RP Anand Mohan Lalvani - Rotary Club of Bombay Mid-Town

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Vol 48 • Issue 01 • JULY 2015
RI President | KR RAVINDRAN
District Governor | SUBHASH KULKARNI
Club President | RP Anand
DISTRICT 3140 | Club 15496
Mohan Lalvani
Immediate Past President,
Rotary Club of
Bombay Mid-Town
RP Anand
President,
Rotary Club of
Bombay Mid-Town
good thoughts
What is Maturity?
1)
Maturity is when you stop trying to change people, and instead focus on changing yourself.
2)
Maturity is when you accept people for who they are.
3)
Maturity is when you understand that everyone is right from their own perspective.
4)
Maturity is when you learn to let go.
5)
Maturity is when you are able to drop expectations from a relationship and give for the sake of giving!
6)
Maturity is when you understand that whatever you do, you do for your own peace.
7)
Maturity is when you stop proving to the world how intelligent you are.
8)
Maturity is when you focus on the positives in people!
9)
Maturity is when you do not seek approval from others.
10) Maturity is when you stop comparing yourself with others!
11) Maturity is when you are at peace with yourself!
12) Maturity is when you can differentiate between “need” and “want” and when you can let go of the wants!
13) Maturity is when you stop attaching happiness to material things !
–Compiled by Rtn Gaurav Kapadia
contents
cover profile
3
President RP Anand
NEWS
4
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SKS Chakshu Foundation
Committee
Current Committee Members
5
photo feature
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June 24, 2015: Awards Night
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July 1, 2015: Installation of Pres RP Anand
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Dr Hemant Sachdev: Politics isn’t a ‘bad’ word anymore
Projects
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Women’s Empowerment through Infrastructure
milestones
August 2015
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cover profile
President RP Anand
BIODATA OF R. P. ANAND
Name
Anand, Ram Prakash
D.O.B
7th August 1932
Education
Graduate [B.A.]
Languages Known
English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi
Business Owner [Managing Director] Naaz Cinema, Mumbai
Patron
Punjab Association
Trustee
Guru Nanak Hospital, Mumbai
Past President
Theatre Owners Association, Mumbai
President
Rotary Club Of Bombay Mid-Town
Vice President
International Tourism Council, Mumbai
Treasurer Cinema Owners & Exhibitors Association Of India
Chairman
Labour Advisory Council Of Mumbai Exhibitors
Oscar Film Awards
Member –Award-Jury [Ex]
General Secretary
Film Federation Of India [Ex]
Ex Member
Film Censor Board
MEMBER MANAGING COMMITTEE:
1. Punjab Association, Mumbai
2. International Youth Hostels Association
3. Ex Member Panel Censor Board, Mumbai
AWARDS:
1. Bestowed Gold Medal By Film Federation Of India For
Lifetime Service To Cinema Owners
Association Of 100 Years Of Indian Cinema
2. Recently Honoured With Dadasaheb Phalke Academy
Award For Most Devoted And Selfless Services In
Film Exhibition Sector.
3. Recently Honoured By Punjab Association For Lifetime Achievement Award For Best Services Rendered For Last Three Decades.
4. India Council Of Management Order Of Merit
5. All India Artists Association Of Simla Bestowed Order Of Balraj Sahni
Award 1992 For Presenting The Best Punjabi Award-Winning Picture
Of The Year “Udikaan”
6. Rotary Club Of Bombay Mid-Town Award In Appreciation Of “Sincere
And Dedicated Services” (1982-1983)
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news
Profile of SKS Chakshu Foundation
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My dear friends,
SKS Chakshu Foundation came into existence in the year
1993 with a vision to provide basic amenities in the
areas of education, enterprise, health and infrastructure;
and to provide villagers a helping hand in raising their
lives to a level beyond mere survival.
In recent years, the formation of women’s Self-Help
Groups (SHGs), with a membership of over 2,500,
spread across 64 villages, has put in place a powerful
force of social change and economic advancement in the
lives of the villagers, especially women.
In the year 2000 with only 40 students, we started a
school at Shivkar village named Rakesh Jain Madhyamik
Vidhyamandir for imparting education from K.G. to
Std.10. Now, more than 650 students are reaping the
benefits every year and the results of SSC pass-outs
stand at 97%—the best in the District. The school is
equipped with computers for students with E-learning
programmes and internet connectivity. Extra-curricular
courses like arts, music, dance, mal-khambh and sports
training are provided free of cost. In addition we also run
IBT (Introduction to Basic Technology) courses, enabling
the students in future to secure admissions in ITI’s under
reservation available for IBT certificate holders.
