Volume 44 - No. 02 Dated: July 09, 2019

PROGRAMME

Installation of

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President Rtn Salil Dev Singh Bali and his Team for 2019-20

Chief Guest:

Hon'ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma

Guest of Honour:

Mr Atul Nanda, Advocate General, Punjab

Date: July 15, 2019 (Monday) Time: 6 pm Venue: CII, Sector 31, Chandigarh

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THE FOUR WAY TEST Of the things we think, say or do 1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Connects the World Live streaming on Facebook of our 1

st regular meeting

First Lady R’ann Parul & President Salil Dev Bali

Talk on RI Theme ‘Rotary

Connects the World’ by PP Rtn Dr Balram Gupta

In our first regular meeting of Rotary year 2019-20 on July 05,

2019 President Rtn Salil Dev Singh Bali greeted all present in

the meeting, “Swagatham, Ji ayanoo, Khushamdin and

welcome,” amongst loud applause. He added, “Parul and I

extend our best wishes to all of you for this new Rotary year

2019-20.

President Salil also gave presentation of the busy schedule

effective from 1st day of the new Rotary year doing various

useful projects. He thanked 14 Past Presidents and large

numbers of Rotarians, Anns and also chidren for their active

participation in these projects. 3 New Rotary Community Corps

(RCC) have been formed. RCC Smile Express is having Rtn Dr

Sanjay Kalra‟s staff as its members. RCC Udham Manav Sewa,

a group of young boys and girls who are providing express

blood service. The 3rd

one is RCC Social Substance.

Introduction of our Chief Guest Hon'ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma

Hon'ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma was born on 8.10.1958. He Obtained LL.B. Degree from Himachal

Pradesh University. Enrolled as Advocate in the year 1982, he was designated Senior Advocate in the year

2002. Primarily practiced in the High Court of Himachal Pradesh in Constitutional Law, Administrative

Law, Employment Cases and Environmental Law. He visited USA, China, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Myanmar,

Thailand, Vietnam, Dubai, New Zealand, U.K., Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France, Denmark,

Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. Appointed Additional Judge, High Court of Himachal Pradesh on

3rd April, 2007 and confirmed as permanent Judge on 31st March 2013. Transferred to High Court of

Uttarakhand and assumed office of a Judge of High Court of Uttarakhand on 26/09/2016. His Lordship

was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of High Court of Uttarakhand on 07/08/2018. Transferred to the

High Court of Punjab and Haryana and assumed office as Judge on 13/11/2018. Presently, Justice Sharma

is the senior most judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court after Hon‟ble the Chief Justice. As a lawyer,

Justice Sharma was always keen to take up cases to protect environment. Having been born in a hill state,

he has continued to be passionate to protect the environment in every possible way as a judge. His

contribution in developing environmental jurisprudence is unique.

Please note change in Date,

Time and Venue.

Programme on page 04

IPP Rtn Ashok Puri is very happy to share 22 District awards with the awardees, which was well applauded by our members

IPP Ashok Puri presented awards which was to be given in Valedictory

function on June 27, 2019, but they could not attend the meeting. Details on page 06 of bulletin No. 01

National anthem led by R’anns Shashi Gupta and Malabika Sengupta, joined

by PP Deepak Sood

Invocation by First Lady R’ann

Parul Bali and R’ann Purnima Sood

IPP Ashok Puri thanked all Rotarians for their support. He wished

President Salil Bali and his team a very excellent year.

Connecting to the world by Live

streaming of our regular meetings on Facebook

President Salil Dev Bali

congratulated IPP Ashok

Puri and all the District

award winners as he

shared with us 22 awards

presented to us by DG

2018-19 Rtn Praveen

Goyal on June 30, 2019 in

the District Award

function, which included

retaining of rolling TB

Awareness project trophy

and the Best Bulletin

award consecutively for

last 10 years.

Details of the awards is on

page 7 of bulletin No. 01.

President Salil Bali talked about the wonderful Theme that our RI

President Mark Maloney has given, „Rotary Connects the World‟ as

it immediately breaks all the barriers. Sali said, “We not only

connect with ourselves but we connect with everyone, and in return

we can connect everyone to Rotary.”

The President further stated, “As we talk about Rotary Connects the

World, our Club Editor Dr VJS Vohra is connecting with the entire

world. The set up which you are seeing here, created by him, for the

first time this weekly meeting is being relayed to the entire world

through live streaming on Facebook.”

