RUNNER-Volume: XVII No.29,Dated 2nd February, 2010

RI President: Rtn John Kelly
Dist Governor(3291): Rtn Utpal Majumdar
President: Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi
Secretary: Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
Editor: Rtn Pradip Kumar Pal.

R.C. of Calcutta South City celebrate successful completion of Bortika
(Our District Conference 2009-10)

Our club celebrated the successful completion of Bortika (District Conference 2009-10) held at Nazrul Manch during 15th to 17th January, 2010 in our Regular club meeting on 25th January, 2010 in presence of our PP & DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar and recently elected DGN 2012-13 Rtn Uttam Ganguly.

Gifts and flower bouquets were presented to:
PP & DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar and for 1st Lady of our district Anne Sunayana Baodi.
DGN 2012-13 our beloved Rtn Uttam Ganguly.
District Conference Chairman and our CP Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee.
District Conference Secretary and our PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee.
District Secretary (Organisation) PP Rtn Chittaranjan Ghosh.
District Conference (Sgt of Arms Chairman) PP Rtn Pramod Kumar Mathur.

Our members, who worked tirelessly for the success of Dist Conference:
Rtn Tapas Kumar Mukherjee, Rtn Dibyendu Mitra, Rtn Debasish Maitra and
Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee.
Our President Rtn Kuldip and Secretary Rtn Sanjay were also felicitated.

It was atmosphere full of happiness, joy and celebration. PDG Rtn Ravi Sehgal and PDG Rtn Debasish Mitra could not attend, as they were out of station.
Thank you very much Utpal da for taking along your home club to the great glory and new heights. We extend our gratitude and best wishes to our PP & DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar and Sunayana Bao di for organizing and leading our District 3291 to a very successful and meaningful District Conference BORTIKA.

Bed kits for Children:
50 bed kits for children were distributed on 25th January at Oxford Mission, Behala
Children were taken there by our R.C.C. Khandalia Panchanan Sangha
Celebration for Bortika…

There was a celebration organized by DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar on 1st February, 2010 at 12, Alipore Park Road where from our club our CP Rtn Sanjit, PP Rtn Pulak, PP Rtn Chitta and PP Rtn Pramod were felicitated for their active participation in Dist Conference. This wonderful evening was followed by fellowship and dinner. It was attended by Rtn Swati, Rtn Dibyendu, Rtn Debasish, Rtn Tapas, Rtn Pradip, Rtn Rajiv, Rtn Subhash and others.

Incoming Club Events:
Mega Health Check Up Programme at Kasba Thana Premises:
Has been organized by our club in association with Kasba Thana Utsab Samannay Committee on 14th and 15th February, 2010
For details please contact PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee.

Programme:
10 A.M. onwards:
14th February (Sunday)
Eye Screening for Cataract IOL Operations.
15th February (Monday):
Diabetic, Heart and General Health Check up.

Felicitation to Nigerian Medical Team:

A felicitation evening to felicitate Nigerian Medical Team has been organized on 11th February, 2010 (Thursday) at Hotel Hindusthan at 6.30 PM onwards followed by Fellowship and dinner. We have postponed our weekly meeting No 760 scheduled for Next Tuesday (12-2-10) at this venue and date. All members are to take note and attend.

Visit to Susrat Eye Centre at Behrampur:

We are glad about the satisfactory progress of IOLs under our Matching Grant Project at Murshidabad. We are in process of 800 plus cases which are screened and going to be operated soon. To take the whole process observation and details check up, we have planned a visit there by Hazarduari Express on 6th February and return by same train in the evening from there. Members are requested to confirm their participation for this visit to Secretary Rtn Sanjay immediately.

Inauguration Programme for Computer Programme:
We have finalised the inauguration programme for Teaching English through Computer Programme in association with Janabi Trust on 24th February, 2010 as follows:
Venue: Triguna Sen Auditorium
Alumini Association, NCE Bengal and J.U. Campus
Gate No 3 (Post office Gate)
Kolkata-32
Time: 3 P.M. onwards.
All members to take note of this and attend positively. For programme details please contact Secretary Rtn Sanjay.

