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Laudable: Panduranga Setty (left), past Rotary International Director and Ray Klinginsmith, Rotary International President,and Rtn. C.K. Sreenathan, President, at a press conference in Bangalore on Monday. BANGALORE: The Rotary Club, on its completion of 75 years in Bangalore, commemorated the occasion by inaugurating the “Platinum Jubilee Block” at their ongoing educational project — the Seva Bharati Vidyalaya in Nagadevana Halli on Monday. The school, which was started in 1961 by Rotarians, was closed down later, only to be revived in 1989. Educating underprivileged children, the school now hosts 600 students and provides a number of scholarships. “We are opening two more schools by collaborating with a German company,” Ramkumarr Seshu, secretary of the Rotary Club of Bangalore told presspersons here. At the platinum jubilee celebrations, the Rotary International President Ray Klinginsmith also released the book “Platinum Club”, which is a compendium of how civil society initiatives have helped shape the city of Bangalore for the last 70 years. Mr. Klinginsmith spoke of the future plans of the Rotary Club in the coming years. “With India having the second largest number of Rotarians in the world, we want to focus as much as we can on community projects,” he said, and added that the club would take its continuing programme on the eradication of polio forward. During his tenure as president, he would also like to give impetus to the youth exchange programme, which enables close to 3,000 high school students to study out of their respective countries, he said. Past Rotary International Director M.K. Panduranga Setty said, “We still have a lot of work in the area of polio eradication in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. We are also going to stress on primary education and the provision of safe drinking water.”
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