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Rotary club of Pune Metro

Presidential

Dear Friends,

The concept of taking the Food Stall in the Rotary

Expo from 17th to 20th of January, 2019, provided

an excellent opportunity for assimilation of our

members. I congratulate Ann Snehalata and her

team, who worked very hard to make this event

successful. Whole Club was active and supported

the team in some manner. I am thankful to each and

everyone who has spent time& energy for this

project and also to others who have indirectly or

directly encouraged the project as such.

Today we are celebrating 70th Birthday of Ann

Ashwini Joshi. I wish her a healthy and happy life

ahead. Along with this we are Inducting three

members to our RCPM family. Welcome

Nimkar, Mr Deshmukh and our old member Mr

Satish Shingade to the Rotary family.

Our next meeting would be a Member’s Program to

be held on 31st at Manohar Banquet.

Club Bulletin

+MetropolitanDistrict 3131 Club No. 31769 Rotaty Club of Pune Metro

President: Rtn. Bhavana Chahure Secretary: Rtn. Vandana

Year 23

Somebody who makes everybody feel like a Somebody.

The concept of taking the Food Stall in the Rotary

of January, 2019, provided

an excellent opportunity for assimilation of our

members. I congratulate Ann Snehalata and her

team, who worked very hard to make this event

successful. Whole Club was active and supported

hankful to each and

everyone who has spent time& energy for this

project and also to others who have indirectly or

Birthday of Ann

Ashwini Joshi. I wish her a healthy and happy life

we are Inducting three

Welcome- Mr

and our old member Mr

Our next meeting would be a Member’s Program to

District Conference is on 2nd& 3rd of February.

9th February is our ambitious Fund-Raising event at

Yashwant Rao Chavan Auditorium.

23rd February we have HIV VivahMelava.

Rtn Bhavana

Please help with all your resources, friend

circles, contacts to promote our February 9th

fund raising event. This will help us take on

many good service projects in the coming year.

Club Bulletin

+Metropolitan Rotaty Club of Pune Metro

Secretary: Rtn. Vandana Joglekar Bulletin Editor: Rtn. Vivek Kulkarni

Issue 16 January 24

Page 1

of February.

Raising event at

February we have HIV VivahMelava.

all your resources, friend

February 9th

This will help us take on

many good service projects in the coming year.

Vivek Kulkarni

January 24, 2019

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METRO CHOWPATI @ ROTARY

FEST

A regular feature of District 3131 to promote the

activities of Rotary and to give an opportunity to

the Clubs in the District to display their service

projects to the general public, the Rotary Fest was

held at Ganesh Kala Krida from 17 to 20 January

this year. Popular film actor Swapnil Joshi

inaugurated the exhibition in the presence of

District Governor Rtn Dr Shailesh Palekar.

Our President Rtn Bhavana who has tremendous

confidence in the culinary skills of our ladies in the

Club grabbed the offer to put up a food stall at the

exhibition. Our Club opted for chat items which

was finalised after some initial discussion with

some ladies of the Club.

Pres. Bhavana had Ann Snehalata in mind to take

charge of this activity and her consent and the

readiness of other ladies in the Club guaranteed the

success of this big event for the Club.

A series of meetings were held to put everything on

paper first and once this was done, tasks were

allotted to all those who were ready to be a part of

this Metro Chowpaty. Trials. were taken for the

tasting of Paani Puri and the concept of Paani Puri

eating competition was also tried out in which

Rajendra came out the winner. A large number of

us were present to give this final approval of the

taste.

President Bhavana's house turned into a huge

kitchen where the ladies prepared the Paani and the

various chutneys. This huge task of preparing

nearly 140 litres of this special water was

completed effortlessly by these very enthusiastic,

energetic and joyful ladies enjoying every moment

of this activity.

All necessary material purchases were made, the

Paani was sent for testing (since this was our very

special feature that we were using tested Paani) and

we were ready for the exhibition.

17th morning started with hectic activities of

shifting all material to the venue, putting up the

stall and with our reputation for doing very

organized work ,we were ready to serve mouth

watering dishes before the inauguration.

DG Rtn Dr Shailesh was amongst the first visitors

and he tasted the Paani Puri and was full of praise

for the taste and the professional manner in which

we had put up our stall.

Each of the team members was assigned a time and

responsibility at the stall, which each one fulfilled

with lot of enthusiasm and punctuality.

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On the 3rd day an offer to supply 150 plates of

Upma for the delegates of an award function to be

held the next day early morning was accepted by

these very enthusiastic ladies.

20th morning started with Purnima Halbe, Arusha,

Neha and Vandana arrived at 6:45 AM at

Snehalata's house to prepare the Upma.The

planning and the execution was so great that the

Upma was ready by 8AM and was delivered in a

huge container to the venue by 9 AM where Pres

Bhavana was waiting with another team to serve

the tasty and hot Upma. The delegates were very

happy with the taste. The challenge was completed

very successfully.

