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The new OCA India Committee 2023-25

The new OLD COTTONIANS ASSOCIATION India Committee has been formed for the next 2 yrs i.e from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2025.

Mr.Jaspal Sawhney – Ibbetson 1963, has taken over as the next PRESIDENT of this Association.

Mr.Neel Kamal Mehra – bbetson 1962, has been appointed the TREASURER.

Mr.K.Vijay Singh – Lefroy 1966, was elected the GENERAL SECRETARY.

It’s our endeavour to make our Association more interactive and inclusive with your help and new ideas.

All suggestions are most welcome.

K Vijay Singh
General Secretary
OCA India.

Announcing OCA India VP 2021-23

Dear OCs

This is to announce the unanimous selection of Mr. Jaspal Sawhney as the incoming Vice President of OCA India for two years 2021-2023 effective from 1st April 2021.

This decision was taken this afternoon [30th March 2021] by the Selection Committee of OCA India .

Our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Sawhney & wishing him all the very best.

D. SIngh Jaaj & All Office Bearers of OCA India.

PS: My term as President OCA INdia concluses on 31st March 2021 and it has been a pleasure to serve our great Association & our School while on its Board of Governors.
– D. SIngh.

 

New Committee for OCA Delhi [NCR] Chapter

Dear OCs
The new committee for OCA Delhi Chapter was formed and confirmed on 26th August 2020. The meeting could not be held earlier due to covid precautions.

  • K.Vijay Singh – President
  • Ashwini Virk – Vice President
  • Jaspinder Kochar – Secretary
  • Gurvinder Kochar – Jt.Secretary
  • Anurag Batra – Treasurer
  • Dr.Romesh Lal – Member
  • Ashwani Nanda – Member
  • Jaspal Sawhney – Ex President
  • Harpreet Khatkar – Ex.Secretary
  • Chetan Singh – Co-opted Member
  • Anil Soni – Co-opted Member
  • Rajesh Bhalla – Co-opted Member

President OCA Delhi Chapter.

Jaspal Sawhney : Thank you all

Dear OCs

Bishop Cotton School, Shimla – Sesquicentennial Celebrations

I am to thank each one of you, those who came to the celebrations, and those who could not, for contributing to the spirit of the celebrations.

Each function was a tremendous success and well attended. Frankly, none of the organizers could have forecast such a good attendance. The functions could not have succeeded without team work, and I am grateful, personally, and on behalf of OCA to everybody who put in so much time and effort to make the functions memorable. I wish to specially thank the following

  1. Board of Directors & Deep Anand who gave the vision for the functions.
  2. The headmaster along with his staff members, who meticulously charted every minute of the celebrations. The ambiance and the food provided at the dinner on 2nd October was something to dream off. John Whitmarsh Knight, Ms. Prabhudas, Mr. Mathews who put up with my numerous queries and requirements on a daily basis.
  3. Sukhinder Singh & Ajay Thiara who organised the evening at Chandigarh which went on till the wee hours of the morning. The train journey from Kalka to Shimla along with the lunch at Barog which was full of nostalgia. The Punjabi lunch on 3rd October, and, of course, arranging for Adnan Sami to perform for us.
  4. Students of BCS who performed at the musical play which could very easily have received a standing ovation at any theatre on Broadway. The school teams of cricket and football who made us heady with wins against Aitchison College, Lahore. Mrs. Joy Michael for producing the musical play.
  5. Narinder Chauhan, Harish Janartha, DM Sud, Pritinder Singh who provided all the local logistics support and the wonderful setting at the dinner at hotel Peter Holf.
  6. Anupam Thapa for his tireless work to put together the coffee table book which was sold out in the first day itself.
  7. Chandan Ratra who managed and coordinated with all the various players and put together the logistics for the BCS play and the musical evening.
  8. Rajpal Duggal and Ashwini Virk who coordinated the memorabilia as well as the hotel accommodation at Shimla.
  9. K.C.Anand who managed the coup de tat by bringing the headmaster of Aitchson College along with his football and cricket team to play against BCS.
  10. Anil Advani who constantly updated messages on the web so that all participants were aware of the events which would unfold. Wendy Dewan and SS Rai who gave me their inputs in respect of functioning of the OCA
  11. Anil Mehra for giving me his unstinted support on every occasion, whether I was right or I was wrong.
  12. Parmeet Sawhney who managed the PR and the press and ensured coverage of the various events in spite of grave setbacks.