Members of RCC for Special Persons led by Harmesh Kurari

congratulating President Salil Bali with a bouquet and wishing him a successful Rotary year. Looking on are Director Club

Service Kulbir Bhatia, Secretary Nitin Kapur, Chair Disability Empowerment and Rehabilitation (DEAR) PP Dr VJS Vohra,

PP RK Luther and PP Dr Rita Kalra

PP Dr Balram Gupta presents birthday gift to First Lady Parul Bali,

joined by President Salil Bali, their sons Jaiveer and Lakshyaa.

Looking on is Secretary Nitin Kapur

President Salil Bali invited PP Dr Balram Gupta

to speak on the RI Theme. Dr Balram said Rotary

has been connecting to the world ever since it was

founded in 1905. Rotary connects business and

professional leaders to do good in the world

through humanitarian service, creating goodwill

and peace around the world. Dr Balram said,

“Today 12.5 million Rotarians in 172 countries in

538 Rotary Districts with 36000 Rotary Clubs,

having each Rotarian with different

classifications, connect to the Rotarians in such

large number of Clubs.” He added, “Rotary

culture and the Rotary way of life, the ethical

values and fellowship connect Rotary with the

world.” Rotary has connected to the world by

doing projects like medical missions in different

parts of the world.

PP Dr Balram Gupta presents wedding anniversary

gift to R’ann Dr Seemha & Rtn Dr Rajinder Rai. Looking on are President Salil and Secretary Nitin

PP Dr Balram Gupta presents punctuality award to PP Rtn

RK Goyal

Projects on first day of Rotary year 2019-20

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On July 01, 2019 our Club organized Annapurna Day and registered the same with World‟s Greatest meal (WGM). Our generous Rotarians

sponsored the food for the needy and also contributed $ 500 for WGM which would become $ 1500 as Bill and Melenda Gates foundation will

doubly match it to use for polio eradication. The First Annapurna was held at Gurudwara of Sector 50, Chandigarh to serve the Sangat. The

second and third Annapurna were held at PGI and Government Hospital Sector 16, Chandigarh respectively. Senior Deputy Mayor Hardip

Singh joined these events. The fourth one was at Majri Chowk, Panchkula. We served food to about 1500 needy people.

The installation program of Interact Club of Government School, Manimajra was held followed by tree plantation and adolescent awareness

talk.

1st July being Doctors Day, a Dental Camp was organized at old age home at Red Cross Bhawan, Panchkula, where 20 senior citizens were

examined in association with RCC Smile Express. Rtn Dr Sanjay Kalra‟s Multispecialty Clinic sponsored the free treatment of 12 senior

citizens worth Rs 4.5 Lakh.

A flash mob skit on Save The Girl Child / Beti Bachao Beti Padao was organized by Rotaract Club of Le Corbusier in Sector 17, Plaza,

Chandigarh.

the

Minute-to-Minute Program of Installation Meeting

Installation Chair: PP Deepak Sood Master of Ceremonies: PP Dr Rita Kalra

18:00 hrs. Registration

18:30 hrs. Arrival of Chief Guest and To be received by all Past Presidents,

Guest of Honour Aide to Chief Guest Rtn RS Sachdeva &

R’ann Dr Vinny Sachdeva

Aide to Guest of Honor Rtn Salil Chopra

& Rtn Renu Chopra

18:40 hrs. Collar to President Sergeant-at-Arms PP RTPS Tulsi

And Meeting Call to order

18:41 hrs. National Anthem R’ann Malabika Sengupta, R’ann Indu

Anand & R’ann Purnima Sood

18:43 hrs Lighting of Lamp Delegates on the Dias

18:50 hrs Invocation R’ann Neeru Khattar, PDC (IW)

18:55 hrs Bouquets of welcome to:

Chief Guest President Salil Bali

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma

Spouse of Chief Guest Mrs Trisha Sharma First Lady R’ann Parul Bali

Guest of Honour Mr Atul Nanda PP Deepak Sood

Advocate General, Punjab

Spouse of Guest of Honour

Mrs Rameeza Hakeem R’ann Purnima Sood

19:01 hrs Welcome Address Installation Chair PP Deepak Sood

19:06 hrs The Year 2018-19 President Ashok Puri

19:16 hrs Installation of President 2019-20 Salil Bali Exchange of Collar by outgoing

President Ashok Puri

Handing over of club charter To Secretary Nitin Kapoor by outgoing

Secretary Salil Chopra

19:20 hrs Introduction of President Salil Bali PP Dr Vanita Gupta

19:26 hrs The Year Ahead President Salil Bali

19:41 hrs Introduction of his team President Salil Bali

19:50 hrs TRF Recognitions PP Dr Keshoram Gupta

19:55 hrs Induction of New Members PP DP Khandelia

20:00 hrs Introduction of Guest of Honour PP RTPS Tulsi

20:05 hrs Address by Guest of Honour

Mr Atul Nanda AG (Pb.)

