10 Annual EC Meeting - Neurological Society of India Minutes of the Annual EC Meeting (18 th December 2012 Director's Committee Room, AIIMS, Delhi) Meeting attended by: Keki E Turel, Chandrashekhar Deopujari, R C Mishra, Deepu Banerji, V P Singh, P Sarat Chandra, Manas Panigrahi, M D Nair, V Rajshekhar, Suresh Sankhla, Vani Santosh, S Sampath, J M K Murthy Past President : Prof A K Banerji. The President welcomed the members present in the meeting and the meeting was called to order. 2012/December/AEC/01 - Congratulations The secretary read the felicitations received by the members during the last year : Dr B K Misra, Chairman, Neurosurgery Dept. of Neurosurgery, P D Hinduja Mumbai has taken over as President Elect for World Federation of Skull Base Surgery only to take over as President after 4 years for 4 years term. He was also Invited as the Asian Australian Fellow and Guest Speaker to the 2012 Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting from 4 – 6 October 2012 Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia and gave 2 invited talks. He was also an Honored Guest Speaker at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neurosurgical Society in Osaka, Japan from 17 -19 October 2012. He was also invited as Visiting Professor at Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey The members congratulated Dr. Misra on his achievements Dr. Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Director- Professor of Neurology, # 502, Academic Block, Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi-110002 India who was unanimously elected President of Asian Oceanian Association of Neurology (AOAN) for a period of four years 2012-2016 during the 13th Asian Oceanian Congress of Neurology (AOCN) along with Australian and New Zealand Association (ANZAN) congress held at Melbourne June 4-8, 2012. Dr. Kalyan B Bhattacharya has been nominated as FRCP (Edin). He has been appointed as Visiting Professor, King's College & Hospital, London and Invited Lecturer, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He has also been appointed as Co-editor in Chief of the journal, Parkinson's Disease and Restless Leg Syndrome. He has been appointed as Board Member, WFN, Movement Disorders Group. Dr K Sridhar has been felicitated with the "Best Doctor Award" from the Dr M G R Medical University, Chennai. Professors A K Mahapatra AIIMS Delhi & Rajkumar SGPGI Lucknow for being selected as Director AIIMS Bhuvaneshwar & Rishikesh respectively. RESOLVED to publish in the next newsletter of NSI
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Annual EC Meeting - Neurological Society of India
Minutes of the Annual EC Meeting
(18th December 2012 Director's Committee Room, AIIMS, Delhi)
Meeting attended by:
Keki E Turel, Chandrashekhar Deopujari, R C Mishra, Deepu Banerji, V P Singh, P Sarat Chandra, Manas
Panigrahi, M D Nair, V Rajshekhar, Suresh Sankhla, Vani Santosh, S Sampath, J M K Murthy
Past President : Prof A K Banerji.
The President welcomed the members present in the meeting and the meeting was called to order.
2012/December/AEC/01 - Congratulations
The secretary read the felicitations received by the members during the last year :
Dr B K Misra, Chairman, Neurosurgery Dept. of Neurosurgery, P D Hinduja Mumbai has taken over as
President Elect for World Federation of Skull Base Surgery only to take over as President after 4 years for 4
years term.
He was also Invited as the Asian Australian Fellow and Guest Speaker to the 2012 Neurosurgical Society of
Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting from 4 – 6 October 2012 Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia and gave
2 invited talks.
He was also an Honored Guest Speaker at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neurosurgical Society in
Osaka, Japan from 17 -19 October 2012.
He was also invited as Visiting Professor at Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey
The members congratulated Dr. Misra on his achievements
Dr. Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Director- Professor of Neurology, # 502, Academic Block, Department of
Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi-110002 India who was unanimously elected President of Asian
Oceanian Association of Neurology (AOAN) for a period of four years 2012-2016 during the 13th Asian
Oceanian Congress of Neurology (AOCN) along with Australian and New Zealand Association (ANZAN)
congress held at Melbourne June 4-8, 2012.
Dr. Kalyan B Bhattacharya has been nominated as FRCP (Edin). He has been appointed as Visiting
Professor, King's College & Hospital, London and Invited Lecturer, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He has
also been appointed as Co-editor in Chief of the journal, Parkinson's Disease and Restless Leg Syndrome. He
has been appointed as Board Member, WFN, Movement Disorders Group.
Dr K Sridhar has been felicitated with the "Best Doctor Award" from the Dr M G R Medical University,
Chennai.
Professors A K Mahapatra AIIMS Delhi & Rajkumar SGPGI Lucknow for being selected as Director AIIMS
Bhuvaneshwar & Rishikesh respectively.
