INNER WHEEL CLUB OF ROURKELA MID-TOWN District 326 Charter no 3827 October Issue Trish Douglas Rasika Bahadur Preeti Gugnani IIW President(2023-24) District Chairman(2023-24) Association President(2023-24) What’s inside? September events Upcoming events Birthdays & Anniversaries Achievements and Happenings Did you know? Member’s corner
September events: Teacher’s Day Celebration : Teachers day was observed by the club members to honour the teachers in the club. Among them were PDC. Mrs.Manju Mukherjee, PP. Harpal Roopra , PP. Rucha Kakkad, Mrs. Rita Pradhan, Dr.Mrs. Kalyani Mishra and President Mrs. Soudamini Singh. Mrs. Piyai Patra , a teacher of Delhi Public School was invited for the celebration. The Vice-President of the club, PP. Sushma Prasad threw light on the importance of a teacher in the student’s life. The members remembered Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and offered flowers. PDC. Mrs. Manju Mukherjee spoke on how teachers day was started. All the teachers were felicitated by the members.
Nation Builder Award: We surveyed five Government Schools for selecting the teachers for Nation Builder Award. These are Municipal Government (High School ), Municipal Government (Upper Primary) School, Panposh, Rourkela, Reserve Police Line School, Rourkela, Town Government High School, and Town Government Upper Primary School, Uditnagar, Rourkela. The following teachers will be felicitated with Nation Builder Award during Chairman’s Official visit to our club. 1. Mr. S.K. MM Hussain - Municipal Government High School 2. Mrs. Pallavi Nayak - Municipal Government Upper Primary 3. Mrs. Debjani Barik - Reserve Police Line School 4. Anil Ku Nayak - Town Govt. High School 5. Sabitalata Sahoo - Town Govt. Upper Primary School Inner wheel Quiz : Club Editor, Rucha Kakkad conducted Online Inner Wheel Quiz on 30.9.23 at the Club level. The winners were PP Harpal Roopra(First), Soudamini Singh(Second) and PP Manju Meher(Third) and Babita Shukla (Third)
Upcoming Events: Visit to Old Age Home Visit to Tangerpalli Birthdays & Anniversaries: PP Harpal Roopra celebrated her birthday on 1.9.23. PP Madhawi Purohit celebrated her birthday on 3.9.23 PP Ritu Sakunia celebrated her birthday on 15.9.23 , PP Malinder Arora celebrated her birthday on 27.9.23 PP Kamlesh Lath celebrated her birthday on 29.9.23 Kiranbala Das celebrated her birthday on 29.9.23. We wish you all happy birthday and good health and happiness always.
Achievements and Happenings: President Soudamini Singh exchanged flag with ISO Rajalaxmi Sabat of Bhubaneshwar Temple City on 31.8.23 and ISO Trupti Patel of Bangalore on 15.9.23. PP.Rucha Kakkad (Club Editor) and Rekha Singh (Club ISO) attended the Installation Ceremony of IWC of Rourkela Riverside on 3.9.23. Rekha Singh (Club ISO) exchanged flag with President of IWC Rourkela Riverside
Our club pictures of Drawing and Essay competition conducted on 14.8.23 and Prize distribution ceremony on 15.8.23 were highlighted in District Monthly Bulletin (RACHITA) of August ’23. PP Rucha Kakkad and Dr. Kalyani Mishra was felicitated by Rotary club of Rourkela mid-town on the occasion of Teachers day. PP. Harpal Roopra was invited by Rotary Club of Rourkela Vibrant as Guest of Honour at Sai Valley School on their talk show on Health and Hygiene in adolescents.
Congratulations to President, Soudamini Singh on being selected for award on World’s Teacher’s Day (5.10.23) by ‘ANWESHA’ in their inauguration ceremony of 9 th Nanhe Kalam ki Khoj. Dr.Mrs. Kalyani Mishra She was invited as Guest Speaker by World Forum for United Consciousness to deliver a talk on Understanding Consciousness for World Peace from 12th to 14th September. She was invited as Guest of Honour at Abu from 15th to 19th Sept., by SPARC wing(Spirituality and researchers wing of Prajapita Brahmakumaris Ishariya Viswa Vidyalaya , International Headquarters, Mt.Abu to deliver a talk on ‘Integrating Science and Spirituality She was invited by DAMITS , Jagda, Rourkela on 29th Sept., to deliver a motivational talk on ‘Knowing the art of Self-management for delivering the best in you”. She was invited by Pearl Height Ladies club for a talk on “Many facets of Womanhood”.
Dr. R.C.Meher(Spouse of PP Manju Rani Meher) was awarded as Captain of ACOIN(Association of Community Opthamologists Of India ) activities in Odisha on 23.9.23 at Annual Conference in Bilaspur. Our heartfelt condolences to Hemlata Goel who lost her brother on 31.8.23. May God give the family the strength to bear this irreparable loss. Did you know? A female above 18 years can be a member of Inner wheel club. Membership can be classified into three categories. 1. Active membership : A member who pays her dues and has the right to vote and can hold posts in Inner wheel. 2. Honoured Active membership: A member who has given outstanding performance in Inner Wheel .The club pays her dues for one year in which she is conferred the title of Honoured Active. From the following years, she pays her dues but retains the title. Such a member has all the rights of an active member but shall be subject to nomination and election annually. 3. Honarary Membership: The club can honour someone, a local dignitary or a person who has helped the club in some way or the other or given some form of charity, and invite her to join as Honorary member . The dues of such members are paid by the club and must be elected annually. Such members cannot hold any office or has the right to vote.
Member’s Corner Nuakhai is the agricultural festival of people of Western Odisha. ‘Nua’ means new and ‘Khai’ means eating. ‘Anna’ is the centre of the whole universe.Therefore this navanna or nuakhai festival give much importance to anna with a special celebration.It is mostly observed in Sambalpur, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Balangir, Kalahandi, Deogarh and Sundergarh. It is observed on the day after Ganesh Chaturthi. It is not only a festival or a tradition but it is mainly concentrated on the worship of food grain or rice. After hard work throughout the year, the farmers become extremely happy when they see the golden crops in the paddy fields. The head of the family goes to collect the new crop one day before and performs special rituals and puja. The seniormost lady of the family receives the new crops and performs the rituals. On this occasion, cows and bullocks are also bathed and worshipped with special puja. This is an exhibition of gratitude and respect to domestic animals. Family deities at home are offered sweets like Manda pitha and khiri. Family members sit together and eat different varieties of food. The youngsters pay respect to their elders and the elders bless them. Though the celebration of Nuakhai has changed over the period of time, the main cause of this celebration is the spirit or the gratefulness that man has for Almighty for good harvest for the sustenance of life on the earth. Therefore, Nuakhai is a unique festival in the whole country where both tribal and non-tribals participate and bind them in the force of unity, cohesion and brotherhood and collective offering to Gods and Goddesses for all their blessings. -Abha Behera Compiled by: Rucha Kakkad Editor(2023-24)