Minutes of the Fifteenth RBT get-together on AUGUST 3rd, 2003 at
Mikanos, Landmarc Citi, Worli
Next Meeting : SEPTEMBER 7th at Olive, Bandra - Courtesy of AD Singh. As always, 4:30pm.

Hello everyone,

These are the minutes of the Sixteenth get-together of the organization.!

AGENDA
-Organisational Update
-Team Updates
-New Projects Proposals
-Miscellaneous


A) ORGANISATIONAL UPDATE

- Proposal that membership to Revive Bombay be given after applicants attend a meeting. After debating on this, this proposal was withdrawn.
- However it was agreed that attendance of atleast 4 meetings in a year was required.
- Salil Chatturvedi, member and Director of Provogue has offered the Provogue Lounge for RBT events.
- Creation of the Events & Fundraising committee. It was seen that teams should focus on their project and along with the Events committee, coordinate events to raise awareness and funds. This committee needs volunteers.
- We are still looking for a secretary!

B) TEAM UPDATES
(To get involved with any of these projects, kindly contact the team
leaders on their email address mentioned below)

Pet-a-tree
Heritage Statues
Bollywood Walk of Fame
NGO AGM
Accessibility for Individual with Disabilities (A.I.D)
Cafe Revive
Future of Roads (F.O.R)
Adopt-a-Child & Magic Bus


1) Pet-a-tree: (NEED MEMBERS)
Team leader : Rishi Tejuja - rishitejuja@utisel.com
- We are still in permissions! We have written to AIAI to allow us to
plant the trees on Mahim. They have been given the permission from the BMC to beautify areas like these. We also will be writing to Mahanagar Gas to get their gas pipeline laying map so that we donÆt break their gasline.
- The quotation given to us was over our budget. A suggestion to take out the iron grille to bring down our costs and put bamboo. On top of the tree, we can put the Revive plate.
- We can reduce cost by digging the pits ourselves. Lets get some more quotations.

2) Heritage Statues: (MEMBERSHIP CLOSED. AWAITING PERMISSIONS.) Team leader : Hemanth Meka Rao - hemanth@hemanth.net
- The Municipal Corporation has sent letters to the Secretary of Cultural Affairs and the Secretary of the Public Works Department regarding these statues, to get their okay for repossession. We will be following up with these departments.

3) Bollywood Walk of Fame: (MEMBERSHIP CLOSED. AWAITING PERMISSIONS.) Team leader : Hemanth Meka Rao - hemanth@hemanth.net -New MSRDC MD, Lakhina.
- Mr. Lakhina from MSRDC is very positive towards it. However, he needs a very concrete proposal along with a demonstration. This should be ready in about 1 months time.
- The project itself will need about 1.5 to 2 crores of rupees to
complete. There is a huge fund-raising issue since Mr. Lakhina does not seem willing to give sponsors advertising space. We will have to look for other avenues.
- Aseem had an interesting idea of asking producers to pay for the star's dedication. And the stars pay by giving a free performance such as performing on the day of his/her dedication of his star.
- Sponsors can sponsor on the day of the dedication. Give the option to the star to donate to RBT - on stage!

4) Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities (A.I.D):(NEED MEMBERS) Team leader : Manish Maker - manish.maker@makers.co.in
-No update.

5) Cafe Revive: (MEMBERSHIP CLOSED. AWAITING PERMISSIONS) Team leader : Hemanth Meka Rao - hemanth@hemanth.net
- Our NGMA proposal is being considered with three other proposals. Our chances are fair.
- AD Singh has suggested two other locations which we are looking into.

6) Future of Roads (F.O.R) (NEED MEMBERS)
Team leader : Hem Tejuja - htejuja@hotmail.com
- We would like FOR to become a nodal agency for all BMC road-related complaints. We have spoken to Puran about it and will be writing to the BMC/MC and Puran to make this happen. This means that all complaints will be sent to RBT instead of the BMC, and we will follow up with the authorities to get them fixed, after creating a database of these complaints. This will also help us monitor areas where repeat repairs are constantly happening.

7) Adopt-a-Child & Magic Bus (NEED MEMBERS)
Team leader : Sohan Shah - drsohan@indiatimes.com
- Had trip slated to Magic Bus's Igatpuri camp. But we didnÆt have enough people. So we have rescheduled to sometime August.

C) MISCELLANEOUS

New Teams

8) International Airport Improvement :
Team leader : Hemanth Meka Rao - hemanth@hemanth.net
International Airport - There was an idea to help beautify the
international airport by working with the Airport Authorities and the
artists of the city.

9) Events & Fundraising Committee :
Team leader : None right now
Team members are : Bobby Wadhwa, Chaitanya Pande, Apperna Desai, Aseem Merchant, Pushkar Goel, Karan Ahluwalia and Hemanth Meka Rao :
- Several ideas were brainstormed. They will be working on events to raise awareness of RBT and to raise funds for the various projects.

10) Annual Report - Team leaders - we NEED photos from you to put in the annual report of your team! Be it teams that were there last year, this year, and teams that had to stop for various reasons. PLEASE let us know if you have or can get some photos of your project, or your team.

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 THANK YOU!
We ended the meeting with a BIG Thank You to Lochan Kothari and the Mikanos team for making this meeting possible.

NEXT MEETING :
The Next Revive Bombay meeting will be on SEPTEMBER 7th at Olive, Bandra - courtesy of AD Singh. As always, 4:30pm.

Are you doing your bit for your city?

Looking forward to seeing you at the next RBT get-together!


RBT.

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