RUNNER - Volume: XVIII No.4 Dated 27th July, 2010

RI President: Rtn Ray Kilingismith
Dist Governor 3291: Rtn Rajendra Khandelwal
President: Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
Secretary: Rtn Tapas Kumar Mukherjee
Editor: Rtn Pradip Kumar Pal.

TODAY’S GUEST SPEAKER : WECOME MR.GAUTAM SHOME , (Renowned Cricket Player)

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS:
22nd July 10 : Mr. Joydev Halder, Husband of Rtn Kakoli Halder
25th July 10 : PP Rtn Sukhdeb Singh Flora
29th July 10 : Rtn Debasish Maitra
1st Aug 10 : Mr Tarun Bhattacharjee Husband of Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee.
3rd Aug 10 : Ms Sromona Ghosh, daughter of Rtn Chittaranjan Ghosh

GET WELL SOON
Rtn Swati, Director Community Service was hospitalized in AMRI Salt Lake for medical treatment. We prayed for her good health and speedy recovery & she returned home today with good health.

Rotary Club News :
Dr. Shibaji Bishnu of Revival Nursing Home (Burns Specialist) was our guest speaker on RWM on 20th July 10 he addressed the members present and enriched them with his knowledge and experience, which was very much enjoyed by everyone. A flower bouquet and Certificate of Appreciation was given to him for his kind visit on behalf of our club.
Rtn Bhupen Roy , R C Amtala visited our club and extended his thanks to all the members for coming forward and helping him for his projects. He also invited members for National Flag Hosting programme on 15th August 2010 at 8 a.m. at West Bengal Kabadi Tent, Mayo Road, Kol-69
President – Secretary Meet for the Rotary Year 2009-10 was held on Tue, 27th July 10 at Rotary Sadan, where Rtn Sanjay was felicitated as an Outstanding Secretary for the Rotary Year 2009-10 and Rtn Sanjit, Rtn Pulak , Rtn Pramod and Rtn Chitto were felicitated for their whole hearted support & services to the district and District Conference “Bortika” by Rtn Utpal Majumdar,DG 09-10

Rotary Community Services :
Behala Naba Proyas (A Special School for mentally retarded & hearing impaired children)
Two students of the school were sponsored by our club on 21st July 10 for the training of Silk Screen Painting for one year at IICP, Kolkata. The training will improve their skill and help them in future. We appreciate the generosity of Sgt at Arm Rtn Debasish Maitra and President Rtn Sanjay Kr Kanodia for their support.

English Teaching Through Computer / Rotary literacy programme
President Sanjay, Secretary Tapas, Sgt at Arm Debasish and Editor Pradip made a visit to the Rotary Computer Centre on Thursday 22nd July 10 and discussed with Prof Asit Kr Mitra and Mr S.K.Mukherjee of Rotary Computer Centre. Total 51 enrolments have been made till date.

Rotary Blood Donation Camp:
Our club’s First Blood Donation Camp for the Rotary Year 2010-11 was held on Sunday 25th July 2010 at New Ballygunge Balak Sangha Sadharan Pathagar, 16, New Ballygunge Road, Kasba, Kol-39.
President Sanjay, Vice Presidents Tarun Banerjee and Dibyendu Mitra, Secretary Tapas, Club Trainer Pulak and Sgt at Arm Debashis were present on the occasion and addressed the local people and encouraged them for this good cause. Six brilliant students of the locality were greeted with a small token of gift by VP Dibyendu Mitra on behalf of our club. Smt Dipu Das,Councilor KMC Ward No. 67 along with Mr Shyamal Ghosh and Mr Bidesh Bose renowned footballer were also present. 101 persons donated their blood.

Rotary Interclub Relationship :
Secretary Tapas attended the installation meeting of R C North Calcutta, R C Calcutta Dream City and greeted the President and Secretary with club flag.

Rotary District News:
An Inter City Meet on PUBLIC IMAGE of the Club to be held on Saturday, 31st July, 2010 at 4:30 P.M. at Rotary Sadan. Panel discussion with distinguished guest : Rtn Utpal Chatterjee(Hon.Sheriff), Mr. G.M.Chakraborty (CP) Debang Gandhi (Sports), Agnimitra Paul (Fashion), Jimmy Tangree (Media) Sanjay Budhia (Industry) will be held. Members are requested to make schedule to attend the event positively.

MINUTES OF THE 780th REGULAR CLUB MEETING OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALCUTTA SOUTH CITY HELD ON 20th JULY, 2010 TUESDAY AT 7.00 P.M. AT HOTEL METROPOLE, KOLKATA.

