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Rotary Club of Central Calcutta | RID-3291

12th January, 2018 | Volume 34 | No 5 | December/January Roundup www.rccentralcal.org

34th year of service

Brij LakhotiaEditor

Ajay KejriwalSecretary

CA Girish GaneriwalaPresident

Brojo Gopal KunduDistrict Governor

Ian H S RiseleyRI President We meet every 2nd & 4th Friday of the month at The Conclave at 7.00pm

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from tears to joy!

Reach Out wishes its readers a very Happy New Year and extends greetings on the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti

Dear Readers,You may wonder as to why there is a delay in publishing Reach Out! At the outset, I take the responsibility for

the delay, as luck would have it, it was a mixture of business travels, visit of overseas business associates and to top it all I was a little under the weather. However I will make it up by taking out an additional issue of Reach Out, at the end of the year, giving an overview of the year...I hope you will enjoy reading this issue with a cup of hot tea in this wintry time...Yours-In-Rotary

PP Brij Mohan Lakhotia

Makar Sankranti refers both to a specific solar day in the Hindu calendar and a Hindu festival in reference to deity Surya (sun) that is observed in January every year. It marks the first day of sun’s transit into the Makara

(Capricorn), which is the house owned by deity Shani who is the son of Sun. It means Sun visits his son. It also makes the end of the month with the winter solstice and the start of longer days.Makar Sankranti is one of the few ancient Hindu festivals that has been observed according to solar cycles, while most festivals are set by the lunar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu calendar. Being a festival that celebrates the solar cycle, it almost always falls on the same Gregorian date every year (January 14). The festivities associated with Makar Sankranti are known to Hindus by various names such as Lohri in north India and also by Sikhs, Sukarat in central India, Bhogali Bihu by Assamese, and Pongal by Tamil and other south Indian.Makar Sankranti is observed with social festivities such as colorful decorations,

From the Desk of

EditorMakar Sankranti

Today’s Programme

Presentation of Vocational Excellence Awards to Dr J P Agarwal and Rtn Dinesh Bhatter, a tech speech by President on smart use of WhatsApp to be followed by dinner.

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Makar Sankranti...rural children going house to house, singing and asking for treats (or pocket money), melas (fairs), dances, kite flying, bonfires and feasts. The Magha Mela, according to Diana L. Eck – a professor at Harvard University specializing in Indology, is mentioned in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, thus placing this festival to be around 2,000 years old. Many go to sacred rivers or lakes and bathe with thanksgiving to the sun. Every twelve years, the Hindus observe Makar Sankranti with one of the world’s largest mass pilgrimage, with an estimated 40 to 100 million people attending the event. At this event, they say a prayer to the sun and bathe at the Prayaga confluence of the River Ganga and River Mela, a tradition attributed to Adi Shankara.In a nutshell, it is the festival of Harvest, welcome longer days, sun worship, celebrations by kite flying, bonfires, fairs, Surya puja in river, feast, arts, dance, socialization.

President Amit RungtaIPP CA Girish GaneriwalaPresident Elect Neeraj AgrawalVice President Rajesh AgarwalHon Secretary Avinash Raj BubnaJt Secretary Ashish BaglaTreasurer Satish JalanEditor PP Meeta LakhotiaSgt-at-Arms PP Sanjay Ganeriwala Dr Ankur Gupta

The Captain and his Crewto guide the ship through unchartered waters during Rotary Year 2018-19

Directors PP Shri Ratan Jhawar Anuttam Khaitan Raj Bagri Brij Gopal Kothari Jitesh GutgutiaClub Trainer PP Rajesh LakhotiaAdvisor to Board PP Brij Mohan LakhotiaPermanent Invitee PP Manoj Jain

Reach out wishes them all the success and satisfaction of having made a difference…

