Jodhpur Table 1st Contact Meet

Dear all,

The first contact meet for the proposed table at Jodhpur by JPRT171 was held on the 10th of September 2011 at New Millenium Hall, Umed Club Jodhpur as a drinks and dinner meet from 8 PM onwards. The meeting was attended by Tr. Tarun, Tr. Ashish, Tr. Sameer and Ex HT Sanjeev Mohunta of JPRT 171 and Tr. Kartik from JJRT 191 who was gracious enough to accompany us.

Though we got late in starting the meet, as Rotary Club had organized a Chetan Bhagat talk in Jodhpur on the same date, earlier in the evening and a lot of prospects were attending the talk and then coming over for the meet; we had a satisfactory meet.11 prospects attended the meet, and seemed to be excited about tabling. We covered all aspects of tabling, with all of us pitching in as speakers accompanied by a CD presentation that our RTI president was kind enough to send, as well as an extension PPT prepared by Tr. Alok from JPRT 171.An introduction of all present, followed by the presentation on tabling from our side and then a Q& A session, followed by dinner and drinks all along can be summed up as an interesting evening spent with promising prospects at Jodhpur. Please see the photos attached and the formal minutes will be sent shortly as well.We are also in the process of forming an email group that one of the prospects himself is forming, and which will be used to be in regular touch with them

The next contact meet is scheduled for 24th September 2011. Though this clashes with cricket match at Bhilwara, unless we do the meet on this date,
We would be happy we if hold the third contact meet as well before Diwali and the guys at Jodhpur get time to meet in the Diwali parties the will happen, and maybe they start gelling as a group!
Special thanks to all of us who found the time to go, and to Kartik and Sudeep from BURT for helping out. Honorary thanks to Ashish, who has an amazing knowledge on the local delicacies avl on the way, which meant that we had a great ride to and back from Jodhpur, with numerous stops for local food stuffs.
Guys, the way we worked as a team and seamlessly took over from each other in explaining tabling to the new recruits, was great, and we hope and pray that we are as good in the next contact meets, we are sure it left a good impression on the Jodhpur Gang. Tr, Ashish, our dear chairman, is the new star speaker – you should have seen him hold fort!!

As a take away from the meet, I have these requests: 
1.)     I would urge all of us to PLEASE send some more names. The lists that we have from older attempts have a lot of names but as a lot of time has passed in between these attempts, most of the names are now less inclined to join tabling. Almost all prospects that did show up, were new contacts.
2.)     Email presentations on our fellowship, projects and HRD; maybe one of the quarterly reports, seems like a good idea to be sent to these guys as a sneak peek in the world of tabling.
3.)     2nd Contact meet will be on 24th September 2011 Saturday Do join in for the next trips, it is great fun!
yit,
All Tabler of JPRT171

GO GREEN

 

"We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors 

but we borrow it from our children..."

Dear Friends,

It  gives me immanence pleasure  to share with you the GO GREEN Project initiated by JPRT171 Tablers...

SIDDHARTH SHAH

There are about 5000 new trees which have been planted by JDA in central park. But due to lack of proper support and fencing they were on the verge of dying. Yesterday ie 28th of August '11 Siddharth got a team of 75 scouts and 40 of his own company covered and gave proper support to almost 3000 of these new plants. 

Entire span of 4 Kms was covered. 

RAVI UTTAMANI  

Ravi selected a small village in Haryana which has a lot of farmers. Since these farmers are from Bishnoi community and have a soft corner for the nature so thought it was the best place  to take up this massive thing. 

Ravi took some experts with him to this village and gave a good presentation about the necessity and the advantages of planting trees . All the farmers gained a lot of knowledge about how to plant trees and how to keep them free from the diseases so that they can get good results. All the farmers showed an overwhelming response and were very excited to join hands  , He gave them 3700 plants (FOC) in the beginning of this month which have been successfully planted and are being taken care by the individual farmers.

so we are assured that the plants will be taken good care. In total distributed 3700 plants which were planted in 275 acres of land in Haryana. 

He is now looking forward to plant another 10,000 plants in this year.

These are just a small gesture to preserve our environment...

GO GREEN 

MANISH KASLIWAL 
For.JPRT171

64th Independence Day Celebrations at Vatsalya Udayan

Jai hind,
What a lovely day, a great drive through the fog on the kaccha roads..green fields... Viola you are at Vatsalya Udayan. They have 56 resident children & 60 Village children.
Its an amazing school , dedicated teachers & intelligent students, they had a quiz session where even we were ata loss for some answers, but the students went pat !
Flag hosting,Fancy dress, motivating speeches and tasty snacks followed.
With a slight drizzleand lovely overcast skies it was a lovely morning, well spent.
"spend a while , share a smile...."
yit,
Tarun Bansal & Manish Kasliwal
 

Jaipur Pinkcity Round Table 171: JPRT 5th school Inaugrated

Jaipur Pinkcity Round Table 171: JPRT 5th school Inaugrated

JPRT 5th school Inaugurated

 “The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”

Jaipur RT 171 & RTI  can be very proud on the successful completion of yet another School project> Its The 5th School for JPRT in 9 years of Tabling...

Tarun and Pushpendra had gone to witness the hawan and opening ceremony of the new school project at Achrol – Vatsalya Udyan.

Udyan is about two kms off NH8 just outside Achrol on the right hand side, as you are driving to Delhi from Jaipur. We had a pleasant early morning drive to the school where we reached by about 7:30 AM, half an hour late and pleasantly surprised to see the proceedings already on.

We were invited to participate in the hawan, which also had Jaimala Ji and her husband and their staff who are the people running the NGO, Megha who is the architect, all the kids, a WCE team that has worked here ( WCE goes to Udyan independently and they live on premises as they work there).

It was great toi see the kids, all bathed, fresh and eager so enthusiastic about the proceedings. Happy faces, eager spirits.

 After the hawan we saw the building. One wing has been made till now with 5 classes, nicely built, open, airy, sunny and built around a till now kutccha chowk. The same chowk will be extended and more classes built on the other side of the existing building. Foundation work is already complete. The school aims to have 200 children, and facilities are being developed with this objective in mind.

After a group photo, we went on to the ‘ pratishtha’ of Saraswati ji’s murti, which was done, on behalf of JPRT by me. We have had issues of not being recognized or appreciated to the extent desired in some projects that we have done, there is not such possibility here. The school is well run, and they are grateful of our support.

This was followed by tree plantation, and we were amazed to see all trees being planted in the names of our cricket team, so 15 trees and all in the names of our players. Panditji, who planted the first, unsurprisingly chose to plant a mango tree that was christened TENDULKAR.

 

This was followed by a delicious poori, bhaji halwa breakfast and we did full justice to our meals.

Photographs, a few are enclosed and more to come on picasa.

Overall experience great, good fun. We should take our kids and families to this place and interact with the well mannered kids here. It will be our chicken soup for the tabling hearts!!

Reported by Tarun Bansal & Pushpendra Bhargav for JPRT171