We have a tie-up with an ophthalmic centre in an
operating theatre at a renowned hospital in Panvel in
association with our club where we conduct regular eye
check-up camps around the Taluka. We also provide
cataract surgery free of cost to patients and even arrange
for their transport. In the last Rotary year, we have
conducted about 120 cataract surgeries with back-up
support and regular monitoring. We also provide medical
aid for the villagers at Usarli.
Around 48 villages that had no access to clean water
and witnessed several incidences of water-borne
diseases, now have access to clean potable water
due to borewells dug in each village with support of
our foundation.
At present, we have an ambitious plan of constructing
2,000 toilets for households falling under the Panvel
Taluka. We had successfully completed the construction
of 350 toilets and another 1,650 will be taken up and
completed by the end of 2017, under the programme
“Let’s Build Toilets” with the help of generous individual
donors. We are exploring the option of approaching
corporates for funding the project under CSR to achieve
the goal of making Panvel Taluka free of open-defecation.
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- Rtn Nirbhay Jain
committee
Current Committee Members
Imm Past President
Mohan Lalvani
President
R P Anand
Vice Pres & Pres Elect
Hon. Secretary
Addl. Hon.Secretary
Jt Hon Secretary
Jaidev Mehta
Dr.Deepak Garg
Hon. Jt Treasurer
Sergeant At Arms
Addl Sergeant
Rajeev Thakkar
Munna Mitha
Arindam Ghosh
Sucharita Hegde
Deepak Mehta
Hon. Treasurer
Anil V. Kamath
Director Club Service
Kamlesh Sonawala
Director Vocational
Service
Kirit Jasani
Director Community
Service
Naren Mohatta
Director Youth
Service
Moorad Fazalbhoy
Director International
Projects
PP Navin Shah
PP Tilak Mehta
PP Bimal Shroff
Advisory Committee:
PDG Dr Shirish Sheth
PP Rahul Mehta
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Arun
Mehta Bulletin
photo feature
June 24, 2015: Awards Night
Rtns A Kejriwal, N Mohatta, Pres RP Anand and Rtn A Kamath
Rotarians at the Awards Night
Pres RP Anand with Rtn P Khaitan
Rtn Anil Kamath awarding Rtn Dr S Sheth
PP R Mehta receiving an award from Rtn P Sheth
Rtn Sucharita Hegde awarding Rtn R Mehra
Rtn N Jain receiving the award from Rtn M Shahani
Rtns Mohatta and Kejriwal receiving the award from Rtn S Chand
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photo feature
July 1, 2015: Installation of Pres RP Anand
The two presidents, present and past
IPP Mohan Lalvani awarding Allan Chenyan
The new committee members
Rtn Anil Kamath with IPDG Ajay Gupta
Rtn Naren Mohatta with IPDG Ajay Gupta
PP Navin Shah with IPDG Ajay Gupta
Rtn Munna Mitha with IPDG Ajay Gupta
Celebrating the inaugutration with cake
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photo feature
Dr Hemant Sachdev: Politics isn’t a ‘bad’
word anymore
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projects
Women’s Empowerment through
Infrastructure
The Rotary Club has a long
association with the RK Mission
in Sakwar. With the regular visits
and hard work of late Rtn Kishore
Sharma and help from Rtn
Badrinarayan Barwaleji and Rtn
Raju Barwaleji, we used to conduct
a women’s empowerment project in
surrounding villages. We have now
restarted this project with help from
Swami Avdhootanandji.
The first camp was held on 3rd June
2015, and about 350 women took
part. Mr Parag Lavate of MAHYCO
gave them valuable information
and tips on how to grow better
vegetables and get an optimum
result. After this, various types of
seeds were distributed.
Swami Avdhootanandji, along
with social activists Mrs. Minal
Paranjape and Dr. Anuja Janvalekar
had done a lot of field work. They
mapped the surrounding villages
and a few self-help groups were
formed.
Suvarna giving details about working of Self-Help Groups
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projects
A women empowerment project
is also in place at the Nere village
in Panvel, in which the club is
involved. Rtn Nirbhay Jain and
his SKS Chakshu Foundation are
running it.
Rtn Nirbhay is providing all the
expertise for the project. He sent
his team, Mr Gulab Suryawanshi
as administration manager, Mrs.
Suvarna Bhujbal as Project Leader,
and her co-worker Mrs Harshada
Mandavkar Suvarna.
In the first meet, they started by
singing Marathi folk songs, and
encouraged all the ladies to sing
along. Soon the ice was broken,
and everybody started interacting
freely. Mrs Suvarna then explained
in detail how the group works and
the importance of understanding
the financial aspects of a business,
delegation of responsibility, skill
development and marketing.
