Club Id: 26976, Rotary International District 3142Charter Date: 26th Feb. 1990

ROTARY CLUB OF THANE MIDTOWN

John GermRI President 2016-17

Dr. Chandrashekhar KolvekarDistrict Governor 3142

Issue - 1st Jan. - 31st Mar. 2017

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Issue - 1st Aug. 2016

MESSAGE FROM RI PRESIDENT.

MESSAGE FROM DISTRICT GOVERNOR.

The Dynamics of Indo Pak-Relations, Kashmir and Beyond06-01-2017

There are a lot of issues that affect us and our country. For

understanding these dynamics it is necessary to understand

history. That is exactly what was done at this weekly meeting

when history came alive with Rtn. Manish Kachhy who

explained with audios, videos, facts and figures complicated

interwoven history and how and why and whom the affects. A

beautiful talk.

The Arcot carried out a small skit at The Upvan Festival where

Prs. Mitali, Madhavi, Sachin, Rajendra, Vilas spoke about what

is Rotary and how it functions. This was a PR activity to create

awareness about Rotary.

Times Sanskruti Arts Festival13-01-2017

The UpvanSanskriti Festival is one of the most loved events

with a lot of footfall at the Happening City of Thane. What

could be better place to promote Rotary than the Walk of Pride

inauguration seminar: Arcot Presidents ladies in red, males in

blue and also carried a huge banner.The best moment was

when the announcement of Rotary was cheered by the

thousands plus crowd. We all felt very proud when it was

mentioned that Rotary had contributed towards the

Planetarium visit for 2500 underprivileged school children and

that Rotary had contributed 1.5 lacs towards the festival.

Upvan Talaav12-01-2017

MESSAGE FROM RI PRESIDENT.

Hello Friends,

So , the year 2016 is gone and we have ushered in 2017. Three months have breezed by. The first

six months consisted of projects which had a short visibility, but massive PR, massive involvement of

all club members, Arcot, District and huge participation from The Entire District 3142. They

highlighted the Presence of Rotary and moreso, the Presence of Rotary Club of Thane Midtown. Our

Club is now synonymous with these unique and big size projects. We sparkled and will be in the

memory of all those who were touched by these projects and events. From January onwards the focus has been on projects which are

much more sustainable, lasting and durable. They are more concentrated on a section, at times even on an individual and yet is

giving dignity, hope and self reliance to the recipients. Each project was monetarily of a sizable amount, yet centred round a small

segment and has given actual, physical change. Meetings, as usual have been a beauty and attendance has been soaring. Events have

been ...eventful and a treat. A very silent, solid, satisfying three months.

MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT DESK

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Rotary Club of Thanet Midtown successfully implemented.

Director Medical Sangeeta,Club Treasurer Daivat,IPP Suhas

PE Vasanti registered polio doses to kids at these camps.

29-01-2017 Polio Camp In Kasarvadavli

The First District Conference of District 3142 was put up in a very grand way with extraordinary speakers, a spacious venue, and all required to make the Conference a Super Success.

29-01-2017 Discon

Environmental Engineering13-01-2017

The Board of Directors-2017-18 had their Orientation

Programme on 12th February at Sanskaar Public School. The

Session was very motivating and inspiring and the Board

present were a highly motivated team by the end of the session.

12-02-2017 The Board of Directors

This weekly meetings saw a lot of smiles and was filled with

pride and respect for the new generation speaker, Young Palash

Kachhy. A very honest talk, filled with innocence and insight and

knowledge and interesting information from the point of view of

a youngster. Palash spoke about how engineering is used to

maintain environment. What is most important is garbage

management is an integral part here and young Palash was very

much aware of India and politics here. For once we had a

youngster who showed desire to come back and use knowledge

to serve the country.

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14-02-2017 Nisarg Parichay Centre

14-02-2017 Infant Pediatric Heart Surgery

When we are born, all have tiny holes in their hearts. As we

start growing , the holes get repaired. But, all are not so lucky.

There are some infants , whose holes in the heart dont get

repaired and hence, they suffer a lot. Medical science comes to

the rescue of such tiny infants in the form of specialised

procedures called infant pediatric heart surgery. These are

specialized surgeries performed by specialized surgeons at

highly specialized hospitals. These procedures are extremely

costly and can doom the families of the patients. Rotary, certain

ngos, doctors themselves and even the hospitals come together

to give support to such infants. RCTSuburban, RCTPremium

have come up with a scheme where a club can join in by a

donation of Rs. 25,000/-. Rtn. Deven contributed Rs.

18,000/- and RCT Midtown contributed Rs. 7,000/- and have

donated Rs. 25,000/- for the operation of one such child.

