INDIAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF PAIN INDIAN CHAPTER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PAIN Secretary’s Office: 102, Naveena Residency, Plot No 39A, Road No 2, Filmnagar, Jubilee Hills, HYDERABAD-500033, Telangana, India. Mob: +91 99490 49946, Email: drmuralidharjoshi@gmail.com, www.issp-pain.org Reg. No.: U.P./470/84-85 (Act 21, 1860), PAN No: AAAI2502E President Dr Vivek Palsule +91 98262 20575 palsulev@yahoo.com Secretary Dr Muralidhar Joshi +91 99490 49946 drmuralidharjoshi@gmail.com Treasurer Dr P Vijayanand +91 80088 77377 indianpaindoctor@gmail.com Vice President Dr Bhimeswar MV +91 98480 40868 bhimu99@yahoo.co.in President Elect Dr BB Mishra +91 94409 18247 bbm_58@yahoo.in Joint Secretary Dr Babita Ghai +91 70870 09533 ghaibabita1@gmail.com Explanatory statement to agenda - EGBM, ISSP Matter relates to the conduct of election to the post of ISSP Secretary and Treasurer conducted on 07/02/15 at Chennai during annual general body meeting 2015. A procedural irregularity which is upheld as illegal by the Registrar of Societies, Varanasi UP, where ISSP is registered has occurred and need further correction. To the post of Secretary and Treasurer nomination was called by the Secretary, ISSP-2014 and on verifying nomination only one set Dr Gautam Das of nomination (filed by Dr.Maduri Lokapur and Dr.Nankar) was +91 98310 87580 gdas2310@gmail.com found acceptable since other nomination of Drs Murlidhar joshi / Past President Vijyanand did not meet eligibility standards prescribed. Owing to Dr Radhakrishnan B certain misjudgement, the proposed eligibility standards for +91 98470 63190 election to various posts in future to governing council was brk_tvm@yahoo.com circulated through newsletter prior to election while nominations Past Secretary were called out and same news letter however it got distributed Dr Ashok Saxena +91 98104 31367 in the AGBM Hall; which allowed certain changes in the eligibility profashoksaxena@gmail.com standards to contest at election. These suggestions were Past Treasure discussed earlier for modification in the proposed amended Dr Baljit Singh constitution but amended constitution was not promulgated +91 98101 31295 drbaljitsingh@gmail.com owing to lack of quorum in the general body in 2014 and hence Executive Members the constitution of ISSP prevailed at the business transactions of Dr Gaurav Sharma +91 9413362280 Annual General Body meeting of 07/02/15 was of 2014. The same gauravjln@yahoo.co.in 2014 constitution permitted only one set of nomination Dr Subrata Goswami +91 98304 30430 drsgoswami@gmail.com (Dr.Madhuri Lokapur and Dr.Nanker) as eligible as per the existed Dr Sunitha Lavange +91 98907 35253 norms inforce. The publication of the proposed changes in the salawange@gmail.com modified constitution as effective for the year from 2014-15 is a Dr CS Cham +91 98230 50722 drcscham@gmail.com mistake committed by Secretary. This mistake was accidental Dr Hammad Usmani +91-9897114190 and not deliberate. During AGBM election process when the hammadusmani2002@gmail.com status of nominations were explained, the members present in Dr NS Chandrashekara +91-98450 32301 the general body demanded change in the eligibility standards drnscshekara@gmail.com Dr Atul Sharma +91 90044 90529 and owing to the compulsion of the majority members of the dratulirms@yahoo.com general body, the change was accepted for adoption on Dr Pankaj Surange+91 98719 85514 07/02/15 and election was conducted with changed eligibility pankajnsurange@yahoo.co.in Dr Pravesh Kanthed +91 93014 44007 standards of the contestants. Even though the modified praveshkanthed@gmail.com constitution has not come into effect when the nomination were invited, the election was conducted with changed eligibility as per opinion of AGBM. Editor