RC Central Calcutta in Action

Exchange Rate

n Thu, 2nd Nov: Visit of interna-tional guest, Rtn Dr Rupesh Agarwal of RC Singapore. President met him.n Fri, 10th Nov: RWM was held guest speaker Ayush Poddar spoke on Trans-humanism and enthralled the audience.n Sun, 14th Nov: A dental check-up camp was organised by our club at Ken-driya Vidhyalaya, Ballygunge. Doctors from Dentistree clinic owned by our Dr Ankur Gupta arranged the camp, which was appreciated by the school authori-ties. A Big Thank you to Dr Ankur. n Sun, 14th Nov: Mid-day Meal at RCC Tarakeshwar was organised.n Sun, 3rd Dec: Rotaractor’s Event – Ground Zero.n Wed, 6th Dec: Dengue awareness programme at RCC Dakshindihi.n Thu, 7th Dec: Global Grant Proj-ects – A review Meeting was held at PP Binod Khaitan’s residence. Attendedby President CA Girish, PP Binod Khaitan, PP Manoj Jain, PP Sudip Sen.

n Fri, 8th Dec: RWM – Guest speak-er, Smt Sangeeta Daga spoke on Sri Ravi Shankar’s Event and Addl. Comm. of Po-lice spoke on Traffic in Kolkata City.n Sat, 9th Dec: Our Club had organ-ised Blood Donation Camp and Mega Health checkup Camp, where in over 129 people donated blood and 260 Free spec-tacles were distributed at 14 N S Road in front of Coal India, which is a very busy central business district. Project was chaired Chandra Prakash Ganeriwala and Co-chaired by Rajesh Agarwaln Thu, 21st Dec: Meeting with Rot-aractors was held to discuss proposed RYLA. Meeting was attended by Presi-dent Girish, President Rajarshi & other Rotaractors.n Fri, 22nd Dec: RWM & AGM was held, followed by dinner. Presiding offi-cer declared the names recommended by the nominating committee. There being no other nominations filed, the nominat-ed candidates were declared elected.

w.e.f. 01 January 2018, RI World Headquarters has revised the exchange rate

USD 1= INR 64.00This rate would remain effective till further notification.

Farewell! At the at the meeting of the Board of Directors of RC Central Calcut-ta held on Sat, 30th December at the residence of Hon. Secretary Ajay Kejriwal, besides many oth-er matters relating to the func-tioning of the club, resignations received from 3 members Harsh Jain, Himangshu Garodia, and Rrahul Bengani, were discussed and accepted. RC Central Cal-cutta wishes them all the best.

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16 December 2017Early in the morning President Girish Ganeriwala, IPP Sanjay Ganeriwala and PP Brij Mohan Lakhotia started by road to Purulia, with happy memories of the previous visit to RC Purulia for the joint RYLA held in the previous Rotary Year. The memory shall ever remain etched in the minds of those who went on to attend that wonderful project…

17 December 2017The day started with a gift to the city by RC Purulia in the form of a Clock Tower at the town taxi stand. The function was well attended by Rotary Dignitaries – DG Brojo Gopal Kundu, DGE Mukul Sinha, DGN Ajay Agarwal, PRID Shekhar Mehta, members of the district secretariat, members of neighboring clubs, Municipal officials of Purulia. The Clock Tower stands tall with Rotary emblem, reminding the citizens of the good work that Rotary does.

The AfternoonAfter the inauguration a plenary session was held, followed by lunch and distribution of their club souvenir.

The eveningIt is a matter of great pride that one of the

He profits most who serves best– O u R V i s i T T O R C P u R u l i a

neighboring clubs of District 3291, RC Purulia celebrated it’s 50th Anniversary by taking up yet another noble cause of providing superlative medical care to the people of Purulia and neighboring areas. The area being somewhat remote and far away from metropolitan city medical care that is not easily available and to fill the scarce facility RC Purulia has built a full-fledged hospital in the name

of RC Purulia Service Centre which is a super specialty hospital with all modern facilities, amenities with a team of dedicated doctors and trained staff.It is a matter of great satisfaction for us Central Calcuttans that we also extended our hand of friendship to RC Purilia and handed over a cheque to the of Rs 1,50,000 towards the medical facility…We are thankful to each member of that great club and if I start to write down each name the list will be rather long but I must mention the name of IPP Ganesh Agarwal and President Manoj Singhania for inviting us and looking after us so very well in spite of their rather hectic schedule.

