Rotary Honours
Justice Rajiv Sharma by conferring Paul Harris Fellowship
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| Hon'ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sharma of Punjab and Haryana High Court |
Chandigarh, 6th July: Rotary Club of Chandigarh installed its new President Rtn Sukhjit Singh Gill and Team for
2020-21 here today through a virtual meeting in the presence of various
dignitaries and prominent Rotarians from District 3080.
Rtn Sukhjit Singh
Gill, who is a financial consultant took the collar of presidentship from
his predecessor Rtn Surinder Pal Kaur, an ex-IRS officer.
Mr Justice Rajiv
Sharma of Punjab and Haryan High
Court was the Chief Guest and District Governor Ramesh Bajaj was the Guest of
Honour.
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| President Sukhjit Singh Gill took over the reins of the Club. Seen with him is his wife Dr Kamaljit Kaur |
Outgoing president Surinder
Pal Kaur informed that the club has spent nearly Rs.1.8 crores including
Rs.55 lakh during the Covid on providing medical supplies to PGI, GMCH32 and
General Hospital Sector 16, besides extensively providing dry ration and
prepared food to the doctors, migrant labour.
The club was able to undertake 16 children for heart
surgeries under club’s Heartline project, besides various initiatives in the
village Saketri, and throughout the lockdown the Club continued to meet regularly.
On this occasion, Mr
Justice Rajiv Sharma was conferred the Paul Harris Fellowship for his
contribution to the environment, by the
Club contributing USD1000 to the Rotary Foundation.
Speaking on the
occasion the chief guest who himself is a great environmentalist and known as ‘green
judge’, Justice Rajiv Sharma said that everyone should be concerned and caring
about our environment beyond our own homes.
He said global warming and other environmental destruction would lead to
crisis for our earth and humanity.
He advised we must
start living in harmony with nature, and respect environment and lamented the
growing disharmony being caused by our dependency on technology especially the
mobile phones.
Rtn Sukhjit Gill shared the roadmap for the club during
2020-21 and said that the club shall continue to impact lives through blood
donation camps, promote the flagship project with free heart surgeries through
its partner hospitals, sensitise school children in menstrual hygiene and
sanitation, launch of health education centre for the children of the city, and
health of women and children.
Rotary Vidya Sadan in Bapu Dham shall be strengthened
further to educate drop-out girls, and provide crèche facility for the daily
wagers, and clubfoot treatment to children in GMCH32.
District Governor
Ramesh Bajaj, guest of honour, stated that despite the continued lockdown
the Club shall continue to reach out to the community come what may. Sharing
success mantra with the new team, Ramesh Bajaj asked to follow ‘BMW’ i.e.
prayer, Bless My Wisdom, Bless My Work,
Bless My Words, and Burn My Worries.
He advised the leadership to put up three factories for success, one, of
Ice factory to stay cool; sugar factory to speak sweetly; and the third, love
factory to instill compassion and love in your heart.
Earlier former world president of Rotary International, Rajendra K Saboo said that the
leadership inRotary changes on 1st July and he congratulated outgoing
president Surinder Pal Kaur for her stellar achievements during challenging
times and complimented the incoming team for their plans.
Assisting President Sukhjit Singh Gill in the team 2020-21
are Vice President Praveen Agarwal, Secretary
Gurvinder Saggu; Baldev Garg, Treasurer; Sonia Dhillon, Jt Secy; Dinesh Dua
director club service, Vinod Kapoor, Director Vocational Service; Lalita
Grover, Director Community Service; Gurmeet Chawla; Director International
Service; Baldev Aggarwal Director Youth Service; Kulbir Dogra,
Sergeant-at-Arms; PRID Rajendra Saboo, PDG Kawal Bedi, PDG Madhukar Malhotra,
PDG Praveen Chander Goyal.
Those who joined the
meeting included past district governors Ranjit Bhatia, Madhukar Malhotra, Yoginder Dewan, Manmohan Singh, Praveen
Goyal, Jitendra Dhingra, district governor elect Ajay Madan, Usha
Saboo, Inner Wheel President Komal Gupta, and Rotaractors amongst others with
Rtn Dinesh Dua and Rtn Suditi Jindal moderating the session.
Past President Neena Singh recited the mool mantra of Japji while
Rtn Ruchi Singla recited the Gayatri Mantra as invocations at the beginning of
the meeting.
The Club was chartered on 13 May 1958 and has since grown
with the city launching various projects for the community.
