DATE: 31^st October,2010

TIME: 12.50pm – 3.00pm

VENUE: Dhali,Sinjauli

“Whenever you fall down, you have two options: To get up and fight back or to run away.”

What if this fall meant lifetime suffering and a drift from the normalcy of life?!  Dizen with luxuries we forget the gifts God has endowed upon us.

This brief visit to the Dhali School for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind children made a digging impact into our hearts and brains. Most of us would perhaps lose all hope and adapt to the darks of our lives instead if, God forbid, we are physically impaired in any sense. What if you were born with it or else faced it at an early age??

These children answer the question and push the shadows away with confidence, perseverance and enlightenment.

Two of the students of the Deaf and Dumb School are even headed to Chandigarh for their higher studies this winter. An alumnus of the school is a well established government official and the teachers take great pride in him and the other alumni who are settled well off.

Your adorned masks cannot fake these clever little fellows. The children at the blind school seemed to be able to see more than us.   Their sixth sense and positive attitude toward life make one wince.

We, Rotaractors , played games i.e. cricket and fire in the mountain with the children and had great fun. We danced along, heard their melodious voices stringing the pearls of words into our ears and even exchanged phone numbers. Adorned by the fir trees the sky brought together strangers and entangled them into a lifelong friendship.

Parting these new friends was hard. Everyone looked up one last time with a broad smile and the hearts saluting the enthusiasm of the young ones while moving down the dusty rocky path edged with beautiful yellow flowers.

The amazing part is that none of us pity these children. Instead, we feel proud of them and pity ourselves to be lacking the kind of vividness. We were honored to be a part of their lives although (to our dismay) just for a few hours…….

Regards,

Ayushi Agrawal 

(Media Representative)

Date: 28^th September 2010

Time: 6pm – 7.15pm

Venue: Dhyan kaksh,JUIT,Waknaghat

 One of the  topics gripping our society these days is the concept of live-in relationship. To get the   answers to the endless questions associated with this topic in our own way, an open group discussion was organized by the literary committee of the Rotaract Club.

A good number of  30 students enthusiastically participated in the discussion. The event kicked off with discussion the pros and cons of marriage and live-in relationship and later shifted toward  the legal aspect of this relationship covering issues such as legitimacy of the child born and status and rights of women.  Most of the people openly accepted this walk-in walk-out relationship but under the definition of certain regulations. At the end everyone reiterated the fact that every relation thrives on the grounds of respect and mutual understanding , be it marriage or live-in relationship.

Regards,

Sanchita Aggarwal

(Edited by: Ayushi Agrawal)

 

DATE: 15^TH Aug,2010

TIME: 10a.m. – 12 noon

VENUE: School near the temple,JUIT,Waknaghat

VANDE MATARAM!!

This year’s independence day turned out to be a special one for everyone with a chance to celebrate it with the school children..

Charged with the patriotic spirit the day was celebrated with great fervour transforming the environ to a virtual fiesta..

The celebration started with the kids singing the national song in unison , the flag being unfurled followed by the national anthem.The atmosphere seemed to be so charged with a true sense of patriotism that one  could recall all that went into fetching us this hard earned independence.

The gleaming faces of the kids, all just too excited witnessing all the fanfare around ,the twinkle in their eye–  made the efforts worth while!! 

The small cultural function that was organised by the children who were taught by the rotaractors during weekend classes seemed to make their mothers so proud of them.

Be it the singing of patriotic songs that gave stiff competition a trained choir or the soulful rendition of  a few poetic lines on our independence heroes including Mahatma Gandhi and Rani Lakshmi Bai , they stole the show!! The dance performance given by one of them gathered an unending round of applause from one and all.

This was followed by a gift distribution to the children as a token of appreciation of their hard work and an incentive to inspire them to take part in co-curricular activities!! Then began the unending fun in which all danced their way to a number of peppy Bollywood numbers and the inner child in each one of us was let lose to enjoy among that little bunch of innocent angels!!

The day ended teaching us a lesson-“To protect and never misuse this hard earned treasure that we call independence”.

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

These words by Madonna summarise it all.

This independence day we aimed to be able to inspire the kids to dream and to achieve , to let them know that they too have freedom of expression as an inherent right, to give them an impetus to take on the world and face it with full valour and courage and end up being a winner;defying all odds!!

Jai hind !!

Jai Bharat!!

Regards,

Aparna Gautam

(Edited by : Ayushi Agrawal)

DATE,TIME , VENUE :  1. 7th August, 2010; 3-6 PM; Shoghi

2. 8th August, 2010; 12-4PM; Panchayat Bhawan, Waknaghat

INSURANCE COMPANY : Bharti AXA Life Insurance

Rotaract Waknaghat organised its first event outside the premises of JUIT on the second week of August. A team of 3 members from Bharti AXA LI, Delhi addressed the people of Shoghi and Waknaghat. Various advantages and the need for insurance were justified. Different insurance plans (like pension plans, etc) were explained to the interested crowd.

