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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.
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Young Neurosurgeons Forum is conceived on the principles of inclusive growth of society where I propose to
ensure one young neuroscientist to be part of the decision making body along with giving thrust to maximum
involvement of this population in day to day activities. An arbitrary classification is being put forth as 10 years
after attaining the basic qualification or below 45 years of age which so ever is earlier. At least one EC member
of Neurology & Neurosurgery can be from this group.
RESOLVED to make a forum which has one EC Member – Dr Manas Panigrahi with a group of young
neurosurgeons to involve them in the society and can present their views in the national meeting.
Practicing Neuroscientists Forum is another stratum to provide a platform for those clinicians who have
moved out of rigorous curriculum based activities and a secure umbrella of seniors into remote corners
without significant resources and protection. Sometimes a crucial decision making needs interactive platform.
Their problems certainly are different and needs to be addressed by the society as they form very significant
chunk of members. It can be assimilated with openings into scientific forum by designating specified scientific
programme during annual conferences or whole time digital based platform on website for discussion and
interaction.
RESOLVED to make a forum which has one EC Member – Dr V P Singh who can present their views in the
national conference.
Deliberations were made and the council was unanimous on the idea to involve the young and practicing
neuroscientists into the stream.
RESOLVED to have a social evening to interact for both Young Neurosurgeons & Practicing Neuroscientists
during annual meeting. Dr V P Singh was entrusted with the programme.
2012/December/AEC/11 – Website update
Deliberations were made regarding problems with the website. A need for an Interactive website was felt by
all. Discussions were made to link the Scientific Programme page of NSICON Website to the main NSI Page.
The issues involved with vendor were also discussed.
Renewal of Website contract: Discussions were made regarding the renewal of website contract.
RESOLVED that the position of Web Master is redundant and hence the post of webmaster is withdrawn with
immediate effect. The Secretary NSI can also look into the day to day activities of the website.
2012/December/AEC/12 – WFNS Course & NSI Involvement
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
December 2013.
2012/December/AEC/21 - Treasurer’s Report – Deepu Banerji
Dr Deepu Banerji presented the treasurers report.
*New Members after December 15, 2011 upto December 14, 2012) :-
Total New Members = 179 NSI Life Members = 56
NS = 49 (Neurosurgeons) , NP = 4 (Neurophysician), Others = 3
NSI Associate Members = 123
*Major Expenditure
1) Payment made for CME book Rs 5,26,473 (Byword Books).
2) Subscription fees WFNS World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies – Membership fees for 1109 NSI
members
(1109 X USD 8 = USD 8872 + bank charges ) = INR 4, 39, 138 /-)
3) Subscription fees annual membership 2011 and 2012 of International Society of Neuropathology.
(31 X CHF 945 + Bank Charges) = INR 53481/-
4) Money paid for orations (Bangalore Conference 2011):
Prof. Broggi Rs 33509 (EURO 500) Italy Oration
Prof. Servadei Rs 33509 (EURO 500) Italy Oration
Total Rs 67018 Inclusive Bank charges
It was raised to 1000 EUROs from this year onwards
5) Travelling Fellowship Paid To Residents And Young Neurosurgeons (After Bangalore conference 2011) :
S. No. NAME AMOUNT DEPARTMENT DETAILS
1 Dr Rajkumar Gandhi Rs 4230 Dept. of Neurosurgery,
Govt. Stanley Medical
College, Chennai
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
2 Dr K Sivakumar Rs 4540 Dept. of Neurosurgery,
Madurai Medical
College, Madurai
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
3 Dr HM Baba Dhoulath Khan Rs 4540 Dept. of Neurosurgery,
Madurai Medical
College, Madurai
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
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4 Dr N. Arun Kumar Rs. 4540 Dept. of Neurosurgery,
Madurai Medical
College, Madurai
