Our deep condolence…
We deeply mourn the sad demise of Smt Pushpita Chatterjee, aged about 93 and beloved mother of our Rtn Dilip Chandra Chatterjee on 11th instant and express our prayers for the departed soul. May the almighty God bless the departed soul with peace and give courage to Rtn Dilip and his family to bear with this loss.
There will be puja this Friday on 21st August.
Get well soon….
- Ms Sneha Ganguly D/o Ms Mom (daughter of CP Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee and Anne Anuradha) and Mr Snehashish Ganguly is not well and is being hospitalized at M.R. Bangur Hospital for Swine flu. We wish her an early recovery and very good health.
- Our beloved Rtn Dr Rabindra Nath Datta is also being hospitalized at Shankara Dialysis Nursing Home at Swiss Park since 11th instant. He got unwell on 11th at his residence and was advised for check up and to be under medical observation at hospital.He is better now and will be back home soon. We wish him good health.
- Mrs Latika Roy, Mother in law of our Rtn Chitta Ranjan Ghosh ( Mother of Anne Jaya) is sick and under treatment at Gamma Centauri Healthcare Nursing Home. We wish her an early recovery.
- Our IPP Rtn Rathin has been operated on Friday, the 14th August for his eyes and is at home under medical advice. He is better after the operation. We wish him good luck and also very good health.
Congratulations….Rtn Kalyan Banerjee has been elected as third ever
Indian RI President for the Rotary Year
2011-12 
He is the third Rotary International President after:
PRIP Nitish Lahary ( 1962-63)
Theme: Kindle the spark within.
and PRIP Rajendra K Saboo ( 1991-92)
Theme: Look Beyond Yourself.
His election awaits ratification by the Board.
Our participation in Heart Surgery Project: As we had promised to our DG, Rtn Utpal Majumdar that our club will definitely participate in the Heart Surgery programme planned by our District. We have forwarded our request formally for such cardiac surgery for a seven month old child,
Master Subarna Naskar along with all his concerned necessary medial reports.
We have also received two more such requests from children’s parents for such treatment. These are in the process of finalizing.
Our IOL Matching Grant Status:On 22-Jul-2009, the Rotary Foundation and Rotary Foundation (India) received a request to help provide 1000 cataract services to the community of Murshidabad District, West Bengal, India from our Rotary Club of Calcutta South City. Our request has been assigned the file number, Matching Grant No 70433
Text books distribution:Mt Sanju Chanda, a very needy but brilliant college student will be handed over some text books today. Rtn Subhash ( Rs 2000),
Rtn Tarun Banerjee (Rs 500) and Rtn Kuldip (Rs 500) have kindly sponsored this literacy effort initiated by our Vice President,
Rtn Subhash. This is third fully sponsored literacy project of text books distribution this Rotary year by our club at
RCC Khandalia (Sponsored by Mr S.K. Singal) and Behala Sabuj Sangha (Jointly sponsored by CP Rtn Sanjit & PP Rtn Pramod).
At RCC Khandalia…The text books distribution ceremony was held on 5th July, 2009 at 5 P.M. at RCC Khandalia Panchanan club premises in presence of Mr. Prasanta Mondal, Member, Kalatalahat Gram Panchayat, South 24 Parganas, Sri Haripada Manna, Club Secretary and members.
Total 120 Nos. books being distributed with 45 Nos. students between Class V to XII only.
Independence day celebration: Those who gave up life in gallows-
And sang the glory of life eternal,
Here they are present (unseen)
What sacrifice would thee offer to them
--- Kabi Nazrul Islam
Independence day was celebrated at Calcutta Maidan on 15th August, 2009. National Flag was hoisted at 8 A.M. by our PP and
D.G. Rtn Utpal Majumdar.
Our club was represented by PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee, who was master of ceremony and Rtn Pradip Pal. Our club co-sponsored this event by Rs 500/-
One senior citizen, Shri Mousam Das and one Physically handicapped singer played music by his mouth organ. They were highly appreciated and recognized.
DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar recalled his father’s involvement in Independence struggle who had also served jail term by the British for this. He said at present two types of Pre and Post Independence era born citizens exists, and their attitude towards independence struggle and our freedom fighters is entirely different. It’s a pity that even after 63 years of independence about 55% of our state’s population is still illetrate.
Thus, Rotary’s literacy programmes are quite relevant in this scenario. Our club is also undertaking one Matching Grant project this year regarding Computer Literacy. We hope to serve the community in our humble way in this regard.
At RCC Khandalia….Planted 200 Nos. of saplings on 15th August, 2009 at 10-00 a.m. to 2-00 p.m. around the Khandalia High School and Radha Gobinda Temple, Kalatala Hat. Mr. Siva Prasad Shee, Teacher, Khandalia High School, Sri Nirmal Mondal, Sri Kamal Kayal, Sushanta Bera, Rabindranath Kanji and many RCC members directly participated to plant the saplings.
The area selected for such plantation is very close to the village. where different types of fruit plants like mango, guava, coconut, medicinal plants like neem, amla, myrobalam, ashok, chhatim, teak wood producing tree like mahogany, segun, floral plants like china rose, krishnachura and other plants like ugain etc.
Birthday Greetings:20th August: Rtn Rajesh Jaiswal
20th August: PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee.
21st August: Anne Nishi Sehgal (W/o: PP Rtn Capt Gulshan Kumar Sehgal).
22nd August: PP Rtn Udit Bhanu Dasgupta.