In addition to the above, many many OC’s, staff members, Cottonians contributed, the list of which would go on and on .

Thank you all.

Best Regards,
Jaspal Sawhney

BCS Sesquicentennial celebrations – ID tags

Dear OC’s 
We hope that all participants for the sesquicentennial celebrations have registered with either Shimla chapter, Chandigarh Chapter,or Delhi Chapter.  All registrants will be issued ID tags. We have made arrangements with caterers on basis of ID tags issued.
Entry to dinning areas will be restricted to those people who show ID tags only.  Children of OC’s will not be allowed entry into the dining area. 
All OC’s are kindly requested to note the above and to cooperate with us in the above matter. 

Best Rgds,
Jaspal Sawhney

BCS Sesquicentennial Celebrations – a few hotel rooms still available at Shimla

Dear All,

We have less than 3 months to go before we meet in Shimla to celebrate the sesquicentennial of BCS . We have confirmations from 100 couples . However, I feel there are many more who have not applied their mind whether they will attend or not.

This is to bring to the notice of all OC’s who desire to attend the celebrations that Cecil, Clarkes, Woodville  have no more rooms available.

However, OCA (India) are holding some block bookings at Hotel Combermere, Hotel Holiday Home and Hotel East Bourne.

As per my earlier mails, these will be allotted on first come first serve basis. I urge all those OC’s who require accommodation at these hotels to contact me or my secretary Ms. Kala Raman so that the balance rooms can be allotted. Please note that once the rooms are allotted, we shall not be in a position to arrange more accommodation. 

Best Regards,

Jaspal S. Sawhney

Hotel accomodation for Sesquicentennial celebrations at BCS Shimla

Dear OC’s 

This is to intimate that OCA (India) has blocked rooms at the following hotels for stay from 2nd October to 5th October 2009

1)  30 rooms at hotel Eastbourne with special rate of Rs. 4400/- per room per day inclusive of taxes and breakfast. All OC’s who wish to stay at this hotel may kindly send 50% advance by cheque favouring ” East Bourne hotels Pvt. Ltd.”  The cheque may be forwarded to Mrs. Kala Raman, Secy to Jaspal Sawhney, IInd Floor, Plaza Cinema Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi – 01 , Tel: 91-11-23326440, M- 9818887433, email- plaza_eagletheatres@yahoo.com

2) 20 rooms at hotel Combermere with special rate of Rs. 4500/- per room per day inclusive of taxes and breakfast.  All OC’s wishing to stay at this hotel, may please send 50% advance by cheque favouring “Hotel Combermere”. The cheque may be forwarded to Mrs. Kala Raman at my office.

3) 30 rooms at Hotel Holiday Home as detailed under :-
Cozy Deluxe @Rs.2574/- per room per day.
Deluxe          @Rs.2310/- per room per day.
Semi Deluxe @ Rs.2134/- per room per day.
The above tariff is inclusive of taxes, with breakfast on twin sharing basis . You may kindly send 50% advance by cheque favouring ” Dy General Manager, HPTDC, Hotel Holiday Home, Shimla” . The cheque may be forwarded to Mrs. Kala Raman at my office. 

Since accommodation at these hotels is restricted, the rooms will be allocated on first come first serve basis.

If you require any further clarification, please revert to me.

Best Regards,

Jaspal S. Sawhney

BCS Sesquicentennial – 2009

Quoting a message from the Organizing Committee:

 

Subject: Fw: Sesqui-centennial celebrations of BCS , Shimla

Dear OC’s

BCS is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2009.  For all Bishop Cotton School alumni, this represents a historic occasion.   To celebrate this momentous event, OCA (India) wishes to intimate to you the following:-

1.  A co-ordinating committee has been set up by OCA. The 1950’s are represented by Anil (Dimpy Mehra) and Col. Diwan , 1960’s by Jaspal Sawhney & Rajpal Duggal, 1970’s by Vikram Sodhi, Nakul Anand & Maj. SS Rai. The 1980’s by Parmeet Singh Sawhney, Ashwini Virk & Chandan Ratra .  The 1990’s by Manav Singh, Atulya Chhabra & Anupam Thapa . Similarly, we have representatives of Himachal Chapter, Chandigarh Chapter, Delhi Chapter, Bombay chapter, Thailand Chapter, and UK Chapter. inder

2. The co-ordinating committee envisages collecting funds to organize the sesquicentennial celebrations to be held at BCS from 2nd October 2009 to           6th October 2009. All surpluses would go towards formation of a endowment fund which would be used to help upgrade BCS. The celebrations would be again used to collect more money for the endowment fund.

