Membership and Service are as follows:
Leadership:
Leadership is the ability to not just grow, but also to be able to take everyone along with you. Ramesh has embodied this philosophy through every stage of his Lionistic career. He continues to add on to his 15 year tenure as a Trainer at various levels, right from New Member Orientation to District Governer’s Schooling at an area level. When the WWMR was introduced in the year 2009, he trained over 2000+ Club Officers in the 316 and the 320 Multiple. He currently leads and advices the multiple in his capacity as the MD-GLT for the Multiple District 320.
In addition to completing all the levels of training including LCIP, Ramesh is famously known for his unique flair and presentation skills. He helps introducing the state of the art technology as a tool to enable engaging and fruitful training within his sessions.
During his stint as a district governor, he introduced a novel concept called Gurukulam, an initiative that aims to train every lion of the district on every 3rd Sunday throughout the year.
Institutes Attended:
✓ SLLI 2010 – NEPAL
✓ FDI 2014 – HYDERABAD
✓ FDES –2017
✓ LCIP – 2021
Faculty Experience:
✓ Trainer for Home District Since 2009
✓ Trainer for Multiple District 316 & 320 (for 6 years on WMMR & TECHNOLOGY TOPICS)
✓ 6 TIMES RLLI trainer for Multiple District 316 & 320
✓ 3 TIMES Served as Group Coordinator for LCCIA – All India DG/VDG Schooling
✓ 2 TIMES Trainer for VDG Schooling for MD 320 & MD 324 (2020-21)
✓ ELLI Institute Coordinator
✓ RLLI Institute Coordinator
✓ FDI Institute Coordinator
MEMBERSHIP :
Ramesh Lakshmanan has always believed that the team is as good as the people in it. This brought about a passion about Membership right from when he joined LIONS CLUBS. Thus far, he has sponsored 50 quality members in various clubs and has extended 2 clubs. As the District Governor, he chartered 8 clubs, introduced branch club concept in the district and established 4 branch clubs in the district as well.
✓ Launched ASK one Badge and inducted close to 1000 members during governor period.
✓ Launched GHARVAPSI program , collected 5 years drop data and organised a coordination meetings at various intervals to more than 3000 dropped members.
✓ Launched SMART CARD for membership in Association and partnership with QUALITY CARE HOSPITALS INDIA LTD and got discount to lions and their members with 40% discount on diagnostics and 10 % on consultation throughout CARE HOSPITALS INDIA.
SERVICE:
At the heart of Lions International is Service. He is a strong believer of the ideal that Service Starts at Home. He was instrumental in inaugurating A Traffic Island during 05-06, an initiative that was also inaugurated by the then International President Late Ashok Mehta Ji along with our PID A.P Singh. As Zone Chairperson, he contributed to the Bus Shelter at a remote village, this inspired the creation of a new club by the local members at Valigonda, near the Nalgonda Dist. As District Governor Coordinator, he helped in contributing more than 12 sewing machines and 15 computers to skill development centres region wise promoted by governor during the year 2012-13.
His tenure as District Governor was driven by service that was unprecedented and innovative in the history of the district. He singed up with ITC BHADACHALAM for converting waste paper into notebooks, which were then distributed to government school children. This is an ongoing project that has collected more than 500 tons of waste paper thus far and has benefitted more than 50000+ students got benefited.
He also partnered with LOCAL TV (HMTV) and along with them, coined and architected a programme called YOUNG MINDS NATION FIRST, a 16-episode quiz show for government school children. Prize money was awarded to students who won the quiz show (hosted currently on youtube). Such an initiative was truly value and future oriented.
Hailing from a tech savvy background, he also initiated the conversion of electronic waste into computers, inaugurated two computer centres and continues to provide free computer education in slum areas.
The crown-jewel of his period as a District Governor was the establishment of a Service Trust in the district by the name of Lions Life Charitable Trust. This trust currently possesses over 180 donor trustees from various districts and multiples. The key feature of the trust is that it is the only trust in the MD 320 apart from hospital trusts that has a 12A, 80G and FCRA. The trust houses a dialysis centre, also the first in MD 320 that is worth over 2 crore INR.
A few additional unique achievements include:
- During the PANDEMIC COVID-19, introduced a novel e-voting system based on WhatsApp and successfully helped more than 36 + district in INDIA to organise their district elections.
- Reconciled the CLUB LEDGER ACCOUNTS with International and arranged refund to the tune of USD 15000 to various clubs during the year 2008-09 as the Cabinet Secretary.
- As the secretary e-Governance in the year 2009-10, comprehensive paperless administration application was installed and educated every club officers in our district, multiple and neighbouring multiple about WMMR as it was introduced only in the previous year.
- Served and serving as social media CAMPAGINER for our Past International President Nareshji Aggarwal since 6 years.
- Serving in the APFORVP Social Media Committee as well.
Life Member of RED CROSS SOCIETY.
Trainer LEAD INDIA 2020 got trained through the hands of His Excellency former President Late Abdhul Kalam during the year 2005-06 and trained more than 10000+ students in Hyderabad through this program.
Senior Mentor and served as Chapter Chair for Bharthiya Yuva Shakthi Trust ( BYST ) and currently serving as MAP Co-Chair for Hyderabad Division. Lectured many awareness program and seminars in more than 40+ Engineering Colleges in Hyderabad.
