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Rotary Club of Central Calcutta | RID-3291

22nd September, 2017 | Volume 34 | No 3 | Aug-Sept Roundup www.rccentralcal.org

34th year of service

Brij LakhotiaEditor

Ajay KejriwalSecretary

CA Girish GaneriwalaPresident

Brojo Gopal KunduDistrict Governor

Ian H S RiseleyRI President We meet every 2nd & 4th Friday of the month at The Conclave at 7.00pm

s e p t e m b e R I s b a s I C e D u C a t I o n a n D l I t e R a C y m o n t h

from tears to joy!

Charter Day celebrations of Rotary Club of Central Calcutta were held on the 13th of August 2017 at ‘Raize the Bar’ – a restaurant in Salt Lake. The event was attended by PDG and Charter Secretary Raju Rajgaria, Charter members, Past Presidents, members, guests and newly inducted Rotarians.After the regular weekly meeting, the program for the day began. The char-ter members of the club were felicitated

President CA Girish Ganeriwala andmembers of RC Central Calcutta

WELCOME members of RC CalcuttaMillennium led by President Chaitali Das

Today’s ProgramCharter Day Celebrated

by presenting them with a unique and innovative name depicting their charac-teristic and a specially designed gift on the occasion. Then the Past Presidents were felicitated and honoured for their contribution to the growth of the club over the years. PP Chandra Prakash Ganeriwala car-ried on the proceedings further. He in his own amazing oratorical manner and style anchored the rest of the show by

RWM jointly with RC Calcutta Mil-lennium to be followed by screening of a short movie – Return of One Idiot, by renowned Director Amol Gupte of Tare Zameen Par fame. This will be followed by dinner - Ben-gali Cuisine, specially arranged to coincide with the spirit of the Pujas round the corner.

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inviting club members Raj Bagri, Vivek Phumra, Shri Ratan Jhawar, Kishore and Kanchan Somani and Mona Saraf, to entertain the members with their songs. President Girish Ganeriwala had us all addicted to a strange chopstick game which was enjoyed by all. Prizes were giv-en to the winners of the Chopstick game. The icing on the cake was definitely the exotic starters and amazing food served at lunchtime. This was followed by the grand cake cutting ceremony to celebrate the occasion. All the members enjoyed

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Charter Daythe afternoon thoroughly and look for-ward to many more such events. Presi-dent Girish Ganeriwala, first lady Alka Ganeriwala, Chairman Pradeep Murar-ka, Co Chairman Avinash Bhubna, PP Chandra Prakash Ganeriwala, Rtn Raj Bagri, Secretary Ajay Kejriwal were in-strumental in making the event a grand success. Shailesh Ganeriwala, son of PP Chandra Prakash Ganeriwala who owns the joint was seen overseeing the entire event along with Ritansha Bagaria, who designed the creatives for the event.

– PP Pradeep Murarka

With a heavy heart, we inform of the untimely death of Rotary International President Elect, Sam Owori, after a surgery at Texas. We, Rotar-ians from RC Central Calcutta pray to God to give enough strength to his family members to bear this great loss and may his soul rest in peace.

Rest in Peace

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Mon, 14th Aug: President CA Girish Ganeriwala along with PDG Raju Ra-jgaria, Pramod Dhandhania, Neelam-Suhasaria and Preksha (intern at Presi-dent’s office) visited Kendriya Vidyalaya, at Ballygunge Military Camp, to conduct the MSV activities.Mrs Chandraprabha Bhatia, the Co-Or-dinator, along with other teachers and staff welcomed us and showed us around the full campus. The Drawing and Essay competitions were held for classes VI to XII. A Rally was taken out on 13th Aug.The Rotary team, along with the teach-ers, supervised the event and also inter-

Tue, 5th Sep: At 9.30 am Club Presi-dent Girish, PP Rajesh Lakhotia, PE Amit Kumar Rungta, Club Secy Ajay Kejriwal & I assembled at Haldiram, Ballygunge to proceed towards Morning Glory Integrated School (a school for un-der privileged children) run by Mr Rajiv Sengupta at Selimpur.An RO water filter plant, sponsored by PE Amit Rungta in memory of his moth-er, Late Kusum Devi Rungta was inau-gurated. Students were provided with fil-

