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Greater involvement of corporate sector in service activities stressed

Rotary International president nominee Kalyan Banerjee being greeted by other Rotarians in Vijayawada on Saturday. Rotary District 3020 governor Ch. Kishore Kumar, reception committee convenor Sam Movva and others are also seen.

VIJAYAWADA: Stressing the need for greater involvement of corporate sector in service activities, the president nominee of the Rotary International, Kalyan Banerjee, on Saturday expressed confidence that the Rotary’s aim of eradicating polio from the world would be achieved in the next couple of years.

He was addressing a large number of Rotarians who turned up to felicitate him at The Gateway Hotel on the occasion of his visit to the city. All the seven Rotary clubs of the city formed into a reception committee to organise the felicitation.

Mr. Banerjee said that the corporate involvement in service activities had already begun with Laxmi Mittal contributing substantially to the Rotary’s polio eradication programme.

He said that the Rotary was doing service activities across the world in association with the United Nations and the World Health Organisation. He pointed out that polio cases were now being found only in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, and even in India the cases were figuring mostly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh only.

“Polio cases are mostly found in 40 blocks in Bihar and 60 blocks in Uttar Pradesh. The Rotary is working with determination to eradicate polio from these 100 blocks and make India a polio-free nation,” he explained.

Mr. Banerjee said that the Rotary was also working to promote literacy and eradicate hunger from the world. He thanked the Rotarians across the world for their hard work in making the two programmes a success.

He was earlier accorded a grand reception at the Gannavaram airport, where the local Rotarians organised a felicitation, and later brought in a cavalcade of 101 vehicles in a symbolic gesture, as he would be the 101st president of the Rotary International when he takes over on July 1, 2011 for a one-year term.

Rotary district 3020 governor Ch. Kishore Kumar, past district governor and reception committee convenor Sam Movva and others were present.

A large number of Rotarians vied with one another to honour him with bouquets and garlands.

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