VOL. 04 | DECEMBER, 2016THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF ROTARY MIDTOWN, BANGALORE
Published by Rotary Bangalore Midtown. For private circulation only.
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IN THIS EDITION:
?? Message from The President
?? Message from The Secretary
December 2016: Club Services
?? Toyota Kirloskar Factory Visit
?? Ann???s Project – Hamper Distribution
MESSAGE FROM THE
SECRETARY:
Dear Members,
December was a festive month, with Christmas and New Year on
the horizon. We organised an educational trip to Toyota Kirloskar
and witnessed how our favourite Toyota cars are manufactured.
There were other interesting events throughout the month like
blanket and gift hampers distribution for kids. Closed the month
with a very interesting speaker who candidly shared his journey of
having built a successful internet start-up, reminding many of our
members their own journeys of having built their successful
businesses. This event was well attended and enjoyed by many
Rotarians, Anns and Annets along with some guests who felt
welcomed to our club. We start the New Year with renewed
enthusiasm to bring you more service events and interesting
speakers to enrich our charity as well as professional lives
Regards
Narendra Pasuparthy
Secretary Ry 2016-17
MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT:
Dearest Friends,
We continue to enjoy our team doing service and having fun with
our fellow members. This month started with an interesting
vocational trip to Toyota Kirloskar factory on 03rd and on 09th we
welcomed our new RY team 17 -18 led by Rtn Uday Masturlal. Had
two rounds of gratifying blanket distribution, over active
compassionate Anns made many kids heart gladden with gift
hampers at Auto Raja Home and we wrapped up the month with a
wonderful Speaker and Dinner Meeting on 23rd Dec. We are
approaching mid of our Rotary Year and looking forward to
collectively presenting our club activities & achievements to our
DG H R Ananth on 06th January 2017. See you soon and wish you a
rocking 2017
Warmest wishes
Nishu Jouhari
President RY 2016-17.
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?? 21st Weekly Meeting
?? Birthdays and Anniversaries
?? Ways to Reduce Stress
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Technological Training Institute) which is a large
division of the factory. The TTTI helps by giving
technical education to rural poor and then giving
them jobs in the factory. They admit only 64
children every year and only 2 to 3 of them drop
out, unable to cope with the rigors of the program.
The children are taken at the age of ???fteen and
study up to the age of 18.We were shown the
training grounds and the workshops where they
learn to take apart and rebuild the engine of a car
amongst other skills that are needed for them to
work on the production line. In fact, there was a
skeleton of a Toyota innova with the gearbox and
engine that was running with the help of an electric
motor and most importantly it was built by the
children! The time now was about One O???Clock and
we had to leave the stunning TTTI facility. We were
then taken to factory No:2, built recently with a
production capacity of 250,000 a month). A guide
instructed us to walk on the green path when inside
the factory. As we moved along in pairs we came to
a station where all the doors were getting their ???nal
parts on, and ready to be reunited with the car. As
we moved a few steps further there was the station
at which the parts were being supplied to the other
stations at the assembly line. As we moved on we
came to a stop to see as to how the assembly line
works. The cars continuously moving at a very slow
speed, while well trained and skilled people built
the car piece by piece, next we saw the dashboards
being put together and a few interesting facts were
shared, if one bolt was missing from the dashboard
when its being put together the whole assembly line
comes to a halt and a red light goes o??? ???ashing. As
we moved a little further, we saw Toyota Ethos and
the Toyota Live cars, being lifted up by robotic
machine and put on another line. We even saw them
???tting the mudguards and some of the interior body
panels. The amount of mechanisation that had been
done to the factory was incredible. We were now at
the other end of the factory and our tour was at its
end. I???m sure this made all of us very sad for our
tour was at its end but not just yet, we still had the
Toyota Kirloskar Factory food to try. The whole visit
was a wonderful experience and big thank you to
Toyota group and Aditya Uncle to make it happen.
CLUB SERVICES:
Toyota Kirloskar Factory Visit
03rd December, 2016
(Report prepared by Annette Abhay Pasuparthy, son
of Hon .Sec Narendra Pasuparthy).
It was a sunny morning that was accompanied by the
cold breeze. We met up in front of Innovative Film
City which is a well known theme park in Bidadi.
