
Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) Minutes
 Year |
S. No. of the AGM |
2015 |
21 |
2012 |
19 |
2011 |
18 |
2010 |
17 |
2009 |
16 |
2008 |
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2007 |
15 |
2006 | 14 | 2005 | 13 | 2004 | 12 | 2003 | 11 |

Minutes
of the 21st General Body Meeting
held at
NPL on Jan 28, 2015
The 21st
GBM was held on Jan 29, 2015, at 3.00 pm in NPL for electing new EC
members for the period 2015-18. Due to lack of quorum in the GBM
,the meeting was adjourned and reconvened later on. The following
members attended the meeting:
1. Prof. K.
L. Chopra
2. Dr. B.
Buti
3. Dr. Santa Chawla
4. Dr. Hari Kishan
5. Dr. Ashish Agarwal
6. Dr. K. Satyanarayana
7. Dr. Indra Mani Mishra
8. Dr. N. Raghuram
9.
Ms.Shubhrima Ghosh
10. Dr. R. K. Suri
11. Dr. R. K. Kotnala
The
President welcomed the members and presented a report on the
activities of SSV during the year 2014. A summary of the report is
as follows :
1)
SSV
was represented in the following national activities:
a)
One
day (April 23 ) National Seminar on Plagiarism Issues was
organised by JNU for 500 librarians. Talks were given by Dr.
Kotnala, Dr. Raghuram and Prof. Chopra
b)
IIT
Kharagpur Alumni Association in Chennai organised an Essay
Competition on Ethical Values in Science among 60 high school
students in Chennai under its program of “Mindskool”. The essays
were evaluated by the IITM faculty and some SSV members. The four
best essays were presented before students and teachers of the 60
schools in a one day ( July 12) seminar held at IITM.The seminar
was addressed by the convenor (Prof Subhramaniam of IITM) ,Director
,IITM, Prof Chopra, Dean of students of IITKGP, and others. Besides
the students,the teachers who attended the function were very happy
and appreciative of this unique seminar on the subject of
Ethics. The selected four students were invited by IITKGP to spend
a week in IITKGP.
c)
Central University , Jammu organised a one day ( Oct 29) National
Seminar on Scientific Writing . Prof Chopra was invited to address
the seminar.
d)
A
Yahoo Reporter ,Rohit Anani, has interviewd Dr Kotnala , Dr Indra
Nath and myself .His article on SSV “who will stop plagiarist” has
appeared
On yahoo
website with the link: https://in.news.yahoo.com/who-will-stop-the-plagiarists-093145581.html
2)
On
invitation of the following institutions , institutional seminars
on Scientific & Ethical Values were delivered by Prof Chopra :
IITP ; NITP ;IARI;MangaloreUniversity;IIEST-Kolkata;IIT,
Gandhinagar ; IITM;BBIT, Kolkata ; Amity University, Gurgaon ; Vel
Tech University, Chennai
3)
Prof
Chopra briefed the GBM on several important cases of plagiarism
and scientific misconduct which he has invesigated., The details of
these cases ( whichever and whenever considered appropriate ) will
be posted on our SSV website
Following the presentation by the President, the GBM discussed
various issues faced by SSV . Some decisions taken were as follows
:
1.
It was agreed that younger members from different parts
of the country be inducted to nurture the objectives of SSV.
Members also agreed to enhance the number of EC members from 8 to
12
2.After an
extensive discussion ,it was agreed that a Seminar on the ethical
and societal issues related to GM Food be held soon at IARI, Dr
Indramani Mishra was requested to convene the Seminar.
3. It was
agreed that our Website and News & Views need to be strengthened
considerably. The new EC will discuss ways and means to do so.
4.The nomination of following new members by the President of SSV
was considered and approved for membership of SSV :
I}..Dr.
N Ravi Chandra Raju |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Organic Photonics & Electronics (COPE) | School
of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences
The University of Queensland, St Lucia | Brisbane,
QLD 4072, Australia
r.nagiri@uq.edu.au | +61733467995
(off.) | +61415197326 (mob.)
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/cope/node/2
Ii}.Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, JNU Librarian,
Tele
+91-11-26742605, 26704551
Fax : +91-11-26741603
Mobile : 9810487158
Email rcgaur@mail.jnu.ac.in , rcgaur66@gmail.com
. 5. The GBM
elected the following office bearers and EC members of the Society
for the period Jan2015 to Jan 2018.:
President
: Prof. K. L. Chopra
Vice
President : Dr. N. Raghuram & Dr. Indra Mani
Mishra.
