VOL. 04 | DECEMBER, 2016THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF ROTARY MIDTOWN, BANGALORE

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IN THIS EDITION:

Ÿ Message from The President

Ÿ Message from The Secretary

December 2016: Club Services

Ÿ Toyota Kirloskar Factory Visit

Ÿ 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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Ÿ 21st Weekly Meeting

Ÿ Birthdays and Anniversaries

Ÿ 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 ﬁfteen 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 ﬁnal

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 oﬀ ﬂashing. 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

ﬁtting 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 coﬀee that was brought to us by

our fellow Rotarian. There were cookies that were

served with the coﬀee. 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 Shroﬀ

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

fulﬁlling Project. The lighting up the children's eyes

when they got their bag of goodies made our day.

Auto Raja s selﬂess 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 Shroﬀ

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.

Ÿ Potable Water availability to all sections of

society

Ÿ Vocational training centre for oﬀering skill

training to the non skilled or semi-skilled labour

force to be able to enhance their expertise and

earn better.

Ÿ 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 gratiﬁed

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 oﬀ to blanket distribution

in Russel market areas, It was great to be able to

oﬀer 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 oﬀ 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 Coﬀee 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-identiﬁed

beneﬁciaries. The beneﬁciaries 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 beneﬁt. 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 beneﬁciaries

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 oﬀ 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 oﬀ 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 Shroﬀ)

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

diﬃcult 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

ﬁrst 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, diﬃculty in acting clearly, diﬃculty 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:

Ÿ 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.

Ÿ Proper Exercise, Nutrition and Sleep.

Ÿ Balanced work/life-Take breaks along the way

when you need to.

Ÿ Yoga/ meditate.

Ÿ Avoid caﬀeine-It increase the stress or anxiety.

Also do not take alcohol and other prohibited

drugs.

Ÿ Nature/music -To calm the nerves, you can also

be creative make some artistic thing to calm

down and relax.

Ÿ Take warm bath.

Ÿ Get support Seek support from professionals of

Acupuncture treatment, Psychotherapist,

Naturopath or Medical Doctor