Silver Jubilee ANNUAL REPORT 1986
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Silver Jubilee ANNUAL REPORT 1986 CANARA BANK RELIEF AND WELFARE SOCIETY BANGALORE With Best Compliments From Indo - American Hybrid Seeds EXPORTERS OF F, HYBRID FLOWER & VEGETABLE SEEDS AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS TO USA AND MIDDLE EAST OFFICE: P B No. 7099, 17th Cross, 2nd ‘A ’ Main, Banashankari Ilnd Stage, Bangalore-560070 Telephone No. 604940 Telex No. 0045 8204 IAHS IN BOMBAY: 308, Varma Chambers, 11 H o m ji Street, 3rd Floor, Bombay-400 001 Telephone No. 2860720 Telex No. Oil 2894 BHAF IN DELHI: 214, Palika Bhavan, R. K. Puram, Sector XIII, New Delhi-110 066 Telephone No. 603719 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR QUALITY FLOWER SEEDS AND VEGETABLE SEEDS, FOLIAGE PLANTS, HAWAIIAN HIBISCUS. LANDSCAPING OUTDOOR PLANTS CACTI I, SUCCULENTS, GERANIUMS, PETUNIA DKGONIA ETC. ANNUAL REPORT 1986 Mathruchhaya Foundling Home Sevakshetra Hospital CANARA BANK RELIEF AND WELFARE SOCIETY 27th Cross, Banashankari II stage, Bangalore-560 070. Text, design, colour transparencies (and some of the pictures) by R. P. GURPUR Canara Bank Printed by Shilpi Screens, 43, 8th Cross, S R. Nagar, Bangalore-27. India. Phone: 220059, 225632 Governing Council— 1986-87 1. Sri. A. Venkataramana Setty, President 2. Smt. Nirupama E. Kamath, Hon. Secretary 3. Sri. Y. S. Gopalakrishna Setty, Member 4. Sri. K. S. Kamath, Member 5. Dr. K. S. Krishnaswamy, Member 6. Sri. K. L. Ramachandrasa, Member 7. Prof. Y. L. V. Pandit, Member 8. Smt. Prema Ratnakar, Member 9. Sri. M. Seetharama Prabhu, Member Hospital Committee 1. Prof. Y. L. V. Pandit, Chairman 2. Sri. Y. S. Gopalakrishna Setty, Member 3. Smt. Prema Ratnakar, Member 4. Smt. Nirupama E. Kamath, Hon. Secretary Auditors H. P. Pai & Company Bangalore Achievements and 1962-63 MEDICAL CAMPS Landmarks of a Quarter Villages always lacked adequate medical facilities. At the same time, there were quite a few young doctors/medical Century students who were enthusiastic of serving the poor, sick people. The Society ventured to bridge this gap and took the medical students to a village called Hulimavu near Bangalore. This was the starting point for the Society in extending medical relief to the poor people. (Years later came the full fledged hospital — Sevakshetra). ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY It was the year i960. The districts of Shimoga, North 1965 SUMMER CAMPS FOR CHILDREN Canara, South Canara and Kodagu in the Karnataka State To channelise the energy of the young towards were reeling under heavy floods. The Canara Bank, then in constructive thinking and personality development, private sector, having accepted 4 years earlier the concept / summer camps for children was thought of. The first of social responsibilities of business, thought that th e f' summer camp was arranged with the cooperation of Akhila must do their bit to mitigate the sufferings of the victims of Karnataka Children's Association in the year 1965. It was the floods. the first of its kind. The Bank contributed Rs. 20,000/-, collected an equal MATHRUCHHAYA amount from volutary contributions from their staff and a further Rs. T lakh from their friends and well wishers. The next priority of the Society was the abandoned The entire amount was made over to the Government for children — the unwanted children. It was the starting of the relief work. project — Mathruchhaya, the foundling home. The Government had a scheme to finance such projects to a \ / The next year the Bank thought that they must start a limited extent. The Society got 2 abandoned young Charitable society to work for the relief of victims of natural children from Mangalore and started the Mathruchhaya in calamities and for the welfare of children, sick, old and the a rented building in Jayanagar. poor. The Canara Bank Relief & Welfare Society was thus registered in the year 1961. 1966 VEERA PATNI CHHAYA n 1966, the Society took up a project of housing some war widows at Indiranagar, Bangalore. This project was called Veera Patni Chhaya' and the houses were constructed and handed over to the Jawans' families, in a ceremony S£v« m m vM* JJ? attended by the Prime Minister — Smt. Indira Gandhi. m u - '968 MORE HELP TO THE POOR Started a Cloth Bank where old clothes were collected Irom the people which were given to the needy poor people. Spectacle frames were collected and given to the poor under the Dharshini Scheme. A flood relief fund was also started to mobilise funds fo this exclusive purpose. Administrative building of the Society and Mathruchhaya ‘Bridging the Gap: Hulimavu’ 1969 HOLIDAY HOME CAMP BALWADI In the summer camp, the local children were engaged for This year was significant, as yet another project — the the day time. In the Holiday Home Camp, which is Balwadi for the slum children was started in residential, the children have a totally different Vasanthanagar with mid-day meal facilities. Nursery atmosphere and more time. Efforts are made to develop classes were conducted for these young pre-school their skids and they are exposed to community living. The children and they were .given nutritious food also. This Society extended its activities to this field also and the first project is being carried out with financial assistance from ‘Holiday Home Camp’ for school going children was the SOCIAL WELFARE ADVISORY BOARD. conducted in 1969, fo 50 girls from Eshwarananda Mahila Sevashram, Mangalore. 