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