Sunday, November 06, 2005
Servie to mankind
Last two Sundays I was busy in my lionistic duties. For the uninitiated, as a Region Chairperson of Lions Clubs International, I need to perform some lionistic duties. The hierarchy of Lionism is as follows. At the bottom of the ladder there are individual clubs who are independents in every respect like preparing their year planner, they have their own means of funding, they decide the kind of activities they would like to conduct. But they are affiliated to Lions Clubs International and they need to follow some guidelines of the Lions Clubs international. Four or five clubs form one zone and three or more zones from Region, Six or more Regions form a District, three or more Districts form a Multiple Districts, And all the Multiple Districts together form the Lions Clubs International.
As a Region Chairperson I need to accompany the District Governor on his official visit of any club in my Region. Last Sunday, we had a District Governor’s official visit to Lions Club of Secunderabad Sadhana; this is an all ladies club. All the members are Lady Lions. Lion Shakeela Reddy is the President of the club. During our visit they took us to their permanent project; adopted library. I was surprised to see the well-maintained library. As usual the building is an old one with poor ventilation. But the collection of the books is impressive. And most surprising for me was the locality in which it is located, in the midst of low-income group area.
The president of the club described her future project. They want to construct a foot over bridge near Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences. This hospital is reputed for its excellent medical services with nominal cost. Majority of the patients come form rural areas for surgery and treatment for other major ailments. It stands on a very busy road, and there are frequent cases of accidents occurring while the villagers try to cross the busy road.
In Hyderabad there are no foot over bridge. We were very impressed and encouraged the President to take immediate action on the project.
Today again I had to go for official visit to Lions Club of Secunderabad Gymkhana. It was also one of the very satisfying days for me. We went to inaugurate the Bus shelter constructed by the club in the old city of Hyderabad. We had some interaction with the local corporator. Seeing us all the local poor people came and requested us to take up some service activities, We promised them of conducting an eye check up camp at the slum, where we will provide all the medical help in providing glasses to poor people and to conduct cataract surgery on the patients. They showed us the three Saraswati schools (it was a news for me that Saraswati Schools are run by RSS) where they are planning to conduct eye check up camps as per ROSHNI-50 campaign on 16th of November. In total more than 1600 students will be benefited.Lion Ravi kumar, the President of the club is an NRI. He works in Abu Dhabi. He works in offshore oil rig. Alternate 28 days he stays offshore and in India. I am really happy and impressed by the kind of dedication Lion Ravikumar has for service to the fellow human beings.
As a Region Chairperson I need to accompany the District Governor on his official visit of any club in my Region. Last Sunday, we had a District Governor’s official visit to Lions Club of Secunderabad Sadhana; this is an all ladies club. All the members are Lady Lions. Lion Shakeela Reddy is the President of the club. During our visit they took us to their permanent project; adopted library. I was surprised to see the well-maintained library. As usual the building is an old one with poor ventilation. But the collection of the books is impressive. And most surprising for me was the locality in which it is located, in the midst of low-income group area.
The president of the club described her future project. They want to construct a foot over bridge near Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences. This hospital is reputed for its excellent medical services with nominal cost. Majority of the patients come form rural areas for surgery and treatment for other major ailments. It stands on a very busy road, and there are frequent cases of accidents occurring while the villagers try to cross the busy road.
In Hyderabad there are no foot over bridge. We were very impressed and encouraged the President to take immediate action on the project.
Today again I had to go for official visit to Lions Club of Secunderabad Gymkhana. It was also one of the very satisfying days for me. We went to inaugurate the Bus shelter constructed by the club in the old city of Hyderabad. We had some interaction with the local corporator. Seeing us all the local poor people came and requested us to take up some service activities, We promised them of conducting an eye check up camp at the slum, where we will provide all the medical help in providing glasses to poor people and to conduct cataract surgery on the patients. They showed us the three Saraswati schools (it was a news for me that Saraswati Schools are run by RSS) where they are planning to conduct eye check up camps as per ROSHNI-50 campaign on 16th of November. In total more than 1600 students will be benefited.Lion Ravi kumar, the President of the club is an NRI. He works in Abu Dhabi. He works in offshore oil rig. Alternate 28 days he stays offshore and in India. I am really happy and impressed by the kind of dedication Lion Ravikumar has for service to the fellow human beings.
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Nice to see your blog in full swing...Bikashji :) Just came to know (saw your profile) you are as old as my mom.
Regards,
Sonali
Regards,
Sonali
Dear Sonali,
Thanks for your compliment. It is nice to know that your mom is of my age, which was expected as I have seen your profile earlier. I would also like to know if there is any similarity in our thinking process.
I also noticed that you have promoted me to ‘ji’. As a matter of fact I am reasonably comfortable with only Bikash. When I first came to Hyderabad some 25 years ago, one of my colleague’s brother was in final year of engineering in Osmania University. He used to come to me for his project works. Next year his juniors came for their project work and the same tradition went on till 1997. And I became habituated being called Bikash by all generations of boys. So today all of my acquaintances of age bracket 30 to 80 calls me Bikash only. Recently some younger people started to call me ‘sir’, but that promotion is due to my professional status, not because of age or personal affinity. My son has just crossed his teens and I am uncle to his friends. Hence I would rather like you continue with ‘Bikash’.
Regards
Bikash
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Thanks for your compliment. It is nice to know that your mom is of my age, which was expected as I have seen your profile earlier. I would also like to know if there is any similarity in our thinking process.
I also noticed that you have promoted me to ‘ji’. As a matter of fact I am reasonably comfortable with only Bikash. When I first came to Hyderabad some 25 years ago, one of my colleague’s brother was in final year of engineering in Osmania University. He used to come to me for his project works. Next year his juniors came for their project work and the same tradition went on till 1997. And I became habituated being called Bikash by all generations of boys. So today all of my acquaintances of age bracket 30 to 80 calls me Bikash only. Recently some younger people started to call me ‘sir’, but that promotion is due to my professional status, not because of age or personal affinity. My son has just crossed his teens and I am uncle to his friends. Hence I would rather like you continue with ‘Bikash’.
Regards
Bikash
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