28-08-2015 - 12-09-2015

The preliminary round of Rotary debates were held on 28th August 2015 at Abul Kalam Azad Hall, Koregaon park. In Junior section 32 teams participated and 7 teams reached the finals. The first topic was capital punishment is justified and second was Forts can be better utilsed as Heritage hotels. Judges were Dr Ranjeet Chitale, Leena Sagayanathan and Amitaab Mehata. The finalists were St Marys school and junior college, Bishops school camp, Dastur school for girls, Bishops junior college, Fergusson junior college, The Orbis school and APS southern Command. In the seniors 23 colleges participated. The topic being A little bit of corruption is OK as long as there is economic growth and second being Education of women leads matrimonial mismatch. Judges were Olive Das , Khyati Khoda Ghodke and Keith kline. The finalists are AFMC, Cadget Training Wing-CME, ILS Law college, Bharatiya Vidyapeeth Dental college, CME, Christ college, Fergusson college. The finals were held at The Orbis School on 12 September 2015 .Out of 7 teams from Jr Section The Bishops Jr College camp was the winner. The winning team comprising of Ayushman Chopra and Arjun Nair were the winners. Ayushman Chopra was given the Best speaker Trophy and cash prizes. Best Runners up speaker was Aditya Narayan of Ferguson Jr College. The topic being Should parents have access to Whattsapp Communication of their children. In the senior section out of the seven finalists CTW CME were awarded the winning team comprising of Akhil Chaudhry and Utpal Jhingan. Best speaker was awarded to Akhil Chaudhry and Best runners up was Utpal Jginhan. The topic being Advertisements a Bane to the customers. The Chief Guest was Dr Dilip Borawake and judges were Kashmira Irani, Pricilia Sunderajan and Father Lui Heredia. The sponsors for trophies and cash prizes were PP Monisha Joshi and PP Prabhakar Bantwal. President Khuzem Chatriwala, Secretary Nisar Sagar, Chairperson Rajesh Sahajwalla ,Rotarians , Anns, Annettes , teachers, parents and cheering teams were present for the occassion

Project Details

Start Date 28-08-2015
End Date 12-09-2015
Project Cost 30000
Rotary Volunteer Hours 0
No of direct Beneficiaries 110
Partner Clubs Rotoract Club of Pune Cantonment Interact Club of Lady Hawabai School
Non Rotary Partners
Project Category Basic education and literacy