Heart to Heart Surgery:
We have submitted a third case for Heart Treatment at DG’s office for 1.5 Year old child Ms Swastika Saha, forwarded by PP Rtn Pulak.
Birthday Greetings:
3rd February: PP Rtn Pramod Kumar Mathur
9th February: Rtn Bikramjit Roy
Wedding Anniversary:
5th February: Rtn Tapas Kumar Mukherjee with Anne Soma
7th February: Rtn Pradip Pal with Anne Sima
10th February: PP Rtn Pramod Mathur with Anne Vinkie.

Minutes of the 758th Regular Weekly Club Meeting held on 25th January, 2010
at The Metropole 174, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata-700 029 at 6.30 P.M.

President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi:
# called the 758th Regular Meeting to order
# National Anthem was sung by all members led by Rtn Tapas Kumar Mokherjee.
# greeted members for being organizing club for the Bortika, Dist Conference 2009-10 held at Nazrul Manch and announced that today’s regular meeting has been organized to felicitate Rotarians from our home clubs, who worked tirelessly for making this conference a success.
# Also our beloved Rtn Uttam Ganguly for being recently elected as DGN 2012-13 also to be felicitated by our club.
# He announced that how there was some doubt about our club’s ability to organize this mega event in the initial stages but the methodical planning, execution and guidance provided by our beloved PP & DG Rtn Utpal turned these doubts meaningless.
# a very appropriate felicitation was extended to our PP & DG Rtn Utpal, DGN 2012-13 Rtn Uttam, CP Rtn Sanjit, PP Rtn Pulak, PP Rtn Chitta, PP Rtn Pramod, Rtn Tapas, Rtn Dibyendu, Rtn Debasish and Rtn Swati.
President Rtn Kuldip and Secretary Rtn Sanjay were also felicitated by Utpal da.
Our RCC President Shri Gobindo also offered a flower bouquet to Utpal da on behalf of all RCC members.
When requested to speak few words, Utpal da requested all our club members to come forward and pay at least Rs 4600 (U$ 100) to Rotary Foundation every member. He also said that in all his district work, he has never forgotten his home club.

President requested Club Secretary Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia to conduct regular club business.
Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia:
Wedding Anniversary greeting was extended to:
Rtn Dibyendu Mitra and Anne Anjali for 18th January
Rtn Dilip Chatterjee and Anne Gopa for 19th January
Rtn Rajesh Jaiswal and Anne Shalini for 21st January
Rtn Rathindra Nath Chatterjee and Anne Jayoti for 23rd January
Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee and Anne Anuradha for 24th January
Rtn Udit Bhanu Dasgupta and Anne Madhumita for 26th January
Rtn Debasish Maitra and Anne Rini for 29th January
Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee and Shri Tarun Bhattacharjee for 31st January
Birthday Greetings:
21st January: Rtn Tapas Mukherjee
25th January: Ms Durlav Roy (S/O: Rtn Bikramjit Roy)
# requested the members to kindly pay their 2nd Half Yearly Club dues
(amount is Rs 5300) to Treasurer Rtn Sanjit immediately, so that it can be forwarded in time to Rotary International.
# informed about the current status of our English Literacy through Computers Matching grant project and read out the correspondence he had with concerned persons in this regard.
# informed members that our club is co-host for felicitation of Nigerian Medical Team on 11th February at Hotel Hindusthan from 6.30 PM onwards. All members are requested to attend, as this will be our Regular Weekly Meeting No. 760
There will be no regular club meeting on 9-2-10 at The Metropole.
# President, Rtn Kuldip announced the club statistics and terminated the regular club meeting.
Club Statistics
Total Members: 29
Members Present 14
Guests 3

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