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
5 Dr N Saravanan Rs 2500 Department of
Neurosurgery, Madras
Institute of Neurology,
Madras Medical College,
Chennai - 3
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
6 Dr s. Jothikumar Rs 2500 Department of
Neurosurgery, Madras
Institute of Neurology,
Madras Medical College,
Chennai - 3
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
7 Dr A Sendil Kumar Rs. 2500 Department of
Neurosurgery, Madras
Institute of Neurology,
Madras Medical College,
Chennai - 3
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
8 Dr. Manoranjitha Kumari Rs 2500
Department of
Neurosurgery, Madras
Institute of Neurology,
Madras Medical College,
Chennai - 3
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
Total Rs
27850/-
6) Nurses travelling fellowships (After Bangalore conference 2011) :
1 Neuro-nurse Mrs J Revathy Rs. 3000
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
2 Neuro-nurse
Mrs Angela
Gnanadurai Rs. 5200 Kerala
TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIP
Total Rs 8200/-
1 Dr Kumbhar Kartik Rs 5000 Travel Grant
2 Dr Shejoy P. Joshua Rs 5000 Travel Grant
3 Dr S.S. Dhandapani Rs 5000 Travel Grant
4 Dr Mazda Turel Rs 5000 Travel Grant
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7) Awards at Bangalore NSICON 2011 :
8) Sponsorship received from SUN PHARMA Rs 1, 50, 000/- & receivable Rs 35, 628/- for 1st NSI – Education
Cell, Mumbai. (Traveling expenses paid for PG students = Rs 1, 03, 900 /- , Traveling expenses paid for
National Faculty = Rs 79, 127 /-, *Miscellaneous = Rs 2000/- )
9) Payment sent to Editor, Neurology India Rs 5, 00, 000/-
10) Payment towards Election of President Elect. Rs 75, 000/-
11) Book keeping and other matters related to Finance :
*Bank A/C :
1) HDFC (opened mainly for payment gateway) Current Balance: Rs 1, 13, 094 /- (till 31/12/2012)
2) IOB (BH Extn Marine lines) Current Balance: Rs 1580392/- (10/12/2012)
3) Secretary A/C in Agra
4) Neurology India A/C in Hyderabad
*Investments
1. FD in HDFC Bank Rs 10,00,000/- (Rs Ten Lakhs) - expires on 18/04/2013 (DOC :- 2/4/2011)
2. Deposit Investment in HDFC ( 15 lacs, reinvested as Rs 16,94,753/- + Rs 20,00000 /- Deposited this
year Expires on 14/12/2014)
3. RBI Bonds and remaining amount and FD’S (C/o Mr O P Mishra, Delhi)
Rs. 10,00,000/- (Rs Ten Lakhs), expired on 05/01/2012 (tfr with intt in NSI a/c, Mumbai IOB)
Rs, 10,00,000/- (Rs Ten Lakhs), expires on 17/12/2013, Rs. 5,00,000/- expires on 04/09/2014
Total =1500000/ in RBI bonds
4. FD’s:- in Indian Overseas Bank (IOB, Mumbai ) from RBI Bonds.
Rs 50, 00, 000/- (Rs Fifty Lakhs) expires on 10/11/2012 (DOC:- 28/2/2011). Extended for 2yrs of the
maturity value of Rs.6028434/ till 22.12 2014
Rs 10, 00, 000/- (Rs Ten Lakhs) expired on 10/11/2012 (DOC:- 28/02/2011) Maturity value Rs 1205688/
extended as fixed deposit for 2 yrs
Rs 25,00,000/- (Rs Twenty Lakhs expires on 28/08/2013 (DOC:- 28/08/2012).
12) Received share of income of Rs 15,00,000/- from NSICON 2011 at Bangalore in December, 2011 and Rs 12,
83, 825 /- in March 3, 2012, and Rs 14, 57, 291/ - in August 2012. {Total Rs 39,41,116/-}. The council
thanked NSICON 2011 for their contribution and applauded the same. It is the largest contribution till now.
13) The audited accounts were put up for the council’s perusal.
The council discussed the need for a permanent office where all the records and data can be managed.
5 Dr Aliasgar V. Moiyadil Rs 2500 Travel Grant
6 Dr Anirudh Kulkarni Rs 2500 Travel Grant
7 Dr Deepak Kumar Singh Rs 5000 Travel Grant
8 Dr N. Arunkumar Rs 5000 Travel Grant
9 Dr M Ganesh Kumar Rs 2500 Travel Grant
10 Dr Deepak Agarwal Rs 2500 Travel Grant
Total Rs. 40000/- Travel Grant
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14) Support for International Fellowship / seminar/ Conference: There has been request from young
neurosurgeons for partial support. The treasurer was of the view that sponsorship up to Rs 50000/ every
year for 2 to 3 candidates – who are life members can be given. There can be a committee comprising –
President / President Elect and Hon. Secretary to recommend after looking into the details like income /
authenticity of conference / workshop / fellowship and recommendation by HOD or President of regional
Society Neurosciences.
