‘Rotary Club of Burdwan’, was Chartered in the year of 1957 under a me tested organizaon “Rotary Internaonal”, established in the year of 1905. ‘Rotary Club of Burdwan’ is one of the few Rotary Clubs in West Bengal to survive through long 68 years for furthering and achieving its prime moo “Service above self”. Rtn. G. Basu, when he was a member of Rotary Club of Calcua was very eager to introduce a Rotary Club in the community of his nave home town Burdwan. When he became the Governor of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT (RID) 53, he appointed well informed Rotarian S.K. Mitra of Rotary Club of Asansol as his special representave for establishing a Rotary Club at Burdwan Town. On 11th. April, rst formal meeng of Rotary Club of Burdwan (Provisional) was held at “Maharaj Bijoy Chand Instute of Engineering &Technology”, at Sadhanpur, Burdwan. On applicaon for Charter ship of Rotary Internaonal, provisional Rotary Club of Burdwan was informed by the then General Secretary of Rotary Internaonal Rtn. George R. Means, that the club has admied to membership of Rotary Internaonal on 13th May, 1957. The Charter presentaon ceremony of Rotary Club of Burdwan was held in Burdwan Raj palace in the evening of 19th. June 1957, at a dinner meeng in an atmosphere full of mirth and gaiety. The club started its journey with 22 chartered members and 2 Honorary members. Since charter ship during last 68 years Rotary Club of Burdwan has been serving the local community in various elds and connuously donang to Rotary Foundaon of Rotary Internaonal for promoon of humanitarian projects throughout the world. During last 68 years of service Rotary club of Burdwan earned a presgious posion in the mind of the people of Burdwan Town and its nearby village areas for doing several service projects like : Silpi Mondal Painng Compeon (a sit & draw compeon among school students), Free monthly Cataract Surgery, annual distribuon of suitable power spectacles Weekly health check up and cataract screening camp at club building, Mental Health and Physical Health of Adolescence Girls, Cervical Cancer Awareness seminar in dierent schools, Awarding meritorious law student from Burdwan University, Performing Polio eradicaon program of Rotary Internaonal, Arranging cricket tournaments, Free installaon of cold and puried drinking water facilies to schools, bus stands, and public gathering places and so on. Aer celebraon of charter night, place for regular weekly meeng of the club changed for at least 4 mes. Finally in the year 1996, the meeng place and club oce permanently shied to club’s own building ‘Rotary Bhaban’ at Borehat Burdwan . The club building was constructed and now maintained by ‘Rotary Club of Burdwan Trust’ formed by the members of the club. It was our presgious moment of our club to receive rst Global Grant project, Rotary Kidney Care Center in the year 2023-24. It has been installed at the Jhurjhure pool Municipality Hospital Burdwan at 19th June 2024 with kind cooperaon by Burdwan Paurasabha prensence of past RRFC Basudev Goliyan graced the occasion,represenng our internaonal partner. We installed number of Bio Toilet Unit at dierent prominent public places of our town with the help of district Global Grant. Our club runs a permanent tailoring training centre within the club building as a vocaonal educaon to empower women,the swing machine we have got a part of district grant. We also entertained GSE teams. We organised RLI part 1 and part 2 twice and also took the responsibilies of district projects like District Conferences, district training assemblies and district training seminars. Presently Rotary club of Burdwan has 82 members and 1 honorary member headed by Club President Rtn. Shyamantak Halder. Rotary Club of Burdwan now belongs to District Zone-III under Rotary Internaonal District 3240. Club has sponsored about 5 Rotary Clubs to come into existence. It has now 1 Rotaract Club, 1 Interact club and 2 acve RCCs. Rotary Club of Burdwan have 42 PHF members, 4 major donors, 4 benefactors of Rotary Foundaon at dierent category. During its enre journey Rotary Club of Burdwan earned the honor of having 3 PDGs of RID 3240 PDG Rtn Ranjit Ghosh (1998-99) ,PDG Rtn Samir Kumar Choudhury (2006-07) and PDG Rtn Dr. Kushanava Pabi (2022-23) and many AGs of our District Zone.