The NightAfter the satisfying time that we spent

at the inauguration of Hospital, we were asked to join for an entertaining programme by hasya kavi Sampat Saral. The program was hilarious and was followed by Ghazal evening and dinner

The ThoughtThis brings us to do serious introspection as to why is our club resting on past laurels! Think – What are we doing!!

– IPP Sanjay Ganeriwala

Congratulations!

n PP Binod Khaitan, Conducted RLI Session at Malda RID 3240

n PP Vijay Bagaria, Dist Conference of RID 3240 at Tezpur 4th-6th Jan 2018

n President Girish Ganeriwala, RC Purulia

n PP Brij Mohan Lakhotia, RC Purulia

n IPP Sanjay Ganeriwala, RC Purulia

RovingAmbassadors

Congratulations to Shrivardhan Modi & Ann Uma on becoming grandparents when VIHAAN arrived in their family, son of Kshitij & Pragya

Congratulations to Pankaj Shroff & Ann Anita on becoming grandparents when DEVANSH arrived in their family, son of Ankit & Shaivya

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n DAy 1The Conference, a congregation of Inspi-ration, got off to an exciting start with DG Brojo Gopal Kundu along with PRIP Kalyan Banerjee, RIPR How-Heng Tong (David) & Irine, PRID Shekhar Mehta were brought to the venue in a motor-cade by the Rotaractors, led by a BSF band. They were welcomed with showers of flowers and Chinese Dragon dancers. The Indian flag and the Rotary flag were hoisted by the dignitaries.

The inaugural session started with a dance by Kohinoor Sen Barat and his troupe and the lead dancer was Ann Rubina Chatterjee (Wife of Rtn Prabir Chatterjee). The conference was called to order after lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries. District Governor, Brojo Gopal Kundu highlighted the mammoth continued on page 5

work done by the Rotarians of the dis-trict during the span of the last 6 months. PRIP Kalyan Banerjee expressed his happiness to be in Kolkata after a long absence and said that all 3 RI Presidents from India have a beginning in Kolk-ata. He spoke on World Peace and that

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District Conference...each act of a Rotarian works at bringing peace to the world. “Why I am a Rotar-ian?” PRID Shekhar Mehta wants us to reminisce on the question. RIPR Tong How-Heng David and his wife Irine were overwhelmed by the warm welcome. He brought the good wishes of RI President Ian Riseley for the delegates of the con-ference of District 3291 and reminded us that as Rotarians “we are MAD” i.e. Making A Difference. He wished the con-ference to be grand success and that he and his wife, Irine were very happy with the hospitality received.

First Plenary SessionMembership“Why is the global membership figure stagnant at 1.2 million Rotarians?” was the question PDG Surendra Seth asked the gathering. Are we not choosing the right people to become Rotarians? Are we not projecting Rotary properly to the masses? Having 19% lady Rotarians in the dis-trict, 3291 holds a distinctive position in India – says District Membership Chair, DGE Mukul Sinha.The session was coordinated by IPDG Shyamashree Sen.

Second Plenary SessionLeadershipDr Rajeev Puri, a motivational speaker spoke on the importance of leadership in any organisation and the qualities of a good leader.

Sri Dinesh Trivedi, MP spoke on leader-ship with ethical values. He said there is a crisis in leadership in spite of the fact that Indians are very capable.The session was coordinated by PDG Amitava Mookerjee.

Third Plenary Session Public ImageA person or organisation has to be visi-ble to be publicly known. Rotarians have to blow their own trumpet – ie make public knowledge the work they are do-ing so that people know about us. Shri Debshankar Halder told us how to cre-ate a positive public image.PDG Vinod Bansal came into the public eye by his contribution and support to The Rotary Foundation. He led the way for his district by making his contributions.

The session was coordinated by PDG Ra-jendra Khandelwal.

GML, presented the conference Newslet-ter “Conference Update” to RIPR How-Heng tong (David) to inaugurate the same. The publication contained all the activities and various photographs on day one... Her herculean task was very well appreciated by all present.