Thirty Two people were present for the tour all
together. We had co???ee that was brought to us by
our fellow Rotarian. There were cookies that were
served with the co???ee. It was about ten thirty by
the time we entered the factory. We drove down to
the parking lot of the factory and regrouped. A bus
took us to a small building which had all the history
of Toyota Kirloskar Motors. There was a presentation
and we were told a few things about Toyota
Kirloskar. A few facts were the size of the land
which was about 452 acres, there are two facilities,
one of them was built recently and every three and
a half minuets a new car rolls out of the facility and
that over 3 lakh cars are made every year. We were
then showed two videos. One video involved the
process of how Toyota and Kirloskar were formed
and a little bit on how the cars are built. The second
video consisted of how Toyota Kirloskar helped in
educating the poor people and their contribution to
the society. We were then taken to the TTTI (Toyota
POSITION HOLDERS
Designation RY 2016 – 17
President: Rtn Nishu Jouhari
Immediate Past President: Rtn Sathish Manandi
President Elect: Rtn Uday Masturlal
Vice President: Rtn Kshama Bhatia
Hon. Secretary: Rtn Narendra Pasuparthy
Hon. Joint Secretary: Rtn Kunal Patel
Hon. Treasurer: Rtn Akhilesh Babu
Sgt-At-Arms: Rtn Masood Kareem
Directors
Community Service: Rtn Srikanth Bhagavat
Rotary Foundation: Rtn Gunashekar Vuppalapati
Vocational Service: Rtn Aditya Shro???
T E A C H: Rtn Shrikant Pandit
New Generation: Rtn Seema Sibbal
Co-Opted Directors: PP Rtn M G Pramod
PP Rtn A V S Murthy
Chairman – Maanasi: Rtn Ramesh Bulchandani
Chairman – Dispensary: Rtn Masood Kareem
Chairman – School: Rtn Kamal Bhandari
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Anns Project ??? Hamper
Distribution at ??? HOME OF
HOPE
7th December 2016
Home for Hope is an NGO, ???For the young, restoring
worth, providing a place of security, community and
hope for the future. For the old and terminally ill, a
place where they can experience love, care and die
with dignity”. The Home of Hope is located in
Doddagubbi Village, in the outskirts of Bangalore.
The Home is built on a half acre plot of land and was
built to accommodate 80 residents. However, today
there are more than 200 residents live here. HOME
OF HOPE has rescued more than 5,000 people from
the streets of Bangalore and suburbs. More than
1,500 people were restored in great health to their
fa milies. Asha Chamaria,Ritu marda,Vinder
Bindra,Sangita Podar,Nandita Sanghani,Sejal
Masturlal,Parul Sastri attended . Ann Vinder Bindra
shared her experience – It was a very touching and
ful???lling Project. The lighting up the children’s eyes
when they got their bag of goodies made our day.
Auto Raja s sel???ess service is really commendable. If
each one of us can do even a fraction of what he is
doing for humanity, the world will be a better place
.Hope to be involved in many more such projects.
Special thanks to Rtn Namrata for organising
Goodies comprise of notebooks , eraser, pencils ,
sharpener, soaps, toothpaste , brush, chocolates ,
jam biscuits , bun, butter and cake and little lolly
pops chips and sweets.
21st Weekly Meeting
9th December 2016
The meeting started at 7:00 P.M at Oakwood, UB
City, with President Nishu Jouhari welcoming all
Rotarians, The main agenda was the season of
Election announcements by President Elect Rtn Uday
Masturlal, Prior to election, notices were circulated
to all members via email to nominate the board
members of Ry 2017- 18. Collectively President Elect
Rtn Uday Masturlal announced the list of the
incoming board members of Ry 2017- 18 as below:
Designation RY 2017-18
President Rtn Uday Masturlal
Immediate Past President Rtn Nishu Jouhari
President Elect Rtn Kshama Bhatia
Vice President Rtn Gunashekar
Vuppalapatti
Hon. Secretary Rtn Kunal Patel
Hon. Joint Secretry /
Sgt-At-Arms Rtn Ajit Singh Bindra
Hon. Treasurer Rtn Aditya Shro???
