Ajay Madan is Rotary District Governor

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Ajay Madan of Kurukshetra is Rotary District Governor 

Rtn Ajay Madan of Kurukshetra is the new District Governor of Rotary International District 3080, which includes Chandigarh, and parts of  Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and UP. 

With 85 clubs and over 3500 Rotarians, the District 3080 has a long tradition of serving humanity with major projects like free heart surgeries, blood donation, medical missions to African countries, among others. 
This year, the District intends to bring 2000 new Rotarians to its folds as well as extend its youth wing Rotaractor. 
DG Ajay Madan plans to plant 15 lakh trees by 15th August in the entire District, collect over 1 lakh units of blood, promote literacy and provide 10,000 benches in schools which do not have the facility. 

A free vaccination drive to protect the girls reaching puberty against cervical cancer is also being launched in the Rotary District. 

Pledging organs, Covid vaccination campaign, and medical facilities in remote villages of Uttrakhand have already been launched. 

Today, the District 3080 tied up with HARTRON and launched a free computer education for the children who lost their parents to Covid19. 

Rtn Ajay Madan 
District Governor 2021-22
Rotary District 3080
M: 97287 00233

Fourth Indian Shekhar Mehta to lead Rotary International in 2021-22

Indian business leader and philanthropist takes office as Rotary International President for 2021-2022

 

Fourth Indian to lead the 116-year-old service organization

 

New Delhi, July 1, 2021: Shekhar Mehta, Chairman and founder of real estate company Skyline Group and member of the Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar, today begins his one-year term as the Rotary International's 111^th president leading 1.2 million Rotary members globally.

 As president, Mehta will focus on empowering girls globally by providing access to education and resources that offer them leadership opportunities in the future.

 "Equality is a fundamental human right, and it's necessary for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world," said Mehta. "Still, girls and women worldwide face inequities in areas including health and education and experience significant violence and disproportionate poverty. Rotary encourages clubs and districts to prioritize projects that improve the health, well-being, education, and economic security of girls in their communities and around the world."

 In the last year, Mehta has been actively involved in strengthening Rotary's response to COVID-19 in India. Under his guidance, Rotary clubs across India are working with local governments and authorities to boost the vaccination roll out and delivery along with providing infrastructural support to hospitals and COVID-19 care facilities. Rotary is also playing a critical role in mobilising relief work across communities most impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.

 Mehta has previously spearheaded PAN India initiatives to provide underserved communities with access to clean water and sanitation, healthcare and basic education. He has also led efforts to support communities in disaster recovery in collaboration with the Government of India.

Mehta's 'Saving Little Hearts' initiative, has so far provided over 2500 life-saving heart surgeries to children from disadvantaged families suffering from congenital heart defects across South Asia. He also has been actively supporting the TEACH program that aims at helping India attain 100% literacy by 2027 and had earlier played a pivotal role in recovery efforts after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

 "Over the last 100 years, Rotary has grown from just one to 4000 clubs with 1.75 lakh Rotary members in India, and 36,000 clubs with 1.2 million members worldwide. Just in 2019-20, The Rotary Foundation in India supported global grant projects worth 28.4 million USD. Moving forward, Rotary will aim to actively support the central government in achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals across Rotary's areas of focus," he added.

 As president, Mehta will oversee Rotary's top priority of ending polio worldwide. Alongside its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Rotary has achieved a 99.9 percent reduction in polio cases since spearheading the initiative more than 30 years ago. Since then, Rotary members have contributed $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect more than 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Today, just two countries continue to report cases of wild poliovirus, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  

 Since 1995, Rotary has worked with the Indian government to institute national immunization days each year to immunize 172 million children under five years of age. India has remained polio-free for last seven years.

 

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Rotary announces Big Service Projects in Northern India

World President of Rotary Shekhar Mehta to visit Kurukshetra on 10^th July

Kurukshetra, 27 May:  Rotary International District 3080 announced the plantation of 15 lakh trees in the District, informed the Kurukshetra born business person, Rtn Ajay Madan, who takes over as District Governor on 1^st July.

Ajay Madan, addressing over 500 Rotary leaders here today at the virtual Rotary District Training Assembly informed that nearly 3,500 Rotarians in the District and the new leaders are all geared to "Serve to Change Lives", which is the Rotary International theme.

He informed that this year the fourth Indian in Rotary's 116^th years of service,  Rtn Shekhar Mehta from Kolkata, who would take up the leadership of 1.2 million Rotarians of the world.

Carrying the dream project of incoming Rotary's world leader Shekhar Mehta to increase the global membership from existence to 1.2 million Rotarians to 1.3 million Rotarians.

In our District 3080 which comprises of Chandigarh, parts of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Utrakhand and UP, with nearly 86 Rotary Clubs, Ajay Madan said that nearly 2000 new Rotarians would be brought into the fold of Rotary to make a difference in the lives of the people.

Rotary is known worldwide for eradicating polio in the world, the new year starting 1^st July, the District intends to plant 15 lakh trees during July itself, collect nearly 1 lakh units of blood through regular blood donation camps, provide 10,000 benches in the schools, and much more.

Ajay Madan also announced that it would be a unique honour for the Rotarians that the world President of Rotary International Shekhar Mehta would be arriving in Kurukshetra to formally install the District Governor and Team for 2021-22.

Rotary District shall be signing an MoU with HARTRON on 1^st July forproviding free computer training and arrange their employment who lost their parents in Covid19. 

Ajay Madan informed that Organ Donation campaign will be launched to register maximum number of people besides vaccination of teenaged girls against cervical cancer, besides continuing vaccination drive against Covid19. 

Rotary Club Shimla and Mussoorie would be installed to recycle plastic bottles on both the Malls.

Disaster Management would be undertaken. A warehouse in District 3080 would be setup in Chandigarh to help the needy during disaster management.

All trucks and tractors shall be fitted with reflectors to avoid road accidents during the year, Ajay Madan informed.

Member of Parliament PDG Vivek Tankha, said that under Rotary's medical mission, Rahat, medical camps for the underprivileged shall be organised pan India starting with the first one at Leh on 1^st July.    

The Rotary District Training Assembly was addressed by former world President of Rotary International Rajendra K Saboo, Member of Parliament Past District Governor Rtn Vivek Tankha, and Rotary International Director 2021-23 Dr Mahesh Kotbaghi, PDG Deepak Aggarwal, District Trainer PDG Manmohan Singh, PDG T.K. Ruby, PDG Jitendra Dhingra, and senior Rotarians including PDG Madhukar Malhotra, PDg Praveen Aggarwal, PP Rtn CJ Singh, PP Rtn AP Singh, among others conducted the training for the incoming club leaders.