Secretary
:
Dr. R. K. Kotnala
Joint
Secretary : Prof. S.S. Major
Treasurer
: Dr. Hari Kishan
Immediate
Past President ( Ex-Officio member)
Prof. P. M.
Bhargava
Members:
Dr.
Vikram Kumar
Dr.
Indra Nath
Dr.
Santa Chawla
Prof. B.V. Reddi
Dr.
J.C.Sharma
Prof. Uttam Pati
Dr.
Akhila Anand
Dr.
Rakesh Singh
Prof.B.D.Malhotra
Ms.Shubhrima Ghosh
Special
Invitees
Prof. P. N. Srivastava
Prof. Bimla Buti
Dr. P. N.
Tiwari
Editor
Publications & Website
( to be
decided by the President)
Meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
R.
K. Kotnala, Secretary K. L. Chopra,
President
Minutes of the 19th General Body Meeting
held at NPL on Jan 9, 2012
In its meeting
held on Dec. 2, 2011, the EC decided to call a GB on Jan 9, 2012
for electing new EC members for the period 2012-15.The Election
process attempted through E-mail was very disappointing. in
response. Therefore it was decided to hold election in a GBM on Jan
9, 2012 at 3:00 pm. Due to lack of quorum in the GBM ,the meeting
was adjourned and reconvened later on. The following members
attended the meeting:
1.
Prof. K. L. Chopra
2.
Prof. Uttam Pati
3.
Prof. P. S. Dutta
4.
Dr. Ashok Kumar
5.
Dr. Hari Kishan
6.
Prof. Indra Nath
7.
Dr. K. Satyanarayana
8.
Dr. S. N. Singh
9.
Dr. Anand Akhila
10.
Indra Mani Mishra
11.
Prof. P. B. Sharma
12.
Dr. B. Buti
13.
Dr. R. K. Saini
14.
Prof.. N. R. Jagannathan
15.
Dr. R. K. Kotnala
The GBM elected
the following office bearers of the Society for the period Jan2012
to Jan 2015.:
President |
Vice President |
Secretary |
Prof. K. L. Chopra |
Prof. P.B.Sharma &.
Prof.P.S.Dutta |
Dr. R. K. Kotnala |
Joint Secretary |
Treasurer |
Immediate Past President |
Dr.Anand Akhila |
Dr. Indramani Mishra |
Prof. P. M. Bhargava |
Members
Dr. Vikram Kumar
Prof. Sisir Sen |
Members
Prof. Uttam Pati
Dr. S. N. Singh |
Members
Prof. N. R. Jagannathan
Dr. Hari Kishan |
Special Invitees
Dr. Santa Chawla
Prof. P. N. Srivastava
Prof. Bimla Buti
Dr. P. N. Tiwari
Dr. Ashok Kumar |
Editor Publications
Dr. Santa Chawla |
Associate Editor
Dr. K. Satyanarayana |
|
Ex Officio Members
Previous President
Dr. P. M. Bhargava
Ex-Secretary
Dr.N.Raghuram
Meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
R.K.Kotnala Prof.
K. L. Chopra
Secretary, SSV President,
SSV
Minutes of the 18th Annual General Body
Meeting (AGM of
the Society for Scientific Values
The 18th
AGM of theSociety
was announced to be held at Delhi Technological University (DTU)
on March13, 2011 but due to lack of quorum it was adjourned. The
adjourn AGM was held at 5.30 p.m. on May 18,
2011 at the National Physical Laboratory. It was attended by 16
members of the Society.
As per the usual format , the AGM proceeded with the
presentations of the President , Secretary and Treasurer regarding
the activities of SSV in the preceding year. A summary of the main
points of the three reports , which form the Annual Report of SSV,is
given as an Appendix to the minutes
The AGM discussed various issues and concluded as follows:
1.SSV deals with a large number of cases ( around 20 last
year ) of plagiarism in the country. The members felt there is a
greater need to culture and nurture ethical values among our
knowledge creators. With the UGC advising universities to start a
two credit course on Ethical Values in S&T for post graduate and
research students, the request for advice on a suitable curriculum
and an appropriate handbook is being made by several
instituitions,SSV has already set up a committee , under the
convenership of Dr Indira Nath , to prepare a suitable manual.