Proposed Directors Rtn Kamal Bhandari
Rtn Deepak Pinto
Rtn Gagan Bihari
Rtn Narendra Pasuparthy
Rtn Abdul Sait
2. Community Service Director Rtn Srikant Bhagavat
shared with us progress made on Midtown’s Three
Global Grants pertaining to big concerns of our
society.
?? Potable Water availability to all sections of
society
?? Vocational training centre for o???ering skill
training to the non skilled or semi-skilled labour
force to be able to enhance their expertise and
earn better.
?? Donating Ambulance to Vasavi hospital.
3. Birthday and Anniversary greeting were announced
Concluded with President Announcement by Rtn
Nishu Jouhari and Secretary Announcement by Rtn
Narendra Pasuparthy and it was well acknowledged
by the Members of Rotary Midtown. The Meeting
wound up with vote of thanks.
After the meeting, Members proceeded to distribute
blankets to people on streets, a yearly project
facilitated by PP Nadeem, so good to see grati???ed
looks on the deserving souls at 9.30 pm at Russell
Market and adjoining area.
Dear Friends, We had two wonderful rounds of blanket
distributions initiated by PP Nadeem Ahmed.
1. On 9th December late evening after having dinner
hosted by Rtn Ravi Kiran, our group of 14 comprising
of PP Nadeem, Ann Asma , Rtn Ajit Bhindra, Anne
Vinder, Hon Sec Naren, Rtn Ravi Kiran, Rtn Deepak
Pinto, Anne Anahita, Annettes ,Exchange students
from Germany and me set o??? to blanket distribution
in Russel market areas, It was great to be able to
o???er warmth to many homeless people shivering in
the December cold. It took us a while to locate and
identify truly deserving people and the distribution
wrapped up by 12 midnight.
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2. On 11th December morning, we had a more
organized blanket distribution organized by Maanasi
coordinator – Dr. Goud – following is the report from
him and few photographs from both the days. Thanks
to all the Midtowners who helped out in the blanket
dis tribut ion and maki ng few mor e peopl e
comfortable. Sunday-11th December 2016 Following
Rotarians from Midtown Club came to Community
Health Training Centre (CHTC), Mugalur had come to
our village hospital and visited various villages to
distribute blankets. The Rotarians who were present
for this activity/event were 1. Mr. Srikanth , 2. Mrs.
Nishu J,3. Mr. Ravi Kiran, 4. Mr. Nadeem, 5. Mr.
Deepak Pinto , 6. Dr. Gunashekar.
Report by Rotary team accompanied by Dr.Goud,
started o??? from St. Johns campus at Koramangala at
0830 am and reached Mugalur at 1015 am. We
stopped over at Priyadarshani Hotel for quick
breakfast sponsored by PP Nadeem Ahmed.
At CHTC, Mugalur we were received by RMO Dr.
Melvin Kumar and Intern Dr. Neeraj and Health
Committee (HC) Chairman– Mr. Muniyappa and
Treasurer- Mr. Srinivasaiah and Health Workers. We
were served Co???ee with snacks and Rotarians
interacted with Health Committee members and
doctors regarding services and challenges faced and
also our plans for constructing a standalone training
centre and freeing-up the current building for
clinical services. Rotarians and HC members then
distribute d blankets to the pre–identi???ed
bene???ciaries. The bene???ciaries were selected based
on our survey and also with inputs from village elders
and health workers and Panchayath member of the
concerned village and also members of mahila
mandal of the concerned village. This was done so
that the real needy get this bene???t. To kick-start the
blanket distribution, in each of the 6 villages about
25 to 15 members were asked to come to collect.
The remainder of the 500 blankets would be
distributed after compiling the list of bene???ciaries
based on the above described method. This activity
would be done under the guidance of Dr. Bobby
Joseph, Head of Department of Community Health
and Rtn Srikanth Bhagavath on a later date. I will
keep Mr.Srikanth informed on this. The process of
blanket distribution started at Mugalur and then the
t e a m m o v e d o n t o R a j i v G a n d h i n a g a r a ,
Pandithanaagrahara, Muttonhalli, Thindlu and Mahal
Chowdenahalli. Rotary team was accompanied by
Dr.Goud, Maanasi workers Mrs. Gowramma and
health committee members and village elders
M r. M u n i y a p p a j i a n d M r. S r i n i v a s a i a h .
