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‘Queej…!!!

PP Dr. V.J.S. Vohra presents a token of appreciation to PP

Pallav Mukherjee. Looking on is VP Salil Bali

PP Pallav Mukherjee presents a birthday gift to PP Ajit S.

Gulati. Looking on are R’ann Bir and Vice President Salil Bali

Volume XXXXI No. 19 Dated: November 08, 2016

PROGRAMME Shah Hussain and his Times

Chief Guest:

Prof. Dr. Ishwar Dayal Gaur Professor of History, Department of Evening Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Date: November 11, 2016 (Friday) Time: 6.30 p.m. Venue: Hotel President, Sector 26, Chandigarh

Donations for poor child – Acknowledged with thanks

DCS Rtn. Ashok Puri

appeals for hearing

aid and speech

therapy for a poor

deaf & dumb child

from Nepal

Following donations were received;

Mrs. Bindu Saggar of UK, sister of R’ann Sudha Puri – Rs. 2500 Mrs. Sudhir Chadda of Kenya, sister of R’ann Sudha Puri – Rs. 2500

Mrs. Nikita Krishnan daughter of Rtn. Ashok Puri – USD 100 Rtn. Ashok Puri – Rs. 3000 Rtn. Jeeten Bhambri – Rs. 5000 PP Rtn. Subhash Bindra - Rs. 2000 PP Rtn. Anil K. Mehan Rs. 1000 PP Rtn. R K Goyal - Rs. 1000

Rtn. Nitin Kapur - Rs. 1000 Rtn. Sachin Adokar - Rs. 1000 PP Rtn. Ajit Singh Gulati - Rs. 2000 PP Rtn. B.L. Ramsisiraia - Rs. 1000 Rtn. Sanjay Bhatia - Rs. 2000 PDG Rtn. Shaju Peter - Rs. 5000 Rtn. Arjan Singh - Rs. 1000 PP Rtn. Gurdip S. Deep - Rs. 1000 Rtn. Dr. Sanjay Kalra - Rs. 2000 PP Rtn. Pallav Mukherjee – Rs. 1000 Rtn. Salil Bali – Rs. 1000 PP Rtn. Capt. M.S. Kahlon – Rs. 1000

PP Pallav Mukherjee presents punctuality

award to PDG Shaju Peter. Looking on is

Vice President Salil Bali

In our regular meeting on November 04, 2016 we had PP Rtn. Pallav Mukherjee

as the Quiz Master, who needs no introduction. In the absence of President Rtn.

Amarjit Singh who has gone with family to attend his relative’s marriage in

Philippines, Vice President Rtn. Salil Bali presided over the meeting, and

extended his greetings to all present. Salil handed over the proceedings to Pallav

for the ‘Queej’…! Pallav insisted to mis-spell ‘Quiz’ in babu accent which was

quite amusing for the editor, the Rotarians and R’anns.

PP Pallav Mukherjee

Ouiz Master

Rtn. Salil Bali

Officiating President

The first question was who is responsible for Pallav’s 10

year old photograph displayed on the powerpoint program

of the meeting. Obviously it was the editor and he bagged

the first chocolate being distributed by Pallav, but with a

condition that his next photo should be Salman Khan

type. Next question was the Bollywood actresses from

Chandigarh. The chocolates were flying all over the hall.

Being health conscious nobody was seen eating the

chocolates but taking these home for their kids. All of a

sudden there was a loud applause as R’ann Dipali Adokar

had taken a brilliant catch of a chocolate, the best catch of

the ‘tournament’…!

Pallav did not spare the Past Presidents, and asked them to

promote Rotary in 30 seconds! They responded well and

others too joined in to give some useful suggestions.

There were more questions on various topics. As Pallav

says, “The idea is to have fun.” And there was plenty of it.

PP Dr. V.J.S. Vohra thanked VP Salil Bali for giving him

the opportunity to propose formal vote of thanks. He

thanked PP Pallav Mukherjee for making the meeting

vibrant - full of humour, entertainment and fun.

Interact Week

Rtn. Dr. Rita Kalra

Rtn. Nitin Kapur

As this week is Interact week, Vice President Salil Bali invited PE

Dr. Rita Kalra, District Interact Chair to talk about Interact Clubs.

She said World Interact Week is celebrated every year during the

week of 5 November to commemorate the founding of the first

Interact Club in 1962, by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Florida,

USA. Two months later, the first Interact club outside the United

States was established in Tanjore, India.

Interact is a club for young people between ages of 12 and 18 who

join an international platform to tackle the issues in their

community, develop leadership skills and have fun! Through

Interact, the youngsters carry out service projects, make global

connections, promote international understanding and peace.

Dr. Rita said, “With more than 33,000 clubs in more than 200

countries, and having 340,000 young people as members, Interact

has grown significantly is truly a worldwide phenomenon.”

Interact week is an excellent opportunity for clubs to publicize,

promote, and inform the community about the great work

accomplished by Interact Clubs.

Our energetic, young and active Interact Chair Rtn. Nitin Kapur

gave an interesting powerpoint presentation of 07 Interact Clubs

sponsored by our club. These are: 1. Govt. Sr. Sec. School,

Mamimajra 2. Govt. Sr. Sec. School, Mamimajra Town 3. Govt.

