Member Introduction

Personal Bio-data: Dr.Raakhi Gupta

Born in a reputed Jain family from Jaipur, Rotarian Dr. Raakhi Gupta, the daughter of an IPS officer, has been a Rotarian since 1998. Dr Gupta joined Rotary as the Charter Secretary of Rotary Club Jaipur Marugandha, an exclusive Club for women. With a Masters in Chemistry, and a Gold Medal to boot, she is a Ph.D. and has been working as a Professor and Registrar at the IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur, since its inception in 1995.

In keeping with her ardent desire to discharge her civic and social responsibilities dutifully, Dr Gupta has been contributing her bit to welfare activities in her capacity as a conscientious citizen cum active Rotarian, and also by involving the community of do-coders to engage in a number of community service and outreach activities through both her University and Rotary. She has held key positions at the Club and District level such as President, Secretary as well as Literacy Chairman, Assistant Governor, and District Secretary General at the District level, all of which has further honed her leadership skills and organizational capacity. Very recently, she has been appointed as the Additional District Trainer (RID-3054) for 2022-23. 

As a dedicated Rotarian, Dr Gupta is a big advocate of local action and community service. And, for this, she has won several awards from Rotary International including the Presidential Citation for achieving Rotary goals during her tenure as the Club President as well as for carrying out important District assignments with elan. action. She also bagged the “Four Avenues of Service Citation for Individual Rotarians-2001” for outstanding efforts in the Four Avenues of Service, as identified by Rotary. She was also a member of the GSE team which went to Florida, District-6890, during 1997-98. At her University, she encourages and pronouns art, culture and heritage-related activities with the view to galvanising the youth for evincing similar interest and taking action.

Additionally, as one of the crusaders of the Polio Eradication Programme in India, Dr Gupta worked very hard to promote, propagate and motivate people all over the District. Right since 1997, she has worked ceaselessly to reach the affected areas and ensure greater participation in National Immunization drives. The Rotaract Club of her University - under the National Service Scheme - contributed in a big way to administer the Polio vaccine to children during the Rotary-organized Polio-eradication Drive. She has also promoted The Rotary Foundation by ensuring greater contribution to the Annual Programme Fund by herself being a multiple Paul Harris Fellow. In addition, she strives to educate people as to why they should contribute to the Foundation. 

Dr Gupta thus brings to life the very essence of what Rotary stands for: to aspire towards the practice of integrity, responsibility and equality and to help create an environment of continual learning and development; empathy and service, by subscribing to the theory of leading by example. She is married to Rotarian Pankaj Gupta, an Electrical Engineer and Energy Auditor. They are blessed with two children, Son-Mehul, an Engineer and Daughter, Raadhika, a Medical Intern.