History

Panchsheel Park has a rich history of its own to conceive and follow. The facts of the history of Panchsheel Park are vivacious and inspiring.

It was during the Past President Rtn. Dr. Aprameya Raman’s year that a few of our dynamic members including  Rtn. N.S Anand, Rtn. N.P. Vishwanath, Rtn. B.M Nagesh, past member Rajesh Babu, Rtn. Rajendra Hubli, past member Narendra, Rtn. Dr. Appi, Rtn. Sureshkumar and few others took a daring step and formed an association named “Rotary Central Associaton” – RCA. This association was formed to purchase the land from MUDA.

Past President Rtn. N.S Anand’s commendable job made us to get the land from MUDA.  The great Idea to construct a building came true in the Centenary Year of Rotary. The Brilliant Idea of Pancheel Park was conceived and formulated by our past member Narendra.

The team of Centenary year consisting of the entire board decided to construct a meeting place as a centenary project. And the project was executed in a Record time of 23 days. The challenging supervision of this first phase was taken by Rtn. N P Vishwanath.

A very important event during the construction was “KAR SEVA” by our members and Innerwheel members wherein each member participated in actually laying bricks by their own hands.

The Panchsheel project was conceived during the year 2004-05. The first phase was also completed during the same year. The built-in area of the building was 1200 sqft. With AC sheet roofing and it was executed under the leadership of ROCEM President Rtn.Sudheer Bhat and Secretary Rtn. A R Ravindra Bhat.

In the Year 2009-11 RCA President Rtn.Suresh Kumar could pay a substantial amount to MUDA towards dues. During the year 2011-12 the magnate of Rotary Central  Mysore Rtn Rakesh Kumar Rastogi took the Lead of RCA and presented a Mandate to lead RCA till the completion of Panchsheel Park.

In the year 2012-13 RCA completed its second phase of the building which consisted of an extension by about 3500 sqft. The roofing of the first phase was also changed from AC Sheet to RCC.

The historic day came on Sept.2012 by a successful grand inauguration of Vocational Training Centre with the budget of 35 Lakhs. Along with the Vocational Training Centre, the second phase of Panchsheel Park was included with Office Block for ROCEM, Inner Wheel Club, The Board Room, and the Toilet Block. This was completed under the able leadership of President Rtn. Rakesh Kumar Rastogi, Rtn. S.R.Swamy, Rtn. A V Sridhar, Rtn. N P Vishwanath and Rtn. A R Ravindra Bhat.

RCA & ROCEM started Real utilization of Panchsheel Park in the month of Sept 2012 by imparting the training program to more than 400 unemployed youth and women and specially able children in the year 2012-2013. In subsequent years also the training is being imparted to many people. Apart from the vocational training courses, in RCA, classes in YOGA and Karate were also being conducted.

The idea behind this effort is to make Panchsheel Park to be self sustained centre. After completing one and a half decade now it time for each member of ROCEM to think, work and contribute for the self sustainability of Panchseel Park.

The effort behind this is really a great INSPIRATION!!!.