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Rotary District 3012

Vol. 1 No. 3 October 2016

GOVERNOR’S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

gml ...keep POLIO away rally & seminar

A massive “Polio Rally” lead by DG Rtn. Sharat Jain and DPCC Rtn. Virendra Kumar Jain was organized by our District on 24th September 2016 at the campus of DAV School, Khera Khurd, G T Karnal Road, Delhi. Presidents of various Rotary Clubs, Rotarians and more than 500 Students of DAV School participated whole heartedly in this rally. The participation of a group of Rotary staff members lead by Michelle Kloempken who came all the way from Evanston to be part of this rally was the major attraction of the rally. The Rally started at 10:00 a.m. from the school amongst the noise of drum beats and chanting of slogans to keep India Polio Free. The entourage included camels and horse carts, autorickshaw and school children with banners and placards supporting the cause as it covered a distance of 3 KMs through the bye lanes of the Village. The Rally was successful in achieving it's purpose of creating awareness to be vigilant and to continue with the efforts to keep India polio away. On this day a Pulse Polio Orientation & Planning Meet was also held at Sunder Lal

Jain Hospital, Ashok Vihar, Delhi.The welcome address was delivered by District Governor Sharat Jain. District Trainer PDG Ramesh Aggarwal spoke on the Purpose of Orientation & Planning Meet. PDG Raman Bhatia, Member INPPC enlightened us with the history of PolioPlus program and recent achievements. Dr Pankaj Bhatnagar WHO (NPSP) from was the Key Note Speaker and he spoke in detail about the challenges before us and he also talked about Vaccine Switch & End game Strategic Plan. IPDG J K Gaur shared his experiences from the work done by Rotarians in Advocacy with Minority Community and its focus on reaching underserved areas in UP and how it was important in giving India its Polio Free Status. CMO Ghaziabad Sh. Ajai Agarwal talked about the Rotary’s Partnership with Government and its impact. DGE Sattish Singhal, DGN Subhash Jain focused on The End Game.DPCC V K Jain recognized the doctors who have been partnering with us. The program was conducted by District Chair Meets PP Sanjay Sharma. The seminar was organized by Rotary Club of Delhi Uptown.

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eradication, 350,000 people – nearly all of them children – were paralyzed by polio every year. That child in the Philippines knew exactly what polio was and understood exactly what Rotary had just done for his baby brother. Today, 31 years after the launch of PolioPlus, the children of the Philippines – and of nearly every other country in the world – are growing up without that knowledge, and that fear, of polio. Instead of 1,000 new cases of polio every day, we are averaging less than one per week. But as the fear of polio wanes, so does awareness of the disease. Now more than ever, it is vitally important to keep that awareness high and to push polio eradication to the top of the public agenda and our governments’ priorities. We need to make sure the world knows that our work to eradicate polio isn’t over yet, but that Rotary is in it to end it.

On 24 October, Rotary will mark World Polio Day to help raise the awareness and the funding we need to reach full eradication. I ask all of you to take part by holding an event in your club, in your community, or online. Ideas and materials are available for download in all Rotary languages at endpolio.

In 1979, James Bomar Jr., the president of Rotary at the time, traveled to the Philippines as part of Rotary’s earliest work to immunize children against polio. After he had put drops of vaccine into one baby’s mouth, he felt a child’s hand tugging on his trouser leg to get his attention. Bomar looked down and saw the baby’s brother looking up at him, saying earnestly, “Thank you, thank you, Rotary.”

Before Rotary took on the task of polio

Rtn PDG Imran Hassen a member of Rotary Club of Cinnamon Gardens since 1991 served the club in various capacities before being appointed President of the Club in the year 1999–2000. He was appointed as District Governor in the year 2013-14.

PDG Imran Hassen is a member of the Rotary Leadership Institute and conducts seminars in this field and is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow. He has been appointed last year by Rotary International as a special advisor to District 3270 Pakistan to handle Foundation related matters for a period of five years.

He is a qualified Marketeer and is the Chairman and Managing Director of Securo Dynamics (Pvt) Ltd and Red Alert International (Pvt) Ltd, two leading companies in Sri Lanka handling Electronic Security and safety Systems. PDG Imran’s

hobby is car rallying and has won several awards as Navigator and Co – Driver.

He is married to Anusha and is blessed with a Daughter Radhia, who is a qualified Interior designer, and three sons namely Anjum, Adib, & Aashiq.

PDG Imran Hassen appointed R.I. President Representative for our District Conference to be held on 7-8 January, 2017 at Taj Palace, New Delhi

President's Message the final race to finish Polio from the face of the earth...