Mera Swachh Vidyalaya

acted with the students. The Principal, Dr Suman Lata, a gracious lady, also joined and assured President Girish of more such joint projects in future.PDG Raj Kumar Rajgaria proposed an Interact Club, and it was heartening to see their keen interest.Many more ideas of projects were dis-

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Morning Glory Integrated School

cussed such as dental check-up, commu-nity service by students, e-literacy, child abuse etc. President requested Pramod & Neelam to be in touch with the School and the Coordinator Ms Chandraprabha Bhatia, for Dental Check-up, formation of Inter-act Club and other projects for children and teachers.The Rotary team took leave promising to be back on the 18th August for prize distribution and a meeting, including dental check-up by Rtn Dr Ankur Gupta.The feeling amongst the club members who visited Kendriya Vidyalay, was of great satisfaction.

– Pramod Dhandhania

tered drinking water. There is lot of iron in the water in that area. Rotarians also planted a few plants outside the school.Later, the school children dressed up in caps, face masks, and gloves along with all Rotarians picked up brooms and started cleanliness drive inside and even outside on the roads around the school. Their uniforms were neat & clean and

nails, hair etc. were cut, which makes our project of Mera Swachh Vidyalaya a great success. A box of CTC tea was gift-ed to the principal.It is heartening to note that our director Rajesh Agarwal is distributing food stuff in good quantity at the same school.

– Rtn Madhu Sudan Saraf

On our way-back we also visited The Happy Home and assured the inmates for future assistance, when required. Since it was birthday of our PDG Raju Rajgaria, we celebrated by having lunch at Super Snack Bar and cutting of cake.Members present were President Gir-ish Ganeriwala, Vice President Madhav Mohta, Club Secretary Ajay Kejriwal, PDG Raj Kumar Rajgaria, PP Rajesh Lak-hotia, Rotaract Chairman Pramod Dhand-hania, Pradip Jain, Raj Bagri, Uttam Kumar Sarda, Alka Ganeriwala, Neelam Suhasaria, Anns Renu Lakhotia, Yogita Ganeriwala and Sarita Phumra, Rotarac-tors present were President Rajarshi, Sec-retary Urvashi, Adil and Swapnil.

– Rtn Uttam Kumar Sarda

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Sat, 9th Sep: Drawing & Essay Compe-tition at Howrah Siksha Sadan for Girls near Mullick Fatak, Howrah Maidan was held under the supervision of Pres-ident, CA Girish Ganeriwala & First Lady Alka Ganeriwala. Awards were given to students.Principal Ms Nirmala and the teachers were very supportive and appreciated the initiative taken by Rotary Central Calcutta.They have assured to give time in their Morning Prayer to address 1500 girl stu-dents on Health, Hygiene (Water, Sani-tation).

Tue: 15th Aug: To Celebrate our Inde-pendence Day, 17 Rotarians including Anns plus 4 Rotaractors, started early for Rotary Siksha Kendra (RSK) near Bishnupur, 24 Parganas (S).Attired in traditional dress for the spe-

Howrah Siksha Sadan

Independence Day Celebratedcial day, all the members present were presented with a Tri-Co-loured Uttariyo and a Tri-Coloured Badge.Reaching RSK sharp at 9 am, no time was lost to start the activi-ties. The National Flag was hoisted

by President followed by National An-them. School students performed 6 song and dance sequences during the cultural program organised specially for the aus-picious occasion.Prizes were given to Meritorious stu-dents for their achievements in various subjects during the year. Gifts were dis-tributed to all the students which were sponsored by Rtns Avinash Raj Bubna, Raj Bagri and Rajesh Agarwal.

