Minutes of the GBM held in the 52nd annual conference of UPSOS(NOS) held on 28th October 2017 at Wood Castle Spa & resort Jim Corbett.

The meeting was adjourned as the Coram was not complete. 15 minutes after an adjourned meeting was held at the same place for which no Coram was required.

  1. Agenda no 1: The minutes of the last meeting was read and passed: proposed by Prof. SP Singh, Seconded by Dr. Anil Srivastava.
  2. There was no matter arising out ofit.
  3. Regarding agenda no 3 Dr. Abhishek Chandra informed that 4 journal editions have been published in his tenure for which his own resources were used. Dr. Malay Chaturvedi praised and the house applauded the efforts. Prof. Sksrivastava stated the need for indexing the journal. Prof. SP Singh and Prof. DJ Pande assured that they will help in the matter. Proposed by Dr. Abhishek Chandra, Seconded by Prof AM Jain.
  4. Agenda No 4:Dr. BN Chaudhary was absent and hence the report of editor proceedings was not read.Dr. DharmendraNath informed that he had forwarded all full texts of accepted papers to the editor proceedings. Prof. SK Srivastava said the proceedings should be sent to all members by posts. Dr. Mohita Sharma suggested that the proceedings be recorded, a video be prepared and a CD be distributed to the members. Dr. Malay Chaturvedi suggested that alink be made out of the proceedings and be uploaded into the website and message be sent to members. This was lauded by Prof. RC Gupta. Proposed by Dr. Shalini Mohan Seconded by Dr. VipinSahni.
  5. Agenda no 5: Dr.Shalini Mohan presented the treasurer report.The person managing day to day accounts and the email data be given a remuneration of 2000INR per month. Proposed by Dr. Anil Srivastava, Seconded by Dr. DharmendraNath.

Rupees 15000 for the awards of annual conference and 10000 for the midterm conference was approved. For SMS pack10000 and for e campaign 15000 was approved by the GBM. For website up gradation rupees 50000 was approved.

  1. Agenda No. 6: Regarding the scientific program certain suggestions have been made by the house. Prof. KamalJeetsingh said that the scientific program should be finalized at least one month before the annual conference. Prof Shrikant said that a calendar of events should be there. Prof Vinita Singh and Prof RC Gupta said that an event calendar already exists and they will inform the house in time.

The house was also informed about the EBM decision to have the invited faculty in a 30, 70 ratio with reference to outside the state vs. from state faculty. This was anonymously passed by the house.

  1. Agenda No. 7: Secretary’s report was presented and accepted Proposed by Prof. DJ Pande, Seconded Prof SK Srivastava.
  2. Agenda NO. 8:Topic of Mohan Lal Gold medal was Optics & refraction And it was given to Dr. Alka Gupta.
  3. Agenda no 9:Name of Prof Shrikant being elected unopposed for the post of vise president was approved by the society
  4. Agenda NO 10:12th midterm conference was allotted to Seetapur eye hospital, as later was the sole application.
  5. Agenda NO 11: After with-drawl of application from KGMU, Kanpur ophthalmic society remained the sole applicant and was awarded the 53rd annual conference.
  6. Agenda No 12: the house unanimously accepted that programs based on any sort of discrimination should not be included in any activity of the state specially the scientific programs.Proposed by Prof. AM Jain, Seconded by Prof. KJ Singh.
  7. Agenda No. 13:Amended bylaws have been on the website for more than 5 years and no suggestion of any amendment has come from any member and hence theses changes in the bylaws have been accepted by the GBM. Proposed by Prof. Srikant, Seconded by Dr.Juberi.
  8. Agenda No. 14:Lifetime achievement has been awarded to Prof.RPS. Bhatia &Prof. AM. Jain.
  9. Agenda No. 15: Society registration renewal is to be done, and will be executed under initiative from Prof. RC.Gupta.
  10. Agenda NO. 16: House was informed about the successful organization of central zone crusade meeting under the initiative from Dr. Malay Chaturvedi. It was announced that UP retina Forum was launched in the meeting. Some of the sponsorship amount for the meeting has been received in the account of UPSOS and would be refunded to the organizing secretary Dr. Malay Chaturvedi. Proposed byDr.Shalini Mohan, Seconded By Dr. RN Kushwaha.
  11. Agenda NO. 17:UP Glaucoma forum similar to UP Retina forum will be launched and Dr. Shalini Mohan will take the initiative.
  12. Agenda NO. 18:The executive body agenda of travelling expenses for the awardees and the spouse of the life time achievement award equivalent to 1st AC ticket for the awardees and the spouse has been accepted by the house with applause.
  13. Agenda NO. 19: 42 new members have been ratified and their names are being presented with this report. Their membership numbers are also included. They will now be merged with the parent group of ratified members on the website.
  14. Agenda NO.20: Regarding qualification to attend the UPSOS(NOS) related activities the house was of firm opinion that only qualified ophthalmologists ca be allowed to attend the activities. Proposed by Prof. Jilani, Seconded by Dr.TirupatiNath
  15. Agenda NO. 21:The issue of having central office was dropped and it was decided that the office of the society would continue to stay with the secretary general.
  16. Agenda NO. 22: The companies who would withdraw their participation after assurance in the last minute have to be discouraged. Such names should be brought into the notice of Executive body. After discussion at EBM such companies should be debarred from participating in the society activities for at least 2 years. Such names should be circulated to the members of our society. Also such “letter of criticism” would be sent to the higher officers of the company.Proposed by Dr. Mohita Sharma Seconded by Prof . SP Singh.
  17. Agenda No.23 : Any other matter: Prof RC Gupta Initiated the responsibility to publish a member directory from own resources. The directory would be distributed to all members. It was decide that the society will facilitate this activity. Proposed by Prof. RC Gupta, Seconded by Prof. KJ Singh.