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District Governor’s Official Visit

Activities through the lens

Members becoming MPHF/PHF3 8

Hearty Welome to District Governor Pinaki Prasad Ghosh &

First Lady Nilima

Know yourDistrict

Governor

DISTRICT GOVERNOR’S OFFICIAL VISIT

PINAKI PRASAD GHOSH is a science graduate from the Univer-sity of Calcutta. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a qualified cost and works accountant. He obtained a diploma in information system audit from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Once a year the District Governor makes an official visit to each club in the District.The purpose of the visit is to:n allow the District Governor to com-municate with the club members;n be a useful counsellor to further the Object of Rotary among the clubs in the district and to assist clubs that may need some guidance;

Pinaki joined Calcutta Port Trust as an accounts officer. Later he joined United Bank of India as faculty member of Unit-ed Bank of India Staff Training College. In 1987, he resigned from the Bank and became the managing partner of S P Dat-ta & Associates, a chartered accountants’ firm conducting audit of different nation-alised banks and public sector units.

Pinaki joined the Rotary movement in 1986. He is a member of Rotary Club of Tollygunge and led the club as President in 1997. He has served the District in different capacities. He was District Treasurer in 2005-06 and

District Secretary in 2008-09. He is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow.

He is married to Nilima and the couple has a son Amartya, a practicing advo-cate in the High Court of Calcutta and a daughter Pallavi who has completed an MBBS degree. His daughter-in-law Sudeshna is pursuing an MBA in hotel management.

Pinaki is a member of the Calcutta Club, Calcutta Rowing Club, Interna-tional Club, Life Saving Society, and the Cricket Association of Bengal. Pinaki likes listening to music.

Today we are contributing10 Cycle Rickshaw Vansto our RCCs and hand over the cheque to District Governor

n motivate Rotarians to participate in service activities to strengthen the programmes of Rotary;n bring attention to important Rotary issues as they pertain to both the RI and district levels;n recognize the contrib- utions of Rotarians in the club.

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Rotary Club of Central CalcuttaRotary Club of Central Calcutta (RCCC) of Rotary International Dis-trict 3291, was chartered in August 1984. The club has sponsored two In-teract clubs, one Rotaract Club and six Rotary Community Corps (RCC) situated in Hooghly & South 24 Par-ganas. The Club is proud to have a full cricket team through Interna-tional Fellowship of Cricket (loving) Rotarians and a very active & sup-portive Inner Wheel Club.

During the past 29 years, the club has initiated several rural village de-velopment activities, towards Swan-irbharta (Self Reliance) through the RCCs. Several villages have been ful-ly sanitized and have also been pro-vided with safe drinking water. Vo-cational Training Centers have been set up towards self employment. The club every year distributes blankets, mosquito nets, agricultural tools & equipment and thousand of fruit tree saplings, Which improve the en-vironment , provide nutritious food and more importantly are a source of income, Specially for the woman folk. Primary schools and education & training in modern methods of agriculture, pisciculture, poultry & animal husbandry is a regular fea-ture. The club promotes Rotary’s Blindness Prevention projects by providing Light to hundreds every year through IOL

The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary In-ternational to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programmesFounder: Arch C. Klumph • Founded: 1917First contribution: The first contribution in the Rotary Endowment Fund was received from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, USA in 1918. The amount of contribution was USD 26.50First grant: USD 500 to International Society for Crippled Children in 1930

cataract surgeries. The club through its RCC-Human Development Cen-tre, has sponsored an eye hospital at Jaynagar and is setting up another at Kakweep – deep in the Sundarban area, South 24 Parganas.

RCCC is closely associated with Shree Jain Hospital, Howrah and several projects, including IOL

Cataract surgeries, providing ar-tificial limbs, providing medical equipment including six dialysis machines, have been done with the hospital. The pride project of the club is Rotary Siksha Kendra, a school in village Bishnupur, Dist South 24 Parganas. The school has over 450 rural based children. It has own two storied building with ten fully fur-nished rooms.

All the activites of the club have been possible because of the interna-tionality of Rotary, the magic of the Rotary Foundation-Grant Programs and generous members and patron. The club has forged wonderful and lasting relationships with friendly Rotarians & Clubs in Canada- RID 7010, 7070 & 5360, USA – RID 5790, 6440, 6380, 7410,7470 & 7890, UK – RID 1070, 1090, 1110, 1120 & 1250, Australia RID 9640 and New Zeland RID 9940.

The club is currently doing 4 Global Grant projets.

Definition of RotaryRotary is an organization of business and Professional leaders united worldwide, Who provide humanitari-an service, encourage high ethical standards in all Vo-cations, and help build good-will and Peace in the world. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotarians, members of more than 29,000 Rotary clubs in 160 countries.

History of Rotary

Founder Paul HarrisInception 1905First Club Rotary Club of Chicago

First Four MembersPaul Harris

Hiram ShoreySilvester SchieleGustavus LoehrFirst Community Project public comfort station at Town Hall, Chicago

The Rotary Foundation

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S e R v i C e P R o j e C T S

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C l u b S e R v i C e

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P u b l i C i m a g e & F e l l o w S h i P

Edited by PP Brij Lakhotia & published by Club Secretary Sanjay Ganeriwala on behalf of RC Central Calcutta. Designed at The Second Floor and Printed at CDC Printers Pvt Ltd For private circulation only

Congratulations!supporters of The Rotary Foundation Happy Birthday to

Happy Anniversary & Blissful togetherness

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Dinesh Jhunjhunwala & Ann Manju • 1 Jun

PP Manoj Kumar Jain & Ann Rashmi • 2 Jun

PP Pushpraj Maheswari & Ann Sarla • 4 JuneMudar Patherya &

Ann Salini • 10 June

Nilima Boudi, First Lady of the District – She underwent surgery for Gall Bladder and is recuperating.Ann Renu Lakhotia – She frac-tured her leg.Ann Santwana Agarwala – she underwent surgery for Gall Blad-der recently and recuperated well. However inadvertently her name was missed out. Apology - Editor

On the occasion of the official visit of DG Pinaki Prasad Ghosh, Following members have agreed to become PHF/MPHF

Madhu Sudan Saraf – 30 MaySunjay Kumar Somani – 1 JunAkhilesh Kumar Gupta – 2 Jun

Aparna Mukherjee – 5 JuneRajiv Chamaria – 6 June

PP Prem Kumar Lihala – 9 JuneRaj Kunmar Sethia – 11 June

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Ajay Daga

Rajiv Chamaria

Pramod Kr Dhandhania

Madav Prakash Mohta

Chittranjan Choudhury

Amit Rungta

Ajay Kejriwal

Sunit Kr Poddar

Sanjay Kr Ganeriwala

Prasan Lohia

Manoj Dalmia

Dinesh Bhatter

Arvind Kumar Soni

Akhil Bandhu Paul

Sri Ratan Jhawar

Rajesh Agarwal

Pankaj Shroff

Girish Ganeriwala

Avinash Bubna

COTS will be held on 7th June, 2015, 9.00am to 5.00pm at Royal Cooch Dehar Lounge at Calcutta Club.

Galexy of renowned speaker will be speaking to us to train club officers, to gear up to take on responsibilities

in a better way for Rotary Year 2015-16