Friday, May 10, 2013
Opportunity to meet Rotarians Across Borders :
Thanks to Rotary South Asia Summit. Rotarians from neighbouring countries had decended down to Hyderabad and participated with lots of enthusiasm. And our President Rtn.Athithan was quick in mingling with these Rotarians and exchanging flags. He had pitched for friendship exchange program with Rotarians from Bangladesh and Nepal.
Rotary South Asia Summit 2013 @ Hyderabad
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Conference took place at Hyderabad International
Convention Centre (HICC).
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Event was organized in the mammoth hall with
seating capacity for 6000 Rotarians.
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Registration counters were buzzling with
activities in spite of as many as 15 counters.
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Eminent speakers from the Rotary world and
outside addressed the gathering on the three day event.
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Honoroble Chief Minister of Andhra pradesh
Mr.Kiran Kumar Reddy was one of the invited speakers.
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Rotary International President Nominee Gary
Huang from Taiwan, Past RI President Rtn.Kalyan Banerjee, Trustee Chair
Rtn.Wilfrid Wilkinson, Rtn. Rajendra Saboo, RI Director Rtn.Yash Pal Das were
among top rotary leaders who were present for all the sessions and dealt with
important topics like South Asia Initiative, Membership Development and
Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Rtn.Shekar Mehta, Director - Rotary
International, was the convenor of the Summit.
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Rotary South Asia Film Awards were given to best
documentaries propagating the Rotary Values.
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For Rotarians to network, there was “Hall of
Friendship” with music activities and display of art and craft.
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Food court was aptly names “Flavors of South
Asia”, though we had predominantly Indian Foods.
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Out of 140 Rotarians from RID 3000, 28 Rotarians
were from Madurai, including 13 from our club. President Rtn.Athithan, Rtn
& R’Ann Rajagovindasamy, Rtn.Valliappan, Rtn.Gopalakrishnan, Rtn.SPA
Ganesh, Rtn.Ravee, Rtn.Ramanathan, Rtn. Rajkumar, Rtn.Karunakar, Rtn.Ramasamy, Rtn.Kannan
and Rtn.Balachandran attend the summit.
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Thanks to Rtn.Ganesh for having identified a
Service Apartment near the conference venue. It was a Home away from Home – for
these three days.
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Frequent Pickup and Drop vans were arranged by
summit organizers to reach the venue.
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Total Registration : 5350 which includes,
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Bangladesh : 400
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Pakistan : 45
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Srilanka : 27
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Nepal : 63
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India : 3800
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Other Countries : 75
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Cancelled : 185
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R’Ann : 500
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Rotaractors and Rotarylet : 200
No doubt, the summit was of International Standard @ economical cost.
Kind Gesture by our Rtn.Dr.G.Vasudevan
Following article appeared in The Hindu on 10th May 2013. Students who passed out of +2, can avail 10% discount at our Rtn.Vasu's "Mahal Restaurant" in Town Hall Road, Madurai. That's a great gesture by our humble Rotarian in recognizing and honouring these students in his own way.
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