CHETANAA


Children & Housewives Enlightenment Towards A New Awakening Association (CHETANAA)

H.No.43,New Colony, Village Mirzapur, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. (Reg. No. 504)

ANNUAL REPORT, 2000–2001

Dear Members,

It is my proud privilege to welcome you all at the 11th Annual General Body Meeting of CHETANAA.

CHETANAA has completed eleven years of its existence and we feel happy and satisfied when we look at the steady progress the organization has made since its conception. Of course, a lot more remains to be done.

CHETANAA started with merely 20 children and today, about 160 children study in CHETANAA from nursery to class X. These children regularly attend Govt. schools and come to CHETANAA in after school hours. Besides giving formal education, they are taught importance of sanitation, cleanliness, morality and good manners. CHETANAA has employed four teachers who teach different classes. It is a matter of pleasure and pride for CHETANAA that its first batch of X class appeared for the annual examination conducted by Haryana Education Board.

Some of the activities of CHETANAA during the year 2000-2001 are as follows:

1. In April 2000, text Books were given to all the children, which cost Rs.12000/- approx.

2. School dresses costing Rs.18000/- approx. were given to all the children.

3. Boys and 6 girls, who passed VIII class board examination, were admitted IX class- Boys go to Senior Secondary School and girls go to Govt. Girls School in the City.

4. Four students were promoted to X class from IX class. One student who got compartment in Science and Maths cleared the compartment exam in September 2000.

5. Independence Day was celebrated on Aug. 15, 2000. Children sang patriotic songs. Ms. Chandra Kanta, Lecturer in Govt. Girls College, Sonepat was the Chief Guest. She hoisted the National Flag and gave a very encouraging speech. Ms. Chandra Kanta is blind by birth and her life is full of struggle. She is a source great inspiration for our children. She also donated a small amount towards CHETANAA. Children were impressed and touched by her gesture.

6. Children’s Day was celebrated on Nov. 14, 2000. Sweaters of school dress were given to 60 students. A sum of Rs.7,000/- approx. was spent for this purpose.

7. Republic day was celebrated on Jan. 26, 2001. A poetry recitation competition, quiz contest and debate were organized. Almost all the children participated in one or the other competition. Dr. S.P. Singh, Professor Emeritus, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra was the chief guest and Prof. R.K. Tondon presided over the function. Children also presented cultural program. Prof. Singh donated Rs.1100/- for CHETANAA and gave away prizes to children standing I, II & III in different competitions. Video recording of the entire programme was also done. An edited copy of this will also be sent to ASHA Seattle U.S.

8. Educational cum recreational trip of senior classes (III to X class) was taken to Chandigarh on Dec. 9, 2000. Earlier also these children had gone to Chandigarh and visited many sight seeing places. This time they visited artificial limb factory and saw how these limbs are manufactured and fixed. They also met some handicapped persons using these limbs. Children also visited office and Press of popular Newspaper ‘The Tribune`. On their way back, they visited Mansa Devi Temple. We are thankful to the managers of Artificial Limb Factory & The Tribune who entertained our children & served them refreshment. We are also thankful to Mr. Ashok Kumar, Senior Lecturer, D.A.V. College, Chandigarh and Mrs. Mamta Garg, Joint Director, Welfare Department Haryana Govt., who brought sweets for children & organized the trip. Dr. Sharda Kumari & Mrs. Varsha Razdan accompanied the tour.

9. Children of Nursery, I & II classes were taken to mini zoo, Pipli. They enjoyed watching different animals. They were also given fruits and sweets and they played in the lawns of the zoo.

10.This year all the children were vaccinated against Hepatitis B which consisted of three doses, first on September 17, 2000, second on October 22, 2000 and last on March 25, 2001. We got the vaccines on subsidized rates through Rotary Club. We are thankful to members of Rotary Club- Dr. R. Bhardwaj, Dr. O. P. Lalit, Dr. Surinder Sahai, Dr. N. P. Gupta (President Rotary Club.), Dr. R. K. Baweja (Secretary) & Mr. Sukumar Chopra, who very kindly accepted our request to come to CHETANAA, and vaccinated all the children. We are thankful to our member lady doctor- Mrs. S. Mangwana who took the initiative and made all the necessary arrangements. We are grateful to members of ASHA Seattle especially Dr. Jayshree Janardhan and Dr. Dinesh Batra who made the funds available for this purpose.

11.This year we are also having regular medical check up of CHETANAA children. A health care project was submitted to ASHA Seattle in this regard. We are happy to inform that this project has also been funded by ASHA and a cheque of $1300 was received- $700 for Hepatitis B and $600 for Health Care project. This is in addition to $1000 annual grant, which we receive from ASHA. We are grateful to members of ASHA for their help, interest and cooperation, which makes the things much easier for us.