Sixth Plenary SessionCommunity ServiceChild Heart Surgery was covered by Dr Biswajit Bandyopadhyay, while Cancer Awareness and Prevention was covered by Dr Arnab Gupta. The keynote speaker of the session was Sri Jawhar Sircar, a retd IAS officer, who spoke on ‘Service to Mankind in Today’s Perspective.’ Ms Alakananda Roy spoke on her work with the prisoners and teaching them dance as a therapy.

The session was coordinated by PDG Ka-mal Seth.

Seventh Plenary Sessionyouth ServiceDRR Pradip Dutta and DIR Ishika Sura-

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Fifth Plenary SessionFinance & ResolutionsDistrict Accounts for the Rotary year 2016-17 were placed by PP Prabir Ba-nerjee, District Treasurer. IPDG Shya-mashree Sen answered the queries put forth and requested the Presidents of her year to adopt the accounts.Resolutions for adoption were placed by PDG Anirudh Roy Chowdhury.The session was chaired by DGN Ajay Agarwal.

The Conference Newsletter

On the morning of the second day of the Conference PP Meeta Lakhotia, Editor

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Fourth Plenary SessionInternational Service & The Rotary FoundationWe are just this much away from eradi-cation of Polio from the face of the earth, so let us give our best to the final push – says PDG Uttam Ganguli, District Po-lioPlus coordinator.International Peace & Understanding was covered by Ma Zhawu, consulate of the Republic of China in Kolkata.The session was coordinated by PDG Ravi Sehgal.The evening program by ZEE SaRe-GaMa Team of Sudoy Sarkar and Chan-drika Bhattacharya was enjoyed by one and all amidst fellowship and cheer.

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na were recognised. The keynote speaker was Ms Aparna Kumar, DIG, ITBF who spoke on ‘When there is a will – there is a way.’ She has scaled 7 of the highest peaks in the world.The session was coordinated by PDG Ra-jani Mukerji.

Eighth Plenary SessionVocational ServiceThe keynote speaker was Col Bhaskar Chakraborty from the Indian Army. He spoke on having a career in the Indian army.

Vocational Excellence Awards were pre-sented to the following Rotarians: Dr Sumit Poddar, Dr Krishnendu Gup-ta, Dr Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay, PDG Rajendra Khandelwal, Madan Mohan Maity and Sailen Bhowmick. The session was coordinated by PDG An-irudh Roy Chowdhury.

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P E o P l E & A M b i E n C E

District Conference...Ninth Pleanary SessionLiteracyDLCC Raju Rajgaria presented the Liter-acy scenario in District 3291 while PRID Shekhar Mehta, chair RILM, addressed the delegates. The keynote speaker of the session was Prof Shantha Sinha.The session was coordinated by PDG Angsuman Bandyopadhyay.

Valedictory SessionDG Brojo Gopal Kundu summed up the conference. The keynote address was given by Swami Atmapriyanandaji, Vice Chancellor of Ramkrishna Mis-sion Vivekananda University at Belur Math. RIPR How-Heng Tong David

gave his final remarks and he was fe-licitated along with his spouse by DG Brojo Gopal Kundu. DGE Mukul Sinha made announcements for District Con-ference 2019.

Result of DGND ElectionRtn Sudip Mukherjee of RC Calcutta

Lansdowne was announced as winner of the DGND election.The conference was closed with thanks giving to all.This was followed by a cultural program by Sudesh Bhosle from Mumbai and Sakil Ansari.

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Special School Sports

The Annual Sports Day of Mentaid (school for special children), sponsored by RC Central Calcutta, was held at St Thomas Girls’ School ground at Kidder-pore on 16th December, 2017.Students of few other schools partic-ipated with the students of Mentaid making it an integrated sports meet. Our Club members blessed the special children by presenting awards and gifts after each event, thanks to the contin-ued support of RC Central Calcutta to-

wards Mentaid Annual Sports.Rotarians and Anns present on the occa-sion were President CA Girsh Ganeriwa-la, PP Subir Poddar, Rtn Raj Bagri, Rtn

Uttam Sarda, Rtn Alka Ganeriwala and Rtn Suman Mohta.– a report by Madhav MohtaProject Chairman

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Welcoming iFCR Australia to the “City of Joy”

Dear Members,

Rotary International is dedicated to bringing people closer. It has done so across 209 coun-tries with approximately 1.2 million members.

