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My Dear Midtowner’s,
First Lady Sejal and me would like to Wish our Midtown Family, ‘A Very Happy and Prosperous 2018’.
We have completed the 1st.half our Rotary Year 2017-18 with interesting event’s in the fields of Service, Fellowship and Speaker Meet’s. While we strive to bring in quality event’s to our Club Member’s, I have found that participation at these events, by Midtowner’s has not been encouraging.
I sincerely request All MIdtonwer’s to participate at Midtown and District event’s, as your presence will be a great source of encouragement to the organising team, to bring even greater event’s to our Member’s in the coming month’s. The official visit of our District Governor – Rtn.Asha Prasanna, to our Club on 17th.November 2017, went off well, and Midtown’s contribution to the Rotary World was much appreciated.
Interesting event’s at the Club and District level’s, have been painstakingly planned in the coming month’s, and we seek every Member’s active participation, to make our Rotary World much for fun and enjoyable.
I look forward to an eventful second half to the Rotary Year 2017-18.
Your’s in Rotary,
Uday Masturlal
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Greetings to Members, Ann’s and Annets,
A warm wish to all Members and Ann’s for a very happy 2018. May the year be filled with joy and cheer.
It had been a pleasure to plan and host events and speakers for the first half but I must admit the response has not been encouraging for people who make the effort.
We do plan to bring interesting experiences for the second half and I sincerely hope it will see more participation from our members.
The club maintains itself through the member subscriptions and the second half invoices will be sent out shortly and we drop hope our members make the subscription payments in time to help us plan our club experiences.
Looking forward to a great 2018,
Cheers,
Kunal Patel
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In Rotary, our diversity is our strength. This idea dates back to the earliest years of our organization, when the classification system was first proposed. The idea behind it was simple: that a club with members who had a wide variety of backgrounds and abilities would be capable of better service than one without.
In the years since, the idea of diversity in Rotary has come to be defined more broadly. We have discovered that a club that truly represents its community is far better able to serve that community effectively. Looking ahead, it is clear how essential diversity will remain in Rotary: not only to strong service today, but to a strong organization in the future.
One of the most pressing aspects of diversity to address in our membership is the age of our members. When you look around at almost any Rotary event, it becomes immediately obvious that the age range in the room does not promise a sustainable future for our organization. Our membership is near a record high, and we are bringing in new members all the time – yet only a small minority of those members are young enough to have decades of Rotary service ahead of them. To ensure a strong and capable Rotary leadership tomorrow, we need to bring in young and capable members today.
We also cannot discuss diversity in Rotary without addressing the issue of gender. It is difficult to imagine that just three decades ago, women could not join Rotary. Although we have come a long way since then, the legacy of that misguided policy is still with us. Far too many people continue to think of Rotary as an organization only for men, and that idea has had a detrimental effect on both our public image and our membership growth. Today, women make up just over 21 percent of Rotary’s membership. While this is certainly a great improvement, we have a long way to go to meet what should be the goal of every club: a gender balance that matches the balance of our world, with as many women in Rotary as men.
Whatever brought each of us to Rotary, we stay because we find value in Rotary membership and believe that our service has value to the world. By building clubs that reflect that world in all its diversity, we will build even more enduring value in Rotary: Making a Difference.
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Club dues –
We are sorry to inform members that the Board, at its December meeting, decided to terminate the membership of four persons, as per the constitution of our club, due to non-payment of club dues. These members are – Mr Sujesh Govindan, Ms Champa Reddy, Ms Geeta Varadan and Mr Ramprakash L. Needless to say, the President and other Board members tried their utmost that such an event does not occur but to no avail. These persons are free to pay the club dues and apply for re-instatement of their membership.
We have sent out reminders to members to pay their mandatory contribution towards club projects and we are in the process of sending the 2nd half year subscription invoices. We urge members to pay at the earliest.
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On 3rd Nov 2017, Friday the Speaker meeting was held at 7.00Pm, at Soul City Restaurant, Residency Road, Bangalore.
Ms. Rashmi Daga,
Founder &CEO–Fresh Menu
Armed with an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, Rashmi started her career as a Business Manager at IBM in 2003 where she handled an extensive portfolio of corporate and government clients. She then went on to enjoy successful tenures at Life Scan (One of the fastest growing franchise of Johnson & Johnson) and TutorVista. She lives in Bangalore with her husband and daughter.
