OUR DISTRICT

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 3020

Situated between the south-east coast of our country, Rotary International District 3020 is a blissful land cradling between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal. The area spread across the coast is worth visiting once in a lifetime to witness the beautiful coast, lustrous green paddies, pleasant widespread orchids, and deep-sea as well as coastal fisheries.

Earlier before 2000, the district club was denoted by RID 302. In 2001, the club was known to be RID 3020. The club had 3 zones in particular and they were; Visakhapatnam, Kakinada and Vijayawada. Later, zone-4 was introduced as Vizianagaram for having a separate zone for the areas of the districts, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam.

Today Rotary International District 3020 comprises 6 Revenue districts, namely; Visakhapatnam, Krishna, West Godavari, East Godavari, Srikakulam, and Vizianagaram. With the unity of 102 clubs and 5000 Rotarians, the Club has successfully accomplished many projects of service and honour.

Since 1972, there were 51 DRRs(District Rotaract Representative) who served the district club which made up the glorious 51 years in the history of the Club. In 1972, the first ever DRR from the district RID 3020, A. R. Jayanth, was elected from the Rotaract Club of Visakhapatnam. The first lady DRR was Rajitha Gora, daughter of Samram. She served for the term 1992-93. The youngest male DRR is K. Praneeth till date who served for the term 2015-16. The youngest female DRR is V. Alekhya who served for the term 2016-17 in the presence of late P.D.G.Surya Rao.

The following is the list of all the DRRs who served the Club-

P M.Pradeep (2012-13)
S Ramesh (2013-14)
B Sitarami Reddy(2014-15)
K Praneeth (2015-16)
V Alekhya (2016-17)
M Manogyna (2017-18)
R Sailaja and V.Lekhana (2018-19)
Ch V V Aravind Prasad (2019-2020)
Arun Sampath K (2020-21)
K Gowtham (2021-2022)
Prathyusha Varma (2022-2023)
P Bhanu Pujith (2023-2024)
R M Lakshman (2024-2025)
R Harshitha (2024-25)

During the term 2012-13, the District Governor P.D.G.Surya Rao (late) invited about 50 Rotaractors to attend the Rotary Conference. In the year 2012, there was a District Conference, Sandhadi held under P. M. Pradeep Kumar that brought together all the Rotarians and Rotaractors. The event lasted for 3 days. After Sandhadi, Vasantham is one of the remarkable events held under R.I.District 3020. Josh is also one of the main events held in the year to interact with all the Club members and develop fellowship.

In zone-3, Rotaract Club of Vijayawada is the oldest club of RID 3020. Whereas in zone-1, it is the Rotaract Club of Visakha Satellite City and in zone-2, it is Rotaract Club of Kakinada. In the term DRR Alekhya (2016-17), Rotaract Club of Kakinada attempted a Guinness World Record for toothpaste distribution.

Major events of District RID:3020 are

1) Chaaya

2) Vision

3) Spoken Words

4) Safety Car Rally

5) Click’s Photography contest

6) Wash “health and sanitization"

7) Ekatva

8) RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards)

PARENT CLUB

ROTARY CLUB WALTAIR

Now a days with immense stress on membership growth and external extension, there is a great impetus for forming new Rotary Clubs. But 48 years ago, the Rotary Club of Visakhapatnam, which was chartered in 1942, debated for a time whether it should code its territory to form another club. Thus, the creation of our Club met with considerable opposition in the parent club and thanks to the perseverance of members like the then PDG Hanumantha Rao. PP G.S.K. Arya, PP. Prof B Ramachandra Rao, etc. the objections were overruled, and the Rotary Club of Visakhapatnam North came into existence. The territory of our Club was defined as follows:
“Municipal limits of Visakhapatnam excluding the area which is to the north battery, proceeding unto the T-junction near the Watch House and K.R & Sons petrol station, four-road junction near Siripuram junction opposite to Virginia House, Asilmetta, road junction leading to Malkonda, New Colony, junction with Araku Trunk road junction with the new national highway at the airport, and the road junction at gopalapatnam terminating at the old airport road which is the municipal limit”.
Governor Sqd. Leader Jamshediji D. Italia from Hyderadabad presented the charter of the Rotary Club of Visakhapatnam North on the 22nd August 1972. Incidentally it was also the Governor’s birthday.
The formative years are the most important, even in the life of an organization. When a group of persons totally new to Rotary sit down to work, they need guidance and encouragement in the initial years to canalize their resources in the proper direction. Fortunately for us, our parent club performed this role admirably well.
Once it was chartered, the Rotary Club of Visakhapatnam took extremely good care of our club. PDG Hanu was Counselor for our Club for three years, and he used to attend our Board Meetings regularly. And the first venue of our meetings was the Pithapuram building in the Andhra University.
The Club was subsequently renamed as Rotary Club of Waltair. The following are the charter Members of Rotary Club of Waltair Charter President : Rtn C.V. Subramanyam Charter Secretary: Rtn PDG G. Jaya Rao : Rtn R.P. Chitra : Rtn M. Chittaranjan : Rtn Dr. V Eswar Reddy : Rtn P.K. Gupta : Rtn A.H Venkata Nagabhushana Rao : Rtn M.M Hussain : Rtn G Jaya Rao : Rtn K.L. Narasimha Rao : Rtn V. Prahlad : Rtn A Radhakrishna : Rtn. B Raghupati Rao : Rtn. T.S. Rajeswaran : Rtn. P. Ramchand : Rtn P.C. Ranga Raju : Rtn. M Ranganayakulu : Rtn. Dr P Sitaramaswamy : Rtn. K. Srirama Murthy : Rtn. Dr B.V. Subba Rao : Rtn C.V. Subrahmanyam : Rtn. D. varada Reddy : Rtn. B Yerram Raju
The Club has got the honors of making two District Governors 1 Rtn. PDG G. Jaya Rao 2 Rtn. PDG D. Varada Reddy
The Club has a glorious 48 years of experience in Service Activities. The Club has a permanent project “VISION AID” where free computer education is provided to blind and vision impaired persons. The Project is located on the 1st floor of Dr. L. Bullaiah College and a Resource Training Centre at Ba-Bapu Bhawan in Dwaraka Nagar. It has imparted education to several blind and vision impaired persons over the past 15 years.
In addition to the above permanent project, the club has under taken Several Projects. To name a few are: 1. Participation in Polio Eradication Campaign and N.I.Days. 2. Cataract Eye Surgeries. 3. Family Planning Operation (During early years of the Club) 4. Donation of Cancer Detection Equipment of worth Rs. 40 lacs to a local Hospital 5. Donation of Mobile Bus of 28-seater 6. Horticultural Shows 7. PET and Dog Shows 8. Tree Plantation Drives 9. Adoption of Musalayya Palem Village and undertaken many activities in the village. 10. Child Health Care Camps 11. Cyclone Shelters 12. Adult Literacy Campaign 13. Substantial Contributions The Rotary Foundation 14. Various New Generation programs for youth and students 15. Cancer Hospice (for Five years) 16. Adoption of Chinna Waltair Municipal Elementary School and provided practically everything for a period of years. 17. During Lock Down in 2020 year, Food and other essential items provided on a day to day basis for almost 45 days to the needy poor persons and stranded migrant working. 18. Blood Donation Camps. In 2020 year the Club collected more than 1200 units of blood 19. The club has two active Rotaract Clubs and an Intract Club. 20. VISION AID our permanent project – Free Computer education to Blind and Vision impaired persons.

