RUNNER: 4th August, 2009 Volume XVII No 5

Intercity Meeting:

On the RI Theme of the year The Future of Rotary is in your Hands
To held at Rotary Sadan, Kolkata-20 on Sunday, 9th August, 2009 Time: From 3.00 P.M.
No Registration Charges PDG Rtn Anjan Kumar & PDG Ravi Sehgal will be keynote speakers.

Independence Day Celebration:
Flag hoisting Ceremony by DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar on 15th August, 09 at 8 A.M.
At Kolkata Maidan (W.B. Kabadi Association Ground), Mayo Road, Near Shahid Minar.

Birthday Greetings:
8th Aug: Rtn Tripti Dutta
9th Aug: Mt. Anurag Chatterjee (S/O: Rtn Dilip Ch. Chatterjee)

Board Meeting :

Was held on Saturday, the 1st August, 2009 at 7 P.M. at the residence of Vice President Rtn Harbhajan Singh Thethi

Discussions were held regarding:

• Projects, like Three Blood Donation Camps, 16th Installation Meeting and Text Books distribution at RC Khandalia, held in July, 2009 and incoming Projects like Tree plantation and Tuition fees sponsorship for thee brilliant but financial needy students with RCC Khandalia.
• CP Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee informed the Board about District Conference which our club will be hosting as lead host club and other clubs of the District as co-host clubs.
• New venue at Metropole was discussed and unanimously approved.
• Current status of IOL Project for 1000 persons in and around Murshidabad and Computer Literacy Projects, both with Matching Grants from RI were informed. Liability with RI Foundation in connection with IOL Project was also discussed.
• An approval for 20 needy persons to be operated for IOL at GRSM Hospital, Budge Budge was also approved.
• Total 15 Nos Blood Donation Camps will be held (Target: 2000 Donors) this year. These may be increased later on subject to availability of funds.
• 1st Half Yearly dues, installation meeting charges, guests charges and advertisement charges for souvenir were discussed and status of the defaulting members were discussed.
• Savings Bank a/cs of the Club with HDFC Bank, Bhowanipore Branch and Punjab & Sind Bank, Bhowanipore Branch will be closed.
• Our club sponsoring a new club was discussed and approved. PP Rtn Pulak to be given the responsibilty for the same.
• Proposals of new members to be inducted in our club very soon were approved.
  

The meeting was followed by excellent fellowship and delicious dinner. CP Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee presented a gift to Anne Rajinder on behalf of our Club in appreciation for their kind hospitality

Best wishes to……

Our PP Rtn Pulak Mookherjee has recovered satisfactorily from a Bye pass surgery he underwent recently. We are pleased to welcome him to our regular weekly meeting today.
Our IPP Rtn Rathin is also going through eye ailment and is undergoing for surgical treatment at Netralaya, Calcutta.
We pray to the almighty and wish him an early recovery and very good health.

1st President’s Meet:

was held this Sunday, the 2nd August at Rotary Sadan, hosted by R.C. of Calcutta Gardens. An excellent Musical evening with music from A.R. Rehman’s films was arranged. President Rtn K.S. Virdi attended.

Rotary and the United Nations:

Rotary International as an organisation and Rotarians individually, played an important role in the formation of the United Nations. In April, 1945, Rotary was in the forefront to finalise the Charter of the UN in San Francisco, USA. 49 Rotarians helped draft the United Nations Charter.

Minutes of the 734th Regular Club meeting of Rotary Club of Calcutta South City held at Metropole, 174, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata-29 on 28th July, 2009 at 6.30 P.M.

• President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi:called the 734rd Meeting to order. National Anthem was sung by all members present led by Rtn Tripti Dutta.
• requested to please switch off their mobiles during the meeting.
• welcomed our former charter member Mr Jasbir Singh Deosi and his friend Mr Rajesh Punjabi
• minutes of the regular meeting No: 733 held on 21st July, 09 was confirmed
• informed the members that Blood Donation Camp held on Sunday, 26thy July in association with Kumartoli Bagdevi Tarun Sangha where 55 persons donated blood alogwith Health Check up programme was held in memory of late Capt Bhattacharjee was exactly ten years ago on the very day sacrificed his life for the country during Kargil War. He was from the same locality. Our members present observed silence in memory of our Kargil war heroes and paid the appropriate tribute.
• informed the members about the 14th Installation meeting of our Rotaract Club at Star Theater banquet hall., which he attended along with Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee.
• 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 Sri Gobindo Koyal, President RCC Khandalia to appraise members about his plans and projects for the currentRY 2009-10 with our club. He explained about the possible projects that he intends to undertake with our club this year. Members had interaction with him. We will try to undertake some good projects like Eye Care, Mother and Child Care, Polio awareness, Literacy and Vocational projects at our RCC Khandalia this year.
  

# requested Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia to conduct regular club business.

Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia:

• announced that Board Meeting for the month of July, 09 will be held at the residence of Vice President Rtn Harbhajan Singh Thethi on Saturday, the 1st August, 2009 at 7 P.M.
• It will be followed by fellowship and dinner arranged by Rtn Thethi and Anne Rajinder. Board members were requested to attend in time.
• extended hertiest birthday greetings to:
  

Shri Tarun Bhattacharjee (H/O: Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee) for 1st August.
Ms Sromona Ghosh (D/O: Rtn Chitta Ranjan Ghosh) for 3rd August

• informed the members that Matching grants for IOL at Murshidabad and Computer Literacy Projects 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 METROPOLE
  

on 4th August, 09 Tuesday, between 6.30 P.M. to 8.30 P.M. in time.
President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi terminated the regular meeting.

CLUB STATISTICS:
Total Members: 28
Members Present: 14
Guest: 2

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 )