The Sankara Nethralaya family celebrated the 64th
Republic Day with great enthusiasm at it main campus, the event witnessed
participation by the senior management members, Consultants, staff members,
students of Sankara Nethralaya’s various educational institutions and SWAN
Volunteers in good numbers. The proceedings started with the hoisting of the
National tricolor by the Chief Guest Shri M. Murali, Proprietor, Sri Krishna
Sweets followed by the rendering of the National Anthem by the entire Sankara
Nethralaya family. The patriotic group song by the students of the Elite School
of Optometry which followed the flag hoisting captured the spirit of the day.
The day was marked by the delivery of insightful
talks by the speakers of the day the Chief Guest, the Chairman Emeritus,
Chairman and Senior General Manager, Sankara Nethralaya, providing rich food
for thought to the participants. The founder and Head of the institution Dr
SS.Badrinath used the August occasion to drive home the need for persistent
hard work and faith to reach one’s goals, he started his address with rich
compliments to Dr Sundaram Natarajan, Head of the Aditya Jyot Eye hospital
Mumbai an alumni and great well wisher and supporter of Sankara Nethralaya for
being conferred the Padma Shri and Shri Ramamurthy Thyagarajan, Head of the
Shriram Group and a generous supporter of Sankara Nethralaya’s cause for being
conferred the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India. He also paid rich
compliments to Dr Shikha Talwar Bassi, Director, Department of
Neuro-ophthalmology and Dr Alay Banker former Vision Research Foundation Fellow
for being awarded the S.D Athawale award and Colonel Rangachary award at the
recently APAO-AIOS 2013 at Hyderabad. Dr SS. Badrinath emphasized that these
were fruits of hard labour and cited Dr Alay Banker’s 6 year follow up as a
marathon effort to substantiate that hard work never goes in vain and appealed
to the members of Sankara Nethralaya to reach Himalayan heights through hard
work and honest introspection, he expressed his desire to see the Vision
Research Foundation supporting the Medical Research Foundation in the not too
distant future and closed his speech with the hope that the Vision Research
Foundation should win 82 such awards, implying that every researcher belonging
to it is recognized.
This was followed by a warm introduction of the
Chief Guest Shri M.Murali, Proprietor, Sri Krishna Sweets by Ms Akila Ganesan,
Senior General manager, Sankara Nethralaya, with an inspiring account of how
the family run business grew from humble beginnings into one of the most
successful confectionary chains in the State and a household name for quality
sweets, she highlighted his simplicity and single minded purpose as the primary
factors behind the amazing success story. This was followed by a very absorbing
Chief Guest’s address by Shri M.Murali, paying his rich tribute and respect to
Dr SS.Badrinath he described him as the life and breath of Sankara Nethralaya
the institution which served thousands of patients every day, the honourable
Chief guest touched upon a broad spectrum of subjects ranging from modern
management principles to the spirit of giving and the need to have a value
system in place, he described true growth of a man as the forward movement
towards the Almighty and one’s fellow human being which is possible only by
giving back to society. Speaking on the occasion Dr S.Bhaskaran, Chairman,
Sankara Nethralaya underlined the significance of the day as the day when the
nation declared itself a sovereign democratic republic, he observed that the
Government of India confers its highest civilian awards on this day and
announced that Sankara Nethralaya would also be honouring an employee every
year for outstanding performance, dedication and most importantly for allegiance
to the basic Sankara Nethralaya philosophy in word and spirit from the next
Republic Day.
The thoughtful munificence of Shri Ram Dhingra
which has helped children of Sankara Nethralaya employees pursue their studies
was recalled and the cash certificates to the Dhingra Trust awardees and other
deserving students were distributed along with service completion certificates
to staff members by the Chief Guest and the senior management members to the
loud applause of the gathering.
The function
came to an end with a Vote of Thanks by Dr PS.Rajesh, In-Charge of the C.U Shah
Sankara Nethralaya.
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