Three chapters of the manual have been prepared and are included in
our latest News &Views.It is hoped that when completed , all
chapters will be printed in the form of a book .
2.The members felt that the manual must lay emphasis on case
studies pertinent to our conditions in the country. Drs N. Raghuram,
R Suri, and SK Sharma were requested to contribute to such a
chapter.
3. A suggestion was made and accepted that SSV should honour
and award those individuals who have shown or implemented a high
level of ethical values in some form or the other
4.It was suggested and approved that SSV should seek
collaboration with the science academies of the country for holding
a seminar on Ethical Values during the “Decade of Science” programme
of the academies
5.The members approved the holding of a National Seminar on
ethical , scientific , intellectual property,and financial
accountability in publically funded projects by government funding
agencies in the country.
6. It was suggested that SSV should look into the ethical
aspects of the role of Foreign Universities in India, Dr R Suri
agreed to prepare a paper on the subject for discussion
7.The members raised a matter of serious ethical concern
regarding the non-negotiable demand of the faculty of universities
( such as Delhi, IP and Jamia Millia) for co-authorship of
scientific publications without having made any contributions to
the research work conducted by PhD students from national
laboratories registered with the universities. SSV will consider
raising this issue in a proper forum
8. The president requested all members to be actively involved
in the activities of SSV and should hold meetings and seminars on
related subjects in academic institutions of their choice
9. In the absence of any grant from any funding agency, in
particular from DST ,the President appealed for tax deductible
contributions by members and well-wishers to our Corpus fund which
sustains our activities. Members appreciated and applauded the
contribution of Rs 5000 by Dr PN Tewari ( our founder Secretary of
SSV)and Rs 30,000 by Prof PN Srivastava ( our former President of
SSV)
10. On the expiry of the term of the present EC in September,
2011, the members were requested to nominate new members who would
be prepared to devote some time to the activities of SSV
The meeting ended with thanks to the Chair
Appendix : Annual
Report of SSV
1.The EC of SSV has been meeting regularly.During the last
year , it has met for four.times.
2. Like two years ago ,SSV organized joint symposium with All
India Students’ Spirituality Quest Conference in Vigyan Bhavan and
Delhi Technical University. The Spirtuality conference was
inaugurated by the President of India. Over 350 students
participated in the Conference. Our (SSV) One day session
consisted of the annual Paintal memorial Lectruredelivered by
Dr Katoch, Director General , ICMR , followed by a Special
Lecture by Dr Vijay K.Saraswat Advisor to Raksha Mantri, India.
These lectures are available on our website and will also be
printed in our News & ViewsThereafter , in a session at DTU, three
lectures were delivered by Dr PN Tewari on “Basics and General
Principles of Ethics in Science” by Dr R. K. Kotnala on “Science,
Ethics and Sprituality” and Dr Indramani Mishra on “Misconduct in
Scientific Research and Publications”“ These lectures created a lot
of interest among the young scholars
3. News & Views of SSV brought out two issues in the year. The
issues are available on our website (scientificvalues.org). The
latest issue carries three articles which will form a part of the
Ethics Manual for teaching-learning process in academic institutions
4.A number of academic institutions in the country have
requested the President , SSV to deliver lectures on Ethical Issues
in Science and Technology to faculty and students. Prof Chopra has
delivered lectures in : IIT Kanpur ; IIT Delhi ; BHU; IIT Madras; IP
University; Rajdhani College, Delhi University;WB TU,Kolkata ;
Ailia Univ, Kolkata;Hamdard University, Delhi; IHBT(CSIR), Palampur
;Indian Science Congress,2011.
5. The president has been invited by four prominent academic
institutions to conduct official in-house inquiries into cases of
plagiarism by the concerned faculty. The positive attitude of the
Heads of Institutions in these cases towards the importance of
ethical values is to be appreciated. Due to sensitivity of the
institutions, these cases have not been posted on our website
5. Some 25 complaints of plagiarism , scientific misconduct
or unethical practices have been received from various
institutions. Anonymous complaints are not paid any attention. We
investigated 20 such complaints. Only the very serious cases were
considered by the EC for posting on our website , as per our usual
practice.
6. Despite our best efforts, SSV has received no response from
DST for a grant to conduct seminars in the country. We have
therefore decided to build up a Corpus to enable us financial
autonomy to conduct seminars for culturing and nurturing ethical
values among academics. We have received approval from the
department of Income Tax for tax deductible contributions to SSV.