JOHN F. GERMPRESIDENT 2016-17

org/worldpolioday, and you can register your event with Rotary at the same link. You can also join me and tens of thousands of your fellow Rotarians for a live-streamed global status update at 6 p.m. Eastern time at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. I’ll be there along with CDC Director Tom Frieden, other experts, and inspirational presenters, sharing an inside look at the science, partnerships, and human stories of polio eradication.

It is an incredibly exciting time to be a Rotarian. We are gathering momentum for the final race to the finish: to the end of PolioPlus and the beginning of a polio-free world. It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime chance to End Polio Now, through Rotary Serving Humanity.

Head of CDC talks about polio, Rotary, public health

As head of the U.S. public health system, Tom Frieden has taken on everything from Ebola to the flu. But where his work most closely intersects with Rotary’s is in polio eradication – CDC joins Rotary, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization as a core partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Find out what Frieden has to say about ending polio, Rotary, and the best buys in public health in an interview in The Rotarian.

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The International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union) in partnership with Rotary India organized ‘Rotary Governors Meet Towards a TB-Free India’ on Saturday 10th September 2016 at Hotel Jaypee Vasant Continental, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi to discuss TB issues and the role that Rotarians can play

Call to Action for a TB-FREE INDIA

This Festival Season, Ruchika joins me in extending our best wishes to you all and your families on the occasion of Durga Puja, Dussehra & Diwali. May the festival of lights be a festival of joy and bring peace & prosperity to all of us!

Rotary has designated this month to promote Economic & Community Development, let us make our communities stronger by carrying out service projects that enhance economic and community development. The clubs who want to concentrate their services in this area need to focus on projects that strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities and also to focus on skill development programs to set-up job oriented vocational training centers.

India this year has completed five years of being polio-free. 24th October, 2016 is World Polio Day which was established by Rotary International over a decade ago to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Polio, a highly infectious viral disease causing irreversible paralysis which used to cripple more than 50,000 children in our country each year, has to be eradicated

Community Development, PolioPlus & Celebrating Festivalsby preventing infection by immunising every child until transmission stops and keep India Polio Free till the whole world is declared polio-free.

Many activities and events are being planned to let the world know about the contribution of Rotary, in making India Polio Free. In our own District we are running a Film Show on history of Polio Eradication & Essay Contest for Interact Schools to create awareness of Rotary’s contribution to this cause. A Mega National Event is being held at Hindu College grounds in University of Delhi where 5000 students will promote the awareness by creating a human formation of POLIO FREE INDIA in Indian tricolours. Each one of us should be present on this event and extend support to great cause in this Centennial year of Rotary Foundation.

I am happy to inform you that our First Global Grant for Wash in Schools Project to cover 11 schools for over US$ 1,08,000 on a comprehensive WinS program has been approved. Three more grants for over US$ 150,000 are in the process of being filed and many more in the pipeline. Majority of clubs should join this bandwagon to file Global Grant Projects and make this year a unique

Centennial Year with largest ever Global Grants being approved for our District.

The festival month will not be complete without the most important fellowship event Diwali Fiesta 2016 being organized on 21st October 2016 at Red Carpet Lawns, Vasundhara by Clubs of Zone 9 to 14. This will be a great celebration with performances by celebrity singer Ambili Menon specially flying in from Bollywood to entertain us. A must attend event, I urge each one of you to be there and enjoy this unique fellowship and entertainment evening with your families. Let us all become the agents of change by Rotary Serving Humanity.

District Diwali Fellowship, Diwali Fiesta 2016 is being organized by the Clubs of Zone 9 to 14, AG Kuldeep Garg is the Chair and AG Ravi Bali is Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee along with AG Parag Singhal, AG Brijesh Varshney, AG KK Gupta and AG Mukul Jain & their team of Presidents.

TVS Motorcycle & many more prizes worth more than Rs. 4 Lakhs to be won in Lucky Draws... Star attraction - Singer Ambili Menon, Sunsilk Gango Girls Winner (Bindaas Channel) Sumptuous food, great décor wonderful fellowship.

7:00 PM, Friday 21st Oct 2016 at Red Carpet Lawns, Opposite Country Inn Hotel, Vasundhara.

to make India a TB-Free country.

