ABOUT US

OVERVIEW

Probus Club of Chennai is a senior citizens Association of Retired Professionals. Businessmen, Government officials and others. This was initiated by Rotary Club of Madras as one of the activities as per Rotary International. This club was formed in 1992. Probus Club of Chennai celebrated Silver Jubilee in June 2017. Probus Club of Chennai celebrated its 30th anniversary (1992-2022) with events such as a DANCE, DRAMA & MUSIC competition, and a POEM and Short STORY competition.

The club is an autonomous body, registered under Tamil Nadu Societies Act. The club operates within the provisions of the Bye-Law of the club, approved by the General Body and Registrar, Government of Tamil Nadu Registration Department. (Registration No. 148/2004)

The main activities of the club are as follows

  • Visiting old age homes/orphanages and helping them financially and morally.
  • Giving scholarships to deserving poor students of Corporation/Government/Govt. aided schools from the donation from Members and the Public. These donations are eligible for 80 G concessions as per the IT Act. Donations are welcome from the public from their Resident Bank Account in India or Non-Resident Bank (NRO) Account in India. They can contact President Annadhurai.M (Email ID: annadhuraimk@gmail.com; Phone: +91 80560 01101) or Secretary V. Ramaraj (Email ID:ramarajv1983@gmail.com; Phone:+91 88259 81503)
  • Giving medical benefits which include the supply of supportive utilities to the needy senior citizens from the Silver Jubilee endowment fund
  • Honouring senior citizens who have done contributions to society.
  • Awarding best student and teacher on the Children’s Day celebrations
  • Awarding persons who had helped to propagate Thirukkural
  • Awarding students who have excelled in Thirukkural in the competition organised by the Club
  • Motivating seniors from the public to show their talents in various games & competitions and honour them on the “International Day of The Elderly”.
  • Awarding outstanding women who contributed to the society
  • Fellowship among members through monthly breakfast meetings (Held on the fourth Saturdays of every month at Russian Centre for Science and Culture), and tours (domestic, international, pilgrimage, picnics). Staging skits and plays etc.
  • In our monthly meetings, we invite a speaker from outside to address us on various subjects relevant to senior citizens. The club members are also invited to speak.
  • Probus Cultural and Sports wing is a new activity and successfully staged two Tamil plays and one English skit.

Every year Probus Club of Chennai will bring out our annual book and release it on the “International Day of The Elderly”. Our 32nd Annual book was released on 28th December 2024. Every year we print 2000 books. Many senior citizens wait for this book every year as it contains articles of importance and information on old age homes (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Maharashtra), blood banks, Hospitals, Pharmacy, etc.

The present strength of Probus Club of Chennai is 301 members, of the age group 55+. At present, a few members are of the age 90+.

Russian Centre of Science and Culture, Kasturi Rangan, Road, Alwarpet, Chennai support us in providing a hall/auditorium to have the club’s monthly breakfast meetings and joint celebrations of “International Day of the Elderly”,” International Women’s Day” and “Children’s Day”.



LIST OF OFFICE BEARERS & EC MEMBERS


No Name DESIGNATION CONTACT NUMBER EMAIL ID
1 Annadhurai M President 08056001101 annadhuraimk@gmail.com
2 Balachander V Vice President 99629 01964 blchndrv781@gmail.com
3 Bhavani A Dr Vice President 98406 70138 priya_clinic@yahoo.co.in
4 Ramaraj V Secretary 88259-81503 v.ramaraj50@gmail.com
5 Sappany Pillai M Jt. Secretary 9841037806 sappanypillai@yahoo.com
6 Sugunaraj D. Jt. Secretary 98411-13334 sugunarajd@gmail.com
7 Damodharan A. Treasurer 94440-10284 eecdamu@gmail.com
8 Venkoba Rao G. Jt. Treasurer 99403-87839
9 Jayamani C EC Member 94441-94369 cjaymani@gmail.com
10 Karuppasamy S EC Member 94445-55511 karuppan_samy@yahoo.co.in
11 Keerthivanan K Dr. EC Member 98844-56733 drkerti123@gmail.com
12 Kumar N EC Member 94452-10589 nk.law1952@gmail.com
13 Narendran C.C. EC Member 94448-33033 narenchand12@gmail.com
14 Nelson Philip EC Member 97100-25720 nelsonp02@rediffmail.com
15 Ramalingam K. Dr. EC Member 98406-20060 ramalingamtrust@gmail.com
16 Velumani S EC Member 99620-12034 sithanvelumani0@gmail.com
17 Vijayalakshmi Masilamani EC Member 93848 97216 viji.masi@gmail.com
18 Vivekanandan M. EC Member 94443-48911 mvianandan@gmail.com
19 Rangaramanujam K EC Member 97907-58194