12.The first complete medical check up of CHETANAA children was done on March 04, 2001. It was done by the members of Rotary Club Kurukshetra. A team of nine medical doctors of different specialization and six officials of Rotary Club visited CHETANAA. All the children got their blood tested for Hemoglobin and blood Group. They had thorough dental check up, Eye test & other examination. Many children are anemic & some have other disorders. They were given medicines. Their parents were also contacted and directions were given to them about the treatment their children require. We are thankful to Mr. Jitender Dhingra, President Rotary Club Kurukshetra, Dr.R.K.Baweja, Secretary Rotary Club, Mr. Ajay Madan, Mr. Sukumar Chopra, Dr. Girish Chopra, Mr. Rajnesh Wadhwa & Mr. Sanjeev Wadhwa for coming to CHETANAA and helping in organizing this Health Care program. We are thankful to Dr. S. Sahai, Dr. Vijay Sharma, Dr. R.K. Bhardwaj, Dr.P.K.Soni, Dr. Rakesh Arora, Dr. Surinder Mehta, Dr.Munesh Kukreja and Dr. N. P. Gupta for examining all the children and prescribing medicines and tonics etc. We are thankful to members of Rotary Club for donating Rs. 8000/- for this health care program. We are very grateful to Dr. R. K. Sangwan, owner of Vikas Laboratory who was kind enough to send his technician for testing the blood samples of all the children free of cost. We are very thankful to Mr. Rakesh for testing the blood samples very carefully & handling the children with great patience and affection. We are thankful to our member- Dr. Anita Dua, lecturer in Biochemistry, for helping Mr. Rakesh in testing the blood sample. We are highly thankful to our founder member- Lady doctor Mrs. S.Mangwana, the spirit behind this health care programme for contacting members of Rotary Club and making this programme a success. We are also thankful to our president Dr. Sharda Kumari for purchasing all the necessary items for this health care project and organizing this program. A sum of Rs.4500/- was spent for the equipment required.

13.Dr.Siva from ASHA Seattle U.S. visited CHETANAA on July 1,2000 & had on informal chat with members, teachers and children of CHETANAA. He suggested that we should provide Newspaper to Children so that they have better general awareness and develop a habit of reading Newspaper. We started taking two Hindi News papers. From July 2000.

14.Dr. Dinesh & his wife Neema & Children Neha & Rohan from ASHA, U.S. visited CHETANAA on October 15, 2000. Children of CHETANAA presented a cultural programme in their honor. Dr. Dinesh also had an informal discussion with members, teacher & children of CHETANAA. He also saw the adjacent plot CHETANAA is planning to purchase. CHETANAA is facing some technical problems, hopefully these will be resolved and we will be able to make the deal. We plan to use this area for constructing toilets, septic tank and two rooms. One will be used as computer lab and the other as Library cum reading room.

15. As suggested by ASHA, we have also sent annual subscription for some Hindi weekly and fortnightly magazines and have purchased few more educational storybooks for children. Dr. Jayshree informed that ASHA Seattle plans to send $100 for this purpose to all its projects.

16. We have purchased three table and 14 chairs to be used by Children in the reading room where they can read magazines, Newspaper and other books.

17. Two toilets have been constructed in the main building of CHETANAA costing Rs.40000/-. At present, we have used funds from other budget heads of CHETANAA and are expecting that we will get funds from ASHA for this purpose.

18. The results of different classes were declared on March 31, 2001. The pass percentage of different classes and the names of position holders are as given below:
Class I-87%, Class II-90%, Class III-90%, Class IV-90%, Class V-100%, Class VI-92.3%, Class VII-100%, Class IX-80%, Class VIII & X- Result will be declared by Haryana Education Board in the last week of June.
 

