"We
care for the Hungry
Children on the
Globe"
( A Programme Initiated
by CFTRI Alumni
Association)
The Alumni Association
was privileged
to provide food to the
inmates of the Bapuji
Children's Home at Mysore
on 21st
October 2001, which
coincided with the
Foundation day of
CFTRI. With the initiation
of
Dr. V. Prakash,
Director, CFTRI and Chief
Patron
of our association, an
interaction began with
the Bapuji
Children’s Home and
the program on
"Caring for the
Hungry Children on the
Globe" took off.
The choice of Bapuji
Children's Home was
because of its unique
features, which the
Association found attuned
to its own ideals
of the societal mission. |
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 Inmates of
Bapuji's Children's Home
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The
Bapuji Children's Home
was founded in 1975
at Mysore to care for the
abandoned infants,
street children and the
destitute who are
lost to the world. Some
of the inmates of
the Home have been
'salvaged' from
utter squalor and even
death-trap, like
for example, the infant
girl found in a
dustbin with her right
foot eaten away by
the stray dogs and her
scalp badly
disfigured by crows and
the beggar girl who
was unwanted in society.
The Home nursed
these children and scores
of others at
similar conditions of
hopless- ness back
to a dignified living by
meeting their
physical and emotional
needs.
Currently the Home
has 52 orphans
mostly girls and a
few boys. It was a
joy to see their
happy faces and
entusiasm, evidence
of what the Home
has done to
them.
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Alumni
members will be happy to
learn that the program on
"We care for the
hungry Children on the
Globe" has been
initiated at Mysore.
Members view and
suggestions are welcome.
FELICITATION
TO
MS.
VASEEMA RAHIM AND DR. P.
HARIDASA RAO
ON
THEIR RETIREMENT FROM
CFTRI SERVICE
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On
dais from left : Mrs.
Sridevi, Dr. K.K.
Sakariah, Dr. P. Haridas
Rao, Ms. Vaseema Rahim,
Dr. V. Prakash, Dr. K.S.
Chang and Mrs. Chang
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Ms. Vaseema Rahim, a
senior Scientist in the HRD
Department has the unique
distinction of teaching every
batch of students of M.Sc. (Food
Tech.) course which was started
in 1965. Dr. P. Haridasa Rao,
Head of the Department of Flour
Milling, Baking and Confectionary
Technology belongs to the
1969-1971 batch and is presently
the Secretary, CFTRI Alumni
Association. On July 2, 2001 a
felicitation meeting to honour
Ms. Vaseema Rahim and Dr. P.
Haridasa Rao was organised by
Alumni Association at the IFTTC
auditorium, CFTRI, Mysore with
the Director, Dr. V. Prakash in
chair, he himself being an Alumni
and also has the cosiderable
distinction of being batchmate of
Dr. Haridasa Rao and student of
Ms. Vaseema Rahim.
The meeting
was well attended by the current
first and second year M.Sc. (Food
Tech.) students and the Alumni in
Mysore. A most pleasant surprise
was the presence of Prof. K.S.
Chang and his wife who had come
from Korea on a visit to CFTRI.
Prof. Chang belongs to the
1970-72 batch of M.Sc (Food
Tech.) and is currently in the
Department of Food Science &
Technology, College of
Agriculture Chungnam National
University 220, Gung - Dong,
Yuseng - GU, Taejon, 305 - 764,
Korea.
| Dr. R.
Joseph, President, CFTRI
Alumni Association,
extending a warm welcome
mentioned that retirement
is an important landmark
in a person's life, but
the word is not
applicable to those who
will be doing something
different in life that
may be as meaningful or
more meaningful than what
they have been doing so
far. He expressed the
hope that both Dr.
Haridasa Rao and Ms.
Vaseema Rahim will now
find more time to play
important roles in the
Alumni Association. |
Dr.
Haridas Rao being
felicitated by Ms. Bindi
Shukla M.Sc. II year
Student. Dr. V.
Prakash and Dr. Chang are
seen in the background
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Mr. Abhishek Singh,
Mr. Vikas Gupta, Ms. Monika Verma
and Ms. Vasudha Modgil, M.Sc.
(Food Tech.) students in their
speeches paid rich tributes to
Ms. Vaseema Rahim and Dr.
Haridasa Rao.
Ms. Vaseema
Rahim receiving the
bouque from Ms. Bindi
Shukla M.Sc. II
year Student. Dr.
V. Prakash and Ms. Ritu
Taneja are also seen.
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Ms. Vaseema
Rahim, while replying
touched everybody's heart
in the audience. She
talked about her rich
experience as a teacher
and how she was endeared
to students. She
expressed gratitude to
all the students, past
and present, and took
great pride in the fact
that two of the past
students are occupying
very high positions: Dr.
V. Prakash as Director of
CFTRI, Mysore and Dr.
A.S. Bawa as Director of
DFRL, Mysore. |
Dr. Haridasa Rao's
reply was equally touching. It
was also a lively narration of
his experiences at CFTRI, Mysore.
Prof. Chang in his speech was all
praise for CFTRI's achievements.
He recalled nostalgically his
student life at the Institute.
Dr. V. Prakash expressed
happiness at the stature that
CFTRI - Alumni Association is
gradually attaining and wished
the Association further growth
and greater accomplishments in
the future. He mentioned how an
important event in his student
life seeded an idea, which was
later proposed by him as the
programme "we care for the
hungry children on the
globe". Dr. Prakash also
mentioned that he succeeded in
facilitating students to enroll
themselves on a regular basis
each year for the Masters degree
course in Biotechnology and Food
Engineering at the University of
Manchester, Institute of Science
and Technology, U.K. through the
fellowship which the university
offers today to the CFTRI M.Sc.
(Food Tech.) Students every
year. The gathering
applauded the news and the two
M.Sc. (Food Tech.) II year
students Ms. Vandana Goel and Ms.
Oormila Chandrashekar who are
admitted to this course in U.K.
this year. Dr. Sridevi Annapurna
Singh, Joint Secretary of Alumni,
proposed the vote of thanks.
The felicitation meeting was
unique in that such a programme
was organized for the first time
by the Alumni Association. The
evening of July 2, 2001 formed a
wonderful setting for a relaxed
and amiable interaction among the
Alumni of different generations
and the present students of the
M.Sc. (Food Tech.)
course.
A Keep Sake
Compendium
A Keep Sake
Compendium of the CFTRI Alumni
Association was brought out on
the occasion of The Golden
Jubilee of CFTRI in 2000.
Copies are available to the
members of the Alumni Association
on payment of Rs. 200 (for the
Alumni in India) and $ 20 (for
the Alumni living abroad).
Please write to us for the copy
indicating your name, address and
batch when you have studied.
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