BHS collection status 2 Jun 2011

After 4 weeks of collection, we have managed to get Rs 67,833/-  for this years collection. We would collect for another 3 weeks before closing the account for this year. Last year we had collected slightly over 2 lacs.

 

You might have noticed that we have not done any individual and one to one follow up this year. This is not because of our lack of initiative, but due to the instruction from Satya da. During a discussion with him regarding BHS collection- he had suggested not to follow up on collection. He was of the opinion that willing participants would contribute without being asked and the joy of giving diminishes and people might feel a bit stressed, if asked for help again and again.

 

I am attaching the list of participants and the amount contributed till now as a reference.  

 

 

Name	Date	Amount	Chq No/ Acc No
Avijit Das	05-May-11	Rs        3,000	Not Available
Sudipta Basu	05-May-11	Rs        3,000	3701518
Dipankar Banerjee	05-May-11	Rs        2,832	1118814318
Satrajit RoyChoudhury	05-May-11	Rs        4,000	11125814184
Saikat Dhar	06-May-11	Rs         5,001	52XX7XXX08
Sanjib Kumar Das	16-May-11	Rs       18,000	1119346022
Sujay Das	23-May-11	Rs        3,000	52XX3XXX04
Saurav Gangopadhyay	23-May-11	Rs        3,000	50XX3XXX35
Apratim Chandra	24-May-11	Rs        3,000	227218348
Lal Mohan Kundu	24-May-11	Rs        3,000	11144011795
Sumit Deb	31-May-11	Rs        3,000	50XX8XXX19
Tarun Panda	01-Jun-11	Rs        3,000	SBINH11152489462TXN
Subhasis Manna	05-May-11	Rs        3,000	Not Available
Saumyabrata Dutta	25-May-11	Rs        5,000	Not Available
Gautam Debnath	05-May-11	Rs        3,000	Not Available
Abhijit Bhattacharya	07-May-11	Rs        3,000	Not Available
Total collected		Rs   67,833

 

 

Brotherhood Scholarship Fund 2011

Dear All,

Time for brotherhood scholarship fund contributions has come once again. All of you have either in the last year or any of the previous years have contributed to this great cause or have expressed interest about this movement. Though I am sure you would be completely aware of all the facts, I am still attaching a small write up to refresh memories and help you to spread the news among fellow college mates.

Like all previous years this year too, we have kept the nominal contribution @ Rs 2400/- per person (for the 8^th successive year). However, would request all of you to consider volunteering a higher amount of contribution or rope in more number of contributors.

You can either transfer your contribution, thru net banking or drop AC payee cheque in ATM drop boxes. In case you want to send cheque by post, it can be sent to Gautam Debnath (address attached at the end of the mail.) Don't forget to write to us or SMS us after you do so.

I am attaching a link of a video- in which Satya da speaks about this initiative and appeal for participation. Feel free to share this with others.

We would update on the collection on a regular basis into our blog http://brotherhoodscholarship.blogspot.com/

I am sure, like all previous years; this year too we would take part in this movement with full enthusiasm and make it a success.

Contact for the details of bank account

Name- Avijit Das (avi0826@gmail.com +44 7776 49 1412)

Name- Subhasis Manna 

Name- Gautam Debnath 

Address for sending Cheques by post-

Gautam Debnath

GlaxoSmithKline CH Ltd

Plot-67, Sec-32

Gurgaon- 122001

Ph- 0124 304 7654

In case of any clarification, please let us know.

Regards.

Avi.

Brotherhood Scholarship 2010: Fund Utilization

I have received the attached mail from Satya Da, with details of the students who got benefited through our contribution last year. He has also send his blessings to all of us.

 

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From: R K M R College, Narendrapur [mailto:rkmcnpur@gmail.com]
Sent: 02 April 2011 07:34
To: Das, Avijit
Subject: From Satyada

Dear Abhijit,

This year the amount you all collected (Rs 2,03,002) has been spent on these boys.  Please accept my love and convey the same to our brothers who come to our help every year.

