Date: 25 October 2022 SUB: NOTICE FOR CONDUCTING ELECTION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dear Praktani Members, This is to inform you that the Vidyapith Praktani Deoghar (KC) has issued directions for conducting Executive Committee elections for the tenure 2022-24. The currently appointed EC Members shall complete their term of office of two years to the date of the 5 th AGM. It is resolved that nominations for EC Panels shall be invited and elected as per the following guidelines: 1. Only those members who are registered with the Praktani by 10 th November 2022 will be eligible to become a part of the newly formed Executive Committee. 2. Nominations are invited to form the new Executive Committee consisting of a minimum of 9 (nine) and a maximum of 21 (twenty-one) Members. 3. Interested members may propose a panel of a minimum of 9 (nine) and a maximum of 21 (twenty-one) Members, and file a nomination for the same by filling in the nomination form. 4. The panels should also clearly propose their candidates for the positions of the President and the Secretary. 5. Nominations need to be filed online. The nomination form may be secured by sending an email to one of the Returning Officers. 6. Only those members who are registered with the Praktani by 10 th November 2022 will be eligible to vote during the AGM to be held at Vidyapith in November. 7. If the nomination is received for one panel only, the eligible panel will be considered elected unopposed. 8. During the AGM itself, the President of the Panel elected, will be handed over the list of Executive Committee members elected. With this the Election process shall be considered over and the role of Election Commission shall end. As per the guidelines, the newly elected Executive Committee will select the office-bearers at its first meeting, within one month of the formation of the Committee. Further, the Committee in its meeting held on 23 October 2022, approved the appointment of the following as the Returning Officers for conducting the elections: Mr. Bikas Kumar Singh (RKM 1984 batch) Vice President, Corporate Affairs at OYO Legal Professional Mobile: +91 78386 42688 Email: bikasksingh@gmail.com Dr. Anandadeep Mandal (RKM 1997 batch) Asst. Professor in Finance, University of Birmingham, UK Mobile: +44 74053 17234 Email: a.mandal@bham.ac.uk Key Dates: Letter inviting nominations: 25 October 2022 Last date for receipt of nominations: 13 November 2020 (5:00 PM IST) Scrutinization and Publication of nominations received: 15 November 2022 (5:00 PM IST) Last date for filing any objections to the nominations: 17 November 2022 (5:00 PM IST) Last date for withdrawal of nominations: 19 November 2022 (5:00 PM IST) Further communication related to the current voter list and the process to update the contact details on the voter list will be published through another notification. The voter list will also be published on the website https://www.praktani.rkmvdeoghar.com/ Best Regards, Prashant Tibrewal Hon. Secretary, Vidyapith Praktani
About us
The Association being an exclusive body of the alumni of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar, Jharkhand, is morally and spiritually duty bound and guided by the ideas and ideals as sermonized by Sri Ramakrishna, his spiritual consort Sri Sarada Devi and his principal disciple Swami Vivekananda and propagate the same amongst people in common. In practice follow and carry out the ideologies of Swami Vivekananda and his basic message that centre on the bedrock of the divinity of man and the glory and freedom of the “SELF”.
This Association being of a non-profit and non-political body founded solely with the objects to foster close relationship with all former students of Vidyapith, Deoghar and to maintain a close bond of fraternity and to assist all-round developments and smooth running of our Alma Mater in any capacity possible. Render humanitarian and charitable services and harmony in society at large. We are to uphold the ideals and tradition of Vidyapith and to guide fellow Alumni individually in their adult life so that they can take place in the society in accordance to principles learnt in our Vidyapith.
We always nurtured a special feeling for Vidyapith, our second home, and it is in the spirit of co-operation, service, understanding, compassion, forgiveness, give and take, and a feeling of universal fraternity as enunciated by Swami Vivekananda that our VIDYAPITH PRAKTANI is founded. We are the product of Vidyapith and we should be continuously alive with wide range of problems faced by us, particularly by the present generation of youth in the society and try to ameliorate and solve them to the best of our ability and be morally, physically and financially duty bound to our alma mater.
Furthermore, The Association secures to every member his divine right to Justice, Freedom, Equality, Fraternity and Unity. Therefore, if any one tries to disrupt this unity by thought, word or deed or disobeys the Association, he thus not only disobeys the Alma Mater, he also disqualifies himself to remain as a member of the Association.
That the Association will not participate in any political campaign or activities on behalf of any candidate or make expenditures for political purposes. Neither shall any Member use the Association for his personal gain or benefit including outside business, professional, or financial interests; interests arising from involvement in other organizations.
The word “Member” as mentioned here in above refers to Registered Members only as recorded in the Roster of Life Members as on date. Alumni’s other than Registered Members of the Association are not entitled to cast their votes in an election of the Association or for any other matter requiring the consent of a majority of Members in the functioning of the Association.
Apart from the reservations as stated in the foregoing para, all Alumni Brothers of Vidyapith irrespective of whether a Registered Member of the Association or not are always graciously welcomed to participate in all Reunions, Celebrations and Events as announced and conveyed periodically through our Website. However, our fervent request to all such Alumni Brothers, who hve not yet enrolled themselves as Life Members of our Association, to come forward and have themselves registered for the sake of solidarity and in strengthening the base of the Association to serve more potently for the cause of our esteemed Alma mater.
The Association is committed to INTEGRITY - HONESTY & CREDIBILITY.
Under no circumstances its past legacies,originality and respect for its originators and torch bearers should be diluted by the successors. Please remember that keeping our Alma mater in loop we are always questionable and answerable to our ultimate Alma mater, Ramakrishna Math and Mission,Belur Math. The messages conveyed by the Vice President and the General Secretay of the Order and by the Secretary Maharaj of our Vidyapith in appreciation to the launch of this official Website will further elucidte the objectives.
PRESENT STATUS
At the 25th. Annual General Meeting of Vidyapith Praktani held on November 17, 2013 a proposal was mooted by the Governing Council to have the Association Registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 as the Council was facing certain acute and major problems to operate without being a Registered Body. The proposal was well appreciated and accepted by all members present in the Meeting and necessary Resolution adopted.
Finally, in the year 2015 the Association, in contemplation of law became a Registered Body vide Certificate of Registration of Societies, West Bengal, Act XXVI of 1961 under the Serial No. S/2L/40159 of 2015-2016 dated July 24, 2015 issued under the hand and seal of Registrar of Firms, Societies & Non-trading Corporation, West Bengal in the name and style as “VIDYAPITH PRAKTANI DEOGHAR (Kolkata Chapter)”. The suffix “(Kolkata Chapter)” had to be added to avoid the complications in having the Association registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 in consideration of the Association having its entire operations executed from its Kolkata Office and Address since the inception.
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