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Tr. Sidharth Choudhary
Area Chairman
Tr. Suresh Tulsyan
Area Vice Chairman
Tr. Anirudh Budhia
Area Secretary / Treasurer
Tr. Mayank Jaiswal
IPAC
Highlights of the year
• The year started with super fellowship organised by RT160 at Ranchi at the retirement of Past National
President Manpreet Singh Raja with around 40 outstation tablers joining the event .
• A new area s first AGM hosted at Rourkela and it was amazing to see participation of more than 125
Tablers and Circlers .
• Rs. 5 Lakhs was collected and contributed to Kerala Relief Fund .
• First Time ever 3 Flights Of Fantasy In the Area impacting around 150 underprivileged children .
Bhubaneswar- Hyderabad/ Kolkata- Bhubaneswar and Kolkata- Ranchi .
• Jagatsinghpur School block Bhoomi Poojan on 24th of December by BRT 53 with a project cost of Rs.
28 lacs and FTE ASSIST of Rs .1.5 lacs .
• Area 16 Jaffa team was the first team to play against THE WORLD ELEVEN TEAM which was playing in
Jaffa for the first time . An historic event for area 16.
• A great fellowship and bonding at the Area Holi meet at Ranchi .
• Area made its mark with 2 Marathons first one at Rourkela with over 1000 participants and the second
one was RANATHON 4.0 at Ranchi with over 10000 runners and historic price money of 17 lacs .
• By far the best publicity RTI could witness was at RANATHON. With paper ads worth more than 25 lacs .
Half Front page ads with picture of honourable PM at four states . With over 40 screens playing videos
and about 55000 sft hoardings across 5 states . Credits to the 3 Ranchi Tables.
• Historic fundraiser with BRT 53 pulling of Diwali and comic Fundraiser with a fund raising of 10.5 lacs
and 19.5 lacs . Also RANATHON fundraiser by RT160/244/284 of over 10 lac Rupees.
• The legendary D3 cup was followed by historic 1000th meet of BRT 53 . A table chartered at the year
1978. Attended by National Secretary Akshay Duggar and most of the Area 12. Corporate Tie Up
between BRT 53 and Utkal Automobile of Rupees 7 Lacs .
• Over 10 joint meetings in the tabling year and not to forget the historic 4 table meeting at Bhubaneswar
between RT 53/ RT 93 / RT 137 and RT 230 .
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It has been years that RTI was looking for a second table at the Steel City . A new baby was born as
Jamshepur Yodhayein Round Table.
• Extension had to be the primary motive of this new area . Finally area added a new city to its proximity.
Dhanbad table was inaugurated on 31st of May with the efforts of RT 224 and RT 284.
• With the fierce cyclone FANI hitting Orissa and destructing lives of millions. Orissa tablers took this
calamity head on and was at ground zero with operation RIKkI . Activities: drinking water supply , weeks
of live kitchen feeding lakhs and distributing relief material such as solar lamps , medical camps ,
provided medicines , baby foods and the whatever they could stabilise the lives of effected ones .
Operation RIKKI soon became a national initiative if round table India.
• 400th meet of RT 160 was celebrated it in style .
• RT 160 participated in world 160 meet at Minden , Germany . Table 53 participated in there world
number meet and won the bid to host the year 2020 .
• 2 FTE projects inaugurated . A two classroom project by Rourkela tables 194/ 307. Other by BRT 53 - 7
classroom project at Jagatsinghpur and Fte assist toilet block at Chowdhar.
• TEXT with almost 100 percent attendance followed by a special fellowship.