UDCT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION N.M. PAREKH MARG, MATUNGA, MUMBAI

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1 UDCT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION N.M. PAREKH MARG, MATUNGA, MUMBAI Minutes of the 24th Annual General Meeting of UDCT Alumni Association held on Friday, the 14th September, 2012 at 5.30 p.m. in the K. V. Auditorium, ICT, Matunga, Mumbai (Twenty four) members were present. 1. Prof. A. B. Pandit, President, was in the Chair. 2. The meeting commenced at 6.00 p.m. 3. The President called the meeting to order and welcomed all the members to the 24th Annual General Meeting. 4. To confirm the Minutes of the 23rd Annual General Meeting held on The President invited suggestions and comments from the members on the Minutes of the 23rd Annual General Meeting which had already been circulated. Since there were no comments from the members the Minutes of the 23rd Annual General Meeting held on 24 th August 2011, were confirmed. 5. To receive and adopt the Annual Report for the year The Annual Report was received and adopted unanimously. RESOLVED THAT THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR OF UDCT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BE AND IS HEREBY ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY. Proposed by : Mr. L. R. Chadha Seconded by : Dr. Uday Lajmi 6. To receive and adopt the audited Statement of Accounts and Balance Sheet for the year ended The Audited Statement of Accounts submitted by the Board of Governors for the year was received. There were a few comments and queries and hence the Accounts Statement was received and adopted unanimously after making some minor changes/clarifications. RESOLVED THAT THE AUDITED STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS AND BALANCE SHEET OF UDCT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR ENDED BE AND IS ADOPTED HEREBY UNANIMOUSLY AFTER MAKING CHANGES Proposed by : Dr. Sanjay V. Mehendale Seconded by : Mr. Ravi Raghavan

2 7. To appoint auditors for the year and fix their remunerations : The Hon. Treasurer informed the members that M/s K. S. Jhaveri & Co. have been appointed as auditors for the year or until the next AGM on a revised remuneration of Rs.12,000/- plus taxes per annum. The Vice Chancellor informed the members that the auditors have to be changed after every five years as per law. The members took a note of this and agreed to change the auditors after five years. RESOLVED THAT M/S. K. S. JHAVERI & CO., CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS BE AND ARE HEREBY APPOINTED AS AUDITORS FOR THE YEAR OR TILL THE NEXT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AT A REMUNERATION OF RS.12,000/- PLUS TAXES Proposed by : Dr. M. G. Palekar Seconded by : Dr. Vijay G. Habbu 8. The Hon. Secretary, Dr. S. T. Mhaske, produced the report. UAA Membership : The Hon. Secretary informed the members that the UAA membership had crossed a bench mark of 5000 and thanked the Vice Chancellor, ICT, Prof. G. D. Yadav, ICT Faculty, Dr. A. B. Pandit, President, UAA and the UAA BOGs for their efforts. Donation to ICT and its Students : The Hon. Secretary said that in the last financial year we have supported our Alma Mater and its students to the tune of Rs. 6,73,647/- as listed in the Annual Report. UAA Bulletin: The Hon. Secretary informed the members that UAA has brought out one issue of UAA bulletin in the last financial year with the efforts of Mr. Ravi Raghavan, Editor, UAA Bulletin and invited Mr. Raghavan to present his report. Mr.Ravi Raghavan presented his report and the proposed plan of action for the coming year. UAA Website He said that a full fledged UAA website is finally ready for launch and requested Dr. Lajmi, Convenor of the Website Committee to give us a brief report on the same. Dr. Lajmi explained the proposed features of the website and course of implementation of the same. UAA Chapters : The Hon. Secretary said that Vice Chancellor, Professor G. D. Yadav, Professor. A. B. Pandit and the UAA Chapter Committee headed by Mr. L. R. Chadha have done their best to revive the Chapters. A detailed report on the UAA Chapters was presented by Mr. L. R. Chadha, Convenor, U.A.A. Chapters Committee.

3 Attendance of the Board of Governors : 13 meetings were held in the last financial year and many important decisions were taken. Though some of the members were not physically present at the meetings, they have communicated through s and given valuable inputs. The BOGs have also held meetings through conference calls. ICT Foundation Day Celebrations: The ICT Foundation Day celebrations were held on 1 st October, 2011 jointly by ICT and UAA. The Chief Guest Dr. Vijay Kelkar, Former Chairman, Finance Commission, Government of India delivered the Colour Publication ICT Foundation Day Lecture. The Alkyl Amines ICT Young Scientist Medal was awarded to Dr. Sanyog Jain, Associate Professor, Centre for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Dept. of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research. On this auspicious day the UAA Distinguished Alumnus Awards were presented to Dr. Vivek V. Ranade and Shri Bharat I. Bhatt for Academic Excellence, Shri Anand K. Apte and Dr. Ajit V. Sapre for Professional Excellence and Dr. Vinay C. Vora and Shri Shrikant R. Paranjape for Science and Technology. TECHNOLOGY DAY The Technology Day and International Year of Chemistry Celebration was held on 11 th and 12 th May, 2011 jointly by ICT and UAA. The UAA Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Entrepreneurial Excellence category were presented to Shri Madhukar A. Naik, Dr. Ashok B. Amin, Dr. K. M. Shah, Dr. Naresh M. Saraf, Shri Lalchand N. Gandhi and Dr.(Mrs.) Deepa Bhjekar. The function was well attended and went off very well. UAA DHIRUBHAI AMBANI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD On 11 th May, 2011, during the Technology Day celebrations the prestigious UAA Dhirubhai Ambani Lifetime Achievement Award was bestowed upon Padma Vibhushan Professor C. N. R. Rao. UAA Annual Day Celebrations : The Annual get-together of UDCT Alumni Association was organized on 24th December, 2012 at ICT. It was a gala evening followed by dinner. The Rajat Medallion Award was awarded to Mr. Vijay Ratnaparkhe of 1986 batch. Awards& Accolades As per the tradition UAA has instituted prizes for the Best and Second Best students. Prize for the Best student from the Penultimate Year was awarded to

