December

MATHUR ASSOCIATION BOMBAY

C/o Mahesh C. Mathur &Co.

First Floor, Kakad House,

Barrack Road,

Near Liberty Cinema,

Mumbai 400 020.

News Letter

MAB Diwali Get together and Last Function of the Millennium

On Saturday 16th December, 2000

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Dear Member,

1. OUR NEXT FUNCTION - An Announcement:

   1. Managing Committee, MAB takes pleasure in announcing that its Diwali get-together -cum-last "MILLENNIUM FUNCTION" will be held on Saturday, 16th December, 2000 from 7.00 p.m. onwards at the following venue:

   2. Open Ground

   3. Opposite NORITA Building

   4. Hiranandani Complex,

   5. Powai, Mumbai- 400076.

   6. This venue is the same where we had our Diwali get-together 2 years ago in December 1998 and we are sure it will be familiar to many. However, some guidelines to reach the venue are as follows:

i) Members coming by car/taxi/auto can either come from Andheri (E) / Saki Naka side or from Kanjur Marg / Mulund / Vikhroli side (Old Agra Road, now known as LBS Marg) up the hill towards IIT Powai, come to the Hiranandani Complex and ask for NORITA Building.

ii) Bus No: 329 plying between Ghatkopar (W) and Andheri (E) stations passes through inside the Hiranandani Complex and has a stop right at the venue. This may perhaps be the most convenient way for those travelling by train/bus from Eastern or Western suburbs.

(iii) Following buses pass through the main Powai Road. One can take any one of these and get down at the Hiranandani stop on the main road. From there take an auto to come inside the Complex to the NORITA Building.

• • • • • No: 392/396 plying between Mulund (W) and Andheri(E)

        • No: 422 plying between Bandra (E) and Mulund(W)

        • No: 424/426 between 4-Bunglows (Andheri(W) and Mulund (W)

        • No: 185 between Kannam Nagar (Kanjur Marg) and Andheri(E)

(iv) Any further or specific guidance about the venue or route etc., can be had from any of the following Committee members:

• • • • • Shri Anil Mathur, Powai (Tel: 570 0754/579 7081)

        • Shri Sushil Mathur, Bhandup (Tel: 568 5727/568 2082)

        • Shri Ajit Mathur, Bandra (Tel: 649 8673/648 1744)

• 1. Dinner, drinks, snacks, etc., will be available as usual. A good entertainment program of music and dance, befitting the Millennium function awaits you. Eat-Drink (and be merry!!!) and dance to your heart's content.

(d) Annual membership of Rs. 50/- for the year 2000-2001 may kindly be paid by all members (except Life Members and those who have already paid in the last function in April this year.) at the Reception Counter in the coming function.

(e) When you approach the Reception Counter (or for any communication with the MAB anytime) please do specify your MAB Directory Ref. No. (like C-2, W-49, NW-134, etc.) in addition to your name. This will enable us to locate you quickly in our list and correctly credit your payment against your name. Besides, it will save a lot of your and our time at the Counter, especially during the peak rush.

1. OUR LAST FUNCTION - A REVIEW:

   1. Our last (Holi) function was held on 15.4.2000 at the Church Lawn at 4-Bunglows, Andheri (E) and was attended by 305 persons, including a few new comers who have now been listed as regular members The function, starting from 6.30 p.m., ended around 11 p.m. A good entertainment program with music and a dance floor was provided, besides the usual snacks, drinks and dinner.

   2. Members from New Mumbai (Vashi / Panvel, etc.) had hired a special bus to attend the function with families due to which they had a comfortable, convenient and hassle-free to-and-fro journey. We appreciate and applaud their enthusiasm and congratulate the organizers for arranging and coordinating this great facility. Other groups in other Zones can perhaps follow this.