Love.

Satyada

 

HIUG/003/10        Alok Naskar                74% in HS

HIUG/005/10        Satyajit Pradhan        78% in HS

HIUG/007/10        Sandip Mondal           73.5% in HS

CHUG/168/10      Radhapada Manna    83% in HS

HIUG/185/10        Arijit Karmakar            62% in HS

CHUG/200/10      Mrinal K. Patra            88.5% in HS

ECUG/236/10      Binod Kar                    75.25%

CHUG/048/10      Tanmoy Das                85% in HS

HIUG/103/10        Subrata Saha              62% in HS

HIUG/003/09        Munaf Ali Mondal        60% in Part I Final

MTUG/141/09      Sudip Bhowmik          65.5% in Part I

ENUG/084/09      Sauvik Bankura          46% in Part I

MTUG/098/09      Bibhash Mondal          68.5% in Part I

HIUG/110/09        Tapas Bera                 62.5% in Part I

PHUG/164/09      Antu Laha                    62% in Part I

MTUG/208/09      Bhagyadhar Pahar     40% in Part I

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Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata 700103, WB, India
Phone +91-033-24772201(3 lines), +91-033-24772205, Fax +91-033-24773597
Email rkmcnpur@vsnl.com, Website www.rkmcnarendrapur.org

Brotherhood Scholarship Decision for future

This post is about future decision making. Decisions that together all of us would make about whether or not- we should embark on a change how the Brotherhood Scholarship Fund is being currently utilized. In case we decide to change- what could be the possible new avenues to utilize the fund we collect to make even great impact? And at the end how should we do that?

Brotherhood scholarship has successfully completed seven years of continuous effort to help meritorious but needy students of RKM Narendrapur. We have collectively, over the period of years, have raised more than Rs 7.8 lakhs. Along the way we have gathered suggestions that may be it is the time to re-look at the strategy to leap into the next level of efficiency.

We are starting a discussion in our blog http://brotherhoodscholarship.blogspot.com/ to debate all possibilities and decide what could be the best way out? We would like to hear your comments. Once we have sufficient discussions on this aspect, we would arrange for a vote to select top 4 ideas. Subsequently- we would discuss with RKM college authorities- which of these are more workable and would implement the same for the next year.

Currently our fund is utilized in various student welfare activities such as paying of examination fees and tuition fees. Let me write down a few concepts that I have picked up from our fellow brothers to facilitate the discussion.

1. Infrastructural projects- College (Computers, books, and capital intensive item/ lab equipment that college requires)
2. Infrastructural projects- Hostel (Solar electricity, hot water, High speed internet connection, Gymnasium etc)
3. Individual assistance (Sponsor all expenses of 3-6 students, who are highly meritorious. 2 students from each year)
4. Individual assistance (Scholarship to study in premier institutes such as IITs, IISc, ISI, IIP etc)

These are only a few. I am sure all of you would have even more ideas. Please go to the blog and post you comments. Please leave your Name. (We may not consider anonymous posts).

Cheers.

Brotherhood Scholarship 2010 Receipt copy

Dear Brothers,

We are very happy to share that Manna had gone to Narendrapur last Saturday and has handed over the drafts to college. Attached is the receipt scan copy for your reference.

Congratulations to all of us and a big thank you for all those who participated.

Along the way- we have received various suggestions on how to enhance the impact of Brotherhood scholarship and how we can make it more effective. We would collate the thoughts and put them to our blog (http://brotherhoodscholarship.blogspot.com/) by Sunday. Would encourage all of you to participate in the debate/ discussion. Post the debate- would arrange for online voting to select top 4-5 ideas for next year. Out of those, we would select top 2 basis discussion with college authorities.

I would send you an email update and a link to the discussion, when it is started.

Warm regards.