Society is grateful to Drs Kotnala and Hari Kishan for their
sustained efforts to get Tax exemption certificate from 809 from
Income Tax Department.
7. We are grateful to Prof PN Srivastava, our former President
of SSV, for his donation of Rs 30,000 to SSV from his Trust; and Dr
PN Tewari, our Founder Secretary of SSV, for his donation of Rs
5000 to SSV. May we appeal to all members to donate whatever they
can for a good cause.
8. Our Corpus is reasonable though more will make it more
convenient to hold national workshops. We use only the interest from
the fixed deposits for our expenditure. As per the report of the
treasurer, we have fixed deposits of
Rs 11,43,322.30. Income during the year 2010-11
through interest, life membership fee and donation was Rs 1,30,060
and we have been very strict with our expenditure and have
limited it to Rs
Rs. 58,000/-
only.
9. Our accounts are audited by M/S M.L.Puri & Co As required
by law, SSV files income tax returns .
10. All members are requested to devote some of their time
towards the activities and objectives of SSV in whatever way they
deem fit. The term of the present EC comes to an end in September,
2011. Nominations for the new EC will be greatly appreciated.
R.K.Kotnala Indra Mani Mishra
Prof.K.L.Chopra.
Secretary
Treasurer President
Minutes of the 17th Annual
General Body Meeting (AGM) of the Society for
Scientific
Values
The Seventeenth AGM was held at 5.30
p.m. on March 17, 2010 at National Physical Laboratory immediately
after the 5th Professor A S Paintal Memorial lecture
delivered by Dr Ramasami , Secretray DST. It was attended by 24
members of the Society.
The President welcomed the members. He
talked about the various activities undertaken by SSV during the
year and urged member to actively participate in the activities of
the Society .
The AGM decided as follows :.
-
The annual report of the activities
of SSV by the Secretary ,as attached, was approved.
-
The Financial Report for FY 2008 –
09 was presented by the Treasurer and approved. A copy of
audited accounts for 2008 – 09 is attached.
-
The members discussed at length
various ways of making SSV role more effective besides nurturing,
sensitisation activities and as a watch dog. It was suggested
that some more activities be planned after discussion with
members
-
Dr. P. N. Tiwari suggested that a
course of lectures/reading material on Ethical Issues , Values and
Conduct be compiled and posted on our Open Access website .A
committee consisting of the following was requested to compile the
requisite material in different domains:
1)
Dr. Indira Nath (Bioethics)-
Coordinator
2)
Dr. Raghu Ram (Bioethics)
3)
Dr. Indramani (Agriculture)
4)
Dr. P. N. Tiwari- Convenor
5. Dr. Indira Nath was requested to
write a suitable proposal for a Seminar / Workshop on
Bioethics to be submitted to ICMR for obtaining grant-in-aid.
6. The AGM approved the
election of Dr Indira Nath , Prof. N.R.Jaganathan, and Dr. S. N.
Singh to the EC against the existing vacancies.
-
The suggestion of Prof. Sisir Sen
that SSV membership should be open to persons from humanities
and social science background was approved
-
Dr Krishan Lal pointed out the need
for updating and maintaining of the list , addresses and email
IDs of the members. . It was agreed that the Secretary will
circulate the list to all the members and request them to help in
updating the information on the basis of their personal knowledge
-
The AGM decided to remove Dr. P. K.
Nagar from the primary membership of SSV with immediate effect
because of his publication of a plagiarized article in the News
&Views of SSV.
-
The AGM congratulated Prof. Sisir
Sen on his being awarded the National Medal Award 2008 for
Excellence by Ministry of Mines ,GOI on Feb. 27, 2010.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks
to the chair.
Sd/-
R. K. Kotnala
Secretary SSV

Minutes of the 16TH AGM and 73rd EC Meeting
of SSV held on 6th Apiril 2009 at NPL, New Delhi
The
Executive Council meeting of Society for Scientific Values (SSV)
was held on 6th April 2009 at 3 pm in NPL under the chairmanship
of Prof. K. L. Chopra (President of SSV).
The meeting was attended by Drs. K L Chopra, ,P.N.Srivastava, N.
