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Rotarians to get their own district

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, March 8: There was good news for all Rotarians in Nepal, when it was formally announced that the Rotary Clubs of Nepal would now get their own district, provided they take the number of their clubs to sixty or hike the number of their members to twentyone hundred.
This was good news for the Nepalese Rotarians because the previous regulations stipulated that there should be at least 75 clubs and twenty eight hundred members in an area before it could get its own district status.

Speaking at a special meeting organised by the Rotary Club of Balaju in Kathmandu today, the current District Governor of all Nepalese Rotary Clubs, Amitava Mookerjee pledged that he and his Rotarian friends would make all out efforts to ensure that the Rotary Clubs of Nepal got its own district within one year.

He also emphasised the need for all Rotarians to work for humanitarian activities in the spirit of true Rotarians.

An expert in micro-finance schemes, Mookerjee, who is based in Kolkata, India, spoke of the huge good the Rotary Clubs could do by initiating micro-finance programmes for the benefit of the absolute poor in the country.

He handed over a cheque of Rs. 100,000 to the president of Rotary Club of Balaju, Stalin Man Pradhan for the club’s micro-finance programme, which it has already started. In fact the Rotary Club of Balaju is the first Rotary Club in Nepal to start such a scheme.

All the members present on the occasion also pledged to focus their attention on helping the poverty stricken rural women. In fact, district governor Mookerjee warned that all loans under the micro-finance scheme should go to the women. “That is the secret of its success,” he revealed. He also greeted all the women members present on the occasion of the International Women’s Day.

The next district conference of this area is going to take place in Kolkata on April 10 and there is going to be a special Nepal Day on the occasion.

District secretary Dilendra Shrestha informed that a sizeable number of Rotarians from Nepal would attend the conference and a special cultural group will present a cultural show at Kolkata.
The Rotary International raises around US $ 70 million each year and almost 40 per cent of that amount is spent in Nepal and India. Rotary International spends funds for education and humanitarian activities. It may be mentioned that Rotary clubs all over the world are actively involved in polio eradication campaign which has been most successful in Nepal.

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