It was a learning experience for all the members.

Regards,

Ayushi 🙂

“Simple things interacting in simple ways can yield surprisingly complex and elegant outcomes.”

List of Rotaract Members 2010-11
Club Heads:
President : Ekta Manglesh
Vice President :Rajat Mehrotra
Treasurer :Prateek Tandon
Secretary : Supriya Saurabh
Board of Directors : Sanchit Aggarwal,Vikram Arora,Jasdeep Singh Juneja,Mehma
Media Representative : Ayushi Agrawal
Committee Heads :
Literary		Rohan Kundra, Anu Bhatt
Event Management		Abhinav Saxena, Ankit Chopra, Jasdeep
Finance		Prateek Tandon, Charu
Hospitality		Vikram Arora , Sunny
Advertisin And Poster Making		Shivali Soni, Neeti Pokhrel
Publicity		Kumar Abhay, Prayas,Navneet Kaur
Technical		Sanchit Agarwal, Atul Prakash
S.NO.	Name	Year	Roll No	Branch	Mobile No.	E-mail Id	Committee
1	Anu Bhatt	5th		BTDD	9805577373	anubhatt23@gmail.com	Lit
2	Charu Bansal	5th	061558	BTDD	9816274246	charu_27_leo@gmail.com	Adv
3	Ekta Manglesh	5th	061508	BTDD	9418350800	ekta.manglesh@gmail.com
4	Navneet Kaur	5th		BTDD	9805839818	navni.sidhu@gmail.com	Publicity
5	Neeti Pokhrel	5th		BTDD	9882040270	neetipokhrel@gmail.com	Adv
6	Supriya Saurabh	5th	061729	BTDD	9816830205	supriyasaurabh@yahoo.com
7	Abhinav Saxna	4th					Event
8	Amit Bharadwaj	4th
9	Anant	4th		CSE	9736394782	anantjaypee@gmail.com	Hospitality
10	Atul prakash	4th		CSE	973611616	atulprakash1@gmail.com	Event
11	Cherry Jain	4th					Technical
12	Kumar Abhay	4th		CSE	9805577485	kumarabhay88@gmail.com	Publicity
13	Manish	4th					Lit
14	Nitin Agarwal	4th	071021	ECE		mnitin3@gmail.com	Technical
15	Prateek Tandon	4th	071267	CSE	9736311779	prateektandon02@gmail.com	Finance
16	Rajat Mehrotra	4th	071132	ECE	9805318416	rajmehro@gmail.com	Publicity
17	Rajesh uphadhaye	4th					Event
18	Rishabh Sinha	4th
19	Rohan Kundra	4th			9816348261
20	Sanchit  Agarwal	4th	071210	CSE	9805436192	chin2sanchit@gmail.com	Lit,Technical
21	Shweta Bansal	4th					Event,Adv
22	Sonal Saini	4th					Adv
23	Sunny Tyagi	4th		CSE	9736311513	sunnyakaslater@gmail.com	Event,Hospitality,Lit
24	Surbhi tiwari	4th
25	Tripti Roy	4th	071067	ECE		Candyeyes.tripti@gmail.com	Hospitality
26	Vaishaly Bansal	4th
27	Vikram Arora	4th		CSE	9736311556		Hospitality
28	Ankit  Chopra	3rd			9418469374	ankit_chopra7@yahoo.com	Event
29	Aparna Gautam	3rd				gautam.sapphire@gmail.com	Adv,Lit
30	Ayushi Agrawal	3rd	081552	BT	9736318158	agrawalayushi180690@gmail.com	Lit
31	Jasdeep Singh Juneja	3rd			9805435925	jjuneja2939@gmail.com	Event
32	Megha gupta	3rd					Adv
33	Mehma Kaur	3rd	081557	BT	9805440051	scorpion.mehma@gmail.com	Hospitality
34	Payal Bharghawa	3rd					Adv
35	Prayas Suneja	3rd		CSE	9736311416	prayas.suneja@gmail.com	Technical,Publicity,Finance
36	Purvika Vijayvergia	3rd				mail.poorvika@gmail.com	Technical,Lit
37	Reema	3rd	081558	BT		reema21m@gmail.com	Hospitality