Probus club of chennai

  • SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME:

    • Individual can donate Rs.30000/- or multiple of Rs.30000/- to this scheme.
    • The cheque should be in favour of “Probus Club of Chennai”
    • The scholarship can be given in the name of the donor or anyone (Father, Mother, Wife, Children, and Friend etc.)
    • • These donations are eligible for 80 G concessions as per IT act. Donations are welcome from public from their Resident Bank Account in India or Non Resident Bank(NRI) Account in India. They can contact President
      President Annadhurai.M (Email ID: annadhuraimk@gmail.com; Phone::+918056001101) or Secretary V. Ramaraj
      (Email ID:ramarajv1983@gmail.com; Phone::+918825981503)
    • The scholarship amount, after one year of the receipt of the donation, is given to a needy student, out of the interest from the deposit. At present this amount is Rs.1500/- per year.
    • One time donation, every year, at the rate of Rs.1500 is also acceptable.
    • The distribution of the scholarship is done by end August or early September every year.

  • RECOGNITION

    Probus Club of Chennai helped Thakkar Baba School, T.Nagar, for purchase of machinery damaged during the floods in 2015. Vice-President of India, Mr.Venkaiya Naidu, honoured Probus Club for their benevolent act.

    Time to time, many Probians get recognition from various cultural and social organizations (including Government of India) for their contribution in their respective fields.

  • YOUTH LINK PROGRAM

    Probus Club always considers to reduce the gap between senior citizen and school-going children by conducting 4 different functions, namely, Scholarship Disbursement, Children’s Day, Pongal Day and Distribution of SCAW (Courtesy Sleeping Children Around the World, Canada and Rotary Club of Ambattur ) Kits.

  • CELEBRATION OF FUNCTIONS

    Celebration of functions take place in two ways, first being done jointly with Russian Centre for Science & Culture and the second being done exclusively by Probus Club of Chennai alone.

    JOINT CELEBRATION WITH RUSSIAN CENTRE OF SCIENCE & CULTURE

    International Day of Elderly is held in the first week of October every year
    Children’s Day function is celebrated around 14th of November every year
    International Women’s Day is celebrated around 7th of March every year

    EXCLUSIVE FUNCTIONS OF PROBUS CLUB OF CHENNAI

    Scholarship Disbursement function is always held during the last week of August every year.
    Madras week is celebrated in the 4th week of August every year
    Probus Cultural event is held in the 4th week of December every year
    Pongal Day is celebrated in the 3rd week of January every year
    Annual General Body Meeting is held in May/June of every year

  • MONTHLY MEETINGS

    This is a fellowship meeting held 4th Saturday of every month at Russian Centre of Science & Culture. Breakfast starts from 8.30 am and main meeting is from 10 am to 12 pm. Breakfast is normally sponsored by one or multiple members. Agenda for breakfast meeting is as follows,

    • Prayer
    • Homage paid, if anybody has passed away
    • President’s address
    • Announcements by Secretary
    • Issue of Life Membership Certificates to new members, if any, followed by a brief self-introduction
    • Wishing birthday babies of the current month. Members contribute to Sun Shine Fund
    • Introduction of speaker of the month
    • Speaker’s address
    • Vote of thanks by Secretary

