Best Club Trophy to Rotary Chandigarh Midtown

Salil Bali adjudged Best President in Rotary District

Rtn. Salil Bali accepts the trophy from IPDG Rtn Jitendra Dhingra at the
Rotary District 3080 Award function for 2019-20 held at Kurukshetra today. 

Rotary Club of Chandigarh Midtown won the Best Club Trophy in the Rotary District 3080 for the year 2019-20, with Rtn Salil Bali declared as the Best President in the Rotary District.

At the District Awards function held at Kurukshetra in the presence of a few club presidents and secretaries of last year with live streaming online, the awards were given to various clubs in the District for the service projects undertaken during the last Rotary year which ended on 30^th June under the leadership of District Governor 2019=20 Rtn Jitendra Dhingra.

Rotary Club of Chandigarh received the Awards for maximum projects during 2019-20, best project for medical mission to Zimbabwe, and best contribution to the Rotary Foundation during the year, which were presented to last year president Rtn Surinder Pal Kaur.

Rotary Chandigarh Shivalik received the best club award in its category for its 'Dinner in the Dark' project.

The last Rotary year's president Rtn Salil Bali of Chandigarh Midtown who attended the function and received the Best Club Trophy from the District functionaries for organizing 26 AIDS awareness camps.

Another District Trophy for its Best Project on TB awareness was also won by Chandigarh Midtown, besides its member Assistant Governor Deepak Sood adjudged as the best club trainer.

Salil Bali said that the club could do wonder because of the active participation of everyone of its 113 members despite the lockdown since March.

   Congratulating the award winners, Past Rotary International President Rajendra K Saboo through online video conference said that Rotary is a continuous process and with each passing year, it grows stronger and through the leadership opportunity that it gives to various Rotarians it not only makes them heroes for that year, but better human beings for the rest of their lives.

Over 150 Rotarians attended online, including various senior Rotarians, current District Governor Ramesh Bajaj, and past district governors including Kawal Bedi, Arun Sharma, Shaju Peter, Ranbir Singh, Manmohan Singh, Satish Saluja, Parmod Vij MLA, Yoginder Dewan, Ranbir Singh, Col Patnaik, TK Ruby, Jitendra Dhingra, and incoming leadership of the District Ajay Madan, and Naveen Gulati, amongst others.  

Sukhjit Gill is Rotary Club Chandigarh’s new President

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Sukhjit Gill is Rotary Club Chandigarh's new President

Rotary Honours Justice Rajiv Sharma by conferring Paul Harris Fellowship

 

Chandigarh, 8th July:

Rotary Club of Chandigarh installed its new President Rtn Sukhjit Singh Gill and Team for 2020-21 here yesterday through a virtual meeting in the presence of various dignitaries and prominent Rotarians from District 3080.

Rtn Sukhjit Singh Gill, who is a financial consultant took the collar of presidentship from his predecessor Rtn Surinder Pal Kaur, an ex-IRS officer.

Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma  of Punjab and Haryan High Court was the Chief Guest and District Governor Ramesh Bajaj was the Guest of Honour.

Outgoing president Surinder Pal Kaur informed that the club has spent nearly Rs.1.8 crores including Rs.55 lakh during the Covid on providing medical supplies to PGI, GMCH32 and General Hospital Sector 16, besides extensively providing dry ration and prepared food to the doctors, migrant labour.

The club was able to undertake 16 children for heart surgeries under club's Heartline project, besides various initiatives in the village Saketri, and throughout the lockdown the Club continued to meet regularly. 

On this occasion, Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma was conferred the Paul Harris Fellowship for his contribution to the environment,  by the Club contributing USD1000 to the Rotary Foundation.

Speaking on the occasion the chief guest who himself is a great environmentalist and known as 'green judge', Justice Rajiv Sharma said that everyone should be concerned and caring about our environment beyond our own homes.  He said global warming and other environmental destruction would lead to crisis for our earth and humanity.

He advised we must start living in harmony with nature, and respect environment and lamented the growing disharmony being caused by our dependency on technology especially the mobile phones. 

Rtn Sukhjit Gill shared the roadmap for the club during 2020-21 and said that the club shall continue to impact lives through blood donation camps, promote the flagship project with free heart surgeries through its partner hospitals, sensitise school children in menstrual hygiene and sanitation, launch of health education centre for the children of the city, and health of women and children.

Rotary Vidya Sadan in Bapu Dham shall be strengthened further to educate drop-out girls, and provide crèche facility for the daily wagers, and clubfoot treatment to children in GMCH32.

District Governor Ramesh Bajaj, guest of honour, stated that despite the continued lockdown the Club shall continue to reach out to the community come what may. Sharing success mantra with the new team, Ramesh Bajaj asked to follow 'BMW' i.e. prayer, Bless My Wisdom, Bless My Work,  Bless My Words, and Burn My Worries.  He advised the leadership to put up three factories for success, one, of Ice factory to stay cool; sugar factory to speak sweetly; and the third, love factory to instill compassion and love in your heart.

Earlier former world president of Rotary International, Rajendra K Saboo said that the leadership in Rotary changes on 1st July congratulated outgoing president Surinder Pal Kaur for her stellar achievements during challenging times and complimented the incoming team for their plans.

Assisting President Sukhjit Singh Gill in the team 2020-21 are Vice President Praveen Agarwal,  Secretary Gurvinder Saggu; Baldev Garg, Treasurer; Sonia Dhillon, Jt Secy; Dinesh Dua director club service, Vinod Kapoor, Director Vocational Service; Lalita Grover, Director Community Service; Gurmeet Chawla; Director International Service; Baldev Aggarwal Director Youth Service; Kulbir Dogra, Sergeant-at-Arms; PRID Rajendra Saboo, PDG Kawal Bedi, PDG Madhukar Malhotra, PDG Praveen Chander Goyal.

 Those who joined the meeting included past district governors Ranjit Bhatia, Madhukar Malhotra,   Yoginder Dewan, Manmohan Singh, Praveen Goyal,  Jitendra Dhingra,  district governor elect Ajay Madan, Usha Saboo, Inner Wheel President Komal Gupta, and Rotaractors amongst others with Rtn Dinesh Dua and Rtn Suditi Jindal moderating the session.

Past President Neena Singh recited the mool mantra of Japji while Rtn Ruchi Singla recited the Gayatri Mantra as invocations at the beginning of the meeting.

The Club was chartered on 13 May 1958 and has since grown with the city launching various projects for the community.

For further information:

President Rtn Sukhjit Singh Gill, M: 9356065058

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