The distribution process concluded at 0120 pm at
Mahelchowdenahalli. We then dropped o??? Mr.
Muniyappa, Mr. Srinivasaiah, and Mrs. Gowramma at
M u g a l u r v i l l a g e a n d l e f t t o B a n g a l o r e .
Dr.Gunashekar and myself were dropped o??? at
St.Johns campus by Mr. Srikanth and Nadeem Ji at
about 0215pm.
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Birthdays…
Date Person
01 Dec Ann Smitha H Shetty
03 Dec Ann Geetha Poddar
Ann Sunitha Jain
06 Dec Rtn K. A. Kunja
08 Dec Rtn Karan (Rtn Kiran Boal)
10 Dec Ann Manju L – Trinadh
13 Dec Rtn Raja Bagmane
14 Dec Rtn Ramani Sastri
16 Dec Rtn Ravi Kiran N Vemulkar
19 Dec Rtn Navkesh Batra
Ann Ananta (Rtn Aditya Shro???)
Ann Dr Rajani Vuppalapati
21 Dec Rtn M. K. Maratutukalam
Annet Sneha (Rtn Ravi Shankar G)
22 Dec Ann Aarti Pramod
… & Wedding Anniversaries
04 Dec Rtn Syed Mukarram & Amina
Rtn Deepak Poddar & Sangita
Rtn Dr Gunashekar V & Dr Rajani
05 Dec Rtn Uday Masturlal & Sejal Uday
06 Dec Rtn Punith Jalan & Sangeetha Jalan
07 Dec Rtn K. S. Akhilesh Babu & Poornima
Rtn K. C Jain & Sunita Jain
09 Dec Rtn Bimal N Desai & Veena B Desai
Rtn Gyan Bhandari & Chanchal
Rtn Suresh Bhatia & Aarti Bhatia
Rtn G. S. Bhaskar & Namrata
Rtn Rakesh Batra & Manju
13 Dec Rtn R. B. Brahmavar & Sudha
Rtn Arun K Kanoria & Nandita
14 Dec Rtn Jawahar Gopal & Meera
15 Dec Rtn Kuntal R Amin & Madhavi
16 Dec Rtn Guru Prasad & Padmaja Prasad
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In our hectic life you are continuously challenged by
di???cult times and setbacks, they are an unavoidable
and inevitable part of human being. By learning how
to manage and reduce stress will take you into the
right direction in life. Too much stress in our life
over a long period of time can lead to anxiety
disorders like panic attacks, phobias and obsessive
compulsive disorders. It can also lead to physical
health problems and strange behaviors. It can
hamper our ability to enjoy life and stay happy. The
???rst step in reducing stress is to understand what is
anxiety and how does it impact our lives. Anxiety is a
normal response to a stressful situation that includes
the feel of worry, nervousness and apprehension. A
mild anxiety can be uncomfortable while more
severe anxiety can impact our ability to live a happy
life. It is also important to notice that sometimes
anxiety goes alongside depression, so both need to
be addressed in that case. Anxiety impacts us
physically; it can produce headache, palpitations,
muscle tension, stomach irritability, loss of sleep,
dizziness and contracted breathing. The anxiety also
impacts us behaviourally, you might avoid everyday
situation, di???culty in acting clearly, di???culty in
expressing self. The anxiety impacts us
physiologically as well, it increases self critic,
situations based on fears, ruminations and
obsessions.
Ways to
Reduce Stress
Tips for reducing stress:
?? Breathe-Often when we are stressed, our breath
is contracted and we need to take a deep breath
and release it, this can reduce our stress
immensely.
?? Proper Exercise, Nutrition and Sleep.
?? Balanced work/life-Take breaks along the way
when you need to.
?? Yoga/ meditate.
?? Avoid ca???eine-It increase the stress or anxiety.
Also do not take alcohol and other prohibited
drugs.
?? Nature/music -To calm the nerves, you can also
be creative make some artistic thing to calm
down and relax.
?? Take warm bath.
?? Get support Seek support from professionals of
Acupuncture treatment, Psychotherapist,
Naturopath or Medical Doctor
