A meeting of the Board of Trustees was held today at the residence of Mr. Vinod Kumar Jain at Noida at 10.00 a.m. It was presided, over by Mr. Vinod Kumar Jain, Chairman, IRI and attended by the following members:

1. Vinod Kumar Jain
2. Mahi Pal Singh
3. Sheo Raj Singh
4. Sandeep Chaudhary
5. Rajesh Kumar Sharma
6. Suraj Deo Prasad
7. Hawa Singh Hooda
8. Rajender Kumar Sharma
9. Ved Prakash Arya

As per the agenda circulated earlier the following decisions were taken unanimously:

1. First of all the minutes of the BoT held on 24.09.2023 were presented and confirmed.

2. Financial report of the IRI was presented by the Treasurer, Sh. Sheo Raj Singh. The members showed concern at the poor financial position and asked the Treasurer to send letters to the donors for donation.

3. Sheo Raj Singh presented the status report of the case of 13, Mohini Road. The members expressed concern at Mr. N. D. Pancholi’s continued illegal intervention in the case at the High Court level by putting up an advocate against the official advocate of the IRI.  His call for an illegal meeting of some of his friends who are not even members of the IRI on 11.02.2024 in an effort to create a parallel body of the IRI was condemned by all and the following resolution was passed unanimously:-

Resolution:-

                             “Board of Trustees Resolution 24/1

1. In view of his continued anti-IRI activities and not adhering to the resolution No. 1/2023passed in the BoT meeting dated 23.4.2023, the BoT vide resolution No. 2/2023 authorized Secretary/Chairperson to take appropriate action as deemed fit against Mr. N.D. Pancholi. He has not complied with resolution No. 1/2023 till date.
2. He was asked to prove the validity of his membership as his membership was not found sanctioned by the BoT which is mandatory as per Rule No. 4 of the IRI constitution. Mr. Pancholi could not submit any such proof and as such his membership was placed under suspension by the Secretary on 2.11.2023.
3. He has been regularly indulging in anti-IRI activities and has now proposed an unauthorized meeting of some individuals, including many non-members, with a clear agenda to create a parallel body on 11.2.2024.

Therefore, this house again authorizes the Secretary and the Chairman to take firm disciplinary action including the expulsion of Mr. Pancholi from the primary membership of IRI at an appropriate time.”

• Regarding Agenda No.4, the members viewed with serious concern that Mr. Pancholi was not transferring the property of the IRI including the manuscript of Volume -Vth of the Selected Works of M.N. Roy to the office bearers, which was affecting the working of IRI and also stalling the publication of the Vth Volume. They expressed the need of action against him for his continued anti-IRI activities.

5. The issue of revival of the Indian Radical Humanist Association was taken up but action in the matter was deferred to a future date.

6. The issue of membership of IRI of Mr. Pancholi was discussed and members expressed the view that action in the matter as decided earlier should be initiated at the earliest.

7. The issue of the new members of the IRI illegally made by Mr. Pancholi without the sanction of the BoT was discussed.  The Board decided not to grant sanction for their membership as they had not followed the established procedure.

8. The membership of the following members was sanctioned by the Bot :

         1. Mahesh Kumar (Sonipat) – Life Member

         2. Saurabh Thanvi (Jodhpur) – Annual Member

         3. Naveen Thanvi (Jodhpur) – Annual Member

The meeting ended with vote of thanks to the chair.

                 (Mahi Pal Singh) 

Secretary Indian Renaissance Institute