The International Fellowship of Cricket Loving Rotarians (IFCR) has gone one step further. It is bringing people together through the institu-tion of cricket. These IFCR Rotarians play the game not only for competitive enjoyment but also for social reasons, resulting in a sense of cross-border or pan-country fellowship.

This is an important point: India is full of pas-sionate cricket followers across all ages; how-ever, cricket playing is largely restricted to In-dians below the age of 35. In such a scenario, IFCR is playing a unique missionary role: it is extending the cricket playing tradition to those above 35; the average age of an IFCR team is 40 and largely comprising businessmen and self-employed processionals. The IFCR objec-tive is to raise the average age of the cricket playing fraternity in India and evolve what is seen only as a competitive sport into a social phenomenon that brings communities together.

Time has come for IFCR members to take this commitment to a new level. Kolkata IFCR will live up to the city’s rightful reputation of be-ing passionate cricket lovers on the one hand and warm hosts on the other while organiz-ing a unique international cricket tournament against a visiting team from IFCR, Australia from 19th to 21st February, 2018.

This is a tournament with a difference: the sur-plus generated from the event will be deployed to assist sport persons with primary focus to the underprivileged & specially abled.

We need to partner with a respected corporate organization that shares this ideal and philos-ophy. Please supports us.

Sincerely,

Chittranjan Choudhury Kanishka Bahety Madhav Mohta CA Girish Ganeriwala

Chairman, IFCR India Event Chairman Event Co-Chairman President, Rotary Central Calcutta

B R A N D P A R T N E R S H I P S

Options Support Deliverables

Event partner Rs 2,00,000 Visibility on hoardings, Banners, Air Time 7 Apparel

Awards Rs 1,00,000 Visibility on boardings, Visibility on all performance trophies and awards

Hospitality partner Rs 1,00,000 Sufficient mileage during fellowship events, Regular announcement by emcee, Visibility through Hoardings & Banners

Apparel partner Rs 50,000 Branding on all player apparel

In-stadia Banners Rs 10,000 Visibility through banners at the match venues

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iFCR nashik tour

Rashmi does it again

A team of 12 Rotarians including 8 Rotarians from RC Central Calcutta, visited Nashik from 16th to 19th November, to participate in the “Cricket Mahakumbh Mini World Fes-tival”. Touring RCCC members included PP Chittaranjan Choudhury, VP Madhav Mohta, Rtn Raj Bagri, Rtn Kanishka Bahety, Rtn Vivek Phumra, Rtn Uttam Sarda, Rtn Manish Pachisia and Rtn Mandeep Singh Bindra.

The festival was inaugurated on 16th evening

amidst folk music and dance followed by a gala opening ceremony.

Our first match was with the formidable Mumbai Indi-ans and we won in the second last ball of the game. After the match, we proceeded to Shirdi Sai Baba tem-ple where Rtn Vivek Phumra had pre-arranged for our visit and returned to Nashik hotel for Bollywood Night program where all members of our team were dressed in Bollywood attire. Rtn Raj Bagri played a lead role in enacting a Bollywood skit on stage with Rtn Madhav.

Born to sports loving parents, our member Rtn Kishore Somani and Ann Kanchan, Rashmi too is a keen sportsperson. She regularly par-ticipates in various sports activities and made us proud by winning GOLD MEDAL in the 25km category at Kolkata’s biggest running

Our next match was with the Bangladesh team which we won comprehensively.

On same day we visited Trayambakeshwar Shiv temple, a Jyotirling, with arrangements made by Rtn Ashish Bagla of RC Calcutta, who also in-vited us for a visit to his Tyre-tube factory in full production. It was a learning experience.

