RUNNER - Volume: XVII No.21 Dated 1st December, 2009

RI President: Rtn John Kelly
Dist Governor: Rtn Utpal Majumdar
President: Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi
Secretary: Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
Editor: Rtn Pradip Kumar Pal.

Bortika (District Conference for RY 2009-10)

Will be held at Nazrul Manch during 15, 16 & 17th January, 2010
Registration forms are with Dist Conference Committee Chairman Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee.
Regn Charges Rs 1200 for Rtn and Rs 1000 for Anne.
Please start immediately with your registration

Thelasamia Awareness Camp:

Will be held on Saturday, the 5th December, 2009 at Sundarika Dr HPM Memorial Girl’s High School situated nearby Khandalia at 11 A.M. onwards.
Dr B N Sarkar and his team of Anthropological Survey of India 27, J.L. Nehru Road, Kol-16 have kindly given their consent to speak about Thelasamia carrier and will collect blood samples for necessary detection.

Birthday Greetings:

4th December:Ms Anupadya Chatterjee (D/O Rtn Dilip Chatterjee)
4th December: Ms Mom Ganguly (D/O: Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee)

Minutes of the 750 th Weekly Regular Club Meeting held on Sunday, the 29th November, 2009 at the Residence of PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee , 14B, Diamond Park, Kol-700104 at 11.30 A.M.

President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi:

• Called the 750th Regular Meeting to order.
• National Anthem was sung by all members led by PP Rtn Chittaranjan Ghosh.
• CP Rtn Sanjit handed over a gift to Anne Banani (W/O: Rtn PP Pulak) for their nice hospitality and sumptuous lunch on behalf of all members of our club.
• President apologised that due to his absence from Calcutta the Runner could not be printed in time. It will be printed and present before members in the next weekly meeting, hence minutes of the 749 regular meeting held on 17th November could not be confirmed.
• Rtn Pradip Pal was also requested to take the responsibility of Bulletin Editor immediately.
• Treasurer Rtn Sanjit informed the members that the 1st Half Yearly dues for this year are almost paid. There are very few members who have agreed also that they will clear their dues very soon. He informed the members about the cash and bank balances which are in satisfactory position.
• Members were informed about the Screening Camp for Beta Thelasamia to be held on Saturday, the 5th December, 09 at Sundarika Dr H P M Memorial Girl’s High School at 11 A.M. Some of our members as Rtn Tapas, Rtn Swati, Rtn Dr R N Dutta, President Rtn Kuldip and PP Rtn Harbhajan agreed to attend. It was decided that some Polio eradication materials supplied by our District will be exhibited there.
• CP Rtn Sanjit presented a gift on behalf of all members of our club to Anne Banani for the regular meeting and Board Meeting being held at their residence.
• Our CP and Dist. Conference Committee Chairman Rtn Sanjit informed about the developments and current status regarding organizing District Conference. He had met with our DG Rtn Utpal for this purpose and held important discussions. He also requested our club members to pay the registration charges immediately to him and thanked the members who have already done so.
  

It was felt that neighbouring club visits should be initiated immediately. For proper and purposeful good will visits PP Rtn Pulak was assigned the responsibility to start such visits to the other clubs. He will chalk out the programmes and details will be made known to concerned group members, which he requested members to follow carefully, punctually and without fail. We will also highlight about our Matching Grant projects of IOL and English Teaching through Computers during these good will visits.

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

Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia:

Extended Wedding Anniversaries greetings to:

27th November: Rtn Capt Gulshan Kumar Sehgal with Anne Nishi.
28th November: Rtn Kakoli Halder with Mr Joydeb Halder
29th November: Rtn Rajeev Chaturvedi with Anne Archana.

• informed that some of our members are yet to pay their 1st Half Yearly club dues. They are requested to clear their dues immediately.
• informed about the current status of our Matching grant projects and read out the correspondence he had with concerned persons in the regard.
• informed that next regular club meeting will be held on Tuesday at The Metropole on 1st December, 2009 between 6.30 to 8.30 P.M.
• President, Rtn Kuldip announced the club statistics and terminated the regular club meeting.
  

Club Statistics
Total Members: 26
Members Present 11
Guests 1

Board Meeting:

Was held immediately after the regular club meeting on Sunday, the 29th November, 09 at the residence of PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee.

• Some important discussions were held by CP Rtn Sanjit regarding District Conference.
• PP Rtn Pulak was requested to be coordinator for arranging neighbouring club good will visits to be started very soon in different groups of our club members.
• A suitable pamphlet will be printed for distribution which will also contain the information and introduction of our IOL and Computer programmes.
• Members will be asked to register immediately.
• CP Rtn Sanjit was generous enough in announcing an contribution of Rs 50000 to our club for this conference account. Rtn Sanjay also announced Rs 5000 from him.The gesture of both was highly appreciated.
• A bill of Rs 3000 of M/s U.K. Bhowal & Associates for auditing our club’s RY 2007-08 accounts was approved for payment.
• Finance of the club along with Half Yearly dues was discussed in details.
• It was discussed and finalized that new savings bank account of our Trust will be opened at Punjab National Bank, New Alipore Branch as passed in earlier Board Meeting will be done in next week and the Old Bank a/c with HDFC, Bhowanipore Branch will be closed after transferring the balance amount in that a/c to the new a/c.
• Names of the four prospective new members were discussed and approved. They will be inducted very soon after following the proper procedure.
  

The Board members extends their cheerful thanks to PP Rtn Pulak and Anne Banani for their hospitality and care.