Raghuram, R K.Kotnala, Indramani Mishra, Hari Kishan, J C
Sharma, Sisir Sen, P N Tiwari and Bimla Buti. The following
decisions were taken
Prof. Chopra welcomed all the members.
First of all the members expressed their condolences for the sad
demise of Prof. Ajit Ram Verma, founder member. The members
observed 2 minutes silence to pay homage to him and it was decided
that condolence message will be sent to the bereaved family of
Prof. A. R. Verma.
The minutes of the last meeting were deliberated and approved
unanimously.
The Hony. Secretary (R. K. Kotnala) informed to all the members
about progress made for getting Income Tax Exemption for SSV.
Further he informed about submission of report submitted to DST.
It was also decided that the utilization of fund/report will be
sent to AICTE soon (in near future).
Dr. P. N. Tewari requested to get him relieved from Editorship of
New & Views magazine and Dr. Santa Chawla shall take this
responsibility. President requested Dr. Tewari to be in advisory
role for N & V. It was agreed upon by EC members.
Dr. Kotnala informed that Miss Preeti, was hired at a consolidated
payment of Rs.4000/- p.m. for the International Conference on
Magnetism work. She has worked very satisfactorily and requested
that her services to be utilized for the SSV office work. All the
members unanimously agreed that her services should be utilized
for the SSV work w.e.f. 1st April 2009 at a consolidated salary of
Rs.4000/- p.m.
Dr. Radesh Suri, Joint Secretary informed that book writing on
ethics job may be given to someone else due to his paucity of
time.
Prof. P. N. Srivastava suggested to hire anexpert to write book on
ethics in Science & Engineering. Here, Dr. P. N. Tewari showed
his interest to write such book and asked for some help from Prof.
K. L. Chopra.
It was further decided that Prof. Chopra will contact US Academy
of Sciences for course work on ethics and will send the
information to other members particularly to Dr. P. N. Tiwari
through e-mail.
There was a lot of discussion about Dr. Babbar’s (Delhi
University) case Dr. Raghuram informed about Prof. Babbar’s
papers, template copying etc. After a lot of discussions it was
concluded that Dr. Babbar has recycled some of the portion from
his own papers in proceedings. In this context Dr. Raghuram was
requested to enquire whether any inquiry against Dr. Babbar is
pending with Aquatic Botany Journal or not.
It was also decided that the case of Ph.D. student of Delhi
University, who has published two papers with different titles
with almost the same text, this case may be put on the website of
the SSV.
Prof. Ram Pal Tandon’s resignation from the EC membership of SSV
has been accepted as he is unable to spare time for this activity.
Following new members nominations have been approved:-
1. Prof. N. Jaganathan ,AIIMS
2. Dr. Nahar Singh Mehta CSIO, Chandigarh
3. Dr. Randhawa (already approved in the earlier EC meeting)
4. Dr. Kulwinder Singh CSIO, Chandigarh
5. Dr.Vijay Kumar, ICMR
Many other cases of plagarisation such as Sitaraman’s Science
Congress, Randhawa’s Secretary General AIU were discussed and
resolved that sensitive cases should be put on the website of SSV.
Dr. Kotnala informed EC that a conference on Ethics in August 2009
can be organized at Patna Women’s College, Patna provided SSV
bears the expenses involved on food & tea in the conference. The
arrangement was agreed upon, further he informed the same
intention of Punjab University for organizing a conference on
ethics, it was unanimously accepted.
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Condolence Message
We EC members of the Society for Scientific Values (SSV), New
Delhi deeply mourn the sudden demise of Dr. A. R. Verma, Ex –
Director NPL and a founder member of SSV was a dedicated, hard
working and good natured scientist. His passing away has saddened
our hearts. We pray the almighty to grant peace and eternal bliss
to the departed soul & give strength to the bereaved family to
bear the loss.
(K. L. Chopra)
President, SSV

Minutes of the 15th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP
Minutes of the 15 th Annual General Meeting of SSV held on Oct 24, 2007
The AGM was held at 4:30 pm on Oct 24, 2007 at Delhi University . The meeting was attended by the following members of the Society.
R.K. Kotnala, R.P. Tandon, U.C. Lavania, S.K. Sen, R. S. Kaushal, B. Buti, P.N. Srivastava, N. Raghuram, Indramani, B.B.G. Tilak, M.P. Srivastava, V.D. Vankar.
The minutes of the meeting are as follows :
- The President presented the annual report of the Society. The report is attached.