4 Ms. Fatema, from the Pharmacy Department and the Second Best Prize to Mr. Joshi Ravi Kiran from the Chemical Engineering Department. ICT Annual Day 3rd March, 2012 : The ICT Annual Day was held on 3rd March, Prof. Samir Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR, was the Chief Guest and UAA Distinguished Orator. ICT First Convocation Function 6th March, 2012 The first Convocation Ceremony of ICT as a deemed University, was held on 6 th March, The event was graced by Honourable Chief Minister, Shri Prithviraj Chavan and Honourable Minister for Higher & Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra, Shri Rajesh Tope. The function was held on a very grand scale. 12. UAA Placement Cell : The ICT Training and Placement Cell which was launched in February 2010 has progressed very well. A three day event called `Job Mela was organized on the 11 th, 12 th and 13 th of May, About 20 companies participated in the event and recruited fresh graduates and post- Graduates. REPORTS OF THE UAA SUB COMMITTEES The President requested the Convenors of each committee to present the report on the work done by their committee and their future plans : Publication Committee : Mr. Ravi Raghavan, Convenor, Publications Committee, informed the members that he could not come out with more bulletins as there was not much content. He invited the members to give their feed back and information on `ICT Then and ICT Now. Mr. Mokashi suggested that the awardees should be requested to write an article each and the UAA Chapters should be asked to contribute at least two pages each. The President informed the members that ICT has appointed a Technical Secretary to keep a record of all the happenings in ICT and said that some of the contents can be published in the bulletin. The members were informed that the ICT Coffee Table Book is also ready for printing and will be released on ICT Foundation Day i.e. on 1 st October, UAA Chapters Committee : Mr. L. R. Chadha, Convenor, UAA Chapters Committee, presented his report. He informed the members that Ahmedabad Chapter had a very good get-together followed by lunch. He informed the members that all efforts are being made to start a new chapter at Kolhapur. He said that Prof. Yadav has been visiting Kolhapur frequently. Prof. Yadav informed the members that eithr on the 24 th or 25 th of September a meeting is being arranged at Kolhapur during which he agreed to inaugurate the Kolhapur Chapter. He

5 informed the members that at `Atul itself there are 40 ICTians which can form a chapter. He suggested that since Satabdi does not go to Ankleshwar on Sundays a meeting should be arranged on Wednesday 2 nd October which is a bank holiday at UAA Ankleshwar Chapter.control of global warming. He said that efforts were made to revive UAA Bangalore Chapter. Mr. S. K. Srinivasan has taken over as the President of Bangalore Chapter and has formed a Chapter Committee. He said that efforts were made to start a new UAA Chapter at Kolhapur. Regarding UAA Delhi Chapter, he said that efforts have been made by Professor G. D. Yadav, Director, ICT, to revive the Delhi Chapter during his frequent visits to Delhi. He informed the members that UAA Pune Chapter had organized a lecture by Prof. J. B. Joshi on Research Opportunities in Engineering and Techonology in India at Pune on 12 th April He said that efforts are on to open a new Chapter at Singapore. He thanked Professor G. D. Yadav, Vice Chancellor, ICT and Mr. S. P. Deshmukh who put in lot of efforts to revive the Bangkok Chapter. They visited Bangkok Chapter personally and held meetings with Mr. Rajendra M. Jain who has taken over as Chairman of UAA Thailand Chapter. Mr. Mokashi suggested that a senior office bearer should interact with the UAA Chapters. UAA Website Committee : Dr. U. R. Lajmi, Convenor, UAA Website Committee, said that finally it was a dream come true since the construction of the website was partly ready. He demonstrated specific web pages. He said that he has a dream to create an ICT Museum on the website. He said that the website will cover online registration, search for student though he or she is not a UAA member, career net working, expressing job options, career enhancement courses, fund raising activities, facility to read lectures from abroad, Industry venturing, mentoring opportunities, teaching opportunities, etc. He said that provision will be made for events and news student news, faculty news, branding articles with ICT and publications will be made available for downloads,. The President informed the members that a functional website will be launched on ICT Foundation Day to be held on 1 st October The President pointed out that once we have a constructive website there would be interactions with the chapters. Prof. Gaikar suggested that keeping connectivity with the members is very important. ACCOUNTS AND FINANCES OF UAA : There was a query from Mr. V. D. Sanghavi as to why certain items are shown as liability in the accounts statement. The Hon. Treasurer, Mr. V. Y. Sane informed the members that the Accounts Statements have been prepared as per the format given by the Charity Commissioner and it is presented to the members in the existing format to give a comparison of last year and this year s expenses. ATTENDANCE OF THE BOGs : Dr. Habbu pointed out that the attendance score for the last term of the Board of Governors was not so go and requested the new Board of Governors to put in a better attendance. ANY OTHER MATTER :

6 OBITUARY : Two minutes silence was observed for Mr. Subhash Bhere, UAA staff who untimely expired on 15 th April, As there was no other business for transaction the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chair. Professor A. B. Pandit President Dr. S. T. Mhaske Hon. Secretary

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