23rd August: Ms Ekta Kanodia (W/o: Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia).
23rd August: Ms Balpreet Kaur Thethi (D/o: PP Rtn Harbhajan Singh Thethi).
Incoming District Programme:Batayan….International
RYLA 2009 organised by RI District 3291
Will be held at Rotary Sadan During 4th to 6th September, 2009
There will be no Registration Fee to be charged from the RYLA participants.
Our club will be co-sponsoring this event.
Intercity Workshop on Polio Awareness: Will be held on Sunday, the 23rd August, 2009 at Rotary Sadan from 10 A.M.
Membership Development Seminar:
Will be held on Sunday, the 30th August, 2009 at Rotary Sadan.
Time: 3.30 P.M.
Rotary Foundation Seminar:Will be held on 12th September, 2009 (Saturday) at Hotel Oberoi Grand at 6.30 P.M.
Important world leaders will be present at the Seminar and all PHFs, Major Donors, MPHFs and other donors will be recognized
R.C. of Calcutta is the sole sponsorer of this mega event.
Minutes of the
736th Regular Club meeting of Rotary Club of Calcutta South City held at Metropole, 174, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata-29 on 11th August, 2009 at 6.30 P.M.
President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi:
- called the 736th Meeting to order. National Anthem, this being the month of August, month of our Independence, was sung by all members present led by our guest Mr Tapas Kumar Mukherjee.
- requested to please switch off their mobiles during the meeting.
- welcomed Mr Tapas Kumar Mukherjee, Guest of CP Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee.
- announced about the sad demise of Smt Pushpita Chatterjee, aged about 93 years and beloved mother of our Rtn Dilip Chandra Chatterjee that morning. All members present expressed their condolence with the breived family by observing one minute’s silence.
- congratulated Rtn Tripti Dutta, who had celebrated her birthday on 8th August and requested CP Rtn Sanjit to offer her a gift on behalf of all members. She was very kind enough in sponsoring fellowship after the regular meeting.
- remembered thousands of our martyrs who had sacrificed their valued lives for our country, so that we can leave as a free and independent citizens. Special mention was for Shaheed Khudi Ram Bose who was hanged on this day (11th August) in 1908 at a very young age of 21 years.
- announced that flag hoisting ceremony will be held on 15th August at Kabbadi Association of Bengal, Near Mayo Road.DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar will hoist the National Flag. Our club is co-Mr. Sunil Kumar Singal, sponsorer of this event.
- minutes of the regular meeting No: 735 held on 4th August, 09 were confirmed, in absence of any objection.
- announced that in response to the District Heart Surgery Project, we have forwarded the application of seven month child,Mt. Subarna Naskar, along with necessary medical reports, for necessary heart treatment.Two more such cases have been received, which is under process of finalizing.
- requested all members to kindly pay their club dues including advertisement charges and Installation dinner charges immediately to our Treasurer CP Rtn Sanjit. as we have already sent District dues, RI 1st Half Yearly dues and The Rotary News Subscription in time on 24th July,09 for the current Rotary year. We need cooperation of each and every member of our club in this matter.
- requested Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia to conduct regular club business.
Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia:
- extended heartiest Wedding Anniversary greetings to:
Our PP &
DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar with
Anne Sunayana for 15th August.
- informed the members that Matching grants for IOL at Murshidabad and Computer LiteracyProjects at Rotary Computer Centre are under process and soon it may be approved by RI
- announced the club statistics and requested the members to attend next regular club meeting at our new venue METROPOLEon 18th August, 09 Tuesday, between 6.30 P.M. to 8.30 P.M. in time.
President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi terminated the regular meeting and Fellowship was enjoyed by all members, which was sponsored by Rtn Tripti Dutta.
Club Statistics:Total Members: 28
Members Present: 16
Guest: 1
Quote: Speak less to people whom you love, if they cannot understand your silence they will never understand your words………
Congratulations…..To our following club members, for achieving 100% attendance in home club regular meetings held during the month of July, 2009.
Please keep it up.
Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee
Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
Rtn Dr Rabindra Nath Dutta
Rtn Rajesh Jaiswal.
Rtn Tripti Dutta
Rtn Harbhajan Singh Thethi
Rtn Chittaranjan Ghosh.
Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi
Rotafact:Polio Plus is not about raising money; it is about saving children – Walter Maddocks
In November, 2007 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, chaired by Bill Gates of Microsoft announced a financial support of
US$ 100 million to Rotary’s global campaign to eradicate Polio.
The grant is one of the largest challenge grants ever given by the Gates Foundation and the largest grant received by Rotary in its 103 years history.
The grant was given to TRF with one important understanding that TRF will raise and equal amount in 3 years.
The Rotary Foundation requests Rotarians all over the world to meet the US$ 100 Million Polio Plus Challenge, dollar by dollar, over three years by 2010.
Google Foundation has also donated US$ 3.5 million.
A giant Rotary wheel with the words End Polio Now was beamed in London, on the side of the House of Commons to the left of Big Ben, on RIs 103rd birthday on February 23, 2008. It was done to herald the US$ 100 million Polio Plus Challenge to eradicate polio from the world.
ROTARY AT GLANCE:Rotarians: 12,21,880 Clubs: 33,334 Districts: 531
Rotaractors 1,74,271 Clubs: 7,577
Interactors 2,74,160 Clubs: 11,920
Community Corps: 1,52,214 Corps: 6.618
( As of March, 2009 )
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