ROTARY INTERNATIONAL stamp released on 23 02 2005
Denomination :500p
Stamps Printed :0.8 Million
Date of Issue :23-02-2005
Theme:Organisation
Rotary International is the pioneer voluntary service organization providing humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards in all vocations, and helping to build goodwill and peace in the world. Formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris of USA, Rotary has earned acclaim for nurturing ideals of service to mankind through the medium of diverse community projects, at international, national, regional, district and town levels. There are over 1.2 million Rotarians in 33000 clubs in 165 countries and 35 geographical regions worldwide.
Scrupulously adhering to its motto, “service above self’, Rotary strives to bring together people of all races, religious faiths, and political beliefs.
Rotary International is involved in multifarious activities such as eradication of polio, community service projects in different parts of the world, rehabilitation and total health care, rainwater harvesting and many more socially relevant projects.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is a ‘not for profit’ corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian programmes. It is supported totally by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
In 1988, Rotary International embarked upon a very ambitious programme to eradicate polio from the face of the earth by the year 2005. As the leading key non-government partner in this programme along with national governments, WHO, UNICEF and CDC, Rotary has not only provided major funding over US $ 600 million for the polio eradication initiatives but has also mobilized volunteers to help carry out mass immunization campaign. It is all because of the cooperation and co-ordination between various international and national agencies towards polio eradication initiatives that the number of polio endemic countries has come down from 125 to 6 and more than four million children have benefitted.
Rotary came to India in 1919 and formed its first club in Kolkata. It has been aiming to serve the needy and underprivileged sections of the society. Rotary is spread all over India with more than 1 lakh members in 2500 clubs. It is also dedicated towards eradication of polio in India.
Rotary began to address the pressing global issues of environmental degradation with the formation of the Preserve Planet Earth Programme in 1990. It also focussed on issues concerning the problems of illiteracy & drug abuse and welfare of the elderly and the children.
The Department of Posts, is happy to issue a commemorative stamp on Rotary International in its centennial year.
SAHITYA AKADEMI stamp released on 21 12 2004
Denomination :1500p
Stamps Printed :0.8 Million
Date of Issue :21-12-2004
Theme: Organisations
Sahitya Akademi is not only the premier institution in the country for literary dialogue, publication and promotion but also the only institution in the country that undertakes literary activities in twenty-four languages, including English. Set up in 1954 by the Government of India as a autonomous organization fully financed by the Government, Sahitya Akademi has ceaselessly endeavoured to promote good taste and healthy reading habits, to keep alive the intimate dialogue among the various linguistic and literary zones and groups contributing to the emotional integration of the nation through seminars, lectures, symposia, discussions, readings and performances. The policies and programmes of Sahitya Akademi are decided by its General Council and Executive Board consisting of eminent writers and academics and is assisted by advisory boards in each recognized language. It has an elected President who chairs the various councils and committees and a Secretary as the Chief Executive. The governing and advisory bodies are freshly constituted every five years. The functioning of Sahitya Akademi is totally democratic and decentralized. It has a Head Office in Delhi and offices in Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai.
Over 50 years of its dynamic existence, it has published over 4300 books in 22 Indian languages. It publishes two bi-monthly journals - Indian Literature in English and Samkaleen Bharatiya Sahitya in Hindi - which carry translated literary pieces from different languages. It also publishes a half-yearly journal in Sanskrit, Samskrta Pratibha. Sahitya Akademi runs projects for the propagation of tribal-oral literature and translation.
The highest honour conferred by Sahitya Akademi on a writer is by electing him a Fellow. This honour is reserved for the “immortals of literature” and limited to twenty-one at any given time. So far 66 writers have been awarded the Fellowship.
Sahitya Akademi gives awards for creative/critical writing and Translation Prizes in each of the recognized languages every year and has given 850 awards since its inception for original books of outstanding merit and 302 Translation Prizes since 1989 for books of translation. Apart from these awards, the annual Bhasha Samman has also been instituted since 1996 which is given to scholars and writers for their contribution to languages not recognized by the Sahitya Akademi and to Classical and Medieval literature. So far 35 writers and scholars have been honoured with the Bhasha Samman.
