Rtn. MeeRankhan SaleeM
District Governor 2024-25
Rotary International District 3212
Saleem was born on 15th July, 1967 in Kaliyakkavilai, India. An entrepreneur by profession, Saleem heads Aayisha Jewellers, Kaliyakkavilai and MS Gold distributors. He has been doing wholesale distribution of gold ornaments for the past 30 years in South India.
He is a life member of District Club, Nagercoil and Red-cross International. He is also a member of AR Rahman charitable trust and member of All Kerala whole sale Gold distribution Association.
A Rotary member since 2007, Saleem has been the President of Rotary Club of West Nagercoil. He is currently a proud member of Rotary Club of Nagercoil Town. He is a Major Donor level II.
The committed Rotarian commanded the love and admiration of rotarians of world renown. He was conferred with Service above self award of Rotary International 2020-21 for his selfless service to humanity. He is also the recipient of Best Rotarian award of RI District 3212 for his contribution to Regional cancer center.
The deftness with which he conducted the District Conference in 2014-15 and Rotary day celebration in 2015-16 carrying the rotarians along with him convincingly proved that he was an ace leader. Saleem was RLI Chairman, Assistant Governor and District Conference Secretary during 2017-18. The very next year in 2018-19 he served as the District awards committee Chairman and District Assembly Chairman in 2019-20. Acted as the best adviser to the Marthandam Honey City Club, which was started to commemorate the centenary of Rotary in India. He was instrumental in the development of that club in many ways. Saleem participated in three RI Conventions held at Seoul-Korea, Atlanta - USA and Hamburg-Germany. Saleem was unanimously elected as District Governor RI District 3212 for the year 2024-2025.
His unalloyed pleasure in life is to visit Government Hospitals to help patients back to normalcy offering all sorts of help, a habit inculcated from his childhood. So far he has provided wheel chairs, and robotic artificial limbs for more than 300 disabled persons.
Saleem is endowed with a generous heart and understanding mind, during the Corona pandemic he offered food and groceries for several families of jobless workers for two months costing Rs. 40,00,000/- ( Rupees Forty lakhs ).
As chairman of Rotacare (Medical committee of Rotary Club of Nagercoil Town) he was instrumental in providing financial support to 100+ surgeries of children. He constructed three buildings for schools and renovated the isolation ward of 2500 sq.feet in Government Medical College campus at Asaripallam, Kanyakumari District. He is one in whom the best qualities of head and heart happily blended.
He is married to Rtn. Sheeja Fathima and blessed with a son Aathil Meeran, doing MS in Scotland, UK. and a daughter Aayisha Aathila, doing her final year MBBS at Saveetha Medical College, Chennai.