20:15 hrs Introduction of Chief Guest PP Dr Balram K Gupta

20:20 hrs Address by Chief Guest

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma

20:40 hrs Presentation of Memento to:

Chief Guest President Salil Bali

Guest of Honour President Salil Bali

IPP Ashok Puri President Salil Bali

20:45 hrs Birthday, Anniversaries Secretary Nitin Kapur

Celebrations and Announcements

20:50 hrs. Expression of gratitude Secretary Nitin Kapur

20:55 hrs. Adjournment President Salil Bali

Fellowship and dinner

Installation function of District Governor Rtn Jitendra Dhinga held on 03 July 2019 at CII, Sector 31, Chandigarh Chief Guest: Manpreet Singh Badal, Finance Minister, Govt of Punjab

Address by Manpreet Singh Badal

Address by PRIP Raja Saboo

Rtn Shuchi Thakur exchanging flags with Rotary Club Plymouth AM Michigan, USA

Release of District directory 2019-20

200 saplings distributed by Rotary Chandigarh Midtown to

Rotarians attending the event

Project Unique Disability Identification (UDI) Awareness launched by our Club on 03.07.2019

UDI is a Unique Disability Identification Card launched by Government of India in 2018. Unique ID for Persons with Disabilities is a project being implemented by the Government with a view of creating a National Database for Persons with Disability (PWD), and to issue them UDI Card. The project will not only encourage transparency, efficiency and ease of delivering the government benefits to the person with disabilities, but also ensure uniformity. The project will also help in stream-lining the tracking of physical and financial progress of beneficiary at all levels of hierarchy of implementation – from village level, block level, District level, State level and National level. Since the launching of this scheme in early 2018, there is no awareness in the relevant Government Departments about this scheme.

Project UDI Awareness initiated by Rotary Chandigarh Midtown on 3rd July 2019 to create awareness for the PWDs and partner with the relevant Government Departments to hold camps and register the disabled for this card.

Addressing the gathering: DG Jitendra Dhingra, PDG Manmohan Singh, DGN Ajay Madan, AG

Pallav Mukherjee and President Salil Bali

Live demo on laptop

This project was inaugurated by DG Jitendra Dhingra in presence of District Trainer PDG Manmohan Singh, DGN Ajay Madan and AG Zone 4 PP Pallav Mukherjee. The Club has a database of about 4000 PwD’s in the Tricity and aims to register them before 3rd December 2019. This unique project has been initiated by President Salil Dev Singh Bali and well supported by our Rotarians present during the launch: PP Dr Balram Gupta, PP Indrajeet Sengupta, Chair Disability Empowerment & Senior Prosthetic Consultant PP Dr VJS Vohra who spoke about disability projects under taken by our Club during last 23 years, PP Dr Rita Kalra, Secreatry Nitin Kapoor, Director Community Service Kulbir Singh Bhatia, Rtn Dr Col V.K.Kapoor, Rtn Vinod Sobti and Rtn Dr Sanjay Kalra.

Sr Deputy Mayor Hardeep Singh Buterela is also supporting this project. Sh Harmesh Kurari of our RCC for Persons with Disability thanked our Club for supporting the cause of disabled person. Two members of this RCC Ms Naini and Vinod Nagpal gave live demo on laptop explaining how to get UDI card by submitting the form online. Social Substance President Dr Arun Bansal was also present.

Miyawaki Forests, first of its kind in Chandigarh to enhance Public Image of Rotary

The District Leadership gave a call to create minimum 10 Miyawaki Forests in District 3080 in Rotary Year 2019-20. Our Club took the lead in initiating this project and on 7th July 2019 in Sector 36-C, Chandigarh, as per a Japanese design whereby large plantation can be done in a small area, which we did in the city in an area of about 3000 sq. feet near the roundabout of Sectors 35 & 36, with the help of our newly formed RCC of Sustainable Society. Mr Punnet Arora and Dr Arun Bansal of RCC coordinated with Mrs Kamal Malhi of the RWA, Sector 36 and with the involvement of Rotarians were able to plant this forest.

