Celebration of 50 years of theRotary Club of Durgapur on 21st January 2012.

Celebration of 50 years of theRotary Club of Durgapur on 21^st January 2012.

The RotaryClub of Durgapur has celebrated their long fifty years of successful Journey in joyous manner in this City on 21^st January 2012 in their Club in MAMC Township. Almost all the members were present with their better halves. It was established in the year 1961 and received charter in 21st January 1962 by the honourable President Mr. P. C. Neogy. Since their inception they are doing commendable activities in this city as well as to the society as a whole without any caste and creed. The admirable activities during this long period have become the talk of the town and people set example of their benevolent activities to the needy and deprived people everywhere. Eminent Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Educationist, Business magnets and other well established people of this City are the proud members of this Club. It is situated in MAMC Township, Durgapur. “All of us actively practiced vocational service before we became Rotarians or else we would not be in Rotary. We have selected because our club friends were convinced that we are competent, trustworthy, fair and honest people. All we need to do is to maintain the faith our fellow Rotarians have placed in us by precept– and it is the punch line of our membership. I am proud of my club members, for their dedication and sincere relentless effort to improve the miserable condition of the browbeaten people and others to achieve their dreams in every walks of their life. ” – says Rotarian Dr. B. R. Datta, the President of the Rotary Club.

The club was sponsored by Rotary Club of Asansol, the 1st club of Rotary International District 3240 fifty years ago. To make the day immemorial theclub had launched 2 projects on that day. At first they had organized a free Computer Training School for the under privileged men and women jointly with Philips Carbon Black Limited (PCBL), Durgapur & Rotary Club of Calcutta – the first clubof Asia. In near future this joint venture will come up with ' Sevika Training Centre' , Awareness Program on Breast Cancer & Oral Cancer. Secondly they had laid the Foundation Stone of 'MATA SARALADEVI ROTARYEYE HOSPITAL’. The foundation stone was laid by the District Governor Rtn. Prabhat Kedia.It is the first Eye Hospital of R.I.Dist 3240 at Belboni Beliatore, in the District of Bankura. In his noble mission Rotarian Ranjit Sengupta attached with the Rotary Club for over 25 years donated Rs. 10,00,000/-(Ten Lac) for this Hospital and Dr. Anil Kurma Nag is an eye surgeon with a long experience of working in various Rotary eye hospitals in Guwahati, Hariyana and so on donated 4 bighas of land and also assured to tender his valuable service when it will be needed. He became a Rotarian with his spouse on 21st Jan our 50th Charter Day. All the members applauded much for their sacrifice.

Secretary Rtn. Swapnendu Mustafee says, “We had also arranged a Seminar of EYE Specialists on CATARACT OPERATION where many eminent Doctors were present to make the programme most successful. A large number of people joined this Seminar. In this propitious moment many famous Eye Specialists of Durgapur, Asansol, Bankura and even from Kolkata announced that they will devote themselves in this noble mission whenever the necessity of their service and resource will arise. ”

Rotarian Subir Roy said, “In the process I'd like to inform that Rotary Dist 3240 has operated defective hearts of 56 children free of cost, last year at Mission Hospital. The process will continue this year also. As a screening procedure we are going to organize a heart check up camp for children below 15years on 12th of February 2012 at Rotary ClubComplex, MAMC, Durgapur-10. We want to convey this message through the leading News Paper like The Times of India in their Durgapur Asansol Plus so that anybody in need of this service may attend the camp on the that day.”

Rtn. Dr. S. R. Bhowmick said, “We are also planning to start a free medical camp jointly with NARCHI at Mana village, where we'll also start a Vocational school very soon. In the month of March, Literacy month of Rotary calendar we'll be donating books & copies to the orphans of our sponsored 'Purbachal Ananda Foundation', Barjora. We've also applied to the Chief Minister to continue 'Rajbandh Sishu Sadan', which 'Save the Children Society' has given a notice to close down. We'll extend our hands with other organizations to continue the same. We've also applied Global Grant for a mobile eye testing van& 20 Public Toilets across Durgapur City and we think the City badly needs such things to maintain the eco friendliness.”

On the auspicious 63^rd Republic Day a team consisting of 9 Rotarians from RI Dist 3201 (Kochi, Kerala) visited Durgapur in a rally after covering 10,000 kms starting from Kochi on 11th December to create awareness to eradicate Polio from India. For your kind information after an initiative taken 25 years back in 1986 to eradicate Polio from the world, it is almost in the doorstep of success with only 3 countries left Pakistan, India& Nigeria (PIN point of Rotary's Polio war). There were no Polio cases found in last 1 yr in India 3 more yrs to continue. Rotary Foundation is the Institution behind the show, supported by Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. Rotarians donate generously to empower the foundation to take such initiatives. US$ 500 million was already spent in the venture.

‘All well that ends well’ – and so to make the day more eventful the Club organized a Function and a sumptuous dinner. All the members enjoyed immensely ignoring the cold wave outside.