Reserve
Bank of India is not only a Central bank and Bankers Bank but is the best
employer. It continuously encourages and supports the employees to foray in
social, cultural, Sports and various other activities. Few illustrations will
suffice the magnanimity of Reserve Bank of India.
Social
Blood Bank
Late
Mr. Dilip Gore, former employee of RBI – Died due to Esophagealvarices {disease
of blood vessel – he was of rare blood group} the gravity of the situation
prompted him to think about social blood bank.The Idea was shared by him with
his RBI colleagues namely Mr. AvinashSangwai, Mr. Vilas Deshpande, Ms.
ShobhaShembekar and Mrs. KalyaniDilip Gore, Mrs. Sandhya Vairagade.His Idea
sowed the seed of having a blood bank which will serve to the society and cater
there needs of blood at cost effective price.
The
team of these six self-motivated people took the survey in Nagpur regarding
requirement of blood and the supply from the available sources. To their
surprise it was found that there was no such Social blood bank.Supply of blood
was dismal to suffice the need of blood for the Hundreds of Thalassaemic,
sickle cell children and patients from Central India. These were in need of
continued safe and healthy blood but they were put to hardship due to paucity
of it.
In
May 1993, the first social blood bank in Nagpur was established. Numerous
hurdles were there but Massive awareness regarding blood donations helped to
reduce the fear of it and resulted to increase in voluntary blood donors. Today
this central India’s state of the art blood bank proved to be a boon for the
needy children andpatients of all sections of society.
Social
Eye Bank
This
Social Blood bank gained popularity and one day in 1994 the catastrophic news
of bomb explosion in Chennai shook the society again. In this heart wrenching
situation, sibling of one victim shared the pious act of eye donation by him
which became encouragement to the concept of Social Eye Bank. This spurred the
formation of first Social Eye bank in the year 1995. Later, a month long eye
donation awareness program was carried out in Maharashtra where along with
Nagpur other 22 locations started providing facility of grading of cornea and
transplantation.All out efforts of RBItes Mr. AvinashSangwai, Mr. Ravi Sangwai,
Mr. Ashok Karnik, Mr. Nilay Band, Dr. PrafulGoregaonkar, Mr. ShrinivasRisaldar,
Mrs. Kalpana Ajay Joshi, Mrs. Madhavi Prakash Mandke, Mrs. Ghate, Late Mr.
Prakash Mandke and Late. Mr. Ajay Joshi,resulted the awareness and reduction of
misconception regarding eye donation. Pious act of Blood and Eye donation gave birth
to the mission “JiteJiteRaktDaan, JaateJaate Netra Daan”
Bhonsala
Military School
The
then Maharashtra Government laid by Hon’ble CM Mr. Manohar Joshi, announced the
policy of forming Military School at District level. This announcement gave the
new dimension to the thought process of entering into the venture of military
education followed by success of Blood and Eye bank.
The
idea took concrete shape in the year 1997and First military school in Vidarbhabeen
established. Since its inception students from Bihar, Orissa, Panjab,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha are getting
benefited and serving nation through various fields along with defense. Major
contribution to this project was from Ex RBIets Mr. AvinashSangwai and Mr.
Vilas Deshpande.
We
are proud to say that Reserve Bank of India is still supporting to the social
project by donating Waste to Daanparmita Charitable Trust run by retired RBIets.
It is a proud moment for all of us that RBI is promoting
‘Beti
Bachao Beti Padhao’
