The latest edition of the District Governor’s GML (or Governor’s Monthly Letter) has conferred the title of “Project of the Month” on the Bhavishya-Yaan project of the Rotary Club of Bombay.

Members will recall that when District Governor Raju Subramanian made his Official Visit to the Club on August 18, 2009, he had lauded the project and said that “if all Clubs in the District followed the lead given by the Rotary Club of Bombay, they would be doing a great service in the field of literacy and education”.

Following his Official Visit, the DG highlighted the project in the very next GML (for the month of September).

The GML is the official newsletter that the DG pens every month and which is sent to all Clubs in the District, to all Officer-Bearers at the District level, to Governors in other Districts all over the country, as also to the Asian Regional Office in New Delhi and to Rotary International in the USA.

Headlined ‘Bhavishya-Yaan’ – A mission to a brighter future, the article quotes DG Raju as saying that it is “An outstanding literacy project with a tremendous potential for growth and (which) can in fact be a movement, a trendsetter”.

The report is based largely on inputs provided by the Club and its Education for All Committee which has Alok Sekhsaria as Chairman and PP Arun Sanghi as Co-Chairman. And this is how the Governor has introduced the project: “The Education for All Committee of the RC Bombay has initiated Bhavishya-Yaan (a mission to the future), inspired by India’s Chandra-Yaan (a mission to the moon), a skills enhancement programme that could address this situation at a micro level and set the stage for it to be scaled up and emulated at various locations and levels.”

Thank you for the encomiums, DG Raju. We hope that we will achieve the goals that have been set for this unique mission.

A facsimile of the new item describing .Bhavishya-Yaan. as the project of the month in the GML (Governor.s Monthly Letter) for September, 2009