RESOLVED to publish in the next newsletter of NSI
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2012/December/AEC/02 - Minutes of midterm EC Meeting April 2012
The council discussed and finalized the minutes of the last midterm EC Meeting held at Hotel Trident in
Mumbai on 21st & 22nd April 2012. The President & Secretary signed the minute book to confirm the same.
The minutes have already been circulated in the newsletter.
2012/December/AEC/03 - Secretary’s Report
The secretary informed the house about the activities done so far. He expressed his gratitude to all the
members and office bearers for their co-operation for yearlong support, guidance, co-operation and
counseling to manage the sometimes easy and sometimes vexed problems of society administration. He
informed the council that e-communication, arbitration committee and blog for academic forum has now
been fully established during this period and have quite satisfactorily achieved significant success, but there
are several other things viz. updation of the database, purchase of central office, etc. still needs appraisal and
urgent action on short term and long term basis.
2012/December/AEC/04 - Report on online polling
The Secretary then informed the EC about the various aspects of online voting. He also informed that he had
been asked to take up a legal opinion about online voting which have been duly taken. He confirmed that
there is no case regarding online voting in any court of law in the country to the best of his investigation and
online is already acceptable in the bye-laws of NSI. He also informed about the advantage of having online
voting where the number of people voting can be increased. He briefed the members that an online test poll
was conducted during the first week of December, with an encouraging response. 42 members voted and the
results are displayed. Online polling module worked satisfactorily. It was also discussed that one paper mail
has to be sent to all members about a notice to send their email addresses.
It was then decided by the EC that Email address, should be mandatory for all the members.
RESOLVED that the Secretary will have at least 10 more dummy online polls conducted every month before
the final implementation. The council unanimously agreed to execute online polling and it can be put up and
passed in the GBM.
2012/December/AEC/05 - Life Time Achievement Award
The Secretary briefed the council about the life achievement awards to be given to Prof. Anupam Das Gupta
and Prof. B S Das during the inauguration function of the annual conference. The details of the recipients of
the awards were briefed to the council. Resolved unanimously by the council.
It was also decided that plaques be prepared for the President and the Orators from now onwards.
2012/December/AEC/06 - Orations for NSICON 2013, Mumbai
The Secretary informed the EC about previous orators for Dr B Ramamurthy Oration (once in 2 years) and Dr P
N Tandon Oration (once in 3 years) which are due in 2013:
The orators will be decided by the President as per byelaws and will be informed before the midterm EC
meeting decision to be held in Coimbatore in May 2013.
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2012/December/AEC/07 - Symposia Bids for 2014
The Secretary informed about the bids for symposia for the annual conference 2014 at Mumbai. There were
one bid for the neurology and 3 bids for neurosurgery symposia. All were in order. Discussions took place at
length and decision was taken as following.
Neurology Symposium: Multiple Sclerosis and demyelinating disorders in the Indian context.
Convener: Dr Arul Selvan from Coimbatore
Neurosurgery Symposium: Surgery for ischemic cerebrovascular diseases.
Convener: Dr Paritosh Pandey
Successful bidders will be informed about the same along with some suggestions by EC & guidelines existing as
per bye laws.
The EC was seized with the topic “Curriculum Standardization for neurosurgical training” given by Dr V G
Ramesh and opined that it is too big a chapter to be demeaned for a small symposium and suo motto
direction was formulated to name him as a convener of a group which he will organize for deliberations and
inputs to make a constructive positive and practical policy paper for at length discussion during midterm EC at
Coimbatore on 4th May 2013.
2012/December/AEC/08 - NSICON 2014 Update
Dr Mishra read the letters received from Dr V Rajesh Babu regarding the tentative dates of NSICON 2014
meeting. He suggested the days Wednesday through Saturday for the meeting. Deliberations were made and
the council unanimously decided that the conference will be held from 12th to 15th December 2014 at
Coimbatore. The annual council meeting will be held on 11th December .
The dates for the Mid-term EC Meeting were discussed. It was then decided for 4th – 5th May 2013.
2012/December/AEC/09 - Bids for NSICON 2015
Dr Mishra informed the EC that only one bid for NSICON 2015 was received. It was from the Hyderabad
Neurological Society which was accepted.
Resolved that 2015 annual meeting will be held in Hyderabad with Dr Manas Panigrahi as organizing
secretary. All formalities will be completed by mid-term EC meeting, May 2013 in Coimbatore.
2012/December/AEC/10 - New Forums
Dr R C Mishra expressed the need to rope in young neurosurgeons and make them active in the society and
involve them by increasing their participation in the acitivities related to the society. He further informed the
members that 3 forums have already been launched on the society website. The academic forum is already
working.
