RID 3261 focuses on medical care and literacy
Medical care projects and Adult Literacy initiative hogged the limelight at the installation of RID 3261 DG Akhil Mishra in Jabalpur, MP. During the investiture, Rajya Sabha MP and PDG Vivek Tankha sponsored a state-of-the-art bus for differently-abled children at the Justice Tankha Memorial Rotary Institute for Special Children; four dialysis machines, a sonography device, and a blood bank freezer for government hospitals in Jabalpur, Nainpur and Gadarwara, all worth ₹75–80 lakh.
PRIP Sekhar Mehta, chief guest at the installation, donated two dialysis machines to the Government Polyclinic, Kotwali. “The district Rotarians pooled in around `45–50 lakh to set up facilities needed for the proposed dialysis units at the hospitals,” said DG Mishra.
A spacious floor was allotted at the Jabalpur Hospital and Research Centre run by Rtn Dr Rajesh Dhirawani for the district to do free heart surgeries on children. While Dhirawani will install the facilities, Rotary clubs will take care of the recurring expenses of the paediatric centre.”
A Rotary Autism Rehab Centre will come up at Kundam village, 34km from Jabalpur, in collaboration with Seema Singh, a non-Rotarian. The centre, which will be operational in 6–7 years, will be spread over 16 acres, having around 200 residential units to house patients and their caregivers, explained Mishra.
PRIP Mehta and Jabalpur mayor Jagat Bahadur Singh Annu inaugurated an adult literacy programme being done jointly with the municipal corporation. Each child will make one adult literate and the former will get academic benefits for this work. Adult education kits were provided to children of the Royal Senior Secondary School, M M International School and Government Middle School Rampur, Chhapar.
A new adult literacy programme for over 500 schools was unveiled with the help of the MP government.
DG Mishra will inaugurate a Rotary Skill Development Centre in Jabalpur (CSR fund: ₹94 lakh) shortly. “This will provide training in all major vocations to enable beneficiaries to earn a decent income,” he says.