Since 20th January was a Sunday people started

coming from the morning, but our cash box really

started ringing in the evening and the ladies at the

serving counters had to really show their skills in

catering to such a large crowd.

Metro Chowpaty was visited by DG Rtn Dr

Shailesh Palekar, PDG Rtn Abhay Gadgil, Club

Presidents, District Officers, Rotarians of other

clubs , most of our Club members and of course the

general visitors to the exhibition. Our stall was

perhaps the most visited stall in the exhibition

mainly due to the tasty dishes, the organized

manner in which our stall was always seen and the

enthusiasm of the ladies serving at the counter.

Our Club members not only gave business to our

stall but were also seen visiting other stalls, tasting

their dishes and appreciating their efforts. Many

from our club enjoyed various flavours of Paan at

Mauli Paan which was located opposite our stall

and it was good to see ladies experiment with Fire

Paan, Fruit Paan ,Ice cream Paan etc. Many of our

Metroparivar also danced at the Zumba sessions

held near our stall. The Metro Chowpaty served

Kutchi Dabeli, Bhel, Paani Puri and Kokum

Sharbat to the visitors who must surely have left

with the feeling Dil Abhi भरा नह�.

Snehalata once entrusted with a responsibility is

known to execute with full dedication as could be

seen by her presence and the manner in which she

motivated her team to not only take part but enjoy

every moment of this event.

Almost all in the Metroparivar contributed in some

manner to this event but the core committee

members comprising of Pres Bhavana, Sect

Vandana, Snehalata, Purnima Halbe, Arusha,

Neha,Mugdha, Anagha Gokhale, Rahul and

Nayana, Anagha Ranade, Vaiju Satpute , Mukund

,Milind Chahure, Rajendra, Avinash ensured the

success of this event which has strengthened the

bond of friendship amongst us all.

PP Rtn Mohan Chhatre.

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Project Opportunity

A team of Rotarians from RCPM along with Dr.

Amol Waghmare, visited BAIF (Bharatiya Agro

Industries Foundation) Research Centre at Uruli

Kanchan on 10th December 2018. RCPM Team

consisted of PE Mukund Chiplunkar, PP Rtn

Padma Shahane and Brig Sunil Gokhale. Objective

of the visit was to understand BAIF activities, work

practices and models for comprehensive

development of villages. Area of focus for RCPM

is going to be villages and hamlets at Falode near

Bhimashankar over the next few years.

Uruli Kanchan BAIF facility is primarily a research

centre concentrating on providing quality inputs to

agriculture and animal husbandry activities based

on BAIF technologies. The centre was founded by

Dr. Manibhai Desai, a Gandhian, who devoted his

entire life to set up the Centre. The Centre carries

out research on and maintains a massive sperm

bank of various varieties of Indian and foreign

breeds of cows & calves. It also concentrates on

quality fodder, organic manure, fruits and

vegetables, in addition to supporting industries like

seri-culture, bee farming, water conservation, etc.

BAIF officials took us around almost all the facility

and showed research & training infrastructure

available at the Centre. After taking sumptuous

lunch arranged in their canteen, we left for Pune by

1:30 pm.

BAIF explained that prior to undertaking any work,

their experts carry out PRA (Participatory Rural

Appraisal) and PVDP (Participatory Village

Development Plan). This forms the basis and

starting point for any Project work, which is

coordinated by their Nashik office. All of us agreed

that this needs to be done at Falode and nearby

hamlets covering at least a population of 500

people.

BAIF also suggested a visit by Falode villagers and

RCPM office bearers to Javhar facility. It will

demonstrate all the development models and modes

available to all stakeholders using BAIF

technologies.

PP Padma, Rtn Sunil,

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Club Induction

Today we are inducting the following esteemed

persons in our club.

Mr. Madhusudan Nimkar, who retired from Bank

and now into auditing the banks.

Mr. Chandrakant Deshmukh, who retired after

substantial experience in pharmaceutical industry

Mr. Satish shingade, our own good old PP, is

rejoining the club

We welcome all the new persons along with

their family members to Rotary Club of Pune

Metro.

____________________________________ Forthcoming Meeting, Projects:

Jan 24 :'Ek Mulakhat, thodya Gappa'. PP Seema

will interview and talk with Ann Anshwini

Joshi at B V Rao Hall.

Jan 31 : Member's Program at Manohar Banquet

Feb 2-3: District Conference at Sunny's world

Feb 9: GUL-E-GULJAR Our Fund Raising Event.

5:00 PM. Yashwantrao Chavan Auditorium.

Feb 23: HIV Vivah Melawa

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Birthdays till January 31st are:

Jan 24: Ann Ashwini Joshi

Jan 25: Annet Abhay Chabukswar

Jan 30: Ann Arusha Majali, Annet Satej Mulick

Anniversaries till January31st are:

None