Seminars on literary topics at regional, national and international levels as well as literary workshops are also organized to provide a platform to the writers of the different languages for interchange of ideas. It also conducts programmes such as Meet the Author, Men and Books, Through my Window, Asmita, Mulaqat, Kathasandhi, Kavisandhi, Kavi-Anuvadak, Loka: The Many Voices, Antaral and Avishkar. More than 200 such programmes are held every year.
The Sahitya Akademi Library is one of the prominent multilingual Libraries in India and has a wide range of books numbering over 1.27 lakhs in more than 25 Indian and foreign languages. The offices at Bangalore and Kolkata also maintain regional Libraries with sizeable collections.
Under the Archives of Indian Literature Project Sahitya Akademi collects and preserves material connected with writers. So far films on more than 50 writers have been produced and there are several audio and video recordings, photographs and manuscripts.
There is hardly any significant writer or translator in post-Independent India who has not taken part in an Akademi programme or undertaken a project. Sahitya Akademi has built bridges among communities, regions and languages and has provided a meeting ground for writers of diverse attitudes and ideologies.
The Department of Posts is happy to issue a commemorative postage stamp on Sahitya Akademi.
MAHARASHTRA POLICE ACADEMY stamp released on03 11 2007
| Denomination :500,p Stamps Printed : 0.4 Million each Date of Issue :03-11-2007 Theme : Organisation |
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Maharashtra Police Academy was established in 1906. It began as a Police Training School at Pune and was shifted to its present location at Nasik in around 1909. After bifurcation of old Bombay State into Maharashtra & Gujarat states in 1960, the Police Training School was renamed as Police Training College. It was upgraded to the present status i.e. Maharashtra Police Academy, Nasik in the year 1990.
The Academy is located on a 267 acre campus at Nashik on Nashik Trimbak Road. The Academy has three buildings of old European architecture, which came in to existence at the time it was shifted from Pune 1908. The Academy has a modern small arms firing range and a multi channel FireArms Training Simulator (F.A.T.S.).
The main object of setting up this institution was to impart basic training to the candidates for appointment as Police Sub Inspectors and Dy. Supdt. of Police.
As per the recommendations of Police Commission, various developments have taken place to improve the infrastructure and to upgrade the status of the head of the institution and faculty members. The post of the Principal, Police Training College was elevated to the rank of Dy. Inspector General of Police in the year 1974. Thereafter again the post of the Director Deputy Inspector General of Police was elevated to the rank of Spl. Inspector General of Police in the year 1993.Apart from providing induction training to the directly recruited Dy. Supdt. of Police, the Academy also gives familianzation training to I.P.S. Officers on joining the state cadre. The Academy also provides facilities for training to the Dy. Ss.P. & P.S.Is. of Goa State on request.
Before the establishment of the Central Police Training College at Mt. Abu in September 1948, the officers of the Indian Police borne on the strength of Bombay Province (which included areas of Gujarat, Sindh Pakistan and parts of present day Karnataka) were also trained on joining the service at P.T.S., at Nashik. Since Gujarat was a part of the erstwhile Bombay State till creation of separate State of Gujarat and Maharashtra in 1961 many senior officers of that cadre too were trained in this Academy. Officers of Goa, Pondicherry and Dadra & Nagar Haveli have also been trained from time to time at this institution. Thus M.P.A. has been the alma mater of several officers of different ranks who have gone on to serve various parts of the country with distinction.
The Maharashtra Police Academy is a pioneer training institution, which has completed 100 glorious years of its formation, producing tough and efficient officers since its inception in 1906. The officers trained in this Academy have performed exceedingly well in upholding the law and order and serving the people, thereby contributing a great deal to our society.
The Department of Posts is happy to release the stamp on Maharashtra PoliceAcademy.