1. Issue : 15 Volume : 32 10-10-2012 Pages -4
Technology, Govt. of India. They are presently
having an annual turnover of over Rs. 20 Crores. Mr.
B E S T Narayan is ably supported by two sons Prashanth &
Raahul and daughters-in-law Sowmya and
Supritha. He is blessed with a granddaughter
INDUSTRIALIST
AWARD
Amritha, named after her his wife, who passed
away in the year 2000. Mr. B.S.Narayan is a role
model for many young entrepreneurs.
Mr. B.S. Narayan was born on
14 July 1956, who did his initial To honour this acheiver we have a special
schooling from New Delhi. He guest with us Mr.P.Vishwanath . He is the son
graduated from BITS, Pilani in the of late K. Puttaswamy who
year 1977 with B.E. (Hons.) in was a former cabinet
Electrical and Electronics. With 9 minister. Mr. Vishwanath
years of work experience in BHEL, Bangalore in the comleted his BE (Mech) in the the
Area of Computerisation, Materials Management year 1972 from UVCE, Bangalore
and Budgeting and he was due for a promotion when and worked as a trainee engineer
resigning to start his own venture. He started Excel- before starting his own small scale
Par Electronics in Yadavagiri, Mysore in the year industry. He is a partner at M/s
1987 to manufacture Special Transformers and Adithya Precision Industries,
Chokes for Electronic Application under the Hebbal Industrial Estate, & M/s Adithya Industries,
guidance of SJCE-STEP Mysore. It was converted CMT Industrial Estate. He was elected as the first
to a Private Limited Company in the year 2007. The Mayor of Mysore City Corporation in 1983-84 and
company is presently supplying a variety of has served as a Corporator for 10 years. He has also
transformers to Larsen & Toubro Ltd., BHEL, BEL, served as the Chairman of Karnataka Forest
Schneider, Vinyas IT Solutions, Kaynes Industries Corporation Ltd., Bangalore for two years.
Technologies and other companies. Having Presently he is the President of Mysore Industries
employee strength of 120 and supporting 5-6 Association, District Chief Commissioner -Bharat
auxiliary enterprises involving over 200 employees Scouts and Guides, Hon. Secretary- Vidyavardhaks
Excel-Par Electronics is growing every year. Mr. Sangha, Hon. President – Baden Powell Public
Narayan has been awarded as 'The Second Best School, Trustee – Bapuji Children's Home, Gokulam.
Science Tech. Entrepreneur' by National Science
and Technological, Entrepreneur Development
Board in the year 1992 by the Dept. of Science and A warm welcome to you from Midtown.
ufi
S T
he long awaited visit to Sufi
school was possible on the
3rd of October. Innerwheel
pecial President Anupama along
with members; Geetha Krishna,
Anuradha, Savitha, Lavanya,
chool Chaitra and myself met at
Geethakka's petrol station to
r e a c h t h e p l a c e .
Rtn.Azeezullah's brother along
IW Memorable Day with the students welcomed us
with all smiles. After the
pleasantries, we went around to
see the different art work done by these children. Gosh! We were
awestruck by the paper work done by these children. The paper has been well utilised to make different
flowers, vases, bouquets, baskets, paper birds, etc. Beads and chains made of fruit seeds, paddy, etc
were eye catching. The precision with which these art pieces were done showed us how we could use
waste to bring out such creative work. Craft out of ordinary materials like leaves, twigs, seeds, grains, etc
could be seen there. Some children also enthusiastically taught us this art form. One boy showed us a man
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2. Dear Friends,
Let us condole the sad
demise of a very warm, kind & ever smiling Mr.
Nanjappa, father of Rtn.Aiyanna, and pray for the departed
soul.
The visit to Rangarao Memorial School was satisfying and it was
nice to see the children with great displine and would like to thank Rtn.Alagappan,
Rtn.Manoj, Rtn.Ramki, Rtn.Aiyanna, Rtn.Milton, Rtn.Nandu, Rtn.Dr.Ravindranath & Rtn.Gopal for donating
a table and chair to the school.
