The Rotary Club of Deonar

President 2012-13 Club Secretary

: SRIDHAR VISHWANATHAN : Capt. G C Sekhar

Chembur and Deonar are two happening suburbs on the north east of Mumbai. It is a highly industrialized zone with two big Oil Refineries, a Thermal Power Station and a Nuclear Research Centre. There are several educational institutions, a Leprosy home, Home for the Mentally Retarded children and a home for the Destitute children. In the neighborhood, there is Shivaji Nagar, a very large slum area. This mix of high and low offer a great challenge for the community service activities. Rotary Club of Deonar is an association of vibrant professionals. It came into being under the able leadership of Dr. N.S.Amonkar (Charter President), and received Charter from R.I. on 9th March 1987. It had 28 Charter members and by all standards it was a small club. Today we are 25 years old with vast experience in various community programs benefiting the underprivileged, the differently abled, etc. Our Club was the brain child of the Rotary Club of Chembur, ably enthused and supported by the then GSR - Late Haribhai Dallal and the then D.G - Late Dr. Chandrakant Mirje. The very next President Late Jayant Raje took our Club to such heights that we have never looked back since. He with his Polio Plus campaign put our Club on the map of District 3140 and R.I. for ever and ever. Subsequently the Club has had dynamic leadership in Jetly, Deshmukh, Narsiah Garu, Girotra, Raju, Ramesh Mehta, Ballal, Pramod, Kalra. In 2001-2002 the Club changed its meeting venue to BPGC under the youthful leadership of Gautam. Since then Jana, Jhankar, Ram, Kannan and Usha have kept up the pace and raised the benchmark to new levels. We have covered amongst us a spectrum of professions and careers with Advocates, Doctors, Advertisement professionals, Seafarers, CEOs of MNCs, etc.. The RCD meets every Thursday at 7.30 pm at the BOGC (Golf Club), Chembur and all those present catch up with the events of the past week during the fellowship and then after a passionate rendition of the National Anthem, the Club President and the Secreatry conducts the clubs business. Every Thursday we have the privilege of hearing one eminent speaker who holds the audience together for about 30-40 minutes with a topic of his own specialization.

Members of the Rotary Club of Deonar at last count

1. A. V. Suresh - 9821097310 2. Ajit Pappu - 9930956712 3. Ajith Nair - 9920065655 4. Ashwin Kukreja - 9820122399 5. Ballal Chandrachud 9869266801 6. Bhoomika Shetty - 9820534669 7. Chander Girotra - 9820147704 8. Dr. Dilkhush Kishanchandani 9821056908 9. Dipayan Chakraborty 9920468988 10. Dr. Dipti Patankar 9820321250 11. Goutam Bhattacharya 9820183061 12. Gopal Nayak - 9820007596 13. Harish Motwani - 9820702881 14. Hema Subramanian 9821235059 15. Jayashree Ramasubbu 9820158459 16. Jaydeep Purushottam 9821050955 17. Jhankar Gadkari - 9820023899 18. Jiten Bharadwaj - 9819991882 19. K. K. Sham - 9821329436 20. Kannan Iyenger - 9821329436 21. Kapil Gupta - 9322267105 22. Kulbhushan Jetly 9820149132

23. Lalita Kaycee - 9821212164 24. Lilabhar Parab - 9820000672 25. Mahadevan Iyer - 9820323638 26. Manish Gupta - 9323958933 27. Moreshwar Lawate 9820136304 28. Nagesh Bhat - 9820346050 29. Narender Kalra - 9820268054 30. Naresh Shenoy - 9820061614 31. Nayana Karnik Das 9820198193 32. Prakash Pujare - 9819045510 33. Dr. Pramod Pandit 9820153904 34. Dr. Prasad Mahadevan 9820545278 35. Puja Puri - 9819118800 36 Raghunath Rajan - 9820096249 37. Rajendra Datye - 9820327465 38. Rajit Menon - 9820322002 39. Ram Mallya - 9820022981 40. Ramachandran K. 9820346725 41. Ramesh Mehta - 9323210550 42. Ramesh Wadhwani 9322513946 43. Rao P. M. - 9820176572 44. Ravindra Deshmukh 9821141844 45. Ravi R. Borkar 9820304801 46. Ravi Shekar - 9820228303 47. Rema Nair - 9769549588

48. Rohini Ravindran 9967680073 49. Sanjay Mehta - 9820040918 50. Satish Lamba - 9766384869 51. Capt. Sekhar G. C. 9821869849 52. Dr. Shankar G. Chawla 9819149818 53. Shanmukhasundaram Vaidyanathan 9619693131 54. Shobha Suresh - 9820045709 55. Sridhar Visvanathan 9819492711 56. Subramanian P. N. 9821322392 57. Subramanian T. N. (Raju) 9322223732 58. Dr. Sunil Keswani 9820031881 59. Surendranath P.N. 9869442922 60. (Cdr.) Sushanta K. Jana 9869011972 61. Tara Chandiramani 9820393936 62. Capt. Tushar Gangoly 9819145408 63. Dr. Usha Desai - 9820154701 64. Vudula Deshmukh 9833414361 65. Vidhya Subramanian 9324517819 66. Dr. Yadunath Joshi 9820267339 67. Vishnu Kamat - 9820281068