14) Increase in amount of Expenditure of Treasurer’s and Secretary’s office as per actual expenses incurred.
15) Increase in Salary of Accountant to Rs 30000
16) Buying an exclusive Laptop for Treasurer to keep all the data and information in one place and updating by
CA. This will be carried forwards to next treasurer.
The report was acknowledged and unanimously approved.
2012/December/AEC/22 – NSICON 2012 Update
Dr Sarat Chandra briefed on final stages planning and execution on the preparations of NSICON 2012. He
informed the council that the stage is set for the final action. The total registrations received as on date are
1170 out of which 800-850 are neurosurgeons, 90-100 neurologists, 45-50 international delegates, 180-200
accompanying persons including children and 90-100 Neuro-Nurses. Out of these 91 speakers have still not
registered and 150 people from Delhi are also expected to register on spot. He further informed that the
Public Awareness Lecture was setup up in the main auditorium at 4 pm and the members shall immediately
proceed to the hall after the council meeting. Dr Sarat informed the members that he had almost taken all the
sponsorships from the trade fraternity prior to the conference barring one company and the financial status
was comfortable.
The council expressed concern on the people who have still not registered and deliberations were made to
solve this issue on priority.
The concerns regarding the finances were raised and discussed.
2012/December/AEC/23 - Editor’s Report – J M K Murthy
Dr J M K Murthy presented the editors report before the council on the performance and finances of the
journal in the past one year.
He brought to the attention of the members that the impact factor of Neurology India for the year 2011 is
0.956 based on the number of citations of the articles published in 2010 and is a significant improvement over
the impact factor for the year 2010.
Till date 12.12.2012 the total number of submission is 1042. Their performance indices are quite impressive.
The mean number of days until paper is under review: 18.48 days. The mean number of days from first
submission to acceptance: 56.85 days (range 0.223) and the mean number of days from acceptance to
publication: 41.10 days (range 10.161). As on 12.12.2012, of the 1024 articles have been submitted, 178 (17%)
articles have been accepted, 775 (76%) articles have been rejected, and 71 (7%) are under review or revision.
The ratio between original article and case reports published in the year 2012 volume is 3.2:1. All the issues
have been placed on the website well in time. The November-December will be on the website in the third
week of December.
The financial position of the journal has been sound like last year. In the year 2012 the total amount that we
had paid to the publisher till date is Rs 15,60,459 out of which we could raise Rs 11,31,838. Till date got Rs
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5,00,000 from the Treasurer, NSI. We will have to pay for two issues Sept-Oct and Nov-Dec issues. After all the
payments the present bank balance is Rs 1,29,189. I am also happy to say that the auditor has not charged for
auditing the accounts since I took over as Editor, 2009.
The report was acknowledged and unanimously approved.
2012/December/AEC/24 - CME Convenor Report – Dr V P Singh, Dr M D Nair
Dr V P Singh and Dr M D Nair presented the council with the updated CME report. Dr Singh informed that a
new team of CME convenors has taken over and aim to revamp the CME and give it a new perspective. He also
informed that the format of feedback forms has been introduced to get the thoughts of the attendants.
Scheduling
Continue with the format of one common session and three concurrent sessions.
Introduce a lunch symposium to cover a specific topic in detail.
Abolish afternoon tea break to save time.
Choice of topics
Focus more on common topics rather than esoteric topics so that knowledge gained in the CME is relevant in
the day to day clinical practice of neurologists & neurosurgeons.
Presentation should be scientific – reviewing the current status – should have a take home message.
Section on Advances – showcasing newer knowledge or current state of art management.
Section on Evidence Based – giving the evidence for commonly used treatment modality or newer modalities.
Section on Controversies – a debate on controversial topics – between two treatment approaches.
Choice of speakers
Should be the neuro leaders of tomorrow.
Should be good speakers so that they can communicate well.
Should be working in the field personally so that present with authority and not present bookish knowledge.
Speakers of this 3 yrs slot should not have presented in the last 3 yrs slot as far as possible.
Introduce evaluation forms
The issue of getting advertisement for the CME Books was discussed.
