Rotarians are the champions in helping others: Advisor
Chandigarh, July 9: Rotarians are champions in helping others, said Advisor to the Administrator UT Chandigarh, Mr Manoj Kumar Parida, while addressing Rotary Club of Chandigarh at their installation meet at CII here yesterday.
Former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax and Ombudsman of Punjab Electricity, Rtn Surinder Paul Kaur, took up the leadership of the Club for one year from her predecessor Rtn Amrit Pal Singh Dhiman.
Mr Parida commended outgoing President Amrit Pal for undertaking numerous projects in the community worth over Rs.2 crores including renovating the toilet block in cremation ground, imitating the Health Education Centre, help to Pulwama martyrs, blood donation van, and sweets worth Rs.8 lakh for jawans on borders, etc.
Looking at these stellar achievements, Chandigarh Administration be too willing to support any endeavour of Rotary Club Chandigarh, he said.
He also commended Rtn P.J. Singh and his wife Dr Rajinder Kaur for contributing USD 60,000, last year, and contributed another USD 10,000 on the occasion to The Rotary Foundation, and Mr Parida said that giving for others comes back to you one way or the other.
He also inaugurated the new Back-to-School project for the next Rotary year which is funded by a philanthropist Mr Satbir Singh Kohli, who created corpus of Rs.10 lakh last year and announced Rs.1 lakh addition during the function, so that the brilliant children who drop out of school because of lack of funds should be able to resume their studies.
Two students of government schools were presented the bag of books, stationery, uniform, and cheques for their fee on the occasion.
President Surinder Paul Kaur listed out the projects she has planned for the year including completion of Health Education Center, water harvesting, environmental care, literacy, TB-free Chandigarh, club foot treatment,
Past Rotary International President Rajendra K. Saboo and Past Rotary International Director Yash Pal Das, Past District Governor Kawal Bedi, spoke on the occasion.
The new Board of Directors of the Club for 2019-20, included Vice Chairman Reema Dhiman, Secretary Abha Sharma, Treasurer Anil Khanna, Joint Secretary Karan S. Bhandari, Director Club Service Charanjit Singh, Director Vocational Service Neenu Vij, Director Community Service Gurvinder S. Saggu, Director International Service Praveen Aggarwal, Director Youth Service Jatinder Kapur, Sergeant-at-Arms Kewal Seth.
Past RI President Rajendra K. Saboo, PDG Kawal Bedi, PDG Madhukar Malhotra and IPDG Praveen Goyal, are also the members of the new Board.
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