INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
Functioning Office: 101 Dwarkamail, 25/B Pratapgunj, Vadodara 390 002
8 March 2010
Dear Life Member,
I invite you to attend the 24th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Canadian Studies to be held on 10-11 April 2010 at H. M. Patel Institute of English at Vallabh Vidya Nagar, Anand in Gujarat. Your are invited to send an abstract of their papers preferably through email in about 300 words by March 25, 2010 to the coordinator of the Conference at the following address: Professor Rajendrasinh Jadeja, Director, H. M. Patel Institute of English Training and Research ,Vallabh Vidya Nagar, Anand, Gujarat 388120. Email: iacsvadodara@gmail.com Please note that there is no registration fee for the conference and we shall be happy to provide accommodation on twin sharing basis and all the meals free of cost.
As you know, the last AGM was held at Jammu in 2007. Since then IACS has had no activity because the legally competent authorities had declared the then EC illegal. However, some members of this illegal EC filed an Appeal against the order of Assistant Charity Commission passed in May 2006. This Appeal was dismissed on 29 August 2009 and the following Final Order was passed by the Joint Charity Commissioner.
THE FINAL ORDER
I. The appeal is dismissed.
II. All the acting trustees working at the time when the appeal was filed will have to pay from his/her personal properties the sum of Rs. 2000/- (Rupees two thousand only) each that falls to each one’s share to the P. T. A. Funds at the office of the Joint Charity Commissioner, Vadodara within 30 days.
III. All the acting trustees working at the time when the appeal was filed will have to redeposit into the trust funds from their personal property the amount as it falls to each one’s share towards all collective expenses that have been incurred from the trust funds towards the legal suit within 30 days.
IV. It has been informed that until orders are issued from the competent authority the work has to be carried out in the interest of the organization and in the public interest following the provisions mentioned in the document framed at the time of the foundation of the organization.
V. The order has to be conveyed to all concerned respondents of the suit and its copy will have to be sent to the Charity Commissioner, Gujarat State, and the Assistant Charity Commissioner, Vadodara. The original record has to be sent back.
In order to implement the Order of the Assistant Charity Commissioner of 2006 and the Final Order of the Joint Charity Commissioner of 2009, an Extra Ordinary Meeting of the Trustees (Executive Committee of IACS as of 1986) was held on 07 February 2010 at 11.00 a.m. at Indian Institute of Management in Syndicate Room No.3 in Ahmedabad.
It was resolved that the legal proceedings undertaken are in favour of the organisation and particularly so because the lawful authorities have passed the orders whereby the illegal actions of all those who filed the “Change Reports” are disapproved. The legal proceedings undertaken by Professor Juneja are approved. Further, that Professor Juneja is authorized to complete all such procedures including the conduct of election of the Executive Committee.
Hence, the Notice for Election to the IACS EC for 2010-2013 was issued on 10 February 2010 for the Elections scheduled to be held on 14th March 2010.
As some members requested for the postponement of the election date, IACS Election reconciliation meeting was held at the High Commission of Canada, New Delhi on 25 February 2010 (copy enclosed) and a it was decided to postpone the elections to April 11, 2010. You may read the Minutes (signed by R. K. Dhawan, D. K. Pabby, V. D. Kaushik of the current EC, Vimal Dhawan and O. P. Juneja and three officials of Canadian High Commission) of this Meeting at our blog at: http://www.iacsvadodara.blogspot.com. “The circular letter for holding General Body will be co-signed by current IACS President and the 1986 Secretary” is one of points agreed upon in this signed document. However, Dr. R. K. Dhawan has refused to sign this letter.
It is abundantly clear that Dr. R. K. Dhawan and the illegal EC have decided not to honour this agreement that they signed in the presence of the officials of the High Commission of Canada on 25 February 2010. It is a repetition of the earlier Reconciliation Agreement that they signed in the presence of Mr. Jean Labrie and others from Government of Canada in September 2007 not to honour it at all.
We have sent 867 letters to all the Life Members of IACS by Post Under Postal Certificate that you would be receiving in a few day. In the meanwhile, you may please respond to register by just replying this mail.
Please note that there is NO REGISTRATION FEE. FREE ACCOMMODATION ON TWIN SHARING BASIS WITH ATTACHED BATH AND MEALS will be available to all registered delegates.
Hoping to see you at the 24th IACS Conference,
Yours in IACS,
Om P. Juneja
Authorized Trustee
Secretary (1986 EC)
Telephone: (0265) 2793366
Mobile: 97262 89064.
Email: omjuneja@gmail.com
URL : http://www.iacsvadodara.blogspot.com
