Annual Report 2019-20

Background:

The DISCON Vocational Learning Scholarship (VLS) Project was started in the year Rotary 2010-11 during the Presidentship of Milind Kanekar. Since then, with the generous donations from our members and others, the number of students has reached 300 and the total amount has reached Rs.3 Crore 7 Lac.

Year 2019-20:

This year too, proved to be even better than the earlier one, with the project achieving many new milestones.

  • 3 CSR Donations: All our 3 CSR Donors, continued to support the project in a big way.

  • Aarti Industries Ltd. gave a donation of Rs.13,40,000, matching contributions from our own members and bridging the shortfall in funding for all new students. Shri. Rajendra Gogri, MD of Aarti Industries Ltd. was the Chief Guest at the Scholarship Distribution Function held on 21st September 2019. He announced his donation to meet the shortfall at that function itself. We are grateful to Aarti Industries, Shri. Rajendrabhai for their generosity and our own Member Rtn. Deepak Shah for his help.

  • Play Games 24X7 Pvt. Ltd. pleasantly surprised us with a bigger donation of Rs.55,40,580/- in March 2020. We feel overwhelmed by the trust shown in VLS Project and Rotary Club of Mulund. We have accepted this huge donation with a sense of humble responsibility. We will make every effort to be true to their expectations. We thank the Company, its Directors and their CSR team led by Mr. Malaykumar Shukla, Ms. Garima Tripathi and Mr. Nandlal Yadav.

  • BANYAN TREE ADVISERS PVT. LTD.: Donation of Rs.3,00,000/- was received from Banyan Tree Advisers Pvt. Ltd. This is the fourth consecutive year of their donation. We sincerely thank Shri. Jigar Shah and other Directors of the company for their generosity. We look forward to their long term association with the project.

  • 8 Students completed their repayment during 2018-19.

  • 300 STUDENTS: With addition of 78 New Students, total number of students zoomed, touching the figure of 300.

  • FUNDING IN 2019-20 Crosses Rs.87 Lac: The gross Scholarship Disbursement in 2019-20 was Rs.3,07,48,281/- .

  • The received forms were scrutinized and 125 Students were called for interviews on 18th August 2019 at SMPR High School, Mulund. Lot of our members, including newly joined ones, participated in the interview process. Sudhir and Seema Joshi hosted the Scrutiny programme in their home!

  • 78 Students were finally selected for receiving the scholarship at the cost of more than Rs.50,36,000/-. This was the second consecutive year that number of students selected crossed 50.

  • Special thanks to Shri. Hemant Veera of Ashiqui Shoes, Mulund West for hosting the Form Collection Center.

The students were handed over the Scholarships, during our club meeting on 21st September 2019. We were lucky to have Shri. Rajendra Gogri, Chairman of Aarti Industries as the Chief Guest of the function. He appreciated the good work being done by Rotary Club of Mulund. He specially mentioned that VLS project is open to all the needy students, without any consideration of Religion, Caste etc. His speech motivated all of us to work even harder for the project.

Our Charter Member R. Z. Shah and Ansuyaben had graciously provided the beautiful hall at their Marathon Monte Carlo building free of cost for the VLS Function.

Due to Covid, Annual Student Get Together was not held during 2019-20.

FOR DONATIONS:
A/c Name: Rotary Charity Trust Mulund DISCON VLS Project
A/c Number: 0154101052948
Canara Bank, Mulund Camp Branch, Mumbai 400080
IFSC Code: CNRB0000154
80G Tax Exemption available

Rotary Charity Trust Mulund DISCON VLS Project

5060, Bhandup Indl. Estate, Pannalal Compound, LBS Road, Bhandup (W), Mumbai 400078, INDIA


VLS Annual Report 2019-20.pdf