1970 EYE CAMP The Society’s concern for the sick people took a new turn this year and the focus was on the people having eye problem. The Society conducted an EYE CAMP by Dr. M. C. Modi, at Madikeri. 1971 COMPLEMENTING THE WORK OF SEVERAL AGENCIES Efforts were made to bring closer the many institutions engaged in social work, so that they could work complementary to each other. An exhibition of social work was arranged with the cooperation of National Institution of Social Sctences. 39 welfare institutions participated in this exhibition. 1972 OWN PLACE The Society, having engaged itself in various welfare activities, extending to several fields, was trying to have a permanent place of its own to operate from. The efforts of the many devoted workers became fruitful. The Bangalore City Improvement Trust Board granted the stretch of land 1973 FOUNDATION on long lease, from which the campus is now functioning. A part of the land was made available by the Yadava. / In the new land given on lease by City Improvement Trust Trust through the good offices of Mr. M. Krishna Murthy. ' Board, the Society wanted to have its own infrastructure to . carry on its projects. The first priority was to have a •Foundation stone laying ceremony for the Sevakshetra Complex in 1973. Justice building for Mathruchhaya. Justice A. Narayana Pai. who A. Narayana Pai being garlanded by Sri. A. D. Pai, President of the Society. was a guiding sprit to the Bank and to the Society, laid •Bhoom i Pooja Ceremony of the construction of Gandhi Centenary Hall at the foundation stone for the building for the Sevakshetra Oeena Seva Sanga in 1969. Sri. A. D. Pai (3rd from left) and Sri. Jeenabhai Project. Devidoss (1st from left) are also seen. ‘Veera Patni Chhaya’ \ 1974 EXPANSION OF LAND for Mathruchhaya, the Society's office was also shifted to the new building on 1-1-1976. The Society’s funds were concentrated on the construction of Mathruchhaya building during this year. The City 1977 MEDICAL CENTRE y Improvement Trust Board alloted additional land adjascent V to the one given earlier. Thus the total land in the With the proper base and infrastructure, the Society possession of the Society went upto 500 feet by 140 feet thought of other projects. The one to take top priority, -deservedly, was extending medical relief to the middle and lower middle class people. Thus was born the Medical Centre on 26th January 1977. Eminent specialists in various fields of health visited the Centre on specified days and rendered their services free of charge. The Medical Centre needed a clinical laboratory and the same was inaugurated in July 1977. 1978-79 TOWARDS AN ORGANISED HOSPITAL The medical service started-expanding and it needed a Hindustani Vocal recital by Pandit Kumar Gandharva in 1977 in aid of Medical separate building. With the help of welwishers separate Centre. t / arrangement was made to run the OPD which was shifted v to the new building on 26th January, 1978. The next requirement in this expansion programme was ward facilities. The hospital was equipped with In-patients . /w a rd with just 5 beds and the $ame was inaugurated in 1979. It has now grown into a 60 beds hosptial. 1980 MATHRUCHHAYA TO A SPACIOUS BUILDING X-ray unit was the next in the priority for the hospital. This was inaugurated in 1980 and thus the hospital was Hon'ble Sri. M Veerappa Moily (Minister for Finance & Planning, Govt, of / equipped with all the basic requirements and facilities. Karnataka) inaugurating the Mathruchhaya Building and Home for Elders ^ in 1980. As the hospital was slowly expanding, separate arrangement was required to be made for Mathruchhaya. 1975-76 NEW BUILDING A new building was constructed which was specifically / It was a proud moment for the Society: to see its own designed to house the children, with provision for their building for Mathruchhaya. On the 15th August, 1975, the extra curricular activities. So the Mathruchhaya was shifted children occupied the new building. to this new building in 1980. So far all the activities of the Society were monitored through the Social Action Section of Canara Bank and it lki4 | )c1) dii$ * y did not have its own office. Now, with a building of its own - duEJTlSTffc ‘The Proud Moment’ 1982 EYE CAMPS A free eye camp was conducted in the hospital on a large s^ile.