Dr Vinaykumar Pai Raikar has been conferred with the Distinguished Service Award, the Highest Award of The Rotary Foundation. A gynaecologist by profession, he is the founder of, and presently practising at Raikar Nursing Home at Panaji, Goa.
Raikar is an active Rotarian of Rotary Club of Panaji Midtown since 1999 and has served in various capacities at club level. His achievements at District level were Best Secretary (2004-05), Best President (2007-08) along with 6 district awards and making his club a 100% PHF club and contributing over 100,000 USD to The Rotary Foundation with a per capita contribution of USD 1570. He has served at the district level as District Chairman Coordinator (community service, club service, trf assignments viz, District Simplified Grants, Annual Giving, GSE outbound) He has been a proficient speaker and has been on many a platform of Rotary in the district as keynote speaker, facilitator or as a pilot faculty.
Raikar served as the Rotary District 3170 Governor in 2016-17.
He is currently serving as the district trainer (2019-20) and is also the District 3170 Measles-Rubella coordinator of the National PolioPlus Committee. He has also been invited to serve on the core committee headed by PRCD Dr Manoj Desai for ‘Mission TTAIPEI’ and avoidable blindness in 12000 villages (2020-21) under the leadership of RIPN Sushil Gupta.