In the evening, a fashion show was held. Miss Nashik and Miss Mumbai amongst several oth-ers participated. All our members did the Ramp walk, dressed in traditional attire, and were ap-preciated by other visiting members totalling 272.

Our final match was against a mixed team which included IFCR International Secretary Rtn Sara-thy, members from Nepal and others which we won. On the way back, we visited Siddhi Vinay-ak temple at Mumbai and had dinner enroute to Mumbai airport hosted by Rtn Vivek and Ann Sa-rita at their new Mumbai home.

The tour was kind of fast and furious full of speed, fun and games with serious mid night team meet-ings thrown in.

– A report by Madhav Mohta

event ‘Tata Steel 25k’ held on 17th Dec, 2017. This was not enough for her, She also won the Overall Champion’s trophy in the Half Mara-thon (21km) run at Kolkata Trail Run held on 7th January, 2018.

Rashmi bagged 5 trophies each in different

sports at BRC Intra Club tournaments

n Squash Ladies Singles – Winnern Badminton Ladies Singles – Winnern Badminton Doubles – Winnern TT Doubles – Winnern TT Ladies Singles – Runner-up

What can we write for her as words fail me to-day, she really is an inspiration and Reach Out wishes her all the very best in her endeavours in life

How can her father, our own Kishore lag be-hind!! He too won 5 trophies in different events at BRC Intra Club tournaments

n TT Men’s Singles – Winnern TT Veterans Singles – Winner (above 45)n Darts Veterans Singles – Runner-upn Darts Doubles – Winnern Badminton Doubles – Special prize

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ReachOut wisheshappy Birthday to

Vijay Bagaria 2 Dec

Neelam Suhasaria 4 Dec

Vanita Bose 24 Dec

Akhil Bandhu Paul 8 Jan

Om Prakash Prahladka 11 Jan

Pradeep Murarka 14 Jan

Sumit Dalan 14 Jan

Amit Rungta 16 Jan

Binod Khaitan 23 Jan

Nirmal Bazaz 26 Jan

Ritu Agarwal 26 Jan

Brij Raj Rathi 29 Jan

Vocational ExcellenceThe aims of the Award are:n To recognise Vocational Excellence of the highest order and to honour outstanding contribution by individuals or small teams of individuals for significant advancement in their vocational field.

n To inspire further enthusiasm and to give added reward to the exceptional achievers.

n To set an example to others, particularly youth, of the need to strive for VOCATIONAL EXCEL-LENCE for the benefit of their discipline.

Neha & Sundeep Sultania 3 DecSundeep & Neha Sultania 3 DecAmit & Jyoti Rungta 4 DecRajesh & Bhawna Agarwal 4 DecJitesh Kumar & Nidhi Gutgutia 7 DecKanishka & Swati Bahety 7 DecNeelam & Mukesh Suhasaria 7 DecAshish & Suvidha Bagla 8 DecRajendra & Santosh Mundra 8 DecRamesh & Sangita Maroo 8 DecAlka & Girish Ganeriwala 10 DecGirish & Alka Ganeriwala 10 DecKavisha & Satish Jalan 10 DecManoj & Punam Dalmia 10 Dec

ReachOut wishes happy anniversary & Blissful

togetherness

Raj & Abhidha Bagri 10 DecSatish & Kavisha Jalan 10 DecNirmal & Sunita Bazaz 11 DecBinod & Chandrakala Khaitan 12 DecOm Prakash & Manju Prahladka 14 DecManish & Smita Pachisia 21 JanShriratan & Shriti Jhawar 21 JanVijay & Shashi Bagaria 21 JanJaideep & Meghna Chakrabarti 22 JanManoj & Sradha Rathi 22 JanAshish & Iti Kankaria 23 JanJayshree & Vinod Bhandari 23 JanVinod & Jayshree Bhandari 23 JanRitu & Saket Agarwal 25 JanJully & Munna Sharma 26 JanMandeep Singh & Manpreet Bindra 26 JanAmarnath & Kiran Sanganeria 27 JanRajesh & Sushma Bubna 28 JanPradeep & Smita Murarka 30 Jan

Vocational Excellence Awardees

Dr J P Agarwal born in Fakiragram, Gowalpara District, Assam on 21st Au-gust 1950. He did his MBBS from Assam Medical Col-lege in 1974, FCGP in 1998

and FAMS in 2012.

