Minutes of the General Membership Meeting of the Indian Renaissance Institute held at NOIDA on 24th September 2023

 

The meeting was attended by the following members and an invitee:

  1. Vinod Jain
  2. D. Pancholi
  3. Suresh Chand Jain
  4. Mahi Pal Singh
  5. Sheoraj Singh
  6. Rajender Kumar Sharma
  7. Debarata Pal
  8. Ved Prakash Arya
  9. Surajdeo Prasad
  10. Saurabh Chaudhary              
  11. Madan Bharti                        
  12. Rajesh Kumar Sharma                                  
  13. Kamal Kumar                       
  14. Neeraj Verma                        
  15. Bhim Singh Shastri               
  16. Surya Kant Saini                               
  17. Venkat Saini                          
  18. (Ms) Indira Verma    
  19. Sanjeev Kumar                     
  20. Sandeep Chaudhary  
  21. Shalu Nigam
  22. Malathi Maithri
  23. Krishan Kumar Gogna                                                                      
  24. Hawa Singh Hooda
  25. Jitender Dagar
  26. Amit Srivastava – Invitee

The meeting was presided over by Shri Vinod Jain, Chairman, IRI.

First of all the members stood up in silence to condole the sudden death of our colleague, Shri Rahul Jain, our Life Member and his son, Shubham Jain, the son and grand-son of our Chairman, Shri Vinod Jain a few months ago.

At the very outset, Mr. Pancholi declared that he had come to register his protest. He, however, stayed till the end of the GMM.

After a few remarks during the initial discussion, Mr. Suresh Chand Jain declared that he was resigning as a Life Trustee. Mr. Rajender Kumar Sharma requested him to take back his resignation, but Mr. Jain remained adamant and did not declare withdrawal of his resignation.

  1. Then the Report on the status of 13 Mohini Road case was presented by Sheoraj Singh
  2. After that the Presentation of the financial status of the IRI and balance sheet was presented by the Treasurer. The same was passed unanimously.
  3. Issue of shifting of office record of the IRI and papers related to the Fifth Volume of ‘Selected Works of M.N. Roy’ from Mr. N.D. Pancholi’s house: Since there have been many requests from the office bearers in the light of resolutions of the GMM and BoT without any response from Mr. Pancholi, the matter was left to his conscience. He, however, did not respond in any way.
  4. Revival of the Indian Radical Humanist Association (IRHA) – Steps to be taken and responsibility to be assigned to senior member/members: since both the people who were likely to be entrusted the responsibility were not present, it was decided to discuss the matter with them and decide the matter later on.
  1. Then the election of the Elected Trustees took place. The names of the following members were proposed and elected unanimously:

Elected Trustees:

  1. Rajender Kumar Sharma
  2. Veeranna Gumma
  3. Debabrata Pal
  4. P. Arya
  5. Surajdeo Prasad
  6. Bhaskar Sur
  7. (Ms) Indira Verma

The Secretary made an appeal to all those who were present in the meeting to forget whatever differences there had been among some of them, and follow the principle of ‘forget and forgive’, and also to work together wholeheartedly for the promotion of radical humanist movement.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair and all those who attended the meeting.

Mahi Pal Singh

Secretary, IRI

24.9.2023