Manna, Gautam & Avi.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: S Manna
Date: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Brotherhood Scholarship 2010 (Final collection: Rs 203,002)



Avijit and Gautam
Mission accomplished - today I have handed over the 2 demand drafts totalling Rs. 203002 to RKM college Narendrapur. Unfortunately, Satyada was not available and I couldnot meet him when I reached @ 10.30 am - thought will catch him just after the prayer. Now given he is secretary, he has become more busy and I was told by Uttam da that he may be in a meeting of mission management. Anyway, congrats to you both as well - its a good job done through awesome teamwork. Individually we could have done so little but together we pulled so many peanuts that it became a very significant amount and that's where BHS is so unique and successful.
I will scan the receipt and send you the copy so that you can forward to everyone. Please write to Satya da - unlucky me, couldn't touch his feet today.
Feeling good now - the collection was a pain though!thanks to you both and everyone who contributed!
Cheers,

Subhashis

Proud contributors for Brotherhood Scholarship fund 2010

A C (Name withheld on request), Abhijit Bhattacharya, Amritangshu Nandi, Ananda Jana, Anirban Seal, Apratim Chandra, Apurba Roy, Arnab Sengupta, Avijit Das, Avik Chakraborty, Avik Sarkar, Bodhisattwa Chaudhuri, Debasis Das, Debayan, Dibyendu Samanta, Dibyojyoti Chatterjee, Dipankar Banerjee, Duswanta Roy, Gautam Debnath, Kallol Kumar, Kiran Shankar Maity, Lalmohan Kundu, Olive Bhawal, Pradipta Ghorai, Prasad Krishna Ghorai, Pratyush Roy, Rajdeep Dutta, Rajib Ghosh, Randhir Paul, Saikat Dhar, Sandeepan Bhattacharya, Sandip Das, Sanjib Das, Sanjit Konar, Santanu Pradhan, Satrajit Roychoudhury, Saurav Ganguli, Saurav Santra, Shatadal Dey, Shital Das, Sneham Banerjee, Soumya Bandyopadhyay, Soumyabrata Dutta, Subhajit Basu, Subhasis Manna, Sudarshan Ray, Sudeep Bose, Sudipta Basu, Sujay Das, Sumit Deb, Sunirmal Soren, Suproyo Dasgupta, Swapan Chakraborti, Swarup Kr. Poi and Wasim Ali

Brotherhood Scholarship 2010 (Final collection: Rs 203,002)

Dear All,

We have come to the end of yet another successful year of brilliant team effort called Brotherhood Scholarship Fund. It is even heartening to share that we have managed to reach the target we had set at the beginning. Total collection for this year is Rs 203,002 (Rs two lacs, three thousands and two only). This is the highest so far has been possible only because of the relentless support from all of you.

This year we have got a few new contributors too. We welcome them to this movement. It is your encouragement that keeps us moving and keeps us motivated.  

A list is attached with the names and amount being contributed by each individual. One particular brother has requested to keep his name secrete. We respect his wish.

Some statistics- we had 55 contributors this time, down from 56 we had last time. We have 12 new contributors. That means 13 of our friends from the last year could not join in. This is a worrying sign. We need to think about it- how to make sure that we get more people on board, while not losing old ones.

While talking to different brothers, we were happy to note that quite a few of us have great ideas on how to make this initiative even better. We also had a few suggestions on improving connectivity among members. We also had concerns on a few aspects. Keeping all these points in mind, we are going to start a debate/ discussion in our blog (http://brotherhoodscholarship.blogspot.com/) within next few weeks. Would request all of you to participate. I would send an email reminder once we start the same.

As far as further logistic is concerned, Manna is going to arrange a draft and would visit Narndrapur to handover the sum to college authority. We would share the scan copy of the draft and the receipt with you all. If anyone wants to accompany Manna to Narendrapur, please get in touch with him directly for the timing and arrangements.

That's it for today. Would be back with the recipt copy soon. All the information would also be available on our Blog, Facebook, Orkut and tweeter.

Do not hesitate to write back if you want to have any clarification. Thanks once again for your support.

Gautam, Manna & Avi.

Subhasis Manna

Gautam Debnath

Avijit Das avi0826@gmail.com +44 7776 49 1412