He is a General physician with over 40 years of practical experience. He has served IMA North-west Calcutta as Secretary for 10 years and is presently President of IMA Northwest Calcutta. He has also served Purwanchal Nagrik Samity as Secretary and President for 10 years.

He has constructed Purwanchal Vidya Mandir by raising funds where 3000 students are cur-rently studying.

He is a member of Family Physicians Associ-ation kolkata.

He is a Fellow IMA College of Gen Practi-tioners in 1999.

Rtn Dinesh Kumar Bhatter is a go getter, a humble person and dy-namic personality. He is the founder Partner of Neptune Tours & Travels Pvt Ltd &

Neptune Holidays Pvt Ltd

Neptune Tours & Travels is primarily focused on International packages while, Neptune Hol-idays is totally catering to domestic packages. In a short span on 18 years, since the forma-tion of the companies, together both compa-nies have a combined passenger handling of over 17000 passengers per year currently and the turnover crossing 100 crores last financial year. This is possible due to his able leader-ship and high ethical standards.

He has created a niche client base and has earned a good name with the major interna-tional tourism boards like Switzerland, South Africa, USA, Spain, Mauritius, Thailand, Sin-gapore, Maldives, Malaysia, Indonesia, Aus-

tralia & New Zealand, to name a few. He has been awarded complimentary familiarization trips to Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Sin-gapore, Thailand, Dubai, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Switzerland, United Kingdom, South Africa, Mauritius, Maldives, Sri Lanka, China and Uzbekistan.

He received “Certificate of Appreciation” from Malaysia Tourism Board during the year 2016 for the tremendous support to Destination Ma-laysia while California Tourism Board awarded him the “CA Star Award” during 2017.

His is also an active member of SKAL, which is an exclusive club for directors/ senior officials of travel companies, tourism boards, High Com-missions and Consulates, all over the world.

Recently he has stepped up the organization to a different level altogether with a 6500 sq feet office on EM Bypass and with a new office in Jaipur. The new Kolkata office has dedi-cated staff training / conference room as well as a full-fledged IT team that has developed in house software for entire operational and sales processes.

He further conceptualized a “World Brochure” in 2017 wherein one can go through sample itineraries as a ready reckoner for worldwide destinations including off beat places like Sey-chelles, French Polynesia, Iceland, to name a few. This catalogue does not have pricing, so one can always refer to it for destination ideas.

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“NEPCARE”, which is a destination marketing company and already Nepcare has grabbed deals for marketing various brands like LEGOLAND Resort – Malaysia, Afamosa Re-sort – Malaysia, Crowne Plaza – Jaipur, Raic-hak on Ganges, to name a few.

Dinesh was introduced to RC Central Calcutta by PP Brij Lakhotia in the year 2014 and ever since then he is a part of The Rotary Movement.

For Happy Life, his key principles are- Attain the Goal Always, Never Give Up.

Dinesh is married to Radhika, a home maker and has two sons – Subham and Kunal.

Bulletins receivedChaka: CalcuttaSpectrum: Salt Lake Metropolitan KolkataVoice of Victoria: Calcutta Victoria

Multi District Literacy Meet

obituary

RI District 3240 is organising a Multi-District Literacy Meet at Gitanjali Auditorium at Bol-pur – Santiniketan on 24th-25th Feb 2018 with participation from all Rotary and Inner Wheel Districts in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lan-ka and other South Asian Countries.

DGE Mukul Sinha leaves for San Diego on 10-Jan-18, DGE Mukul Sinha embarked on long haul flight to San Diego for his training. We wish him all the best…

PDG Vijay Singh Bhandari left for his heavenly abode. May his soul rest in eternal peace.

Vocational Excellence...