3. Any amount contributed by any OC’s shall be graciously accepted and acknowledged in appropriate fashion.

4. The co-ordinating committee proposes to solicit a sum of at least Rs. One lac each from at least 100 OC’s to make an amount of at least Rs. One Crore. In addition, we expect all OC’s would contribute in various denominations to make up another Rs. One crore at least. Therefore, we should be able to collect at least Rs. 2 Crores in total.

5. The celebrations are expected to cost about 50 lacs. Again, we expect to collect at least another 50 lacs during the 4 days.

6. Some of the activities proposed during celebrations are :-

a. Train from Kalka to Shimla on 2nd October.
b. Release of Coffee Table book to cover 150 years of history.
c. Musical evening by a national / international band.
d. 3 Gala dinner and 2 lunches at BCS.
e. A night at the BCS dormitories  for the adventuress..
f. Release of commemorative stamp and first day cover by P & T department. 

7. Towards the above stated goal, an amount of Rs.. 30 lacs has already been received and further Rs. 18 lacs committed by OC’s which are detailed  hereunder:-

Details of OC’s who have sent at least Rs. one lac 

1) Mr Jaspal Sawhney (1963)           16) Suneel M Advani (1960)
2) Mr V K Aggarwal (1954)             17) Ashok M Advani (1957)
3) Mr Manav Singh (1990)    18) S S Pasrich (1950)
4) Mr Anil Mehra (1959)      2 Lacs        19) R S Sodhi (1962)
5) Mr D C Anand (1951)     20) I S Bawa (1959)          2 Lacs
6) Mr Sunil Jain s/o Late S M Jain(1959) 21) Raja Vir Bhadra Singh
7) Mr K C Anand (1954)                   22) Mr Madhav Singh
8 ) Mr Parmeet Sawhney(1981)        23) Mr Roby Mohan
9) Mr Bittu Sehgal (1963)              24) Mr Rajeev Shamlal 
10)Mr K S Chawla (1963)                 25) Mr Jogi Kohli   
11)Rajive Sawhney (1963) 2 Lacs 26) Mr Tejinder Singh       2 Lacs
12)Vikram Sodhi (1971)
13)Harish Janardha (1981)
14)Nakul Anand (1973)
15)Anupam Sachdev(1963)

Details of OC’s who have committed amounts of at least  Rs. One lace each.

1)  Mr Tunnu Puri (1959)   11)  Mr G S Anand (1961)
2)  Mr Anil Sikand (1956)    12)  Mr Ajay Thiara (1983)
3)  Mr Ranjit Puri (1954)    13)  Mr Atulya Chabra (1991)
4)  Mr K S Sandhu (1958)   14)  Mr Jasdeep Singh (1988)
5)  Mr Sukhinder Singh (1961)   
6)  Mr N K Aggarwal (1962)    
7)  Mr Sachin Mahajan (1996)   
8)  Mr Guljit Kochar (1963)   
9)  Mr N D Mehra/ Mr N K Mehra (1962)  
10) Mr Rajinder Thakur (1976)  
      

It is proposed to acknowledge all contributions of Rs. One lac and above by putting up a board at an appropriate place in BCS. It is proposed to acknowledge all contributions of Rs. 25000/- and above in a brochure to be brought out on the occasion and  also by placing a chair with brass name pate in Irwin hall.

8. Some of the projects which OCA expects to undertake :–

a. To help school in its endeavor to become carbon neutral. This would include use of solar heaters, water recharge systems etc. Bittu Sahgal, (I – 1963) an environmentalist is to help us assess this project.
b. To help school upgrade infrastructure by way of better kitchen equipment, better infirmary, better staff quarters.
c. To help BCS recruit better teaching faculty.

Now, on behalf of the co-ordinating committee, I have to request all as follows:-

A. Please give us any suggestions in addition to the above proposals to enable us to include the same on our agenda.
B. Please nominate atleast one person per class who would work with the coordination committee.
C. Please send us your contributions by cheque payable to Old Cottonians Association ( India) and send by courier to Ms. Kala, IInd Floor, Plaza Cinema Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi – 01 . All contributions are exempt in India from Income tax u/s 80 G.

If you require any further information, clarification, please contact the undersigned.

Best Rgds,

 

CONVENOR – COORDINATING COMMITTEE
Jaspal Singh Sawhney – 98110-40347
I (1956-63)
corp@eagle-grp.com