• President Sanjay Kumar Kanodia called the meeting to order.
• National Anthem led by Rtn Pulak Kr Mookherjee.
• Minutes of the 779th Meeting were confirmed unanimously.
• President welcomed the Guest Speaker Dr Shibaji Bishnu and also Rtn Bhupen Roy of R.C. Amtala.
• President Sanjay extended thanks to all the board members for their presence in the Board Meeting held on 17th July 2010 at the residence of CP Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee, Treasurer 2010-11.
• President requested all the members to be present on Sunday 25th July 2010 at Blood Donation Camp to be held at New Ballygunge Balak Sangha Sadharan Pathagar, Near New Kasba P.S.
• Club business was conducted by Secretary, Rtn Tapas.Rtn Tapas conveyed birthday greetings to the members and their families.Announced that the club’s next 782nd Regular Meeting will be held on 28th July at Hotel Metropole at 7:00 PM.He announced the club statistics and handed over the proceedings to President Rtn Sanjay.Secretary Tapas introduced Guest Speaker.
• Guest Speaker Dr Shibaji Bishnu addressed the members on invitation of President Sanjay.
• President Invited Rtn Bhupen Roy to address the members.
• President Sanjay extended his thanks with a token of appreciation to the members who have made the payment of 1st Half Yly dues on 20th July 10.
• President Sanjay requested all the other members to pay their 1st half yly dues of Rs 6500/- latest by 25th July10 . Arrangements were also made to pick up the payment from the door step of the members .
• President Sanjay Kumar Kanodia extended his heartfelt thanks to all the Members of the club present, since there was no other business the meeting was terminated.

Total Member: 27, Member Present: 9, Guest: 2

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RUNNER- Volume: XVIII No.3 Dated 20th July, 2010

RI President: Rtn Ray Kilingismith
Dist Governor 3291: Rtn Rajendra Khandelwal
President: Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
Secretary: Rtn Tapas Kumar Mukherjee
Editor: Rtn Pradip Kumar Pal.

TODAY’S GUEST SPEAKER : WECOME DR.SHIBAJI BISHNU

Rotary District News:
An Inter City Meet on Public Image of the Club to be held on Saturday, 31st July, 2010 at 4:30 P.M. at Rotary Sadan Kolkata. Panel discussion with distinguished guest from different vocation will be there.
Debang Gandhi Cricketer of Bengal , Rituparna Sengupta  Tollywood / Bengali Film actress, Agnimitra Paul  fashion designer of Bengal / India , Jimmy Tangree (Media), Ravi Poddar, Harsh Neotia, Sanjay Budhia (Industry) and Commissioner of Police / Kolkata Police.
All the members are requested to make schedule to attend the event positively.

Blood Donation Camp organized by Rotary Club :
Our club’s First Blood Donation Camp for the Rotary Year 2010-11 will be held on Sunday 25th July 2010 between 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. at New Ballygunge Balak Sangha Sadharan Pathagar, Near New Kasba P.S. Members are requested to attend and make it a great success.

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS:

20th July : Anne Sunanda Dutta W/o Rtn Dr. Rabindra Nath Dutta

INTERCLUB RELATIONSHIP
President Sanjay & Secretary Tapas made a Goodwill visit on invitation to the installation meeting of R C East Central, R C Ballygunge and exchanged the Club Flag with the President, greeted with flower bouquet and gifts. Secretary Tapas and PP & IPDG Utpal Majumdar attended “SAMMAN” organized by Rotary Club of Calcutta Metro City to Award for Excellence in Communication on 18th July at Rotary Sadan.

MINUTES OF THE FIRST BOARD MEETING OF THE ROTARY YEAR 2010-11 HELD ON 17th JULY, 2010 SATURDAY AT 7:00 P.M. AT THE RESI.OF CP RTN SANJIT CHATTERJEE, TREASURER 2010-11.

• President Sanjay called the meeting to Order
• The minutes of last Board Meeting held on 12TH JUNE 2010 was placed on the table which were read and unanimously confirmed by the board Members.
• Treasurer, Rtn. Sanjit Chatterjee laid before the board the draft accounts for the Rotary year 2009-10 and after discussion on the various other aspects of the accounts the same has been adopted and approved by the board subject to final Audited Report. President Sanjay proposed that the surplus of the R/Y 2009-10 should be transferred to Club Trust Account, and was accepted by the members after duly discussion.
• The accounts of expenses of 17th installation meeting held on 2nd July 2010 was placed and after discussion the same been considered and approved by the Board. The Board has appraised the Team 10 for making it a great success.
• Other financial matters of the Club were discussed and all the members were requested to clear the 1st half yearly dues positively by 20th July. It was further decided that Rotary International and District dues will be remitted for only those members , who will pay their dues latest by 25th July 10.
• The various Projects were placed before the board and it was discussed and accepted by the board:
• Rs. 2000/- was sanctioned for Blood Donation Camp to be held on 25th July 2010 at Kasba.
• Rs. 3000/- was sanctioned for one Eye Check up camp at RCC for poor patients
• Rs. 2000/- was sanctioned for one MCHC Check up camp at RCC for the underpriviledged community.