Rtn Raghu and Rtn Nandu conducted orientation for almost 1000 students from three colleges in
Kollegal- kudos to both of them. Rtn Sulaiman Sait organised an eye camp at RMA and sixty elderly people
were screened and eleven of them were selected for free cataract operation at MRC eye hospital. Thank you
Sait.
Today let us welcome the chief guest Mr.P.Vishwanath and the Best Industrialist awardee
Mr.Narayan B.S. Manageing Director of M/s Excel -Par Electronics Pvt Ltd and honour him with the award.
Thank You, Vishu
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'walking'- only by using a handkerchief!! The eye-
hand coordination was commendable. We all had
so much to learn as we became novices amongst
them. Rtn .Azeez's brother was cordial to show us
around.
The two teachers as well as the ayahs, the
backbone of these kids were felicitated by the
children themselves on behalf of our club. It was a
special moment for all of us. We also donated some
provisions to the school and also gave away biscuit
packets to the children present there. Two girls also
entertained us with 2 songs in Urdu and Kannada.
The efforts, dedication, love & care shown by Sufi
Trust & the staff towards these differently abled
c h i l d r e n i s
praiseworthy. Hats off
to the entire team. After
a photo session, we all
carried a few art pieces
as memorabilia.
Bidding them goodbye
and promising to visit
them again we bound
homewards. All of us
present there, were of
the single opinion that
it was indeed a
memorable day &
unlucky were those
who could not actually be present there.
…Prabha Prahlad
Today’s
tea
hosted
by
RAMKI
Courtesy: Rtn. Ravi Mams
3. A Re-L k at the Mahatma....
A Re-Look at the Mahatma Gandhi Jayanthi 2012
T
he father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhiji's then existing girls blind school. The Assistant Director
birthday is celebrated all over on the 2nd of lamented on the plight-to-be of the blind girls of Mysore.
October. It is said Gandhi himself never used to This thought moved Rtn. Guru to convince the family
celebrate his birthday and many ashramites would trust and the school started in a rented place in
observe a fast instead on that day. Well the 144th birthday Sidharthanagar and later moved to their own premises on
of the Mahatma was observed in a special way by Rotary K.R.S. Road. He said that his family gets immense
Midtown- A meet with the visually challenged girl satisfaction in doing this community service, the same
children at the Ranga Rao Memorial School, K.R.S road, way as Rtn. Azeez's family gets in attending to the special
next to the Metagalli police station. school at Ghousianagar. He also said that it is only because
Our Hon. secretary, Rtn.Manoj was the first to of the commitment and sacrifice shown by the dedicated
arrive and by then the children were all neatly seated on teachers and staff of the institution. Working 24 x 7, that
one side of the auditorium. Talking to Mr.Harish the man- the school is running well, and that what the Rangarao
friday of the institution, really showed his commitment
and passion to work with these challenged children. 93
girls from far and near are housed and taught from nursery
to SSLC, in this school. Mr.Harish visits places,
convinces the parents, brings them to the school to show-
case the facilities and then goes back and brings the child
from the village. He admits its a challenging job. Almost
all are visually handicapped with a few able to see a little.
They do sense differences in intensities of light, which
helps them to manouevre a bit. Seated in a disciplined,
way the children are served with hot poories, sagu,
chutney and a darwad peda by our Rotarians. Many in us
were a bit watery- eyed seeing the children fend for the
food literally, placing their fingers and finding the food.
Memorial blind school for girls, needs, is only
appreciation & encouragement to these committed
people from the community/rotary. President Vishwa and
Rtn. Manoj were all smiles on the dias. He went on to say
how proud he was at the achievement of the school in
producing 3 post graduates and a P.hd student.
The speaker Shri Javare Gowda recounted his
freedom-fighting days and requested
everybody to re-visit the works on Mahatma Gandhi. PP
Sanjay Shyamanur, had in 2008 gifted all members with
the book “The story of my experiments with truth”. Shri
Javare cooed the same words of “sumitra gandhi”.