   3. In response to our "Appeal for Funds" we gratefully acknowledge receipt of the following sponsorship from our esteemed members and thank them for the same:

i) Rs. 1500/- donation from Smt. Prabha Mathur (NW-67), Andheri (E) in connection with the marriage of her son, Vijay with Kum. Nidhi on 25.12.99.

ii) Rs. 501/- from Shri N.S. Mathur, (C-16), CMD, National Textile Corporation

• 1. iii) Supply of 8 Nos. (actual consumption). RC Whisky Bottles by Shri Taj Bahdur (NW-119), Andheri(W)

  2. For Raffle, the following prizes were sponsored by members for which our thanks to them:

  3. One Cook-n-Serve Kitchen set by Shri Sushil K. Mathur (NE-44), Bhandup

  4. One Sandwich Toaster by Shri Paresh Bahadur, (W-57) Khar (W)

  5. One Kitchen Weighing Machine by Shri Paresh Bahadur, (W-57) Khar (W)

  6. Smt. Renu and Shri Sushil K. Mathur (NE-44) Bhandup, provided, as usual, free Ice-cream to all guests for which our very sincere appreciation and thanks to them.

  7. It may be mentioned here that they have been personally extending this great hospitality to the community with all pleasure and humbleness at their command in all our functions for several years past without a single gap. This creates an unbroken record of sorts, at least for the MAB, if not for the Guinness Book.

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  9. Our special thanks are due to the following members for their help and effective involvement in the activities of the last function:

     1. Shri Shriraj Mathur (E-46), CBD Belapur and Shri Brijesh Sahai (E-17), Vashi in compiling and issue of our last (some 450 Nos.) Newsletter.

ii) Shri Chetan Mathur (NW-124), Jogeshwari, for compering the function's Entertainment programs.

1. SPONSORSHIP:

• 1. We have been consistently appealing (and admittedly receiving also) for sponsorship from our members to meet our function expenses which are progressively rising due to increase in prices of food materials, hire charges etc. We once again repeat our appeal, especially for this Millennium function, and draw the attention of our esteemed members towards the following standing Sponsorships available to them:

• • 1. Give a Corpus Donation which could be put in a Bank FD and its interest could be perpetually used as your running contribution at each function.

    2. Give whatever you wish as a spot cash contribution on function(s) towards the expenses of the said function(s).

    3. Sponsor (wholly or partly, individually or jointly) an item of the function(s), by contributing the amount shown against each:

- Venue hire Rs. 5000/-

- Non-Veg. material Rs. 5000/-

-Cooking & Service charges Rs. 5000/-

-Music & Entertainment Rs. 3000/-

-Lighting, tables, chairs etc. Rs. 3000/-

-Hard drinks (Whisky & Beer) Rs. 3000/-

-Soft Drinks Rs. 1500/-

Note: Though the actual expenses on these items are usually more, sponsorship amount has been limited to above, or actuals which ever is less

iv) Any other way desired, for e.g. Donation on a marriage or any other happy occasions in family or in business.

Your generosity will be greatly appreciated and acknowledged in our newsletters and will go a long way in helping us in holding good functions. Kindly contact any of the following for further details and processing your contribution.

• • • • • Your Zonal Representative.

        • Shri Shamsher B Barellia (Mahim) Tel: 4467212 (Ref. no C-25)

        • Shri Mahesh C Mathur (Churchgate) Tel: 2013328 (Ref. No. S-18)

b) Volunteers:

We are always in need of volunteers to manage the various counters at functions and once again request members, especially young boys and girls, to come forward for this. Those who feel reluctant to tie themselves down to a counter throughout the function may form groups of two or three so that amongst themselves they can relieve each other and also enjoy the function. We are sure many will find this an exciting assignment along with a sense of fulfillment of rendering an important community service. Please do come forward and convey your names immediately to any of the following

• • • Shri Shamsher B Barellia (Mahim) Tel: 4467212 (Ref. no C-25)

    • Shri Ajit Mathur (Khar W) Tel: 6498673 / 6481744 (Ref. W-3)

    • Shri Anil K. Mathur (Powai) Tel: 5700754/ 5797081(Ref. NE-6)

    • Shri Sushil K. Mathur (Bhandup) Tel: 5685722/5682082 (Ref. NE-44)

1. MAB Directory - 99 (Corrigendum / Addendum No. 3/99)

   1. The MAB directory has already been provided free of cost (courtesy Smt. & Shri Hanuman Bahadur Mathur - {C-7} Worli) to all members. The first Corrigendum / Addendum (No. 1/99) to the same was issued along with our news letter dated 1/12/1999 and second one (No. 2/99) updated upto 30/3/2000 along with our newsletter dated 30/3/2000. The third Corrigendum / Addendum No. 3/99 updated upto 30/11/2000 is now enclosed with this newsletter. This is in continuation of the first two and is to be read with reference to the main Directory and the earlier two Corrigendum

   2. It will be best if members carry out these corrections/ additions in their copy of the main Directory, rather than keeping these loose sheets, which can get misplaced.