References to Rotary Literacy Project, 48 nos. of Student & Non-student were registered till date for our Rotary Matching Grant Project / Teaching English Through Computer at Rotary Computer Centre since 1st April 2010. Members were told to refer more deserving candidate for the success of this project.

Rs. 5000/- was sanctioned towards Tuition Fee for one year to a financially backward student of Class XII Subhash Samanta (Ref. RCC) and wish him for a bright future ahead. It was discussed that RCC Gobindo Kayal will motivate the said student to assist in running the Rota School and Computer Training Centre at RCC .
Rs. 5000/- was sanctioned for an old running Computer at RCC.
Rs. 500/- per month was sanctioned towards overhead cost to run the computer training centre at RCC.
Rs. 500/- per month was sanctioned for Rota School for 15-20 pre_primary level for unprivileged students.
Rs. 10,000/- was sanctioned towards the cost of 200 school bag (District Project) for school children at RCC and Behala Naba Proyas.
Annual health check-up including pathological test for the student of Behala Naba Proyas was approved. and members applauded for Rtn Debasish Maitra, Sgts Arm for his initiative get it done at no cost.
Rs. 20,000/- was sanctioned towards the School uniform with shoes for 50 students of Behala Naba Prayas.
Rs. 2000/- was sanctioned towards vocational course (Silk Screen Printing) to 2 nos. of students for one year.
In this regards again the generosity of Rtn Debasish Maitra was appraised by the member, who agreed to pay Rs. 1000/- , the course fee of one student.
Rs. 10,000/- was sanctioned towards 1000 Nos. of Tree Plantation in sector V, Falta Export Zone and RCC and every members appraised for PP Pulak Kr Mookerjee for providing 1000 no. of sampling for tree plantation at free of cost for this cause.
Another Rs. 7000/- was sanctioned towards sanitation purpose (one Toilet) at RCC for common use .
Rs. 1000/- was collected for our club;s contribution for Eye Bank Trust managed by Rtn Samar Das at RC Guildford UK.

MINUTES OF THE 780th REGULAR CLUB MEETING OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALCUTTA SOUTH CITY HELD ON 13th JULY, 2010 TUESDAY AT 8.00 P.M. AT HOTEL METROPOLE, KOLKATA.
President Sanjay Kumar Kanodia called the meeting to order.
National Anthem led by Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee.
President Sanjay Kr Kanodia conveyed the birthday greetings & Anniversary greetings to the members and their families.
Minutes of the 779th Meeting have confirmed unanimously.
President Sanjay recalls the support extended by all the members for successful completion of 17th installation meeting and as a token of appreciation a gift was presented to all the members present.
President Sanjay updated that he has initiated discussion with neighboring clubs for undertaking joint RWM.
President expresses thanks to Rtn. Swati, Rtn. Dibyendu ,Rtn Tapas and also to KMC Officials for their assistance for successful conduction of first SNID of the Rotary Year 2010-11 on 11th July 10 in KMC Ward 67.
President congratulate the members for their kind contribution to the Rotary Foundation India and convey his special thanks to our own IPDG Utpal da for his generous support which made possible our Club to become a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club and assessed as STAR CLUB which was honored by the Rtn. Kalyan Banerjee, Rotary International, President Elect 2010-11.
President Sanjay informed, about the visit along with Secretary Tapas to Behala Naba Proyas a Special School for mentally retarded & hearing impaired children , on 7th July 10 and gave to all the members an artificial flower bouquet made by the student of the said special school .
Club business was conducted by Rtn Tapas, Secretary,
Secretary referred a newspaper quoted a survey by UNDP that no. of people living below poverty line according to MPI in 8 states of India including W.B. is 42.10 Crore whereas in 26 countries of Africa is 41 Crore. He recalled all Rotarian to help to reduce the poverty as well as to reach our GOAL.
Announce that the club’s next 781st Regular Meeting will be held on 20th July at Hotel Metropole at 7:00 P.M.
He announced the club statistics and handed over the proceedings to President Rtn Sanjay
President Sanjay requests all the members to pay their 1st half yearly dues of Rs 6500/- by 20th July 10.
An initial trial in form of Club Assessment to all members was conducted by President Sanjay to observe the quality of Club’s administration / supervision.
President Sanjay Kumar Kanodia extended his heartfelt thanks to all the Members of the club present, since there was no other business the meeting was terminated.
Total Member: 27, Member Present: 12, Guest: 1

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