Harshada giving demonstration of making rice chapatti
Later, Mrs Harshada showed
the women how to make rice
chapattis, which is one of their
highest selling products; being
made for restaurants, marriages
and other functions.
With this event, we are reviving
our teaching initiative as well
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as helping tribal women to grow
vegetables via new techniques in
agriculture. This will help them in
reducing malnourishment, and also
increase their household earnings.
— Rtn Yogesh Pandya
milestones
Birthdays in August 2015 ❧
ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY MID-TOWN
OFFICE BEARERS 2015–16
President
RP Anand
Imm. Past President
Mohan Lalvani
Vice Pres. & Pres. Elect Sucharita Hegde
Hon. Secretary
Deepak Mehta
Addl Hon.secretary
Jaidev Mehta
Jt Hon. Secretary
Dr.deepak Garg
Hon. Treasurer
Anil V. Kamath
Hon. Jt Treasurer
Rajeev Thakkar
Sergeant At Arms
Munna Mitha
Addl. Sergeant
Arindam Ghosh
Advisory Committee:
PDG Dr.Shirish Sheth, PP Rahul Mehta, Arun K
Mehta, PP Tilak Mehta, PP Bimal Shroff
Director Club Service Kamlesh Sonawala
Programmes
Dr GP Kasbekar
Co-Chairman
Deepak Mehta
Events & Fellowship
RP Anand &
Navin Shah
Finance
PP Bipin Jain
Attendance Vicky Punjabi
Bye Laws
PP YK Shankardas
Fundraiser
Anil Kejriwal
Classification
Anil Ambo
Membership & Retention Deepak Mehta
Membership Development
Rotary Information
PP Ashok Sharma
Bulletin & Magazine
Prasanna Bhagat
Co-Chairman
Anil Kejriwal
PR & Social Media
Sunil Gautam
Director Vocational Service Kirit Jasani
Career Guidance
Kiran J Shah
Scholarships &
Voc. Awards
Kiran J Shah
Club Website
Rajeev Thakkar
4 Way Test
Shaunak Thakkar
Sr Citizens Welfare
Dr GP Kasbekar
FOF
Rajeev Thakkar
Director Community Service Naren Mohatta
Child Welfare: Midday
Meal/SKMDS/ADAPT Ashwin Shah
Nare-Vaje Development
NM Jain
Polio & Care of Physically
Challenged
GG Kapadia
Co-Chairman
Medical Camps
Plastic Surgery, Jalna
District Relation & On To
Conference
PP Kersi Hilloo
Abuzar N Zakir
Dr Anil Tibrewala
Co-Chairman
Youth Service PP Tilak MehtaDirector
Moorad Fazalbhoy
Interact
Rotaract
Sports
Inner Wheel
Jamsheed Patel
Vicky Punjabi
Bharat Parekh
Mohan Lalvani
PP Anil Kamath
Director International Projects PP Navin Shah
Global/ Matching/District Grants PP Anil Kamath
Co-Chairman
Yogesh Pandya
International Family Exchange Anil Kejriwal
International Youth Exchange Manoj Jalan
The Rotary Foundation [TRF] Mahesh Krishnamurti
5 August
1 August
Bharat Parekh PP Ajoy Bhandare
6 August
Anil Ambo
7 August
R.P. Anand
8 August
Jaidev Mehta
11 August
10 August
12 August
Dr. Deepak Garg Prabhat Srivastava Narendra Shetty
9 August
Mehli Cama
13 August
B. R. Barwale
Events in July 2015 ❧
Wednesday, 8 July
19 August
Yogesh Pandya
20 August
Jamsheed Patel
Speaker:Dr Aditya Daftary, Radiologist &
Imaging specialist. Subject:An innovative
solution for the deactivated active Mumbaikar
Venue Taj Mahal Hotel at 1.15 pm
Wednesday, 15 July
CLOSED DOOR MEETING
Venue Taj Mahal Hotel at 1.15 pm
1st BOD Meeting @ Taj 2.30pm
20 August
PP Rahul Mehta
22 August
Rashmi Jalan
Wednesday, 22 July
Speaker: Suresh Mathre, President BMA
Subject:“Five inventions to rock your world”.
Venue Taj Mahal Hotel at 1.15 pm
Tuesday, July 28
FOF meet at the “Malabar Hill Club. At the
terrace, Overdrive hall.
Wednesday, 29 July
26 August
Deepak Gupta
28 August
Satya Prakash
Agarwal
Speaker :Mr Suresh Lulla
Subject: A Quality Fable: Mystery of the
Phantom Factory
Venue Taj Mahal Hotel at 1.15 pm
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