2. GENERAL

3. e-MAB (MAB on the net)

• 1. You would be pleased to know that a web site on behalf of MAB is being planned in the near future. In the meanwhile, to correspond with MAB interactively over the Internet, please send emails to murarikm@hotmail.com

  2. Members having their personal email id's are requested to send these to the above mentioned email id so that News letters, Directory updating etc. can be emailed to them promptly.

4. Small increase in food coupon price:

• 1. Though prices of all food items, service charges, etc., have been continuously rising for quite sometime past, we have so far been withholding any increase in our Food coupon price or in the Membership fee. Now that the things have gone much beyond our resources, we are most reluctantly compelled to raise the Food Coupon price from the present Rs. 50/- to Rs. 60/-each with immediate effect. We sincerely hope that members will kindly appreciate the circumstances and will not mint this marginal increase of Rs. 10/- for food, which anyway is served at a substantially subsidized cost.

5. Standardized Function dates:

• 1. As already announced (Ref. Item 5-b of our last Newsletter dated 30/3/2000) we now hold our two annual functions on two fixed days, viz., the third Saturday of April and the third Saturday of December of each year. This will continue to be strictly adhered to, except for some very special reason on a particular occasion. Members are requested to take due notice of this while making advance planning of their engagements for April & December each year.

6. Senior Citizens:

• 1. In response to a proposal in our last Newsletter dated 30/3/2000 regarding compiling a list of our "BIRADRI BUZURGS" (i.e., listed members aged 75 years or more by the end of December, 2000), we got only very few names, though we knew that there were many more eligible ones from whom somehow we had not received a word. With our own efforts thereafter we were able to locate quite a few more names and a list of our respected Senior Citizens, as much as we could gather, is enclosed at Annexure-A. (E&OE)

  2. We specially extend our invitation for this Millennium Function to all these respected Biradri Buzurgs and request them to grace the function with their presence. They will be our honored guests and the MAB will feel happy and privileged to offer them a Complimentary Food Coupon on this occasion

7. Purane Shehree:

Listed members or families who have been in Mumbai for 40 years or more, i.e., who have been here or continuously maintained their household here since 1960 or before. Even for this we got very few names from members themselves and had to do some fishing ourselves. So, based on whatever response we got or information we could collect, we have complied their list, which is enclosed at Annexure-B. (E&OE)

1. Our humble but special requests:

   1. i) Kindly do (repeat do) inform us promptly of any change in your residential/office address, phone No., etc, as and when it occurs to enable us to keep our Directory always updated and preventing our Circulars to you coming back to us undelivered. Listed members leaving Mumbai for good may kindly make it a definite point to inform us of their departure and if they (specially the Life Members) leave with us their forwarding address, phone no., etc., it will be appreciated.

   2. ii) Members (other than Life Members) may kindly ensure that we receive their Annual membership of Rs.50/- regularly every year. Once in a while we do get shocking but pleasant surprise when a member, unable to come to the function himself, sends his membership fee through somebody else who is attending. How much we wish there were be many more responsible and duty conscious members like him.

   3. Our year is the usual Financial year (i.e. April to March) and as such Annual membership (Rs.50/-) for the year 2000-2001 is now due from all except those who have since paid in our last function on 15/4/2000.

   4. iii) In our dinners, please avoid wastage of food in leaving platefuls of leftovers, especially in children's plates. On our part we will provide more number of food counters so that second and subsequent helpings may be picked up frequently and quickly. Kindly give us your cooperation in avoiding wastage of food and thus indirectly saving our food expenses.

2. Bus Transport

Members from East Zone (Chembur, New Mumbai, Panvel, etc.,) are, like before, thinking of hiring a bus to attend the Powai function on the 16th December. Persons interested in availing this facility may contact Shri Shriraj Mathur, CBD (Tel: 7577262) or Shri Rakesh Mathur, Vashi (Tel: 7823048) at the earliest. It may perhaps be possible for them to include members from Thane and Ghatkopar side also.

