'For the Sake of Award' to Dr VP Gangadharan

Rotary is an organisation which gives prime importance to each person's vocation. The highest recognition Rotary gives an individual for his vocation is the 'For the Sake of Honour' award. This year, Rotary club of Payyanur Mid Town honoured renowned cancer specialist -medical oncologist-, Dr.VP Gangadharan, with that award. 

Dr.VP Gangadharan has several firsts to his credit.
1.Kerala's first medical oncologist.
2.Introduced chemotherapy in treatment of cancers in Kerala.
3. Formed Kerala's first stem cell transplant unit in Government-Regional Cancer Centre- and private.
4. Authored several pioneering researches in the field of cancer.
5. Established free palliative clinics for treatment of cancer
6. Life time mission of educating people about cancer and specially in dispelling myths associated with cancer.


We could not have chosen a more apt person to present this award. In a well attended public function, the award was presented by Commodore Kamlesh Kumar, Commanding Officer of Indian Naval Academy, in the presence of Assistant Governor CT Narayanan, President, Secretary,Vocational Chair Rtn.Mahendran, Charter President Pramod and Charter Secretary Dr.Anil. 

Women's day celebrated

Womens day is celebrated every year on March 8th. This is a symbol of emancipation of women and thier empowerment to be treated as equals in society. 

On that day, Rotary Club of Payyanur Mid Town celebrated Womens day with a series of activities designed for the mental and physical health of women.

Starting with talks by Ann Remavathi on empowering women and Ann Suprabha on mental strength. This was followed by a 1 hour session of Zumba, which combines dance with exercise. The idea was to increase both mental and physical fitness.

Pulse Polio Day Observed

Eradication of Polio is Rotary's greatest service ever to mankind. Pulse polio is the program to immunise the kids en mass, to boost herd immunity, which is conducted yearly. We participated in it, on March 11th at Ramanthali PHC. District Governor Sivasankaran inaugurated the function and Dr Santhosh Sreedhar and Dr Vinay Kumar were present on the occasion.  

Runners up in Regional Football Tournament

We were runners up in the regional football tournament hosted by RC Trikkaripur on March 10th. RC Cheruvathur were winners. 

Books and materials to Edanad East LP school

 At the request of the school authorities, Rotary Club of Payyanur Mid Town donated a book shelf and books for the classrooms. The project was jointly organised by us with our Rotaract Club. Rotaract President Sreerag and Secretary Vishnu are alumni of the same school, making this project even more special to their hearts.

Visiting Rotarians from Mexico hosted

Team of 5 Rotarians came from Rotray Club of Delicias and Chihuahua, Mexico to visit our District 3202. We hosted one of them,Rotarian David Lopez in the residence of our member ,Rotarian Narayanan Kutty. We took David and his Companion Dr.Jose Luis also to several locations in and around Payyanur, to show them our indigenous culture and practises. We even treated them to a traditional Kerala lunch served traditional style in a banana leaf.
 They arrived on Feb 12th. On 13th we had a meeting with them at Rotray Bhavan, Payyanur, which was hosted by RC Payyanur where we exchanged flags and ideas.
This Kind of interaction with other country men promotes interaction, peace and goodwill.

Awareness talk on cancer

February 4th is celebrated all over the world as World Cancer Day. Dr.Padmanabhan gave an awareness class on cancer, specially about prevention and the benefit about hair donation for helping patients who lose their hair through chemotherapy. 

On the occassion,Hair Bank, a charitable organisation who organised this program, wigs were also donated free of cost to patients. We also received wigs from film actor and TV personality Rachana Narayanan Kutty, who is herself a hair donor. These wgs will be given to poor patients wo suffer from cancer.

New Year Celebration

Rotary Club Of Payyanur Mid Town celebrated New year on Deember 30th in grand fashion. The theme for this year was white and blue,in which colours everybody was dressed. The Chief Gest of the occassion was our Charter President, Rtn.Pramod Nayanar. Rotarians, Anns and annets dsiplayed an array of dazzling programs which included a skit, dance ,songs and games.

Vocational service

This Tailoring unit exclusively for women, was 
started in 2010. It has trained several women in finding a vocation in dress design and stitching.

This month, being the vocational service month, we donated equipment-2 large cutting tables and chairs- for the maintenance of the centre. through our unit many women are now finding self employment.