38	Shagoonpreet Kaur	3rd	081565	BT		shagoonpreet@gmail.com	Hospitality,Lit
39	Shivali Soni	3rd	081139	ECE		sonishivi010@gmail.com	Adv
40	Shweta Jangid	3rd	081334	CSE		attitude.jangid@gmail.com	Adv
41	Sumbul shukla	3rd					Publicity
42	Surabhi Taluja	3rd	081437	IT		surbhi171090@gmail.com
43	Swena  Gupta	3rd	081090	ECE		swenagupta@gmail.com	Publicity
44	Anjali Sharma	2nd
45	Ankush Sayal	2nd				aksayal@gmail.com	Finance
46	Deepak	2nd	091266	CSE
47	Ganesh Gupta	2nd	091287	CSE
48	Gopesh Mittal	2nd	091324	CSE			Event
49	Naina Agarwal	2nd	091112	ECE			Adv
50	Palak dewan	2nd					Adv
51	Prabhjot kaur	2nd					Publicity
52	Prateek tiwari	2nd				prateek.twr@gmail.com	Event
53	Rahul Sharma	2nd				rahulrox008@gmail.com	Event
54	Raviesha Chopra	2nd		ECE			Adv
55	Richa	2nd
56	Shikha Sehrawat	2nd		ECE
57	Shivani Arora	2nd	091248	CSE			Adv
58	Vasundhra Anand	2nd					Hospitality
59	Vibha Mittal	2nd	091260	CSE
60	Yashank Wason	2nd					Event
61	Gopesh Mittal	2nd	091324
62	Ganesh Gupta	2nd	091287				Event
63	Rahul Sharma	2nd				rahulrox008@gmail.com
64	Deepak	2nd	091266				Event
65	Aakansha Shriastava	1st					Adv
66	Abhinav Bansal	1st					Lit
67	Aditi Sharma	1st				aditisharma_12@yahoo.in	Adv
68	Akshat Kumar	1st				akshat_aku@yahoo.co.in
69	Anjali Sharma	1st
70	Anmol Khanna	1st				anmol92khannaa@gmail.com
71	Anurag Chutani	1st				anurag002@gmail.com	Technical
72	Anushka Khanduja	1st				yamini.coolyamini.ahuja@hmail.com
73	Anwesha  Kar	1st				anwesha.kar146@gmail.com	Adv,Lit
74	Arpit goyal	1st				arpitgoyal88@gmail.com	Adv
75	Arpit Johari	1st				aj.arpitjohari@gmail.com	Finance
76	Ashish Devpura	1st					Adv
77	Ayush Bajpai	1st				abayushbajpai98@gmail.com	Event
78	Chaynika Kapoor	1st				chaynikakapoor@yahoo.com
79	Chyanika Jindal	1st				chyanika.jindal304@gmail.com	Finance
80	Divya dogra	1st					Hospitality
81	Himanshu Gupta	1st					Technical
82	Isha Bharadwaj	1st				ecstatic_demon@yahoo.co.in	Adv
83	Kanika Jauhari	1st				tadhika@hotmail.com	Event
84	Kritika Sharma	1st				ks.174u@gmail.com	Lit
85	Kshitij Tegta	1st				ktegta@gmail.com
86	Manasi Sharma	1st				linkin2manasi@gmail.com
87	Mohita Chhabra	1st				mohita.chhabra@gmail.com	Lit
88	Naina Singh	1st					Publicity
89	Neha Joshi	1st					Lit
90	Nikita Gupta	1st				nikita92gupta@yahoo.com	Adv
91	Nishit Sadhwani	1st				nishitsadhwani@yahoo.com	Event
92	Parul Pandey	1st				parulpandey2008@yahoo.co.in	Hospitality
93	Radhika Batta	1st				batta_radhika@yahoo.com	Lit
94	Sadaf Ali	1st				ali.sadaf786@rediffmail.com	Adv
95	Sagar Sachdeva	1st
96	Sanchit Jain	1st				sanchitq2005@gmail.com	Technical
97	Saumya khanna	1st					Hospitality
98	Shikha	1st
99	Shiva Aggrawal	1st				smili.shiva@gmail.com	Hospitality
100	Srishti mehrotra	1st				srishtee.25@gmail.com
101	Varun Dhanotia	1st				varundhanotia@yahoo.co.in	Hospitality
102	Vidit Arora	1st				smoke_rags@hotmail.com	Event,Publicity
103	KapilNilesh Bansal	2nd4th					Event