SISTER CLUB

ROTARACT CLUB VISAKHA SATELLITE CITY

Rotaract Club of Visakha Satellite City has been initiated by 4 Lads of Rotarians (Suman Krishna Narasapurapu, Srisri Narasapurapu, Dhatri Kottu, Kottu Lal Yashwant) to start a Rotaract Club rather than joining other clubs. They all have lived this dream during International RYLA-1999 IN Ooty & were cordially supported by Srikrishna Samudrapu to convince the parent club to start Rotaract club Visakha Satellite City. In just two weeks the club has been chartered under the Presidentship of Rtr. Srikrishna Samudrapu & Rtr. Satish Nandhuri.
This journey of two decades has been a roller coaster ride with high heights of recognitions & turmoils at low. But it was Leaders like Rtr. Jeevan N Padala, Rtr. Satish Varma Dvvrk, Rtr. Pradeep Palla, Rtr. Chandra Sekhar Pasupuleti, etc who stood by the club during every phase inspite of Charter Members departing the club in search of career across the globe.
As a young club it inspired the whole RI District 3020 by raising funds & organising an India's Largest Signature campaign in support of Defence Forces during the Kargil War in 1999. Actively started raising the morale of young lads at Juvenile Homes, Physically Challenged Hostels, etc alongside supporting the DMHO & Rotary Clubs to effectively supply Polio Vaccinations to every corner of Visakhapatnam. Apart, Blood Donation has been inculcated as a habit for many members & there are over 5 members who have donated 50+ times initiating from here.
RACVSC and RACGVP are sister clubs who have done many events together. The bonding between the clubs is very special same as that of two siblings in a family. The collaboration of RACGVP and RACVSC clubs have created wonders and gained a lot of compliment from other fellow clubs. The list of successful events can be said to be done in a unique way which has attracted and impressed many communities to participate in those events.We take this opportunity to thank each & every member who has been part of RACVSC journey from day one to till date for the contribution, passion & spirits exhibited to ensure our baby RACVSC reach its adolescent. Special thanks & sincere gratitude to Rtr. Jeevan Nath Padala for doing all the hard job in every phase of the club evolution.The following are past and present presidents of Rotaract club of Visakha Satellite City

Rtr Samudrapu Srikrishna (1999-2000)
Rtr Srinivas (2000-2001)
Rtr Satish (2001-2002)
Rtr Padala Jeevan (2002-2003)
Rtr Raj kumar (2003-2004)
Rtr Murali (2004-2005)
Rtr Bhaskar (2005-2006
Rtr Satish varma (2006-2007)
Rtr Pradeep (2008-2009)
Rtr Chandu (2009-2010)
Rtr Chandra shekar (2010 -2011)
Rtr Bapi raju (2012-2013)
Rtr Vamsi (2013-2014)
Rtr Gowtham (2014-2015)
Rtr Arvind (2015-2016)
Rtr Lakshman (2016-2017)
Rtr Somi reddy (2017-2018)
Rtr Bhadra (2018-2019)
Rtr Anil vasupalli (2019-2020)
Rtr Kona Girish (2020-2021)

This club has transformed many members into leaders not just at Club Level but District Level. RCVSC is permanent host for Zonal activities in Zone-1, spaced out hosted at least one District Level activity every year. RCVSC has not just inculcated Fellowship through Service, spaced out it created a perfect platform for Medical camp every individual to enhance their life skills & excel in Individual Lives.
The club has undertaken few projects which are:1. Amigos2. JOSH3. Walkathon4. Rotaract week 5. Ramadan