NSI Academic Forum - www.nsi-academicforum.blogspot.in Already functional Interactive blog managed by Dr
Sanjay Behari with Case under spotlight, Question collage, Management dilemma, Resident’s niche, Opinion-
O-metre, Feedback forum has found its place on the website for the benefit of the society members.
RESOLVED that it will be advertised in bulk mail to all the members regularly and every response goes to all
the members. The best three cases will have a session in the National NSI Meeting.
Deliberations were made regarding NSI involvement in this year’s WFNS Course wherein objections were
raised regarding the same.
RESOLVED that it is customary for WFNS to involve any NSI in any international educational course by WFNS in
India be channelized through NSI. It was also resolved to write a letter to WFNS President, Education
Committee and Dr Sahu the Organizing Secretary for this year WFNS Course just concluded at Bhubaneshwar.
NSI feels very strongly about the non-involvement and would like to emphasize that any future courses should
be under the aegis of NSI.
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2012/December/AEC/13 – Proposed constitutional Amendments & Bye Laws – Notice of Dr A K Banerji
Dr RC Mishra informed the EC about the proposed amendment to constitution regarding the change of the
tagline “oldest and largest body of neurosurgeons in India” to the name of the society. A discussion regarding
the need to add the tagline was made. Dr Mishra then read a letter by Dr NH Wadia regarding the same. He
had suggested the tagline “NSI, oldest Society of Neurosurgeons, Neurologists and Neuroscientists of India”.
RESOLVED that EC is of the view that the suggestion of Dr NH Wadia - “The oldest Society of Neurosurgeons,
Neurologists and Neuroscientists of India” is appropriate and should be accepted. Dr Banerji also approved
the same.
2012/December/AEC/14 - Letters to be discussed / read
The Secretary informed the EC about the application of regional Neuro clubs of Kolkata and Vizag to affiliate
them with NSI. A discussion regarding affiliation of regional clubs was made. It was also discussed that an
addition can be made on the homepage of NSI Website wherein a list of registered clubs can be put along with
the activities of them.
Resolved that the authenticity of the regional club of Kolkata be checked as no details were provided in the
applications.
The application of the Vizag Club was approved by the council. Resolved to ask the club for a complete list of
members.
The Secretary then read a letter from Publishers of World Neurosurgery. They have offered special rates of
subscription to the members. The publishers were requesting a linkup with the society’s website so that all
members can access the journal. It was resolved to inform the publishers about the different categories of
members of NSI. Also resolved to pursue the matter with the publishers regarding the cost of the journal.
The Secretary informed about another letter by Dr Vivek Tandon. He was of the view that the dates of the NSI
Meeting should be held in the last week of November or the first week of December. It was deliberated that it
was not possible to do the same due to many institutional exams.
The next letter was from WFNS regarding call for abstracts for Young Neurosurgeons Award. The last date for
the application of the same will be 8th March 2013. Resolved to communicate to all the members by sending a
mass mail.
2012/December/AEC/15 - Updation of member’s data - Renewal of memberships & Duplicity
Dr RC Mishra raised an issue that the data of members of the society has gross errors and need to be rectified
at the top priority. Dr Rajshekhar expressed that 100% data cannot be sanitized as members keep changing
their communication details and do not inform even after repeated reminders. Deliberations were made on
the issue.
RESOLVED that Data sanitization related to duplicity and accuracy of the members data needs to be done and
Secretary was entrusted the responsibility regarding the accuracy and expenditure involved. Also resolved that
reminders will be sent to the associate members whose membership has expired and appropriate follow-up
would be done.
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2012/December/AEC/16 - Increasing the corpus & sponsorships of NSI
Need was expressed to increase the corpus and raise more sponsorships for the society. The secretary
informed that the last directory was published in 2002 and every year a print version of the directory was
proposed to be released. It was also deliberated to publish one paper newsletter along with the Directory
preferably one month prior to the NSI Meeting so that members can update their addresses in the meeting.
The council also agreed unanimously that funds will be generated for the NSI in the form of advertisements in
the website and in the directory.
The council was also of the opinion that to buy a property for central office, increasing the corpus is important
and additional sponsorships will be used to meet the expenses of the central office as well as providing more
scholarships to the young neurosurgeons.
RESOLVED to print one newsletter in the month of November and mailed to all the members. It was also
resolved to seek sponsorships for the newsletter.
2012/December/AEC/17 - Finalizing NSI Central office / e-office
The Secretary stressed the need for the setting up the central office of NSI. Dr Deopujari informed the house
that NSI never had a central office and now it was time for NSI to have the same. Dr RC Mishra put up a
proposal from Event Architects from Agra regarding handling the secretariat. Deliberations were made on the
matter. It was discussed to accept the proposal and review the same for one year.