2012/December/AEC/25 – NSICON 2013 Update
Dr Sankhla made a presentation regarding the arrangements and the proposed registration fees for the 2013
conference. The venue is located centrally in the heart of the city and accessible to Marine drive and nearby
Credit Notes adjusted Previous Balance Balance receivable
Other than Advt Advt TDS on Advt
189,954 159,610 3,192 Nov 76/ Dec 92/ Jan 184/ Jan 98 85,804
215,736 129,618 2,212 'Feb 97/ Mar 93/ Mar 237/ Mar 238 85,804 127,825
82,251 86,239 16,849 Royalty 127,825 250,521
42,855 68,219 11,107 Royalty 250,521 396,729
15,274 396,729 412,003
89,137 68,219 15,736 Royalty 412,003 492,991
Credit Note amt/Royalty
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starred hotels. Various halls are also available for the presentations, all conference services available along
with huge exhibition area and food court. The facilities available at this site were found appropriate for the
conference. On the spot suggestions and interaction came up with the organizers and due alterations were
accepted by them for smooth conduct of the conference. The scientific programme was also discussed and
approved.
2012/December/AEC/26 – Change in Election Process
Deliberations regarding change in the election process were made. Dr Deopujari presented a few proposals for
discussion.
Dr Deopujari proposed a change in the election process. A Maximum of 15 members to be elected for the EC.
Elections will be conducted every 3 years as per the present norms but no yearly election for the president.
Legibility will be the same as of now for EC members and we may continue with the quota for different
specialties and/ or incorporate regional representation as per the current practices.
They will nominate- President, President elect, Vice President (to suit the 3 yr term )
The idea of adding a post of vice president is to have a third tier which will avoid the yearly election and the
vice president will get elevated to president elect in the second year and eventually becoming president in the
third year.
The top 5 posts (the officers of the society) should have served at least 1 previous term in EC. This will
necessarily mean that there will a 2 tier EC election, For top 5 posts existing or past EC members can contest
while other posts will continue to have the present criteria for eligibility.
Chairmen of various Committees:
Education committee,
Liaison committee: domestic and international,
Residents and Young Member's committee,
Research committee,
Web and Publication committee,
Journal Editor,
Arbitration and Legal,
Women's,
Sub specialities,
Scientific
All these may be assigned a role by the officers of the society including editor or nomination may be possible
for Editor and Sub-Editor.
Each Chairmen can chose 3 members each for their committee from GB who will not have other privileges of
EC.
The matter was thoroughly discussed in the council. Though it seems to be good in principle, further thought
and finer points for execution need further deliberations: A committee of Prof. JMK Murthy, V. Rajshekhar, RC
Mishra, VP Singh and Deopujari should go through and give their suggestions to Mid term EC.
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The following may be included in the Byelaws:
Dr Deopujari also proposed to develop a" theme" for every annual conference in future
The council agreed on this proposal and resolved that it may be incorporated in scientific program in future.
Chairman, Scientific Committee to work out the modalities and incorporate or give recommendations
He further proposed that Award papers should be preferably published in Neurology India. Other
presentations may be given preference for publishing as well.
The council agreed to encourage presenters but subject to peer reveiw
Dr Deopujari also proposed that the president should be allowed at least 1 more talk in the conference.
The council unanimously agreed and advised the scientific Chairman to consider and incorporate accordingly.
Dr Deopujari further proposed to encourage non- medical talks ( at least 1 ), research and career
development talk for residents and young neuroscientists as well as a Practice management talk for others
The council agreed and advised the scientific committee to incorporate accordingly.
Dr. V.P.Singh will co-ordinate the practitioners forum with the secretary and scientific chairman and will have
a 60-90 minute late afternoon or evening session for practice management forum followed by a High Tea
Session.
Dr. Manas Panigrahi will co-ordinate with secretary and Scientific Committee chairman and will have a 60-90
minute session for young neurosurgeons forum in a late afternoon or evening slot ( High Tea Session )
Prof. JMK Murthy felt he could help out with development or co-ordination of research activities
Dr Deopujari also proposed that a Neurology scientific program may be condensed to 1 day Or one and half
day including CME and may consist of common interest topics emphasizing neurosurgery for neurologists and
vice versa.
The council agreed on this proposal and resolved that the Scientific Chairman will work with Dr. M.D. Nair for
CME and others for having the neurology program on CME afternoon and try to cover all neurology session on
the next day so that the Neurology members can leave after GB meeting
In absence of the President who had left for the public awareness programme, President-Elect Dr C E
Deopujari acknowledged all the Council Members for their active participation, support and co-operation. The
Council also thanked the warm hospitality and the arrangements made by Dr Sarat Chandra who despite
being so busy with the conference preparations took time and measures to smoothen the meeting. The
meeting ended on a positive note.