The Annual Dussehra Dhamaka

Online, October 1, 2011 (Newswire.com) - New Delhi: The Annual Dussehra Dhamaka of Round Table India (RTI) & Ladies Circle India is back - with more fun, food and fireworks.

This unique event which is organized every year on the occasion of Dussehra provides wholesome fun to families in a clean, hygienic and secured manner. At the same time, it helps raise funds for the "Freedom Through Education" project of RTI which aims to provide education to 1 million underprivileged children in India over a period of 10 years.

The main highlights of the event are:

• Burning of Huge Ravana effigy
• Spectacular display of fireworks
• Over 20 games stalls - mainly run by children
• Over 20 products stalls selling gift items, clothes, accessories, lifestyle products
• Over 10 food and drinks stalls - last year's participants included Nizam's Kathi Kabab, Capri Italy, Rajdhani Thali, August Moon, Chaat and Kulfi from Old Delhi
• Kids activities including art & craft, bungee, rides and various competitions
• Live DJ, Music, Raffle Draw, Valet Parking

In view of the positive response and patronage of our regular visitors, the scale of this mela has grown year after year. The mela is a crowd puller, attracting over 1000 visitors every year. The visitors comprise the elite and high net-worth crowd of Delhi, since mailers are sent out by the organizing committee to the members of prominent clubs like Round Table, Rotary, Ankur, Mahila Mangal etc., and to their friends and relatives. Over 5,000 SMSs are sent to a select list of people to promote the event. Online publicity is also given to this event through Facebook, Twitter, etc.

This mela offers an excellent opportunity for corporate houses to partner with a lifestyle event while supporting a social cause. Partnership categories include:

a) Lead Partner: For Rs.50,000/-One can become the Lead Partner which entitles : i) the title sponsorship of the event, ii) prominent placement of the company name/brand/logo on all pre-event marketing materials/mailers, ii) prominent placement of the banners, scrollers etc. at the event, iii) prominent space at the event to showcase your business/product, iv) promotion of your brand through announcements over the audio system.

b) Associate Partner: For Rs.25,000/- One can become an Associate Partner which entitles : i) placement of the name/brand/logo on all pre-event marketing materials/mailers; ii) placement of the banners, scrollers, etc. at the event, iii) space at the event to showcase one's business/product.

Audi Motors has been regularly sponsoring this event every year, and has been extremely happy with the response.

We look forward to discussing the above opportunities with you and provide any further information.

ROUND TABLE INDIA

Round Table is an organisation of non-political and non-sectarian young men between the age group of 18 and 40. The aim of the young men is to promote service, fellowship and goodwill in National and International affairs. The unique feature of this organisation is that it always remains young, because the Tablers retire when they turn 40, giving way to younger people.
Round Table India, the association, was formed on November 14, 1962 with just a membership of 100. It has, over the last 4 decades, grown to become a 2500 member strong association today.
We have 180 Tables located in 75 cities and towns, comprising of businessmen, entrepreneurs, technocrats and professionals. Men, who can rise above personal concerns to seek and serve the larger needs of the community. On the administration front, Round Table India has a 25 member National Board, which guides the affairs of the association. Round Table India is divided into 11 Areas, which have their own Area Board to administer them.
Freedom through Education
After 50 years of independence, 60 Million Indian children had never, ever been to school. Illiteracy is a self-fulfilling curse that perpetuates the chain of poverty, degradation and child labour. To reach out to this group of underprivileged children, we proposed in 1998 to provide basic infrastructure for primary education in rural India, reaching out to about one million children over a period of 10 years. We believe that true freedom for an individual comes only through education.
Keeping the millions of underprivileged children in mind, we declared our Long Term National Project as "Freedom through Education". We believe that true freedom for an individual comes only through EDUCATION.
In the last 7 years, Round Tables in India have really put in a lot of effort to provide infrastructure in schools. Close to 1000 School projects at a cost of over Rs. 700 Million have been completed during this period benefiting around 6 lakh children.
3 State Governments played a significant role in supporting our efforts of "Freedom through Education", the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which has contributed over Rs.30 Million through the "Janmabhoomi" Scheme, the Government of Tamil Nadu which has contributed over Rs.10 Million through the "Namakku Naamae" Scheme and the Government of Karnataka under the "Project Paatashaala" Initiative.
Our efforts on "Freedom through Education" reached out across frontiers in International territory. Tablers of Round Table Netherlands were so impressed with the work we have been doing and they decided to adopt our National Project "Freedom through Education" as their National Project also.
Round Table India also tied up with NOVIB of Netherlands and Centre for Youth Social Development to construct 15 schools at a cost of Rs.13 Million all over Orissa.
The Gujarat Earthquake was another moment, when Round Table India was present in full strength to support the victims of the earthquake. We have also collected over Rs. 24 Million towards construction of 20 school buildings in Kutch and Surendarnagar Districts of Gujarat. Wipro has contributed a sum of Rs.8 Million towards this initiative.
Round Table India has been recognised by Govt. of Tamil Nadu as one of the 8 Non Governmental Organisations taking up rehabilitation work in Tsunami affected areas. A total of 110 primary schools are in the process of complete reconstruction at a cost of 50 million rupees.
It is a new freedom movement calling for the entire nation to rise to the challenge and take a stand against illiteracy and its tight grip on generations of Indians. We believe that we can do something to give every Indian a chance, for we have over 60 million children in the age group of 3 - 10, who need to be given basic education. They are our future citizens! They are our country's future!!