- As per the earlier decision of the EC, those members of EC who do not attend three consecutive meetings of the EC without taking a leave of absence may be replaced. Accordingly, the following members need to be replaced:
Dr Ashima Anand, Dr B B Sharma, Dr Prankishan, and Dr Swaranjit Singh.
The members were asked to nominate replacements. The following names were nominated and approved by the AGM:
Dr R Kotnala as Joint Secretary ; Dr Vasantha Muthuswamy, Dr Harikrishna and Dr J C Sharma as members of EC.
Also approved were Dr Santa Chawla and Dr S. Gupta as Associate Editor of News & Views and Prof S Sen and Dr Bikash Raymahashay as members of the Editorial Advisory Committee.
On behalf of SSV and on my behalf, I express our gratitude to the outgoing members for their service to the Society.
- The AGM approved the institutional membership of Rajiv Gandhi Technical University , Bhopal . A one-time membership fee of Rs 10,000/- was approved. The University will be listed on our website, will be entitled to receive our News & Views, and will receive assistance in the process of sensitization of its faculty and students for ethical conduct of R&D activities.
- The members discussed at length various ways of making the vision and mission of the Society more visible to the scientific community and public at large. Suggestions included more institutional seminars at different places in the country, popular articles in media and appropriate journals/ magazines, and media press conference. The EC will take appropriate steps in this direction.
- The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
K L Chopra
President, SSV

Minutes of the 14th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP The meeting was held on 11 May 2006 at NPL. It was attended by 22 members: -
Prof. K.L. Chopra, -
Prof. P.N. Srivastava, -
Dr. P.M. Bhargava, -
Dr. N. Raghuram, -
Dr. Indramani Mishra, -
Dr. Bimla Buti, -
Dr. B.B.G. Tilak, -
Dr. P.S. Datta, -
Dr. P.N. Tiwari, -
Dr. R.K.Kotnala -
Dr. Ashima Anand, -
Dr. B.D. Malhotra, -
Dr. K.Satyanarayana, -
Dr.R.S. Kaushal, -
Dr. N.D. Kaushika, -
Dr. B..B. Sharma, -
Dr. U.C. Lavania, -
Dr. Ram Kishore, -
Dr. Hari Kishan, -
Dr. Kishan Lal, -
Dr. A.V. Mohavir -
Dr. R.K. Suri. The following decisions were taken: -
The report of the President on the activities during 2005-2006 has been approved. -
The EC recommendation of shifting the Regd. office of SSV has been approved, as follows: "Due to some uncertainty , the present registered office of the Society may have to be changed. The AGM approved the change to any other convenient address as deemed fit by the EC. The Director , NPL may be requested by the President to permit the use of NPL address for the registered office of SSV." -
The EC recommendation of opening regional chapters of SSV has been approved and the EC has been authorised to work out the necessary modalities. -
The EC recommendation of replacing any EC member absent for three consecutive EC meetings (without information or sufficient reason) has been approved and the EC has been authorised to find suitable persons as replacements. -
The support rendered by Dr. Vikram Kumar to host various EC meetings, seminars and the GBM in NPL, and the efforts of Dr. R.K. Kotnala in making the necessary arrangements for all the events held at NPL are gratefully acknowledged. Sd/- N. Raghuram Secretary, SSV TOP  Minutes of the 13th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP The meeting was held at 5:00 pm on April 29, 2005 at the NRL Auditorium , Pusa Campus. The following members of the Society were present : -
Dr. P.S Datta -
Dr. B. Buti -
Dr. Ashima Anand -
Dr. Bansi Dhar Malhotra -
Dr. K. Satyanarayana -
Dr. N. D. Kanishka -
Dr. P. N. Tiwari -
Dr. S. K. Sharma -
Dr. B.B. Sharma -
Dr. Indra Mani Mishra -
Dr. K. L. Chopra -
Dr. R.S. Kaushal -
Dr. R. G. Sharma -
Dr. R. K. Kotnala -
Dr. B.B.G. Tilak -
Dr. N. Raghuram -
Dr. S.P. Singh -
Dr. B. Singh -
Dr. Vikram Kumar -
Dr. T.N. Chaudhary -
Dr. Rajesh Kochhar The AGM paid homage to the late Dr. AS Paintal, the founder President of SSV. Reports were presented by the Treasurer and the President. Briefly, our present SSV membership stands at 200. Rs. 7802/- were collected from new members during 2004. The Rs 1 Lakh grant by DST was fully utilized. The Society has a bank balance of Rs 1,17,241, primarily from the membership fees and the DST grant of Rs 1 Lakh for the FY 2004-2005. The grant was received in April 2005, but we understand from the DST that we will be allowed to spend the grant during 2005. The President reported on the various awareness /sensitisation Seminars given by him at IIT, Delhi, DCE, GGS Indraprastha University and NPL. At the invitation of the Chairman, Science Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C), the President made a presentation to SAC-C, making a case for institutional (Local) S&T Ethics Committees, and an autonomous National S&T Ethics Committee, acting as Watchdog-cum-Think Tank for the country. What the government will do is not clear at present. The President mentioned that a number of cases of unethical practices have been reported to SSV. Some of these have been examined in detail. The decision regarding which of these cases will be put up on the SSV website will be taken by the EC. The next Newsletter (in process) will carry more information on the subject. The AGM approved the following : -