05-02-2017 Joint Meeting

All The Rotary Clubs of Thane organised a Joint Meeting at

Nisarg Parichay Centre. This was part of The Ryla and Rypen.

The Topics discussed were not just one but all topics discussed

throughout for the two days . It was a very enriching experience.

DG Chandrashekhar Kolvekar along with First Lady Ruta was

the Chief Guest for the Joint Meeting. In all 12 clubs had got

together for this Meeting.

11 Rotary Clubs of Thane as part of ARCOT got together to

organize a RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) AND a

RYPEN (Rotary Youth Programme for Enrichment) . This was a

two day workshop for College Students(age 16-25 yrs) and

School Students(age 12-16 years). -Rotary Club of Thane Uptown-Prs. Madhavi-Rotary Club of Thane Downtown-Prs. RajendraRotary Club of Thane Midtown-Prs. MitaliRotary Club of Thane Hiranandani -Prs. RupaliRotary Club of Thane urbania-Prs. PrdeepRotary Club of Thane New City-Prs. Sachin KhedekarRotary Club of Thane west-Prs. SunilRotary Club of Thane paradise -Prs. Vilas GayakwadRotary Club of Thane main-Prs. NitinRotary Club of Thabe Lake City-Prs. ManishRotary Club of Thane central - Prs. SanjayRotary Club of Thane Premium-Prs. Sameer

Leaders from various fields had planned interactive sessions

with the students and sensitized, motivated students on a

variety of Life Skill Enriching Topics.1.Cyber Safety-Rtn. Sucheta2.Olympics and great leadership skills-Dr. Lucky Kasat3.Time Management-Rtn. Prakash Chaudhary4.Leadership Skills-Shri. Sunil Haribal5. Effective Public Speaking-Shri Vaibhav Koregaonkar6.CPR Training Session-Dr. Sunil Katkade7.Yoga-Ann Sandhya8.Fitness-Ann Sandhya9.Talk on Star Gazing- Shri. Umesh Gude and Prs.Vilas10.Nature Trail-Shri Mitesh Panchal 11.Smart Goal Setting-Rtn. Vaibhav Datar12.Intelligence to Virture-an Inner Journey-Dr. Shailesh Umate13. Warli Painting-Smt.Vandana Pawar14.Body Language-Smt.Mansi Savant15.Mind Management-Shri Sam Parulekar16.Motivation-DGND Mohan Chandavarkar

Rotary District Governor Chandrashekhar Kolvekar was the

Chief Guest for the Programme. He was accompanied by First

Lady Ruta.Students from:1.Shiv Samarth Vidyalaya, Thane2. Holy Cross School, Thane3. Srirang Vidyalaya, Thane

Students were observed on the basis of enthusiasm,

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participation, enterprise, gelling with other students, overall

interaction, discipline, talent, interest in activities, dynamism

and overall performance. Prizes were bestowed upon the

following talented Students.1. Ryla King - Anvay Mhaiskar2. Ryla Queen - Hanisha

Other Winners- Runners Up-Asawari, Jaei Kulkarni, Trisha

Sachdev, Pranjal Nalawade, Swani Pandery, Arjun Sutar, Raje,

Narendra Pandey, Yashika and others bagged several other

prizes. All participants, came out of their whatsapp, video

games worlds in which they have imprisoned themselves and

participated and interacted with students and rotarians

physically and actually around them. Speakers were able to

motivate, awaken, sensitize students many important matters

which lead one towards becomitowards ng a leader and most

important towards becoming a good citizen and a good human

being. Talented Rotarians and all other participants of this Ryla,

all of who are dynamic leaders in their own fields came across to

students as very friendly, fun loving, full of life, very kind and

caring people, a role model to be like. Students spoke their

hearts out about this feeling and this public speaking is the first

step towards the aim of The Ryla. A good Rotary programme

organized very well and super successful in achieving its

objective.

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17-02-2017 Pre OCV

The pre ocv was conducted prior to upcoming OCV. Presedent. Mitali by means of a PPT gave a brief description of events, projects, programmes done until the pre OCV date. The AG had asked for some other details which were produced. Some changes which were required were conveyed to the Prs. Mitali agreed to make the required changes at the earliest.

“Childhood of every child has to be cherished so what if the

child is differently abled” With this thought in mind and to

nurture and encourage the sporting talent among SPECIAL

children, the group of All Rotary Clubs Of Thane( ARCOT)

along with Phoenix Sports(a social organization which

organises sporting events for mentally challenged children)

organized this event “DAWN TO DUSK’ at Mavli Mandal

school ground at THANE.Athletic events like running ,long jump, shot-put ,book

balancing, Block collecting ,Relay shuttle(50x4 mtrs) were

played enthusiastically by the kids who cheered for each other

along with encouragement from their coaches ,parents and

Rotary and phoenix members .Table tennis was played

excellently by these differently abled kids .The winner among

girls was Dhruti Pandit from PODS Organisation and among

boys the winner was Zubair Sayyad from Lions Juhu centre.

