counties in Uganda, aimed at ensuring safe drinking water and sanitation. After an extensive investigation and proper survey, RCM agreed to do this gigantic project costing USD $ 153,472 (INR 1 Cr).

RCM is the Principal Club contributing $ 25,000 and they were seeking more Rotary partners for this project. After the meeting President Joyce invited me to join her for lunch. During our luncheon meeting an idea struck me, why not our Club join RCM in this project? I was sure in my mind that our club being the senior-

most in district and well-to-do club can contribute with our district too joining in.

That same evening I spoke to DG Dada Deshmukh and our President, Bharat Goenka. I was happy to convince both of them to come forward and GIVE, rather than TAKE all the time as we have doing in Matching Grants all these years.

That's how this Global Grant project is now taking shape. Our Club is contributing $ 1500 and the District is chipping in $ 3,000. Sixteen other Canadian clubs are partnering this project. This International Partnership with the leading Canadian Club in Montreal, hopefully shall bring more opportunities for Rotary Club of Nagpur.

-PP Sati Khanna

rural water source

typical rural pit latrines

rural water source

typical rural pit latrines

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