PRID Y. P. Das, Chair, Rotary India National TB Control Committee, chaired the session with Dr. Sunil Khaparde, DDG TB, CTD, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Dr. Ashwani Khanna, STO Delhi; Mr. Xerses Sidhwa, Director, Health Office, USAID/India; Ms. Neha Singh and Ms. Nandita Venkatesan, TB Survivors; Dr. Jamie Tonsing, Regional Director, The Union South East Asia Office; and Ms. Kavita Ayyagari, Project Director- Challenge TB India were present. The meet was represented by Rotary Governors and coordinators from 16 Rotary districts.

Two TB survivors narrated their stories and how they fought to overcome the disease. Rotary has played an important role in eliminating polio in India, it’s time to replicate the success to end TB and save millions of lives.

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RC Indirapuram Galore honoring teacher's on Teacher's Day.

RC Sonepat Blood Donation Camp with Rotaract Club of OP Jindal Global University.

RC Dadri Literacy Day

RC Delhi North Central Blood Donation & Health Checkup Camp.

RC Ganaur celebrating Teacher's Day.

RC Ghaziabad North Blood Donation Project - collected 1719 units.

RC New Delhi One Charter Presentation by DG Sharat Jain

RC of Sonepat Installed Group Handwashing Station at Government School, Sonepat.

RC Sonipat Uptown and Charted Accountant Association at Jindal University, Sonipat

RC Delhi Legacy & Ghaziabad Heritage "Dhoom Macha Le " family fellowship Dandiya Night.

Glimpses Installation of four Interact School of RC Delhi North

RC Sonipat meeting held in remembrance of great teacher & motivator Rtn Naresh Devgun.

RC Delhi Mayur Vihar Family meeting and Celebration of Ganesh Mahotasav

RC Kundli celebrated International Literacy Day

RC Ghaziabad City Literacy kit Distribution at Shri Shri Bal Vidyalaya.

Clubss in Action

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RC Hapur Central RC Jindal Nagar

RC Hapur Greater

RC Indirapuram Galore

RC Delhi Metro organized campaign on eco- friendly environment in which Four Interact Clubs participated.

RC Delhi Maurya inducted a VAN to support the Santosh Rehab Center for special children at Narnaul.

RC Delhi Riverside Self Defence training of 250 girls of DPS Greater Noida by a Tata Group Trainer.

RC New Ghaziabad

RC Pilkhuwa

RC Modinagar

RC Ghaziabad City

RC Ghaziabad Greater

Clubss in Action

Polio Sub-National Immunization Day ( SNID) 25th Sept. 2016Polio Sub-National Immunization Day (SNID) was held on 25thSeptember 2016. On average, more than 70 million children are vaccinated in each SNID across the country.In many areas of our District, polio campaigns are launched with ‘Booth Day’ where fixed site booths are set up in the neighborhood by our clubs for children to be brought to receive OPV.

Once vaccinated, each child has the little finger on their left hand marked with a permanent marker and in many locations are also given a nutritional supplement, a paper sun-visor or mask, a ball and a whistle.On this day Governor Rtn. Sharat Jain along with Assistant Governor Rtn. Ravi Bali, Assistant Governor K K Gupta and DPCC(U.P.) Rtn. Karam

Singh visited 12 booths in neighborhoods of Ghaziabad, Jindal Nagar, Pilkhuwa & Hapur. He motivated the clubs and their members who were manning the booths and personally administered Polio Vaccine to over 30 children.It is a message to continue our support to the Polio Immunization drive to Keep India Polio Free till the time the disease is fully whipped out from the World.

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District & International News

PRID and current Trustee Paul A. Netzel, a member of Rotary Club of Los Angeles, California, USA, will be

TRF Chairman for the year 2017-2018.

Paul A. Netzel is founder and chair of

Paul A. Netzel TRF Chairman 2017 – 18

Rotary - UNICEF collaborative consultation on "Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya: Partnering for Results."

Rotary India WinS Committee & UNICEF organized a Rotary - UNICEF Collaborative Consultation on “Swachh Bharat SwachhVidyalaya: Partnering for Results,” at the Le Meridian Hotel, New Delhi on 30th September and 1st October 2016.

The meet commenced on Friday, 30th September, 2016 over dinner, followed by a full day of deliberations on Saturday, 1st October, 2016. The seminar was addressed by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Tourism & Culture, Sh. Mahesh Sharma and National Spokesperson of BJP Sh. Sambit Patra along with senior officials from the Ministry of HRD,UNICEF and Rotary senior leaders -Trustee Chair PRIP Kalyan Banerjee, PRIP Raja Saboo, Trustee

PRID Sushil Gupta the Chair of WinS India Committee, PRID P T Prabhakar and Director Elect C.Basker.