The plantation was followed by potluck breakfast picnic. RI President Mark Maloney has wished that Rotary should ‘Compliment’ and not ‘Compete’ with the family of a Rotarian and therefore this project was executed to set a trend of involving families in Rotary Projects. The Program was attended by President Salil Dev Bali with first lady R’ann Parul, PDG Yoginder Diwan, PP Kanan Diwan, PP BL Ramsisaria, PP DP Khandelia with R’ann Sandhya, PP Anil Mehan with R'ann Rekha,

PP Dr .Balram Gupta with R’ann Shashi, PP Indrajeet Sengupta with R’ann Malabika , PP Prem Anand with R’ann Indu, PP RK Luther with R’ann Urmil, PE Sanjay Bhatia, PP Dr Rita Kalra, Rtn Dr Sanjay Kalra, Secretary Nitin Kapur with R’ann Shivani, Rtn Arjan Singh with R’ann Parveen, Rtn Kulbir Bhatia with R’ann Harpreet, Rtn Vinod Sobti with R’ann Asha, Rtn Chandra Parkash with R’ann Lalita, Rtn Jeetan Bhambri with R’ann Kadam, Rtn Subhash Vats, Rtn Bhavmit Chandoak, Rtn Suman Gupta with Mr NK Gupta, Rtn Pardeep Sisodia with R’ann Nandita and R’ann Dipali Adokar. Amonst the children present were Jaiveer Bali, Lakshyaa vir Bali, Shabad Roop, Aayan Kapur, Punarvi Adokar, Gursidak Singh and Namya Bhambri.

PP Dr .Balram Gupta with R’ann Shashi, PP Indrajeet Sengupta with R’ann Malabika , PP Prem Anand with R’ann Indu, PP RK Luther with R’ann Urmil, PE Sanjay Bhatia, PP Dr Rita Kalra, Rtn Dr Sanjay Kalra, Secretary Nitin Kapur with R’ann Shivani, Rtn Arjan Singh with R’ann Parveen, Rtn Kulbir Bhatia with R’ann Harpreet, Rtn Vinod Sobti with R’ann Asha, Rtn Chandra Parkash with R’ann Lalita, Rtn Jeetan Bhambri with R’ann Kadam, Rtn Subhash Vats, Rtn Bhavmit

Acknowledgement with Thanks

Donations for GES Peermushalla

PDG Rtn Shaju Peter Rs 5000

Rtn Dr Sanjay Kalra Rs 11000

Donations for Club Projects

PP Rtn Indrajeet Sengupta Rs 100000

Ms Pushpa Mohan Rs 21000

PP Rtn RK Luther Rs 15000 Rtn Rajesh Mahajan Rs 15000

Rtn Shuchi Thakur Rs 6100 Rtn Kulvinder Singh Rs 5000 PP Rtn Anil Mehan Rs 3100

Donations for the Rotary Foundation

PP Rtn Indrajeet Sengupta $ 1000 WGM $ 500 PP Rtn Deepak Sood $ 300

Rtn Dr Sanjay Kalra $ 200 PP Rtn Dr Rita Kalra $ 100

Fellowship on 05 July 2019 Sponsored by

First Lady R’ann Parul Bali IPP Rtn Ashok Puri Rtn Rajinder Rai

Birthday of Spouses

R’ann Moon Inder Sandhu July 12

R’ann Manjit Kalsi July 13

R’ann Manpreet Kaur July 15

Birthday of Rotarians

PP Rtn Indrajeet Sengupta July 12

Rtn Charanjit Rai July 13

Rtn RS Sihota July 16

Punctuality Award

Won by PP Rtn RK Goyal

Save the Girl Child program on 9th

July 2019

Save the Girl Child Program for RY 2019-20 launched in Government

Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula in presence of Principal Medical Officer Dr Gopal Bhardwaj by our club. 8 years old Baby Mannat,

Yoga expert appointed Ambassador for this year

New Born Girl babies being distributed dresses

Hospital Staff promoting objectives of this project being honoured

Rotaractors of Le Carbusier who participated in nukkad show

Present: President Salil Dev Singh Bali, PDG Shaju Peter, PP Raj Kumar Luther, PP Prem Anan, PP Dr Rita Kalra, Rtn Vinod Sobti, Rtn Dr

Sanjay Kalra, R‟ann Santosh Gupta (PDC IW), Rtn Renu Nayyar and Capt Kapil Nayyar.

Promoting Rotary Image - 06.07.2019

President Salil Bali (2nd from right) live debate on India

News on 'Conserving and Saving Water for Future'

Rotary Singer Centre – Certificates distributed on 03.07.2019

Diploma Certificates were distributed to successful candidates of Singer

Sewing Centre, the biggest centre in the region, at Village Palsora, Chandigarh.

21 girls from Palsora village and inmates of Guruasra completed the course. in

this centre. Certificates were given by President Salil Bali, PP Indrajeet

Sengupta, Rtn Dr Sanjay Kalra and PP Dr Rita Kalra.