Sr. No.
Name
Father’s Name
Class
Position in section
Position in school
1
Ankush
Sh. Lila Ram
Ist
Ist
IInd
2
Vishal
Sh.Rajivir
Ist
IInd
 
3
Ram Jiwan
-
Ist
Iind
 
4
Bhuwan
Sh.Tara Dutt
Ist
IIIrd
 
5
Mamta
Sh.Tara Dutt
IInd
Ist
 
6
Anil
Sh.Ramrattan
IInd
Iind
 
7
Didar
Sh.Palu ram
IInd
Iind
 
8
Sheetal
Sh.Man Mohan
IInd
IIIrd
 
9
Parveen
Sh.Satvir
IIIrd
Ist
 
10
Leela
Sh.Prem singh
IIIrd
Iind
 
11
Manisha
Sh.Anwar
IIIrd
IIIrd
 
12
Sangeeta
Sh.Sarju prasad
IVth
Ist
 
13
JaiPal
Sh.Mange Ram
IVth
Iind
 
14
Harichand
Sh.Mani Ram
IVth
Iind
 
15
Arun
Sh.Devinder
Vth
Ist
 
16
Shobha
Sh.Ishwar
VIth
Ist
 
17
Shiv kali
Sh.Chote Lal
Vith
IIIrd
 
18
Mahavir
Sh.Chandi Ram
VIIth
Ist
IIIrd
19
Poonam
Sh.Prem Bahadur
VIIth
IInd
IIIrd
20
Priti
Sh.Kanahiya Lal
VIIth
IIIrd
IIIrd
21
Ram Sewak
Sh.Chote Lal
Ixth
Ist
IInd
22
Naseeb
Sh.Lila Ram
IXth
IIIrd
 

19.Annual prize distribution function was held on April 6, 2001. Dr.(Mrs.) K.K.Jain, Principal, Girls College- Pundari, was the Chief Guest. She gave away the prizes to the position holders in different classes. Incentives were also given to the teachers of CHETANAA. Sweets were also distributed.

20.This year Mr. Raj Kumar Garg joined CHETANAA and he is teaching Students of VIII and IX class. He also gave special coaching to six children of class V, who appeared for entrance test for Novadaya School. One of our lady teachers Miss Geeta got married and we have to look for her substitute.

21.Election: A meeting of CHETANAA was held on March 13, 2001 to elect new Office bearers. As resolved earlier, Dr. Sharda Kumari will continue as the President. Dr. Suman Gupta was elected as Secretary, Dr. Nisha Garg as Vice President, Dr. Varsha Rajdan will continue as Treasurer.

22.During the financial year 2000-2001, Rs.1,73,629 were received as donations. Total expenditure was Rs.2,02,444. We have overspent this year and some money from the corpus fund was used.

The success of CHETANAA is reflected in the people’s enthusiasm to support our efforts. I am proud to say that more and more philanthropists are coming forward to sponsor bright and deserving Students. Now we have sponsorship of 18 children. We are thankful to Er. Sachin Gupta, Dr. Dinesh Batra, Dr. Ruchir Puri, Er. Ashish Taneja, Mrs. Usha Aggarwal, Dr. O.P.Lalit, Mr. Amar Nath, Mr. Ashish, Mrs. Sushma Arora, Dr. Jyotsana, Er. Anurag & Ms. Sangeeta for sponsoring the education of some of CHETANAA children.

We express a deep sense of gratitude towards Dr. Dinesh Batra and Dr. Jayshree Janardhan, coordinator ASHA, Seattle for taking keen interest in the activities of CHETANAA and for continued financial support for CHETANAA’s projects. ASHA is a social organization run by NRI in U.S.A, devoted towards educating poor children in India. We are happy to inform that Ms. Anju Anand, a volunteer of ASHA, will also be looking after the CHETANAA’s projects. She is an alumni of Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra.

We express our sincere thanks and gratitude to Mr. Roshan Lal Mittal, D.M. Haryana Agro Fort and Chemical Industries, Sirsa, for maintaining the account of CHETANAA and extending full cooperation at all times. We also thank Mr. Rakesh Dhull, Chartered Accountant, for auditing the accounts of CHETANAA. We are highly thankful to Mr. Ashok Gupta- owner of Civil & Military educational Stores Chandigarh, for providing stationary for CHETANAA. We are also grateful to Mr. Rajesh Narwal (Steno) Dept. of Statistics & O.R. for doing all the typing work and Mr. Vijay Gupta, Library Attendant, Dept. of Mathematics for preparing the library record of CHETANAA. Our thanks are also due to Mr. Shekhar Thapa, Clerk- Dept. Of Statistics and O. R. for preparing the stock register of CHETANAA. We are also obliged to Mr.PalaRam, helper, Electricity Dept., Kurukshetra University, for maintaining the electricity fittings of CHETANAA. Our heartfelt thanks are for all those who have donated either in cash or kind, directly or indirectly towards CHETANAA. We assure our donors that each penny of their donation is being rightly utilized.

CHETANAA has become a people’s programme. Years of persuasion have made the parents of these children realize that school education is the foundation of a good future for their child. We hope our sincere efforts will definitely fill our children’s life with light and hope.


Thank You


(INDRA HANDA)
Secretary.

 

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