Proceedings of 2009, Feb, 13 (RMV Club) - 13th Club Day

The meeting convened with all excitement on the eve of Club Day. The Club completed 13 years on 12th February. However the celebration took place on Friday the 13th of February. The Rotaract Club of Presidency College, which is sponsored by Rotary Bangalore Raj Mahal Vilas, also joined the function. Rtr. Dilip is the president of this Rotaract Club.



The members of Rotaract Club presented the crowd with amazing songs and dance sequence. Though many songs were from Bollywood, the highlight of the function was a Tandava dance by a Rotaract member Mr. Suresh who hails from Sri Lanka.


The entertainment was followed by cake cutting by Chartered President Rtn. S.K Bajaj and others. During this juncture, the crowd was presented with the history of the club. As usual we adjourned after singing National Anthem. Hot dinner was waiting for us with spirited cold drinks.

BRIEF HISTORY OF ROTARY RMV The Club was chartered on the 12th February 1996 with Rtn. S.K Bajaj as its Chartered President with humble membership strength of 27 members. PDG Nagaraj was the GSR. Since then the club has completed 13 years,   The list of Past Presidents Rtn. S.K Bajaj 1996-97 Chartered President Rtn. Ajit Kumar 1997-98 Rtn. T.S Gulhati 1998-99 Rtn. Uthaman MV 1999-00 Rtn. Mahesh Agarwal 2000-01 Rtn. Kannayan 2001-02 Rtn. Sherif 2002-03 Rtn. Kirti K Mehta 2003-04 Rtn. Usha Medina 2004-05 Rtn. Ravi Naik 2005-06 Rtn. Venkataraman 2006-07 Rtn. R.S Vatsan 2007-08 In all these years Rotary RMV has been a very dynamic and pro-active club and has to its credit a significant list of service projects. Some of which are The COMPUTER LITRACY PROJECT Used computer systems, but working, from software companies was collected upgraded and installed at various institutions to offer computer training facility to the poor and needy. It was also a joint participation of State Govt. during the tenure of Shri S.M Krishna as the Chief Minister who inaugurated the project. The Project size was over Rs. 50 lakhs. AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS The project involves providing free Eye Cataract Surgery to the needy. Under this district project our club so far has contributed nearly Rs. 2 lakhs which have benefitted nearly 1000 beneficiaries. COMPHREHENSIVE CHILD HEALTH CARE This was one of the most successful and effective Matching Grant projects. The project was executed for 4 years covering nearly 3500 children from the poor schools. The objective of the project was to ensure that no child drops out due to health reasons. The project ensures check up, treatment and medicine in the areas of ENT, Skin, EYE & Dental. Blood check up was done and also Vitamin tablets, iron tablets and also de-worming were provided regularly. The project size was nearly 5 lakhs. CANCER AWARENESS This project was again a Matching Grant Project with Rotary Club of Clackamas USA. The awareness was conducted along with detection program on various segments of people vulnerable to Cancer like the Municipality workers and other tobacco consuming segments. The total project size was Rs.4 lakhs. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT This project was started as a pilot project, which went on to become the Clubs Centennial Project and today the project is co-funded by RC Colville. The objective of the project is to empower women with vocational skills, so that they can support themselves and their family. The target beneficiaries are the destitute and marginalized women. So far the project has been successful in training over 200 women with basic tailoring and Bakery Courses. Today the club runs a dedicated Training Center for Tailoring at Mathikere. The project size so far has been over 5 lakhs. LITERACY PROJECT Rotary RMV has been donating every year exercise books to nearly 600 poor school children. The project so far has contributed nearly Rs.2 lakhs over the years. VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATION CAMPS Every year our club organizes couple of Voluntary Blood donation camps and collects over 500 units of blood for the blood banks. HALL OF HONOUR Our club has been contributing to the Rotary Foundation perennially. During the Centennial Year 2004-05, our club became the 100% PHF Club and entered its name in the Rotary Hall of Honour. VOCATIONAL AWARDS We have recognized very prominent and worthy citizens in our community and awarded them the Vocational Excellence Award in recognition for their commendable work. SISTER CLUB RELATIONSHIP We have successfully established sister club relationship with RC Clackamas, RC. Lords Valley and RC Colville, all the three from USA. The relationship has blossomed into Matching Grant projects and with some it resulted into friendship exchange. HOSTING GSE/FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE TEAMS Members of our club have always been generous in host many a GSE team members during the years. Our district has awarded our club for showing this magnanimous hospitality to the visiting Rotarians from other counties. ROTARACT CLUBS Our club has sponsored the formation of Rotaract Club of Presidency College, Bangalore and is jointly doing some useful projects for the community and youth development.

Mr. Shankar has shared the snaps of Club day on Picasa. Click here to view them. (Thank you Shankar.).

Proceedings of 2009, Feb, 06 (Sadashivanagar Club)

This week meeting was held at the Sadashivnagar Club. The meeting opened with a debate entitled "Individual time and space a must for a married". Moderated by Mr. Shankar Subramanian, two teams started with a slow tempo. What initially seemed like a simple topic turned into a heated debate. Both the teams made their points in very multifarious arguments. The color of the debate moved from one to another into a spectrum of topics ranging from "Deities and their business" to "Woman's position int Indian Social context" to "Women's Lib.".



In fact both the team made their points so very well that the debate ended in a draw. Yes you guessed it right! Both the teams had a lawyer each. Rtn. Bharath and Rtn. Sanjay teamed up to face Rtn. Suhail and Rtn. Vidya's team. Finally the moderator Mr. Shankar Subramanian moved his focus to the audience for their inputs. Rtn. Milind concluded in a very subtle way by expressing that the relationship moves from one peak to another peak and cannot operate as black or white. Yes, it's gray.

Then moderator Mr. Shankar, summarized with emphasis on de-cluttering the personal space to accommodate the newness of life.

After the debate the club president Rtn. Kirti Mehta talked about celebration venue for our club day (which falls on the 12th Feb 2009) celebrations will be on 13th Feb 2009 for convinience. The venuve was unanimously decided as RMV club terrace. On the club day President Rtn. Dileep and the members of our Rotaract Club Precidency college will be joining us in the celebrations.

President also requested the members to register for the forth comming District Conference on the 21st & 22nd of Feb 2009, particularly the new Rotarians, so that they can experience the exposure of fellow Rotarians at District level. The registration per member is Rs.1200/- which will include breakfast, lunch and dinner both the days and a wrist watch as momento. Dont miss !! its a great opportunity to network in Rotary.

As usual the session ended with National Anthem.