1. ACADEMIC AWARDS:

   1. For the last Academic Year, 1999-2000, there is only one application, details as follows:

   2. Name: Nikhil Mathur, s/o Smt. Minni & Shri Vinod B. Mathur (NE-52) of Mulund (W)

   3. Achievement: Obtained First Class with total 73.51% marks B.Com. Exam of Mumbai University held in April 2000.

   4. Award Eligibility:

   5. "ANAND SHARAN" award of Rs. 1000/- sponsored by Shri M.B.Lal (C-13), Pedder Road.

   6. Congratulations to Mrs. Minni & Mr. Vinod, and SHABAASH to Nikhil. He may please attend the forthcoming function on 16th December at Powai to receive the award.

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2. CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS:

Modesty and publicity-shyness often prevents many from talking themselves of their achievements, but there are some which make the entire community proud and, therefore, must find a mention in our Newsletters. Here are some, which have of late come to our knowledge:

• 1. Shri Pukhraj Bahadur (S-23), Colaba, promoted as Executive Director, RBI.

  2. Shri Vishwa Nath Mathur (W-58), Bandra (W), promoted as CMD of Cotton Corp. of India

  3. Shri Rajendra Nath (S-28), Colaba, promoted as General Manager, Central Railway

Our heartiest congratulations to them, though may be a bit late and wishing them still loftier heights.

1. WEDDING BELLS:

   1. Our heartiest congratulations and best wishes to the newly weds and their families on the following weddings:

   2. a) Vikas, s/o Smt. Vijaya & Shri Suresh B. Mathur (W-55) of Khar with Kum. Rachna, d/o Smt. Meera & Shri Bhagwan Kishore Mathur of Lucknow on 3/4/2000 at Delhi.

   3. b) Prateek, s/o Smt. Chandrika & Capt. Virendra N. Aindley (NW-131) of Andheri (W) to Kum. Bharti, d/o Smt. Chandu & Shri Channabasappa of Bellary on 30/6/2000 at Mumbai.

   4. c) Prashant, s/o Smt. Aruna & Shri Chandra Shekher Mathur (NW-146), of Bhayender, to Kum. Aparna, d/o Smt. Madhu & Shri Ram Prasad Srivastava on 10/7/2000 at Mumbai.

   5. (d) Puneet, s/o Smt. Suraj & Shri J.D.Mathur (E-29) of Kharghar, New Mumbai to Kum. Neha, d/o Smt. Deepa & Shri Raghunandan Dayal Mathur on 21/11/2000 at Kharghar.

2. OBITURIES:

Our heartfelt condolences to the members of the bereaved families of the following:

• • 1. Smt. Subhag Mohan (w/o Late Shri Lalit Mohan of Delhi), mother of Shri Ashok Mohan (S-2), Malabar Hill, died on 5/8/2000 at Mumbai.

    2. Shri R.S. Mathur, father of Shri Rakesh Mathur (C-44), Prabhadevi, died on 11/8/2000 at Lucknow.

    3. Shri K.K.Mathur (NW-37), Vile-Parle, died on 27/9/2000 at Mumbai

    4. Shri Jagdish Govind Mathur (NE-18), Powai, died on 3/11/2000 at Mumbai.

We are also sorry to learn about the recent death at Singapore of Shri Vijay Dayal (formerly with IBM at Mumbai) and a member of the MAB Managing Committee during the early eighties.

Thanking you, and looking forward to meeting you at NORITA Ground, Powai on Saturday, 16th December evening.

Enclosures: Annexure A&B

Corrigendum /Addendum. No.3/99

For & On behalf of Managing Committee, MAB

Krishna Murari

President

P.S.

• • 1. Sorry the Corrigendum / Addendum 3/99 (ref. Paragraph 4 above) could not be readied till the issue of this newsletter. It will be made available on the 16th December function to those present and thereafter posted to the remaining members.

2) A rough sketch indicating venue location is given on Page 8

Annexure-A to MAB Newsletter dated 1/12/2000.

MUMBAI MATHUR BIRADRI BUZURGS

Senior Citizens (75 years or older in the year 2000)

Annexure-B to MAB Newsletter dated 1/12/2000.

PURANE SHEHREE

(Listed members or families who have been in Mumbai for 40 years or more, i.e., who have been here or continuously maintained their household here since 1960 or before)