Our club’s first district event for the Rotary Year 2003-04 was the membership development seminar. The district governor Shri Kulbandhu Sharma entrusted upon us the responsibility of holding this district event looking at the successful execution of the district conference Action Con in PP Rtn Arvindkumar’s year 2000-01 and RSR lived up to all its expectations.

Rtn Arvindkumar was made the chairman for the event. An action plan was charted out and we identified ‘club attendance’ as the thrust towards better membership development. We decided to enact a skit highlighting the different scenarios under different club meetings. Rtn Sanjay Pandya directed and prepared the skit in a very professional manner.

Then at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday the 19th October 2003, Rotarians from all around the district gathered at Mahida Bhavan, Ichhanath Road to witness a unique seminar that captivated them all on their seats all throughout the event. The keynote speakers present were the D.G. Shri Kulbandhu Sharma, D.G.E. Shri Ashok Kapadia, D.G.N. Shri Ashis Roy besides the other dignitaries from district 3060.

Rtn Rajat Vij, Rtn Rajesh Patel, Rtn Sanjay Pandya, Rtn Bankim Vashi, Rtn Mukund Jariwala, Rtn Siddharth Shah (a-la- Paul Harris) played different characters on stage. Rtn Amit Adhiya gave relevant music on his synthesizer to add flavour to the happenings while Ann Rashika gave in soul touching filler speeches in between the chapters of the play.

The audience was spell bound and was all praises with the manner the message of membership development was sent across. The meeting dispersed after lunch at around 1:30 p.m.