Fresh Menu
Rashmi Daga laid the foundation of one of the most exciting food tech companies- FreshMenu in September 2014. Armed with a rich experience in spearheading and managing several start-up’s and diverse businesses, she wants to bring the best of food on customer’s table. Aimed at rescuing food- seekers from mundane meals, FreshMenu is on a constant quest to whip-up interesting food options in the kitchen spread out across the city that deliver freshly cooked food to the doorsteps of its customers
FreshMenu believes in Good !!
“When we say good, we don’t just mean good food. We also mean the goodness that good food leads to. Good memories, a good temper, a good day, a good burp. And we know that when our food leaves our kitchens, we’re creating all that. It’s rewarding, this belief in good. Now take a look at how we go about it.”
Highlights of FreshMenu:
- Highly Experienced Chefs
- World Cuisine to Customers
- 45 Minutes Delivery
- Farm-Fresh Ingredients
- Daily Changing Menu
Meeting was adjourned by President Uday Masturlal.
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Recognition of PP Rtn Satish Manandi for being conferred the AKS Membership |
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| Distributed 2500+ blankets this year, reached Old age homes, deserving people at streets, school and orphanage homes. Thanks to the Rotarians who have donated whole heartedly for this great cause. |
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2000 saplings planted by students of Jain Global Instituion between 10th Nov to 16th Nov 2017.
200 students per day were involved at JGI, Kanakapura Campus to complete this project.
Rotarians visited on 11th Nov at 10 am and planted some of the trees personally. Thanks to PP Rtn Bhasker G S for donating saplings. PP RTN. Satish Manandi motivated students present.
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TO SRI MARUTHI HIGH SCHOOL
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| 54 Desks have been donated to Sri Maruthi High School with the help of Rotary District 3190 Happy School Project, Thanks to Midtowners who have contributed towards District Centinial Project. |
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On 12th Dec 2017, Tuesday the HSIS committee meeting was held at 5.00Pm, at HSIS Masjid Office, Pulakeshi Nagar, Bangalore.
Members Present: President Uday Masturlal, Hon. Secretary Kunal Patel, Rtn. Varadu Seshamani, Rtn. Sundeep Shah, Rtn. Masood Kareem.
HSIS team: Mr. Sahail Ahmed, Mr. Majeed Ebrahim, Mr. Rafiq Ahi Mohammad, Dr. Javeed, Dr. Farheen Taj, Dr. Shazia Niaz, Mr. Anwar, & Mrs. Rahimannissia
I, the undersigned welcomed Members, Doctors and it was open for discussion. President Uday Masturlal and Hon. Secretary Kunal Patel appreciated the services of Dispensary staff for treating large number of patients and requested the Doctors to advice medicine initially for 2 to 3 days and extend further if necessary.
Rtn. Sundeep Shah went through the bills of J S P Distributors in details and suggested to go for generic mediciens only instead of branded medicines, also suggested to have 1 indent for both dispensaries ( Gottigere & HSIS). Rtn. Sundeep Shah was kind enough to speak to Mr. Chirag, J S P Distributors for the medicines supplies.
President Uday Masturlal informed, the computer with software will be provided along with the training from Mahaveer Jain hospital team to ensure the proper disbursement and stock of medicines. Rtn. Kamal Bhandari will be organizing the same.
Masjid Committee secretary Mr. Shail Ahmed was requested to appoint a person to update the software with required data on the installation of the software.
Chairman Dispensary clarified the members present in the meeting about the Medicine cost of Rs. 2,45,252/- during Nov-17 that, Medicines of Dec-17 were also purchased in Nov-17 itself hence, the cost was huge. Detailed workings on Cost per patients in both the dispensaries attached to this report.
Further to the meeting fellow Rotarians visited dispensary were very happy with the setup. Meeting ended with tea and snacks which were organized by Marjid Committee.
Regards,
Masood Kareem
Dispensary Chairman
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Rotary Bangalore Midtown
Unit No. 109, Prestige Towers, Residency Road, Bangalore – 5600025
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