Announcing Formation of National Executive

[Bharat Uday Mission - Joint Secretary(Admin)]

Dear Members of the Mission,

Yet another milestone has been achieved in the consolidation of the organization under the Constitution (attached). The National Executive of Bharat Uday Mission has been formed from among the members of National Council by CONSENSUS. With this we complete a major part in the implementation of the constitution and begin working in a democratic setup in the Mission. The members of N.E. are as follows (in alphabetical order):

Abhijit K (Pune) Joint-Secretary-Admin ( abhi...@gmail.com, 9960139666)
Aditya G (Nashik), Joint-Secretary-Social ( aditya...@gmail.com ,9822507135)
GyanRanjan S (Chennai), Treasurer (erg...@yahoo.co.in, 9444186821)
Vikram B (Delhi), General Secretary ( bhatv...@yahoo.com, 9310610006)

The roles and responsibilities of these members will be as defined in Article 3.6 in Constitution (attached). To summarise them for
* Treasurer shall be responsible for Overall financial matters in BM (including accounts and fund raising)
* Joint Secretary Admin shall look after Administrative-issues of the organization
* Joint Secretary Social shall look after ALL ground work activities in the mission
* General Secretary shall be the Coordinator of the team and responsible for all other issues.

The National Executive will be responsible to National Council. National Council is the highest decision making body of BM, and can veto any decision of National Executive by a simple majority.

All the other teams (like website team, internal-policies-team, etc) will start reporting to N.E. with immediate effect. N.E. will soon sort out the details of this.

The post of Moderatorbm (Writing this mail) stands dissolved. Its responsibilities will be handled by NE as a team henceforth.

Regards,
Abhijit K
Joint Secretary-Admin (Using the id of moder...@gmail.com for convenience)

Likely FAQ on this issue (Modified after earlier mail of National Council Annoucement) :

* What happens to moderatorbm
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Moderatorbm used to be the "all-authority" post in BM. Moderatorbm's authority was dissolved with formation of National Council. With formation of National Executive, Moderatorbm's post is dissolved. The authorities of Moderatorbm get distributed among N.E. members as defined in the constitution.

* What is the National Council
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According to the Constitution, it is the highest decision making body of Bharat Uday Mission. It consists of one representative of each "Active" Chapter of the Mission.

* What happens to the central team and other teams
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The central team stands dissolved. However the other teams of the mission (details ahead in FAQ), will continue to work. So the day to day work in the mission will not get affected. The other existing teams will work under the directions of National  Council henceforth.

* What happens to all yahoo/google groups
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They continue as mediums of communication ONLY , but NO LONGER stand for "membership" of BM. Membership of BM will be as per the constitution.

* What is the National Executive
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N.E. has been chosen out of members of N.C. The N.E. will look after day-to-day work of  the Mission and will have full decision making powers, subject to a "veto" by National Council. N.E. will include a "General Secretary", "National Treasurer",and Joint Secretary(ies) in the beginning.

* What is an "active" Chapter
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The constitution defines an active chapter. You must have READ THE CONSTITUTION to understand. Henceforth the National Council will decide whether a chapter is active or not.

To begin with, the "central team" that had existed before had asked chapters their details and from those details we selected the "first set of Active Chapter".

WE WANT THAT ASAP, ALL CHAPTERS BECOME ACTIVE CHAPTERS.

The constituent assembly is currently discussing an amendment to provide non-voting membership of National Council to all the other chapters.

Following chapters have been put UNDER IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION  of National Council for giving the status of "active chapter" : Aurangabad , Bhopal, Mumbai, Sonepath, Ujjain. Riverside (USA) chapter has sent its information, but it is considered as a  "remote chapter" as per constitution.
 

* Which chapters sent information, who are their chpater executive members?

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View the document at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p2OxNTK5lZ7Se6ku8_Bx8dQ
All this information will be made available on the website soon.

* What are the benefits/responsibilities of being an active chapter
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Benefits:
1) representation in national council
2) will get a certificate-of-chapter/certificate-of-authorised-signatory from "Bhumi" organization and would be able to do operations "legally" in its name (including using letterhead, seal, issuing receipts for money, etc)
Responsibilities:

* Will have to comply to all legal requirements of being a part of organization "bhumi" as well.

* Will have to energise other chapters and try to include as many chapters as "active" chapters.

* Support the new/idle chapters in their activities.

* Who are the members of National Council
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Active Chapter   Representative    Contact
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Bangalore   Ramji T           ramji.t...@gmail.com , 9900165574
Chennai     Gyanranjan S         erg...@yahoo.co.in, 9444186821
Delhi          Vikram B          bhatv...@yahoo.com, 9310610006
Gwalior       Rahul T           sanskr...@yahoo.co.in,9425724603
Nashik       Aditya G          aditya...@gmail.com,9822507135
Pune          Abhijit K         abhi...@gmail.com, 9960139666

NOTE:
1) This List is NOT EXHAUSTIVE.
2) This list is OPEN FOR ADDITIONS, subject to: A chapter sending the details of active,associate members and details of their activities to existing national council and the council approving the entry of the chapter into itself.

* What is BM_NationalCouncil yahoogroup
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It is a medium of communication for National Council Members. It is publicly readable for all (in accordance with the principle of Transparency in organization).

