Round Table was born in Britain 74 years back. Louis Marchesi, then a Rotarian, formed the first Round Table in Norwich in England in 1927.From a small group of 8 members, today Round Table has grown to 43,000 members across 52 countries representing every corner of the world.

Round Table's motto is "ADOPT, ADAPT, IMPROVE". Such a wonderful movement, Round Tabling came to India in 1957 with the formation of Madras Round Table No.1. Round Table India is a member of "Round Table International".

Round Table India, the association, was formed on November 14, 1962 with just a membership of 100. It has, over the last 4 decades, grown to become a 2500 member strong association today.The wives of Tablers have their own National Association called "LADIES CIRCLE INDIA". Ladies Circle India is assisting every activity of Round Table India, apart from having their own service projects.The Past Tablers of Round Table India have formed the "41 Clubs of India". This National Association of Past Tablers provides a lot of support to our service activity.41 CLUBS.

ART40 { Ahmedabd Round Table 40) is a part of Round Table India from Ahmedabad region. ART40 was born 3rd November 1976. ART 40 is helping the community with small projects like BPA Car rally, Blood donation camp, Medical camp. ART40 build and renovate seven schools from last ten years.

Community Service Projects Service through Fellowship is the lifeline of Round Table India. It is through the fellowship of young men that this organisation has served the community for the last 40 years.Round Table India started its efforts in helping the community with small projects directed towards service. Over the years, we have grown from strength to strength and today we are building big projects and have moved over from community service to community development. The concept of National Project for Round Table India was introduced in 1992.Blood Typing, the National Project for the year 1992 enlisted over 30000 Blood Donors across the country.Operation Thirst in 1993 was the first Community Development Project to provide drinking water source to village people by sinking over 500 borewells at a cost of over Rs.10 Million.AIDS being the killer disease, its awareness was promoted by Round Table India in the year 1994.Project SMILE, providing dental hygiene for rural children by conducting several dental camps benefiting about 300,000 children in the year 1995.In 1996, "Right to Learn" the National Project to provide school infrastructure was very successful and over 140 school buildings were constructed at a cost of over Rs.70 Million, benefiting 200,000 rural children across the country.In 1997, Round Table India launched "Project Touch" and we adopted 2000 orphan children in association with SOS Children's village at a cost of Rs.1.5 Million.

Freedom through Education We believe that true freedom for an individual comes only through education.

Keeping the millions of underprivileged children in mind, we declared our Long Term National Project as "Freedom through Education". We believe that true freedom for an individual comes only through EDUCATION.We have taken several initiatives under this National Project "FREEDOM THROUGH EDUCATION" like Building Programme for Primary Schools, providing infrastructure, provision of educational accessories, Health Care, Vocational and Individual Child Related Programmes in schools adopted by Tables across the country.

In the last 10 years, Round Tables in India have really put in a lot of effort to provide infrastructure in schoolsOur efforts on "Freedom through Education" reached out across frontiers in International territory.