PDG Ramesh Aggarwal, Secretary of National WinS Committee participated in detailed deliberations on the “Framework” for WASH in Schools Target Challenge recently launched by TRF, and how clubs can qualify for the multi-level Rotary’s One Star, Two Star and Three Star school achievements. District Governor Sharat Jain gave a presentation on achievements of our District last year and talked about the model WinS Project in India at a School in Gejha, Noida which was inaugurated last year by them RI President K R Ravidran.

A compendium detailing WinS achievements

Netzel Grigsby Associates Inc., a leading management consulting firm. He served as mayor of Culver City, California, and president of Culver City's Board of Education.

Rotarian since 1968, Netzel has served as director, task force zone coordinator, committee chair, zone institute chair and convener, International Assembly

by various Districts was released at the event which covered the Gejha project of our District.

The participants for the event included District Governors, District Governors Elect and District WinS Coordinators from all over India.

Team of Rotarians from our District PP Daljit Bhatia, PP Satish Gupta, PP Prashant Mathur, PP Ajay Gupta, PP Vinit Patpatia and PP Vikas Kumar assisted in organizing the event.

moderator and chair, training leader, and district governor.

Netzel has received The Rotary Foundation's Citation for Meritorious Service. Both Paul and his wife, Diane, are charter members of the Arch Klumph Society, Major Donors, and members of the Paul Harris Society and Bequest Society of The Rotary Foundation.

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R I DISTRICT 3012- MONTHLY CLUB ATTENDANCE REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2016

Name of the ClubMem-

bership Strength

No. of Meetings

Attendance(%)

Dadri 72 2 55.55Delhi Achievers 33 2 55Delhi Akash 16 3 53Delhi Ashoka 74 2 55Delhi Imperial 68 4 53.30Delhi Legacy 23 3 78Delhi Maurya 42 4 65Delhi Mayur Vihar 43 1 72Delhi Metro 27 3 60Delhi Monarch 36 2 68.30Delhi Nirvana 52 3 76Delhi North 49 1 75.51Delhi Riverside 47 2 66Delhi Rohini 36 3 24.10Delhi Shahdara 40 3 65Delhi Uptown 84 5 60Delhi Vivek 100 3 50Ghaziabad Central 92 5 45Ghaziabad City 20 6 67Ghaziabad Greater 120 3 88Ghaziabad Heritage 51 4 65Ghaziabad Ideal 53 4 75Ghaziabad Industrial Town 42 2 68Ghaziabad Midtown 36 4 85Ghaziabad North 65 3 39Ghaziabad Regency 17 3 71Ghaziabad Vikas 115 2 88.50Hapur 53 4 50Hapur Central 38 3 65Indirapuram Galore 35 4 82Indirapuram Pariwar 29 4 70Jindal Nagar 36 4 62Kundli 39 3 63Modinagar 28 4 76.78New Delhi One 38 3 81New Ghaziabad 22 5 80Noida City 24 3 82Noida Elite 13 2 80Noida Excellence 42 4 77Pilkhuwa 54 2 73Sahibabad 36 1 8.33Sonepat 75 4 58Sonepat City 75 4 78Sonepat Midtown 73 5 56Sonepat Uptown 51 3 74Vaishali 41 4 82Eclub Magnum 18 4 80CLUBWISE BLOOD UNITS COLLECTION STATUS FOR THE MONTH OF JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2016

Organising Club UnitsInnerwheel Club Ghazibad North 235RC Ghaziabad North 1711RC Ghaziabad Central 332RC Ghaziabad Shatabadi 141RC New Ghazibad 67RC Ghaziabad Ideal 101RC Ghaziabad Midtown 17RC of Ghaziabad 12RC Ganaur 59RC Ganaur Central 163RC Vasundhara 50RC Sonipat 103RC Sonipat Uptown 165RC Noida 116RC of Noida Youth 146RC Green Greater Noida 688RC Noida Central 19RC Noida Elite 46RC Dadri 18RC of Dadri 62RC Delhi Aspire 81RC Capital City New Delhi 87RC Delhi Civil Lines 121RC Delhi Akash 186RC Delhi Riverside 125RC Delhi Riverside 208RC Delhi Eastend 67RC Delhi Sahadara 32RC Delhi Mayur Vihar 61RC Modinagar 58RC Amity Physiotherapy 89RC of OBS 173RC of OPJGU 212RC of DSE 58RC of Brilliance 63RC Hapur 20RC Delhi Legacy 15RC Indirapuram Pariwar 135RC Indirapuram Gallore 212RC Delhi Shahadra 31RC Delhi Vivek 57RC Delhi Maurya 20RC Modinagar 85RC Delhi Vikas 65RC Delhi Rohini 37