All members are requested to find their names here and update their email  ids and roll no. batch (your contact number will be kept confidential) and the members who are not listed shall also send their details to:

Sanchit Agarwal (chin2sanchit@gmail.com)

P.S.  Please furnish your contact number only to the President and Secretary of the club or your Committee head.

DATE: 6^th August,2010

TIME: 5.00 P.M. –  5.30 P.M.

VENUE: CR 4,Academic Block,JUIT

“Small streams join to form mighty rivers”

-Anonymous

MINUTES:

1. EVENT : INSURANCE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

DATE : 7^th Aug,2010(Shoghi) and 8^th Aug,2010(Dumehar)

DUTIES :

The following duties were allotted in the meeting.

HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE	EVENT COMMITTEE	PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
DAY 1 (7TH AUG,2010);SHOGHI
Swena	Ankit Chopra
Kanika	Ganesh
	Gupesh
	Rahul Sharma
	Deepak
DAY 2 (8TH AUG,2010);DUMEHAR
Swena	Anant	Akshat Kumar
Shagoon	Prateek Tandon
	Kshitij
	Ashish Devpura,Vikram

Overall event management shall be done by Ankit Chopra, Rajat Mehrotara and Abhinav Saxena

2. COLLECTION OF MEMBERSHIP FEE

Regards,

Ayushi 🙂

DATE : 3rd August 2010
TIME: 7.15 PM – 8:00PM
VENUE: Open Cafe

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an art,but a habit”
-Aristotle

MINUTES:

1.Changing the name of the club – Decision was taken against it.

2.Insurance Awareness Camp
i. Venue and Time were decided as:
Day 1 : 7th Aug(Sat) Shogi (3 to 6 pm)
Day 2 : 8th Aug(sun) Kandaghat and Dumehar (12 to 4pm)

ii.  Benefits for being a part of the campaign : Certficate from Bharti Life Insurance and free lunch shall be provided

iii. Finance for the event

iv. Mikes for the event
Duties alloted:-

I. Talking to Pradhan of Shogi and Kandaghat:Sunny Tyagi ,Atul Prakash and Vikram

II. Logo and Banner designing : Prayas and his team

III. Pamphlets Printout:Rajat

Regards

Mehma

 

 

DATE : 2nd August,2010

TIME : 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.

VENUE: CR-4,Academic Block,JUIT

GUESTS :  1.Rtr Sanjeev Anand

                  2.Rtr Ashish

                  3.Rtr Anil

 

 “Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones,it charms brutes.Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it”

                                                                                                                         -Bulwer Lytton

The interactive session with Rtr Sanjeev Anand started with a brief welcome speech by the president Rtr Ekta Manglesh.

A handmade bouquet was presented to the guests by Rtr Supriya Saurabh(Secretary) and Rtr Shivali Soni(Creative Head).

The main aim of this session was to help the members gain insight about the global impact of the work they shall be doing for the club. The gathering was addressed by Rtr Sanjeev Anand who told the students of the various benefits of joining Rotaract. He presented the opportunity of studying at Oxford University and Harvard University on scholarships. He informed the members about the various awards that are given for good performances of the members. He told the members about  the upcoming conference “Rotasia” at Goa in the month of Jan,2010. Above all he asked everyone to enjoy whatever they do in the club and have fun.

A signed  copy of Rtr Sanjeev Anand’s magazine was presented by him to Rtr Ekta Manglesh. He motivated the members to come with new ideas howsoever impossible they might seem. The session was inspiring. He praised the members for the projects undertaken by the club.As Rtr Sanjeev talked of his international projects, the members got acquainted with a new outlook for the level at which a project can be conducted . An enthusiastic  gathering left the room as the session came to an end.

A tea party followed. Various new plans and the upcoming events of Rotaract Waknaghat and its members were discussed over tea and snacks.

After this knowledgeable session the members are now well informed about Rotaract, its working  and its benefits .

Hoping to see the members come up with innovative ideas and execute them.

Welcome aboard everyone! Lets have fun and work hard to take this club to new heights.

Regards,

Ayushi 🙂

  

 

DATE: 1ST Aug,2010(Sunday)

TIME:  10 am -12 noon

VENUE:  School (under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) near mandir,JUIT

ROTARIANS PRESENT : Surabhi, Shweta and Prayas

“Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.”

Oooooommmmm!! ॐ!! The entire school resounded with the mystical and  sacred syllable as all the students performed the kriya. The sacred incantation intoned at the beginning of the interactive session by the children added serenity and peace to the environment.

Friendship Day celebrations take place on the first Sunday of August every year. The tradition of dedicating a day in honor of friends began in US in 1935. Gradually the festival gained popularity and today Friendship Day is celebrated in large number of countries including India. It being the “Friendship Day “, the children were told all about making and keeping friends. They were told how each year, friends  spend time together on this day and express their love. Following the tradition of exchanging friendship day gifts, the little jewels drew out beautiful sketches on cards for their friends.

The members also played various games with the young ones. It was a remarkably amazing  friendship day for the children as well as the members.

Regards,

Ayushi

On 1st  Aug, 2010, 30 rotarians took part in a Tree Plantation drive at Jhakhu Temple organized by Rotary Shimla. The volunteers from Rotaract Waknaghat planted around 150 Deodar saplings.

With high energies and enthusiastic spirits , the rotarians worked with full dedication and devotion. This was visible from the fact that even though it was raining continuously,the rotarians managed to plant 150 trees in 2 hours.

In this way, celebrating friendship’s day with nature  was a wonderful experience. The whole trip was an amazing learning experience. We had lots of fun. Looking forward to undertake similar kinds of interesting projects.

Regards,

Purvika