RESOLVED to accept the proposal for one year and put under scrutiny with a mid term review report in May
2013 and final review report in annual EC Mumbai on 11th December 2013.
2012/December/AEC/18 - Education Cell Report – C E Deopujari
Dr C E Deopujari presented the education cell report. The NSI Education cell conducted the 1st instructional
course under the guidance of Dr. Deopujari for the post graduate students in Mumbai from 3rd to 5th February
2012 at the Bombay Hospital. A faculty of 12 Local and 6 teachers from other centers conducted some lectures
followed by examination of 33 students. The program received a very positive feedback. The second
instructional course was carried out under the guidance Prof. V Rajshekhar at CMC, Vellore and was attended
by 25 Students. The format included more detailed radiological and clinical and case based training followed
by examination.
The next instructional course is planned at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, to be
conducted by Dr. B S Sharma on 12 & 13th February 2013. There has been interest shown to conduct similar
courses by Dr. Sandip Chatterjee in Kolkata, Prof. Mathuriya in Chandigarh, Prof. Ajay Sharma in GB Pant Delhi,
Dr Suresh Nair in Trivandrum and Prof. B C M Prasad from Tirupathi. Discussions were made to give the next
course to Kolkata so that the courses can be distributed to all the zones.
A practical course for micro vascular training at the ETHICON lab was conducted in Mumbai followed by
cadaver dissection course at the JJ Hospital for endoscopic and microscopic skull base approaches on 20th and
21st April, 2012 by NSI faculty for 10 Students
A micro vascular course was also conducted at Chennai on 19th October, 2012 for 8 students. Next 2
workshops will be held at Delhi and Chennai and post graduate students as well as young neurosurgeons can
apply.
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NSI travel fellowships have been awarded to 5 candidates namely: 1) Anand Dank, 2) Parthsarthi Dutta, 3)
Arun Oomen, 4) Harmit Singh Sodhi and 5) J Srinivas. Arrangements to post them are being made. They should
commence the fellowship at the end of the year. Scholarship of Rs 50,000/- will be awarded by the NSI for the
same. Ten such fellowships will be available for the next year.
Deliberations were made and concern was raised on the duration for which the scholarships were provided.
The convener informed that as of now the time duration is 1 month to 3 months but the amount provided is
fixed. It was resolved that attendance of the candidate and appraisal from the head of the visiting department
would be mandatory before releasing the scholarship amount. A brief writeup of the visit by the candidate
shall form the records of NSI.
2012/December/AEC/19 - Returning Officer Report & election results– C E Deopujari
The returning officer Dr CE Deopujari informed the members that this year elections were only for the post of
President Elect. He duly explained the procedure and proper actions taken on the cut-off dates for
nominations and balloting. Over 1700 ballots were dispatched from the office of the returning officer by
courier and post out of which 219 ballots returned due to improper addresses. Around 60 duplicate ballots
were resent on the basis of emails and telephone calls out of which 34 were received. Total ballots received
after casting was 328 and 4 ballots were found to be invalid. These ballots were counted in the presence of Dr
M D Nair and Dr Suresh Sankhla and Dr V Rajshekhar was declared winner.
Dr Deopujari also read a letter received from Dr VS Mehta regarding the process of polling which contained
suggestions and ideas to improve the process. Deliberations were made and it was discussed that with online
polling in future all this manual process would automatically be redundant.
2012/December/AEC/20 - Proposals by – C E Deopujari
Permanent Courier service
Dr Deopujari proposed having a single courier service for all activities of the society. It was deliberated that
Speed Post can be used.
Procedure for proposing constitutional amendment
o Constitutional amendment/s may be proposed by a Life Member who have been Life member of good standing in the NSI for at least 7 years.
o This should be supported by 2 other life members of good standing (for at least 7 years) with their signatures before sending it to the secretary.
o The proposed amendment should be discussed at the next Executive Committee meeting but the EC can only suggest changes to the amendment if it feels so but the proposers are not required to incorporate the changes suggested by the EC. It is obligatory to present the amendment to the general Body (after EC consideration and adding their suggestions but not incorporating them) for its approval.
o The proposed amendment should be communicated to all members with at least 4 month notice. o The proposed amendment should be voted upon by means of postal/electronic ballot of all the Life
Members. The ballot may be sent out with the ballot for the elections of EC members in November of that year or by the electronic poll if and when it becomes functional.
o The amendment should be considered passed of at least 2/3 rds of the votes polled are in favour of the amendment
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o The amendment will be announced in the General Body meeting held during the Annual Conference for the information of the members
Resolved that all these proposals will be circulated to all the members and put in the next GBM in