Due to some uncertainty , the present registered office of the Society may have to be changed. The AGM approved the change to any other convenient address as deemed fit by the EC. The Director , NPL may be requested by the President to permit the use of NPL address for the registered office of SSV. -
Any two officers of EC, namely President , Vice President, Secretary , or Treasurer be authorized for operating accounts of the SSV. -
Research students and young researchers may be nominated and elected by the usual procedure for Associate Membership of SSV for a period of three years and on payment of membership fee of Rs 300. -
Institutional ( academic and R&D ) membership of SSV through the regular procedure of election of a member at a life-time fee of Rs 5000 be accepted. -
Donations and sponsorship by corporates be accepted. -
Keeping in mind that the society has no office and very limited funds , a paperless and electronic office is the only way to serve the membership. As one of its consequences, the procedure for election of the new EC stands simplified and amended as follows : "The EC will prepare a list of nominees for the new Executive Council and send the ballot paper slate to the SSV members by E-mail / post for approval or otherwise of each nominee. The ballot will have blank spaces for any other nomination to be suggested by the member". The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair. TOP  Minutes of the 12th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP 12th Annual General Body Meeting of the SSV held on 8th March, 2004 at INSA, New Delhi The following were present: -
Dr. K.L. Chopra -
Dr. A.S. Paintal -
Dr.(Mrs.) Indira Nath -
Dr. P.N. Tiwari -
Dr. Krishan Lal -
Dr.(Mrs.) Ashima Anand -
Dr. A.C. Jain -
Dr. Pran Krishan -
Dr. R.C. Kaushal -
Dr. Inder Mani Mishra -
Dr. Sanjay K. Sharma -
Dr. B.B. Sharma -
Dr. P.S. Datta Dr. P.N. Srivastava, Dr. Narendra Nath, Dr. P.N. Bhargava, Dr. Lalji Singh, Dr. S.R. Valluri, Dr. H.D. Kumar, Dr. V.P. Dimri, Dr.(Mrs.) Vasantha Muthuswamy, Dr. A.V. Moharir, Dr. Radesh Suri conveyed their inability to attend the meeting due to prior commitments. The President SSV welcomed all the members present. The Agenda items were discussed and the following decisions were taken: -
The minutes of the 11th AGB meeting of the SSV were confirmed. -
The President, SSV gave an overview of the various activities of the SSV in the recent past and present, briefed the members on the actions taken on the earlier decisions of the SSV and the proposed future activities of the SSV. He emphasized on increasing the number of members and participation of more and younger persons to enhance the awareness on the ethical and moral issues and norms in pursuit of science. -
The Secretary, SSV presented an overview of the SSV activities and mentioned that despite limited infrastructure and facilities available with the SSV Secretariat, during the last one year, 5 Executive Council meetings and 2 AGB meetings have been organized. All the minutes of the various meetings were prepared and distributed to different members all over the country and abroad. A seminar on "Ethics in Science" was organized in INSA. The first issue of the SSV bulletin was brought out and the draft for the second bulletin is ready to be given to printer. Plans have been made to organize a panel discussion/seminar to be held at IIT, Delhi on 7th of April, 2004. 15 new life members were elected. Relevant correspondences were made with DST for release of DST fund and succeeded in getting the funds released by the end of the year 2003. Materials were provided for web site and web site was updated. -
The Treasurer presented the expenditure statement and informed that the balance amount from the DST fund during this financial year will be utilised. -
The letter of Dr. S.R. Valluri regarding code of conduct was distributed to all the members present. A draft document on the code of conduct prepared by Dr. P.N. Tiwari was also distributed to all the members. The members felt that both these documents have several points which are very important and many of the points are of common nature. Mention was also made of the following code of conduct documents: Max Planck Society, Germany document, adopted by the CSIR; Alliance of European Academies and Universities Document; US Office of Research Integrity. The President suggested that it will be worthwhile to integrate these documents along with the suggestions made in several other available many other similar documents. Dr. P.N. Tiwari, Dr.(Mrs.) Indira Nath and Dr. B.B. Sharma were requested to integrate such available documents and prepare a draft document for wide circulation to the members, academic institutions and the concerned GOI departments. -
The members urged that the Minister of Science & Technology be again requested for continuing the grant by the DST and the possibility of having a permanent Office of Research Integrity in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat or at any other appropriate place be explored. The meeting ended with vote of thanks to the Chair. President, SSV Secretary, SSV TOP  Minutes of the 11th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP
Minutes of the Annual General Body meeting of the SSV held on 28th
April, 2003 at INSA premises.
