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Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) Minutes
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,
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+91-11-26742605, 26704551 . 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.:
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 :.
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 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
Minutes of the 15th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP
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 :
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:
The following decisions were taken:
Sd/- N. Raghuram Secretary, SSV
Minutes of the 13th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP The following members of the Society were present :
The AGM paid homage to the late Dr. AS Paintal, the founder President of SSV.
Minutes of the 12th AGM of the Society for Scientific Values: TOP
The following were present:
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 meeting ended with vote of thanks to the Chair.
President, SSV Secretary, SSV
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:
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.
The meeting ended with vote of thanks to the Chair. ( K.L. CHOPRA ) ( P.S. DATTA )
Minor amendments suggested in the SSV constitution
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