rcbombaynorth
24th June, 2018 - “DHANYAVAAD FUNCTION”
Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.
दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,
आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,
दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे
कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..
On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.
DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.
Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.
This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….
I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.
I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.
I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.
The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.
Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.
Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.
This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.
We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.
The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.
Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.
Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.
My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.
My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.
He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.
During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.
As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.
It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.
All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.
All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.
Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.
I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;
“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto
Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto
Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto
Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya
Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”
THANK YOU VERY MUCH….
May I now request Pragati to say a few words...
24th June, 2018 - “DHANYAVAAD FUNCTION”
Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.
दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,
आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,
दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे
कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..
On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.
DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.
Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.
This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….
I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.
I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.
I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.
The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.
Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.
Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.
This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.
We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.
The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.
Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.
Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.
My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.
My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.
He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.
During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.
As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.
It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.
All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.
All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.
Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.
I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;
“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto
Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto
Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto
Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya
Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”
THANK YOU VERY MUCH….
May I now request Pragati to say a few words...