05-03-2017 Dawn to Dusk

The winners in Athletic events were mainly from Save The

Children Of India and from Lions Centre Juhu.The event was well managed by ROTARIANS from different

clubs of Thane and timely refreshments ,food and gifts were

given to each child. Mr.Sai Hattangady from Phoenix Sports

declared the Sports meet open and Rotary Dist 3142 district

Governer Dr.chandrashekhar Kolvekar also a ttended the event

along with many other dignitaries.This was the first sports event

for mentally challenged children organized by ROTARY in the

newly formed district 3142. Pres Sameer Shinde, Pres

.Rajendra Shinde,Pres Madhavi Kharote, Pres,Mitali

Vasavda,Pres. Bhushan Mulay,Pres.Manish Bhasein,Pres.Nitin

Jadhav and their club members were present to cheer the

participants.Prize distribution was done by Mr.Satish Mane a

senior Rotarian from the District Administrative team. The

happy faces , the sporting spirit and the resilience shown by the

kids, the patience shown by their parents and their school

teachers, some of whom had come from Vasai and Nalasopara

was a lesson for each one of us . We will always cherish this day

where Rotarians tried to provide a platform for these kids to

show their talent but in return got memories for a lifetime .

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Every person has tremendous potential. A person rarely is able

to realise his full potential. The reason is , we are surrounded by

many chavyoohas created by internal and external forces. What

is this Chakravyooha. What was its structure? How was it

created centuries ago in Mahabharat a? How this Chakravyooha

17-03-2017 Abhimanyu's Chakravyooha

19-03-2017 Road Safety Project

Sunday morning was very pleasant for the residents of

Shivkrupanagar. Rotarians from RCTMidtown spent time with

them, distributed napkins, books, sweets, biscuits, soap,

toothbrush, toothpaste to the 100 plus kids of the area. A

project on Road Safety was also carried out at the site. The

road at Shivkrupa nagar is narrow and with houses on the sides.

Children play on the roads. Cars and bikes speed by and there

were accidents. So speed breakers were installed, not one but

three. These speed breakers were not marked and hence not

visible to drivers. Plus no one anticipates 3 speedbreakers on

one road. The speed breakers because of no markings were

causing harm to drivers and pedestrians. PP Jagdish and IPP

Suhas came together and carried out the entire project where

the speed breakers were painted and road safety provided.

Prs.Mitali, PE Vasanti and PP Jagdish and PP Milind spoke and

guided the residents and children.

Holi was celebrated with FAFDA JALEBI, flowers, Gulaal, games, eco friendly colors and great fellowship at YEOORLEY HILLS , Vasavda farms, Yeour hills thane.

12-03-2017 Holi Celebration was finally successful in restricting a person of the calibre of

Abhimanyu. All this was beautifully explained by means of a

PPT by Dr.Lucky Kasat to a spellbound audience. One of the

finest meetings till date.

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25-03-2017

RCT Midtown and RC Deonar conducted a Joint Meeting at

BPGC Chembur as an initiative towards sister pairing of club.

Sister pairing of Clubs happens when 2 clubs from 2 different

districts conduct at least 2 Joint Meetings, 2 Fellowships,

2 Joint Projects and 1 Joint District Grant or Global Grant

Project. Good experience with change of venue and good

fellowship.

Sister Pairing Joint Meeting

28-03-2017 Swachhta Abhiyaan

We all wish each other a Happy Gudi Padwa. RCTMidtown actually gifted Happiness to Thane City by carrying out a very basic Swachhta Abhiyaan during the Shobha Yatra on Gokhale Road and Ram Maruti Road. Recyclable,sturdy made to order plastic containers donated by Rtn.Sri nivas were put up on footpaths. Each was fitted with a Huge garbage bag. Garbage bags were handed to each vehicle of the Yatra. Rotarians moved in the crowd holding Garbage bags gathering plastic glasses, bottles, paper plates, pamphlets. Rotarians physically picked up litter thrown on roads. By these planned acts no Garbage remained on roads even after such a huge yatra of 2000 plus crowd for 4 hours. Rotarians collected all the Garbage and the total was more than 20 huge Garbage Bags which were then handed over to the TMC cleaners.

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OUR WEEKLY MEETING ARE HELD AT HOTEL SHARANAM EASTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY, SERVICE ROAD, OPP. RAMKRISHNA NAGAR, NEAR NEW R.T.O., THANE (W), Thane - 400604, MAHARASHTRA. ON EVERY FRIDAY AT 7.30 PM.

Club id: 26976, Rotary International District 3142