8,500 kms long tour covering 11 States and 3 countries, spanning 23 days. Members of RC Central Calcutta presented the Rotary Road-ies members from Mumbai with Rotary me-mentoes and flagged them off at Hotel Peer-less Inn for next destination Puri, the city of Lord Jagannath. President Girish Ganeriwa-la, PP Chittranjan Choudhury, VP Madhav Mohta and the President and Secretary of RC Mahanagar were present on the occasion.– Madhav Mohta

n An Investor Awareness Program at

Gariahat crossing under the Gariahat Bridge with the RID 3291, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, ROC (WB), NSE (Kol-kata), Institute of Chartered, Company Secretaries and Costing was co-hosted. Rotary Central Calcutta was represent-ed by Secretary Ajay Kejriwal.All the speakers pointed out different provisions of Investor Awareness guide-lines and specially the Do’s and Dont’s as per MCA directives.– Neelam Suhasaria

n Regular Meeting cum Club Assembly was held on 8th Sept at Conclave.

n Pulse Polio was observed on 10th September.

n One Rotaractor Meeting was held and one Board Meeting was also held in August.

n The 1475th RWM of the Club was held jointly with the Rotary Club of Cal-cutta Mahanagar on Friday, the 25th day of August at Hotel Hindustan In-ternational, Kolkata. President Girish and President Sanjay Dugar of Rotary Calcutta Mahanagar discussed in detail about the Mera Swachh Vidyalaya proj-ect (1st-15th September), installation of water huts across the city, affiliation of a new RCC in Tarakeshwar and the need to focus on adult and e-literacy.

n Rotary- Humanity in MotionFour Rotarians who are also members of IFCR, arrived in Kolkata via Bhutan and were greeted by PP Chittranjan Choudhury. They were earlier flagged off from Mumbai by DG Praful Sharma and have set out for a

n The month of August kicked off with the Tree Plantation Planning at Barui-pur. On 6th August, President Girish Ganeriwala, along with Rotarians Ajay Kumar Kejriwal, Madhav Prakash Mohta, PP Brij Mohan Lakhotia, PP Shriratan Jhawar, Pradeep Kumar Jain, Uttam Kumar Sarda, Pramod Kumar Dhandhania, Sundeep Sultania, San-jay Agarwal and Architect Sandip Bose were at the site. Tulsi Patta were given to swallow with water. Fresh Coconut water was served. Yoga was performed under the guidance of a Yoga Teacher in the fresh morning air of Baruipur.

n Sapling DistributionOur club distributed 1200 fruit tree sap-lings to the villagers at RCC Bhanderha-ti (Hooghly) on 12th August. Under the chairmanship of IPP Sanjay Ganeriwa-la, President Girish, Alka Ganeriwala and Brij Gopal Kothari planted some saplings and distributed the rest.

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n Inauguration of Water Hut

Water is the lifeline of the human race and serving water to a thirsty is the big-gest service to humanity.In continuation of its service to Society, a water hut with cold filtered water is in-stalled at Bhaithakkhana, dedicated to the people of hot and humid Kolkata, to quench their thirst. Members are request-ed to please join on Sunday, 24th October 2017 at 10.30 hrs at 114/1 Bhaithakkha-na Road, Kolkata 700009, near Amherst Street Post Office, for its inauguration by District Governor Brojo Gopal Kundu along with Councillor Smt Soma Chaud-huri of Ward 37 with President CA Girish Ganeriwala. This is the 2nd Water Hut dedicated to the people of Kolkata by Ro-tary Club of Central Calcutta and is pro-vided by PP Rajesh Lakhotia of Raychand Lakhotia & Sons in loving memory of his father Late Ram Gopal Lakhotia.Another water hut is also complete.It will be inaugurated by Shri Subra-ta Mukherjee, Hon’ble Minister, Govt of West Bengal and Shri Sukhdev Chakraborty, Councillor, Ward 69. This was started during the previous year by IPP Sanjay Ganeriwala, who has under-taken to maintain it, through his com-pany Standard Vulcanising Corporation.

n IFCR team from Australia and UK will be coming to Kolkata from 18-22nd February 2018. There will be 2 Crick-et Matches with IFCR team of Central Calcutta. Details are being worked out. President of Central Calcutta is work-ing in tandem with IFCR International Chairman and PP Chittaranjan Choud-hary and a meeting was also held along-with VP Madhav Mohta and Rtn Dinesh Bhatter to plan the event and make it