* Why is my chapter not represented in the National Council
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Check out if You had sent the chapter information (including active/associate members and activities) to bhumi...@gmail.com so far.
* If you did not send the info, that's the reason. If chapters are not being attentive to

   reasonable requests for information about themselves, there is little that can be done.
* If you had sent the info, then
  1) Either your mail was not noticed by human error. In this case PLEASE

      send a mail to  bhumi...@gmail.com and bring this to their notice.
  2) Or central team (few months back) felt that the chapter was not active.

       In this case also, you can send a mail again to bhumi...@gmail.com

       and complain! Its your right !. Every chapter has a right to demand consideration as an

       active chapter.

Overall Please Understand, that this is bound to be a SUBJECTIVE process. Please be

patient and have trust among ourselves and our un-biased opinions, according to accepted rules. We expect that very soon All the chapters that are doing activities shall be represented on National Council.  
 

* All that is fine, but where is the action plan for BM?

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Now that we have a legitimate, Properly defined organizational strcture in place, these things can be defined and implemented better. The National Executive/Council will define the action plan and get it implemented.

 

* What is constituent assembly, who are it's members
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BM_Constitution yahoogroup was formed with one representative from EACH CHAPTER (irrespective of its strength and age). This body has created the constitution. Hence it has been created democratically.

In accordance with accepted procedure, the body was pruned down to 6 members after the draft of constitution was ready. The current members are: Dr. Prahalathan K (Chennai) - Convener, Abhijit K (Pune) - Co-convener, Dr Kamal Kishor Sharma (Ahamadabad, Administrative issues representative), Sunil Sisodiya (Aurangabad), Ganesh (BM Usa), Amit Karande (Legal advisor, his candidature is subject to his own will).

This body will keep fine tuning the Constitution as per the need and recommendations of National Council.

* What are the other teams that are working
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1) The Information team (bhumi...@gmail.com) coordinated by Saurabh Bharat ( saurabh...@gmail.com, 9993049959, Gwalior chapter)
2)  Internal Policy making team, coordinated by Muruganandan (Bangalore Chapter, anand...@gmail.com,9986159659),
3)  Constituent Assembly (An autonomous body) - Coordinated by Dr. Prahalathan K ( prahala...@gmail.com ,9884188016, chennai chapter)
4) A recently formed team under Avik Sarkar (Mumbai chapter, avik_...@yahoo.com , 9820267763) is working on compiling all the activities done by BM so far.
5) Finance team, coordinated by Rishikesh Y (Pune chapter, rishikes...@gmail.com, 9881466245) is working on consolidating all the accounts of all chpaters in BM. It will hand over responsibility to Treasurers in chapters and N.C, and will be dissolved.

 

All these teams did their work at http://groups.google.com/group/bm_coordinators a publicly readable group.

* I don't like some provisions of the constitution!
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Please write to Dr Prahalathan and National Council members.You can also discuss freely on BM_Dis...@googlegroups.com . A posting has been made there for general discussion among BM members.

* Is the constitution final?
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Both writing the constitution and implementing it are continous processes. The constitution has amendment provisions. So it is not rigid. The current document will undergo changes as per the needs of  the organization. 

 

* What about the other provisions of the constitution
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Other provisions like Election authority, Keeping records, etc. will come in existence gradually. The speed of implementation is in OUR HANDS, the faster we act, the faster it gets done.

 

* What about "Bhumi" organization registered in Chennai?
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The National Council will take a decision on replacing the existing executive of "Bhumi, chennai" to reflect the National Character of BM. (currently it consist of members of chennai chapter, for practical reasons). Other practical issues like Bank accounts are getting worked out soon. It will take "some" time for the active chapters to get "Certificate" of a chapter from "Bhumi". The time depends on how fast National Council acts, and government authorities co-operate.

* What is the exact relationship between "Bhumi" and Bharat Uday Mission
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In the arrangements so far: We needed "legal presence" for lot of activities. Hence "registration" as some organization (political or non-political) was necessary. National meet decided for immediate registration as a society. "Bhumi" registered under Tamilnadu Societies Act, is for that purpose. As we all know, Bharat Uday Mission does not exist by registration under any law (Clarification: That does not mean we are illegal :) ).

The Constitution (attached) is for Bharat Uday Mission. "Bhumi" has a separate constitution for the sake of legal reasons (sending in a separate mail soon). "Bhumi" will always serve the purpose of Bharat Uday Mission. It's control will be in the hands of National Council of Bharat Uday Mission. We will be using it for purposes, where we need to show a legal existence.

"Bhumi" (the name is acronym of Bharat Uday Mission) will serve as the representative organization for BM family. All activities of "Bhumi" will always be under the bigger Banner of Bharat Uday Mission.

* Where is a compilation of All information about BM kept
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More documents to come and to be put on website. Some of the documents are here:

Chapter Details: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p2OxNTK5lZ7TQzOBe9UuGJw
   - That is the situation in Early November as per Avik S, not updated later on
   -  Info has been recieved by bhumi.info/modertorbm afterwords; it has not been updated there.
      We are to get the info gathered in the same sheet. Please be patient.

Finance Details: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p2OxNTK5lZ7QzPXwBweRlAQ

Chapter Executives: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p2OxNTK5lZ7Se6ku8_Bx8dQ

Constitution of BM : Kept in files section on BM_NationalCouncil Yahoogroup

Registration Document of Bhumi Chennai : Kept in files section on BM_NationalCouncil Yahoogroup

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