The following were present:
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Dr. K.L. Chopra -
Dr. A.S. Paintal -
Prof. A.R. Verma -
Dr. P.N. Srivastava -
Prof. N. Nath -
Dr. P.N. Tiwari -
Dr. Kishan Lal -
Dr.(Mrs.) Ashima Anand -
Dr. H.K. Prasad -
Dr. I.M. Mishra -
Dr. P.S. Datta
Dr. P.N. Bhargava, Dr. G. Govil, Dr. Lalji Singh, Dr. V.P. Dimri,
Dr. Rajiv Raman, Dr. R.V. Rastogi, Dr. K.L. Pathak, Dr. Prem Narain
and Dr. Indira Nath conveyed their inability to attend the meeting
due to prior commitments.
A condolence was expressed for Prof. J.N. Kapur by observing two
minutes silence. Prof. J.N. Kapur contributed significantly in different
activities of the SSV.
The President, SSV gave an overall view of the various activities
of the SSV in the past and present, briefed the members on the actions
taken on the earlier decisions of the SSV, the proposed future activities
of the SSV, and a brief description of the talks delivered by different
speakers in the seminar on Ethics in Science. He suggested that
participation of more and younger persons is required to enhance
the awareness on the ethical and moral issues and norms in pursuing
science. This requires increasing membership of active scientists
as well as non-scientists committed to the objectives of the SSV.
Finally, Dr Chopra mentioned that DST is considering our request
sympathetically for providing some financial support to run the
routine activities of the SSV. The agenda was discussed and following
decisions were taken.
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As recommended by SSV-EC, it was agreed that life membership
fee be increased to Rs.500/- without admission fee and that for
the NRIs be fixed at $100.
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SSV should make an effort to interact with and involve all
scientific Societies with similar objectives on discussing ethical
issues in the pursuit of science and technology. In this connection
the President, SSV will also write a letter to Mrs. Shashi Mishra,
Additional Secretary, ICAR who has shown keen interest on ethical
issues in pursuing agricultural science through establishment
of a National Academy in ICAR complex.
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It was resolved that the President, SSV will write to the UGC,
AICTE, ICMR, ICAR etc. that SSV recommends strongly that, as a
measure of ethical concern, all approved Ph.D. thesis should list
the names of the thesis examiners.
Funds permitting, SSV will make an effort to organize an International
Conference on Ethics in Science at the end of next year at INSA
premises.
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Minor constitutional amendments (attached) in the SSV constitution
recommended by the EC were discussed and approved for placing
before the members for approval as per rules.
The meeting ended with vote of thanks to the Chair.
( K.L. CHOPRA ) ( P.S. DATTA )
President, SSV Secretary, SSV
Minor amendments suggested in the SSV constitution
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Membership of active non-scientists committed to the aims and
objectives of the SSV.
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Life membership fee be increased to Rs.500/- without admission
fee and that for the NRIs be fixed at $100.
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In the entire Rules & regulations, wherever 'he' occurs,
it should be deemed to include 'she", and similarly for him,
his, etc., the proper cognates deemed to have been included. It
needs to be put at the top of all the Rules.
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