Republic day program- Patriotic song competetion

Rotary Club of Payyanur Mid Town , in association with our RCC, Sanjayan Smaraka Grandhalayam, organised a patritic group music competition for school students.This was held on January 26th, our 68th Republic day.  9 teams from different schools participated. Program was inaugurated by our Regional Secretary Rtn. Er. CR Nambiar. All the contestants were given participatory certificates and the winners were given cash prizes and certificates.

Governors visit

District Governor of RI District 3202, Shivashankaran visited the club on 9/11/2017. In a glittering and well conducted function, which also had the presence of Regional Coordinator Rtn. Dr.Santhosh Sreedhar, Assistant Governor CT Narayanan and Regional Secretary CR Nambiar, program was well conducted. 

Speaking on the occasion Governor spoke about the club and its projects and appreciated the activities done by the club.

Furniture donated at MRCH

Malabar Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped -MRCH-, Payyanur, is a voluntary organisation where mentally challenged children are trained and rehabilitated.The children were always eating lunch in a cramped space due to lack of dining room furniture. 

Rotary Club of Payyanur Mid Town donated 5 sets of dining room benches and desks to the institution asking with study materials. 

This was handed over by District Governor Rtn. Siva on 9/11/2017.

Surveillance equipments at Sanjayn library

One of the pressing demands of Sanjayan Smaraka Grandhalayam, a rural community centre and library, is the absence of surveillance equipment. Given the needs of today's time in terms of security, this was badly needed.

RC Payyanur Mid Town stepped in and donated a monitor and surveillance cameras to the centre.

This was handed over by our DG Siva on November 9th.

Drinking water project at Kadannappalli

Kadannapalli, is a rural area near Payyanur. There is a housing colony there with 30houses who did not have access to drinking water. The house owners had to walk a long distance to draw water from a common well.

RC Payyanur Mid Town donated  a water tank, pump house and pipes for the colony. This will now enable the colony people to access water from their house itself.

Project was inaugurated by our DG Sivashankaran on Nov.9th in presence of AG, CT Narayanan and local Block and Panchayath member.

Swimming coaching camp

Scientific swimming coaching camp in association with Kerala Adventure Sports Promoting Academy(KASPA) was held for 2 weeks from 8/7/2017 to 23/7/2017. 54 children registered and more than 38 children regularly participated. Trainers Suresh Kuttamath, Prabhakaran KV, Jayaram KV, Shivram VV and Padmanabhan VV trained the children.

Program was inaugurated by Asst.Governor Rtn.CT Narayanan on 8/7/2017. The name of Program Chairman, Rtn.Ashokan Vengayil, our joint secretary has to be specially mentioned. His dedication, commitment and selfless service ensured the mega success of the program.

The concluding function was held on 23/7/2017. Valid certificates were distributed to all the participants. The function was all the more special due to the presence of the vast majority of our club members. Past Presidents Rtn. Dr.Anil Melath,Rtn.Dr.Prashanth P, Rtn.Gangadharan Meledath, Rtn.Suresh Shenoy and President Elect Rtn. KP Divakaran distributed the certificates.

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Honoured Dr AV Damodaran on Doctors day

On July 1st Doctors Day, Rotary Club of Payyanur Mid Town honoured Dr. AV Damodaran, senior orthopedician of Payyanur. Having served in government service in the past Dr. AV Damodaran retired from service as the superintendent of government hospital Payyanur.

In a well attended function President Rtn. Er. Venugopal honoured Dr. Damodaran at his residence

honouring Dr A V Damodaran

Rtn Venugopal installed as new President

Rtn. PHF Er. Venugopal was installed as the 11th President of Rotary Club of Payyanur Mid Town on 28/6/2017 at the installation function held at Hotel KBC Green Park, Edat.

In a well organised function, Rtn   PHF K U Kaladharan installed the new president and handed over charge. The chief guest of the function was PDG MD Sreedharan Nambiar. He spoke about the importance of the Rotary Foundation and the humanitarian activities done by the foundation. PDG MD VG Nayanar was the guest of honour and released the club bulletin "Impressions" , which was prepared by the bulletin editor, Rtn. Sreeprasad.

On the occassion, Rtn Divakaran KP, President Elect welcomed the crowd and Past Secretary Rtn. Sathyajith presented the activity report of the previous year.

guest of honour PDG MD VG Nayanar

Chief guest PDG MD Sreedharan Nambiar