TOTAL 6549

Time flies. With this third issue of "The Link" which is in your hands now, we have completed 25% of our current Rotary year with remarkable achievements. Be it The Rotary Foundation where in the very first month we got the commitments for Six Lacs US$, be it the Polio Eradication, Literacy, Wash in Schools, you name it and we have excelled in every field. Thanks to the dynamic leadership of our DG Rtn. SHARAT Jain. As usual I am sure you will enjoy reading this issue of "The Link". The encouraging reviews received from the readers of "The Link" are our driving force. We are open to constructive criticism also to improve it and make it more attractive, more interesting & more readable. We are receiving reports, pics and materials to be published from clubs. Though utmost care is taken to include at least one entry from each club, if left please do notify we will rectify our mistake. Hope you will continue to effectively use it as a tool to propagate good work being done by your club. The report of the projects with short description, along with photographs for publication in the GML, should be sent to gmlrotary3012@gmail.com on or before the 7th of each month. Through this column, on behalf of all of our readers, I take this opportunity to congratulate my colleague & Co-Chair GML Rtn. Niharika Rathi Chaturvedi on being blessed with a baby doll. May the new addition bring happiness & cheers in the family. Thank you DG Sharat Jain for continuous support & guidance provided by you in compiling this Newsletter. Season's Greetings, Happy Reading & All The Best.

PP Rtn Daljit BhatiaDistrict Chair - GML & Publications

Editor's Note

Message from District's first ladyDear Friends,

Hope you had a great Dussehra and looking forward to celebrating a Happy Diwali! Dussehra brings joy and happiness in every one’s life and in every century Truth get victory over Evil. Talking of Evil, I am reminded of a story from Mahabharata that gives us a lesson on how to shed the fear of Evil within each one of us.

Once on a full moon day, Krishna and Balarama were walking in the forest, it was late and they decided to rest in the forest for the night. It was a dangerous forest, so Krishna suggested "Balarama, you keep watch until midnight while I sleep, and I will be on watch from midnight till morning." They both agreed and Krishna went to sleep. A few hours passed, Krishna was sleeping sound. Balarama heard a growl at a distance, it was a terrifying sound. He walked a little further towards the sound. Now he could see a gigantic monster approaching him. The monster growled again, Balarama was very afraid, he trembled in fear.

Every time he trembled, the monster grew double in size. The monster grew bigger and bigger as it approached Balarama. Now the monster was standing very close to Balarama, it growled again. Terrified by the sound, size and terrible smell of the monster Balarama screamed "Krishna! Krishna!" and he collapsed & fell unconscious. Woken up by the call, Krishna followed the sound and found Balarama sleeping, Krishna thought, 'It must be my turn now' and started walking too and fro. Slowly Krishna recognized the monster standing nearby.

The monster growled at Krishna. "What do you want?" Krishna asked unafraid. The size of the monster decreased, it shrunk to half its size. "What are you doing here?" Krishna asked again and the monster shrunk again. Krishna kept questioning it expecting a reply, the monster kept shrinking every time he asked. Now the monster was just 2 inches tall, and looked cute and adorable. Krishna took it in his hand and placed it in his waist pocket. The night passed and Balarama woke in the morning.

Balarama saw Krishna and joyously shouted "Krishna! Krishna!".

"Krishna! you don't know what a terrible thing happened while you were asleep. There was huge monster trying to kill us both. I don't know how we survived, the last thing I remember is that I fainted." Balarama said trying to recall yesterday night's events.

Krishna took out the little monster out of his pocket and said, "Is this the same monster?" "Yes, but it was so big! how did it shrink?" asked Balarama. "Every time I questioned it, it shrunk in size, finally it became this."

Balarama told Krishna how the monster grew yesterday every time he was scared of it. Then Krishna concluded "When you avoid what you must face in life it becomes bigger than you and takes control over you, when you face what you must face, you become bigger than it and you take control over it.” The Monster here is all the challenges we face in life. From now onwards whenever you face anything in life always remember that it has been given for a purpose; for you to become what you can become.

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Edited and Published by District GML & Publication Committee – Chair PP Rtn Daljit Bhatia, Co-Chair PP Rtn Niharika Rathi Chaturvedi, for & on behalf of Rtn Sharat Jain, District Governor, RI Dist 3012. Printed at Rave India Press, A-27, Naraina Industrial Area, Phase-II, New Delhi. FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY

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