Gandhiji today is just reduced to statues and that Bapuji is
remembered only on the 2nd October and 30th Jan by the
politicians and forgotten the next moment.
Many spilt the chutney on their skirts without their
knowledge. The meeting was well attended and the Rotarians
and guests had their tea only after the meeting at 7.30 pm.
The cheif guest was Shri Javare Gowda, a People who missed out please visit the school and meet
freedom fighter and an English teacher. Surprising the wonderful children, Mr.Harish, Ms.Geetha and staff.
everybody was the presence of PG.Rtn.R.Guru, the Our school donated a few desks and benches to the
managing trustee of institution. Rtn guru spoke on how students of SSLC class. A memorable Gandhi Jayanthi
the school was started way back in 1987, at a meeting with celebration.
the Asst. Director of the district rehabilitation center, he
was told about the government’s decision to wind up the ...Ramki
Q uiz Q.: Which early Rotarian was Secretary of
BETTER HAL VES !!!
No offence meant, just to excercise your face muscles.
Rotary International for 32 years?
Why are wives more dangerous than the Mafia?
a) Paul Harris b) Chesley R. Perry c) Herb Taylor The mafia wants either
(Last week’s answer : Hunger Relief) your money or life... The wife wants both!
Pharmacist to customer: In order to buy migraine pills, Sir, you need
a proper prescription. A picture of your wife is just not enough!
NEXT WEEK IN MIDTOWN
Funny quote on a husband`s T-Shirt: All girls are devils, but my wife
BUSINESS MEET is the queen of them.
RCL Hall, JLB Road. Searching these keywords on Google `How to tackle wife?`
Date : 17.10.2012, Time : 6.30 pm Google search result, `Good day sir, Even we are searching`.
Courtesy: Ramki
4. MIDTOWN NEWS
ORIENTATION PROGRAMME GUEST SPEAKER
R t n .
Nandakumar
was invited by
Rotary Mysore
South East as a
guest speaker
on 8th Oct.
October being
the 'Vocational
Month' he enlightened the audience on
Rtn. Raghu and Rtn. Nandoo conducted an “Vocational Services” with particular
orientation programme titled ‘Empower to Excel’ in reference to the Rotary '4 WAY TEST'.
association with Kollegal Rotary Clubat Kollegal on
5th Oct. About 1000 students of SSLC, PUC & CONGRATULATIONS
Degree class students benefitted from it.
Ann Lavanya Srinivasan
has cleared University
ENTERTAINMENT @ JSS OLD AGE HOME Grants Commission
Innerwheel Midtown National Eligibility Test
( U G C - N E T ) i n
P entertained the inmates of
JSS Old Age Home with
the help of a mimicry artist
Management studies.
Congratulations from
Ms. M.S.Geetha for about Rotary & Innerwheel
an hour on 8th Oct. The Midtown.
senior citizens had a
hearty laugh and felt light PRESENTATION COMPETITION
hearted at the enchanting
and funny sounds made
by Ms. Geetha within her story narration. The
programme was followed by light refreshments.
INNERWHEEL DONATES
Our Innerwheel sisters have
donated Rs. 10,000/- towards
Bannur Kitchen project Rtn.Rakesh was a part of jury for Intra B-
Gyaan, B-Plan presentation competition at
NIE's entrepreneurship cell-ONYX
recently. He was accompanied by Mr.Matt
Brown, faculty-NIE to adjudge the best B-
plan (business plan) presented by
engineering students of NIE.
EYE CAMP
OBITUARY
Rotary Mysore Midtown Mr. Alemada.A.Nanjunda, ex-serviceman,
had organized an Eye father of Rtn. Aiyanna passed away on 5th
Checkup Camp on 8th Oct Oct. He was 82 years old and leaves
at RMA School, Hootagalli. behind his wife, daughter, son, son-in-law,
daughter-in-law, grandson, grand-
daughter and many
well-wishers.
Midtown offers
d e e p e s t
condolences to the
grieving family, and
pray God to give
1. Is it the TRUTH ? them strength
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned ? during the tough
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS ? times. May his soul
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned ? rest in peace.
