Shekhar Gupta takes a post-Budget look at the Narendra Modi style of leadership THE BIGGEST positive of the past five years is that a lot of money/ value was delivered to poor India. There were three and a half good schemes. First: free toilets; second: housing via the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and third: free LPG...
A HUGE thank you to Rtn. Indu Shahani and her team for spending their valuable time with Bhavishya Yaan students and giving them the opportunity to attend career guidance sessions at ISME. A staggering 217 students from the BY alumni and standard 10 attended the sessions conducted especially for Bhavishya Yaan. Each child was free to...
SIXTY-FOUR children from the Garden School visited the IWA clinic on Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 for a health check-up. The children were between four and five years old and given general and dental check-ups. Each one was also examined by the paediatrician. Their height and weight were taken by volunteers including Rtn. Arin Master and Rtn....
THE ROTARY Club of Bombay’s Rtn. S. K. Mitra attended the installation ceremony of the new President at Rotary Club of Calcutta, Rtn. Purnendu Roy Chowdhury. This year, the Rotary Club of Calcutta celebrates a hundred years. It is the first Rotary Club to be established in India....
OUR MUSICAL fund-raiser, with Bollywood’s most sought-after vocalist Sonu Nigam on August 27, 2019 at the Tata Theatre, NCPA, offers you a unique opportunity to support one of India’s premier service institutions – Rotary Club of Bombay (RCB). Come join some of the country’s most illustrious philanthropists, Rajashree Birla, Ajay Piramal, Adi Godrej and Deepak Parekh, to...
Dear Friends, As I look back on the week gone by, I can only say that I am overwhelmed, seeing the commitment of my fellow Rotarians and Rotarian Partners and to see what we, as a force, can achieve. The speed at which each Committee is working on their projects is amazing. On July 6th, Rtn. Vineet...
EXCERPTS FROM ACTOR AAMIR KHAN’S INTERVIEW TO NDTV ON WATER MANAGEMENT What can Mumbai do? In cities like Mumbai, which receive a lot of rainfall, if all of us harvest the water instead of letting it go into the sea, it will help to reduce the load on water greatly. There are thousands of societies, complexes, houses,...
BETWEEN July 6th and 8th, 2019, our Water Resources Committee members Rtns. Vineet Suchanti and Bimal Mehta, together with RCB’s project manager Nikhil Sonawane, inaugurated water plants at Diksal Village in Ahmednagar. Elated villagers welcomed them with fanfare, music and fire-crackers. Subsequently, the team drove to another village Jogewadi, with a population of around 1,500, to...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a goal for the nation to become a $ 5 trillion economy by 2024. This goal can only be met if the nation’s entrepreneurs achieve landmark growth. Rtn. Anil Harish and PP Shailesh Haribhakti discussed these issues in a panel discussion on the Union Budget 2019-20 with stock market...
MEMBERS of Rotary Club of Bombay are invited to digitise their historical and present medical records free of cost on a bank secure, user-id protected and online platform. This will allow seamless access to important health information at the click of your smartphone. This is much like your mobile banking portal. Moreover, you can share these...
OUR fondest memories growing up is listen to stories our grandparents told us! The Child Welfare Committee ensured that the Lighthouse and Salaam Baalak children did not miss out on these stories either. Puppet Nani told tales of a cold night in the jungle that didn’t let her sleep. Filled with mystery, animals and a...