Forthcoming Projects

memorable and remarkable. Volunteers and sponsors will be required. Those in-terested may please contact Hon Secre-tary Ajay Kejriwal.

n Shaarod SwikritiRotary and Rotaract of Central Calcutta are Lead Hosts and in support of the pro-gramme. The Young guys and Girls will visit at the least 250 Puja Pandals to dis-tribute Rotary banners and find the best Puja Pandals for the judges to decide the most meritorious as the best…

n Puja ParikramaFor the under privileged children of Red Light area will be done by our club, on 26th September 2017. The program will start from Chittranjan Avenue near Re-covery Nursing Home. Chairman for this wonderful project is PP S R Jhawar, who has been doing this project for time im-memorial.For Senior Citizens – for the 10th year in continuation, this program for senior citizens is being done by Rotary clubs. They will be taken out in a bus for puja parikrama and will be presented with garments also. This is a joint project where RC Central Calcutta is the host club, RC Calcutta Maidan and RC Dal-housie are the lead clubs.

n Diwali DhamaalDiwali Meet at Central Calcutta is al-ways a much awaited programme not only by members but by Anns as well. This year we have zeroed the date to Sat-urday the 14th October 2017. Various ideas are being churned out. However at this juncture the grapevine has it that it will be cracker of a program which will be liked by one and all… Please wait for further announcements, nonetheless please do block your date for this block-buster programme.

championship to be held in October 2017.

n PP Subir Poddar and Ann Vinita became proud grandparents to a grand-daughter.

n Amita Dutt Mookerjee, wife of PDG Amitava Mookerjee is a well-known dancer and has been recognized and honoured by the Govt. of West Ben-gal, Calcutta University and Rotary Club of Calcutta. On the recommendation of the Department of Higher Education, the Government of West Bengal conferred on Professor Amita Dutt the Shiksha Ratna Award for the year 2017 for her outstand-ing contribution to Higher Education. The Award was given by Smt Mamata Banerjee, Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal, in a glittering ceremony on the occasion of Teacher’s Day, September 5, 2017 at Nazrul Mancha, Kolkata.

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Congratulations!

District News International Newsn President, Secretary and AG meet on

26th August was attended by President Girish Ganeriwala & Hon Secretary Ajay Kejriwal.

n President Girish and editor PP Brij Mohan Lakhotia attended the District event RLI-Part I and Part II on 20th Au-gust at Rotary Sadan. Certificate of Rec-ognition was awarded to both.

RI Board has voted to appoint PRID Julia D Phelps, Ro-tary District 7930, as a Rotary Foun-dation Trustee. She will take the place of RIPE Bar-ry Rassin and will serve up to 30th June 2020.

Nominating committee choice is PDG Bharat Pandya for RI Director 2019-21 for Zone 4. PDG GulamVahnavaty is the alternate.Nominating committee choice PDG Ka-mal Sanghvi to become RID for 2020-22.

n Rashmi Somani the daughter of Kishore & Kanchan Somani got 3rd prize while completing 2.5 KM swim-mimg competition at Bengal Rowing Club in 1 hour 8 mins, which is a great achievement.

n Kishore Somani won the runners

up trophy in TT veterans West Bengal ranking open championship on 10th Sep-tember.

n Shri Girish Khaitan, our for-mer member and fa-ther of our own Rtn Anuttam Khaitan was honoured by The Times of India

“Inspiring Educationist 2017” award.

n TICCT Meet 2017 – Suhani Rungta daughter of President Elect Amit Rung-ta represented CSC Club and broke 8 Individual Records in District champion-ship 50m Breast stroke 1st, 100m Breast stroke 2nd. She will participate in State

n District Literacy Meet and Rotary Siksha Ratna & Rotary Lifetime Award Ceromany held on Saturday, 16th September at Rotary Sadan attended by PDG Raju Rajgharia.

n District Seminar on Anti Rabies & Cadaveric Organ donation was held on Wednesday, 20th September at Rotary Sadan from 5.30 pm.

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Yogendra Mohan Lakhotia 5 Sep

Dinesh Bhatter 9 Sep

Brij Mohan Lakhotia 10 Sep

Raj Bagri 14 Sep

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