  • NEW MEMBERS

      Admission Procedure

    • The person should be of age 55+ and retired from services or retiring shortly or businessman
    • Existing member should propose, after introducing the prospect to the President/Secretary.
    • Annual Member fee is Rs. 1000/-
    • Life member fee is Rs.10000/-.
    • Probus Fellow fee is Rs.30000/-. All Probus Fellows are permanent invitees for the Executive Committee Meetings.
    • Patron fee is Rs.100000/-. All patrons are permanent invitee for the Executive Committee Meetings.
    • Entrance fee for all categories is Rs.500/-.
    • Corpus fund for Newsletter is to be deposited at the time of entry. At present the amount is Rs.500/-
    • Member ID Card fee is Rs.100.
    • Bye-law copy is Rs.100.
    • Executive Committee’s decision is final in admitting any new member.
    • Important members to be contacted initially are President Annadhurai.M (Email ID: annadhuraimk@gmail.com; Phone: +91 80560 01101) Vice President PF. Balachander V EmailId bchander62@hotmail.com: Mob. No. 99629 01964 ,Vice President Dr. Bhavani A, Email Id priya_clinic@yahoo.co.in Mob. No.98406 70138, Secretary V. Ramaraj (Email ID:ramarajv1983@gmail.com; Phone: +91 88259 81503 and Treasurer A. Damodaran Mob. No. 94440 10284.
    • Webadmin & information: J. Srinivasan, Mob. No. 95000 38567

  • ENDOWMENTS

    Probus has 3 different kinds of endowments, namely, Scholarship Endowments, Silver Jubilee Medical Benefit Fund Endowments and other Specific Endowments.

    SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME

    One unit of endowment is Rs.30000/- at present. The Interest, accrued after one year, from this endowment is given as scholarship to the needy school students

    SILVER JUBILEE MEDICAL BENEFIT FUND

    • NAMED FUND: It is for the one-time donation of Rs.1,00,000/- and multiples. The beneficiary will be informed to the donor
    • GENERAL FUND: An amount of Rs.5000/- and above can be contributed. The beneficiaries will be published in the News Letter, as it is common to many donors

    OTHER ENDOWMENTS

    Members can initiate specific endowments of minimum value of Rs.50000/- for specific use, such as, giving awards to students, senior citizen, differently abled etc.

    All the contributions for the above endowments are eligible for 80G concession as per IT Act.



  • PROCEDURE MANUAL

    Procedure manual has been prepared and given below.

PROBUS EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME


Salient Features

  • Scholarship is given every year to poor and needy students studying IX, X, XI or XII std. from Schools in Chennai preferably Corporation, Govt., Govt. Aided and Corporation Schools.
  • Donors constitute Individuals, Companies, Trusts & Associations. Donors can more than contribute to more than one scholarship.
  • Donors can nominate the name of the scholarship in memory of their dear ones.
  • The Donation to the Corpus Fund is at present Rs.30000/- per student
  • Up to the year 2014, the Scholarship amount per student was Rs.800/-. In 2015, it was raised to Rs.1,000/-. From the year 2021, the Scholarship amount per student is raised to Rs.1,500/- in spite of a fall in Bank interest rates from 5 to 6% p.a.
  • For the past few years, the scholarship is being distributed in Cash to avoid the students and their poor students going to Banks to encash cheques.
  • Donors also can contribute a One-Time Scholarship Amount of Rs.1,500/- or in multiples which are given as one-time scholarships to students.
  • Donations less than Rs.30,000/- for corpus fund are accepted but the donor will not be eligible to give anyone’s name for the scholarship as it will be added to the general pool.
  • All donations are eligible for Income Tax exemption under Section 80G and receipts would be issued to the Donors.
  • All Donors will be advised every year of the Beneficiary Student’s Name for their scholarship(s).
  • Every year, the Scholarship Disbursement Function is held by the end of August or early September, mostly in the Russian House, Chennai