An engineer by profession, Sri Tapas Bhattacharya joined the Rotary movement in 1994.With committed dedication Tapas served the community in various capacities in all the areas of services as per Rotary International guidelines. Hard working, thorough gentleman and soft spoken, Tapas loved working at the grass root level both as a worker as well as a motivating leader. He firmly believes in Rotary ethics and code of conduct. Widely popular as RCC man, he has successfully led substantial numbers of community projects all over the district 3291 throughout his long 30 years of Rotary life as frontline soldier as well as a commander. He realised that RCC is an effective Channel of serving the community, specially the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Simultaneously, he has been actively involved both in district 3291 and other districts with Rotary Leadership Institute which is the best well built learning mechanism of Rotary.
Tapas has a very rich art & cultural background specially in the areas of theatre, drama and music. He was an active member of IPCA (Indian Progressive Cultural Association) and other socio-cultural organization and engaged in successfully organizing seminars, symposiums, Theatres, Dance, Drama, Recitation competition etc. He himself was also a performer in these genres. He was a general secretary of Youth Guild, Gorky Sadan, Kolkata. He was fortunate to come into contact with well known personalities like Kumar Roy, Maya Sen, Kaifi Azmi, Salil Chowdhury, Mrinal Sen, Anil Chatterjee etc. to name a few during his cultural journey.
As a part of multi-faceted personality, Tapas was also a football player at District level. He is a member of East Bengal Club
.
He was actively involved in Rotary Foundation collection in 2006-07 as Assistant District Secretary and 2009-10 as Annual Giving Chair which was the highest collection in district 3291. He is experienced in Rotary Foundation Grants and giving.
Transformational leadership, dedication and freedom for advancing the progress of services, participative management as well as trusted friendship are some of his principles and style of functioning.
His wife, our beloved First Lady of the District , “Sushmita” is a post graduate and graded singer of AIR and Door-darshan, who provides full support to Tapas Da in all his ventures, includes community services. He is blessed with one son and one daughter. Soumik, his son, is an MBA working with Tata Steel. His daughter Archita, an engineer is engaged with Capgemini
|