Model High School, Manimajra Housing Complex 4. Vedic Girls Sr.

Sec. School, Manimajra 5. Kundan International School, Chandigarh

6.SOREM, Chandigarh and 7. Govt. Sr. Sec. School, Sector 15,

Chandigarh.

Nitin presented the details of the projects and activities undertaken

by these Interact Clubs under the able guidance of Director Youth

Service Rtn. Salil Chopra, who is now popularly known as the

‘swachh man’, having done large number of Swachh Bharat

campaigns in which our Interactors have been fully involved on

regular basis. During the current Rotary year the Interactors have

been taking active part in other activities also including installation

ceremonies, tree plantation, setting up of library at Vedic Girls

School and selling of candles for diwali festival.

SOREM, our Interact Club comprising of special children has

received recognitions by way RI Citation and also DG’s Citation. RI

and DG Citation has also been presented to Interact Club of Kundan

International School.

In poster making competition during International Youth Day on

12th August 2016, the topic being ‘Wash in Schools’, special prizes

were won by 2 of our Interactors: Lavanaya Sahu of Kundan

International School and Ekara Ahmad of Govt Sr Sec. School,

Manimajra.

Amongst the projects that will be taken up during the current year

with the participation of the Interactors, Rtn. Nitin Kapur

highlighted the 52 events under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Beti

Bachao Beti Padhao street plays, traffic awareness seminars at

schools and Sarvgun Shishu Patshala.

Intercity - Look Beyond

Sunday, 13th

November 2016

Time: 9.00 a.m. onwards Venue: Hotel MM Continental, Mullana (NH-73, Ambala-Jagadhri Highway)

Host: Rotary Club Yamuna Nagar

Registration - On the spot Rs. 1350/- (Single), Rs. 2500/- (Couple) and Rs. 600/- (Rotaract)

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R’ann Purnima

Sood, R’ann Pushpa

Jawa, PP Deepak

Sood, PP Vinod

Jawa, PP B.L.

Ramsisaria and PP

Dr. V.J.S. Vohra

– enjoying the

pleasant evening

after the meeting

Polio Awareness Rally

The polio van flagged off from Ambala on 24th October 2016 will go

throughout our District 3080, and finally will be at the District Conference at Karnal on 17-18 February 2017

The polio van was received by our Club on 3rd November 2016

in the evening. The next day at 7.45 a.m. we started our rally

from Gurukul Global School, Sector 20, Panchkula. From there

the polio van went to Govt Sr Secondary School Manimajra, then

to Govt Model High School Manimajra, Kundan International

School, PGGC Sector 46, SOREM School Sector 36, Panjab

University and then finally to Khalsa College in Sector 26.

The Rotarians present were Vice President Salil Bali, PP Vinod

Jawa, PP Deepak Sood, PE Dr. Rita Kalra, Director Community

Service Ashok Puri, Treasurer Sanjay Bhatia, Secretary Sundeep

Sawhney, Jeeten Bhambari, Nitin Kapur, Kulbir Bhatia, Dr.

Sanjay Kalra, R'ann Renu Chopra and R'ann Dipali Adokar.

Special thanks for guidance from DG Raman Aneja, PDG Shaju

Peter and logistic help from PP Dr. V.J.S. Vohra and Rtn. Prof.

Dr. I.S. Dua. In the absence of our President who has gone

abroad, the rally was well planned and executed by the

officiating President, VP Salil Bali, AG Deepak Sood and their

dedicated team.

The rally goes around Chandigarh with the polio van

Birthday of Spouse

R’ann Indu Vohra November 11 R’ann Veena Bindra November 14

R’ann Tavinder Chopra November 15

Birthday of Rotarians

Rtn. Dev Jeet Singh November 12 Rtn. A.K. Sachdeva November 15 Rtn. S.B. Jindal November 15

Wedding Anniversary Rtn. Dr. Shashi & November 11 Mr. Naresh K. Jain IPP Rtn. Kanan & November 12 PDG Rtn. Yoginder Diwan R’ann Satpaul & November 16 Rtn. Balraj Singh

Punctuality Draw

Won by PDG Rtn. Shaju Peter

Presentation on Artificial Limbs to Medical Students

Presentation by Senior Consultant PP Dr. V.J.S. Vohra on

latest techniques and developments in prosthetics

(artificial limbs) at Nevedac Prosthetic Centre, Zirakpur to

26 medical students from Gian Sagar Medical College,

Banur. Also present were our President Elect Dr. Rita

Kalra and Dr. J.G. Vohra (of Gian Sagar) who appreciated

the nice interaction with the students and efforts being

made in limiting the disability by providing most modern

rehabilitation facilities. A few days earlier similar

presentation was given at Nevedac by Dr. V.J.S. Vohra to

45 medical students of Govt Medical College, Sector 32,

Chandigarh

Clothes donated to under privileged

On call from NGO, Nanhi

Jaan Foundation, in

association with EVRY

(India) Pvt. Ltd., subsidiary

of EVRY (Norway), donated

a carton of clothes for the

under privileged, in presence

of Secretary Rtn. Sundeep S.

Sawhney, Rtn. Nitin Kapur

and Dr. Sandeep

S. Chhatwal, MS Omni

Hospital