Dr. BRIJ BHUSHAN SARAN GUPTA

 

Details of our ancestor family is given in another blog; https://shubhkamna-davendra.blogspot.com/2015/06/sher-maar-panju-our-earliest-known.html

and details about my grandfather are given in; https://shubhkamna-davendra.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-grandfather-shri-ram-swarup-mal.html, 

My father: Shri BRIJ BHUSHAN SARAN GUPTA:
My father, the eldest of his brothers and sister was a professional Medical Doctor- a student of Agra Medical School, one of the two schools then in UP; the other one in Lucknow. A very simple , social and responsible person. Would be remembered in our town for his dedicated community services. He was a very popular doctor not only in our town but around several villages nearby; only professional doctor in that locality rendering A-Z medical services. He was never a greedy person , only service oriented; He could have been a rich person but he died as a poor person only with some debts on him. At times, he had no money, borrowed from here and there for day to day survival. It was all at the cost of family;

His biography is quite long but I wish to put it in short;

He used to volunteer each summer for a months in Bhawali T.B.Sanitorium - only one in those days. T.B. was highly infectious and deadly disease in those days as there was no antibiotics, medicines or treatment. But all the risk involved, he used to do it also at the cost family ( whole family used to be worried);

Some people around him; Ch. Gulzar Singh, Shri Shyam Lal Gupta, Mahasheye Kashin Nath, Vaid Kashi Nath, Munshi Ram Krishna Lal, Padhan Daloo Singh ; His friends in Bijnor; Kr, Satya Veer, Govind Sahaye, Dr. Deva Swaroop; In Chandpur , Dr. Rameshwar Prasad, 

He served for a long time as a member of Town Area and Chairman for full term during mid of 1950s.He sreved the town and the community with dedication and devotion. He is well known of his contributions during his chairmanship.

For the development of town, he not only devoted his time but also also all the savings - money and assets of our family . But he enjoyed his life in doing so and left us on July 26, 1973 with a brief illness and heart attack in Bijnor Hospital. 

He lived RICH though died POOR.

My Grandfather: Shri Ram Swarup Mal : Bhagat jee

 Shri Ram Swarup Mal , my  grand father was popularly known in the town as Bhgat ji. He was very simple, disciplined and religious person, kind hearted and generous person. He did not know much about vedic scriptures but perhaps, even unknowingly, he was following them. He was not educated, he was not even literate; hardly travelled out of town, knew nothing about the external world; his needs and desires were bare minimum; he was very healthy person, I never saw him sick and asking any help for his personal matters. He was land lord, managing small farm lands in various places and earned good amount of money by doing some petty business also; He was married in Bijnor , but no body or any property etc exist in their name in Bijnor; my grand mother  ( Moongia Devi) had one brother  and one sister ( married in Kiratpur, had one son, Shri Mangoo Lal ji who had his small nice family; uncle Mangoo lal ji disappeared in mysterious circumstances, never returned back and his family was shattered; Dadi ji, his mother, my grand mother,s sister came to live with us and aunt with her children went to her parents in Chandpur). My grandmother's brother had one son and one daughter; daughter was married in Mandawar to Shri Mahasheya Raghubir Saran ji ( had two sons, Ram Awtar ji and Prem Awtar ). We used to visit them occasionally on various occasions, very affectionate family, now lost contact with them since long, may be fifty years or so ); My grandmother's nephew Shri Krishan Lal had one son , Rishi, very handsome personality died very young a very tragic death with brain cancer ( thus the last of their family was gone to end the family line); two daughters, one married in Hasanpur and the other married in Roorkee ( unfortunately, I never met them); Grandmother's nephew, Tau ji used to come to live with us in Jhalu at time to time, a nice but sad person for obvious reasons- loosing every thing, he had, very unfortunate situation);

My grandfather though very much living in the world but with least attachments, interests and concerns but very responsible and duty bound; most contended person. He had three sons , Brij Bhushan Saran Gupta, Shri Kanhaiya Lal Garg and Ved Prakash Garg and a daughter, Chameli Devi.I am the most lucky person among all my brothers and cousins having all the love and affection from my grandfather. In fact, I received maximum love from all my relatives and people in the town. My grandfather died without any ailment through out his life, at the age of 85 or so , within a few minutes by heart attack, on July 1, 1953 . It was a great shock for me as I lost the person who loved and cared for me the most. He told me so many things of practical life and importance of our religious and cultural rituals, though his conversation with his family members was bare minimum. I never saw him talking to his sister or daughter but just casually.
He built a water well and a small shelter near the village of Redhwa, Gandaspur and Sikandarpur; planted two pipal trees; incidentally , it was June, 1, 1936 , the day I was born. In those days , it was a great help to the people traveling or working in that area as there was no water source or shed near by. There is small platform of our family deity ( grah devta) . We worship them ( a pair of white snakes , locally known as Bhure Singh Devta )on special occasions like some one's marriage in the family; a son born in the family etc.It is supposed that they take care of our family. We give them full honour. In 2008, when I visited the place, I found that the geography and topography of that place has completely changed; It is now all green with lot of water sources around .

Two Incidents;
My grandfather and grandmother used to go for Ganges bath at Ganj every year on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. I always accompanied them and enjoyed the trip; two incidents to mention here :
 (1) one time, I was watching that young boys and people were taking dives into the ganga which used to flow in very turbulent and floody state during this month and at this time. I thought if they could do that diving and swimming , why not I can do that. It was only the direction of GOD that at the last moment I got scared and did not do that deadly diving, otherwise, in those high currents of Ganga, I would have just gone;
(2) I do remember visiting with my Baba ji an ashram of Brahamchari ji in Nizamatpura/Islamabad about 2 miles south of Ganj. This place strangely and spiritually recognized by the local people for many miracles and mysterious happenings . No doubt, Brahamchari ji had great Devine powers to help really needy people with out any self interest and greed . ( 2008; when, I visited Ganj and the place where Ganga ji used to flow, there was no sign of Ganga,s flow even during the flood time in rainy season. It was all dry for a far distance place. One could see some kind of garden and farming at a long distance in the middle of Ganga ji. It was very shocking to look at this devastating change. Only the old ghats, temples were lying on the bank side of Ganga and waiting perhaps, for their further destructions in future.

Mujh ko hai teri jus­tuju mujh ko teri ta­laash hai; मुझ को है तेरी जुस्तजू मुझ को तेरी तलाश है

·        Prayer

·        Mujh ko hai teri jus­tuju mujh ko teri ta­laash hai

·        Jan-e-jahan kahan hai tu mujh ko teri ta­laash hai

·        Wadi mei marghazar mein jangal mein kohh­isaar mein

·        Darya mein aabshar mein mujh ko teri tal­aash hai

·        Nargis mein lalazaar mein sumbal ke tar tar mein

·        Sehra mein sabzazar mein mujh ko teri ta­laah hai

·        Phoolon mein misl-e-­bu nihan baitha hai chhup ke tu kahan

·        Patton mein gul mein khar mein mujh ko teri talaash hai

·        Suraj mein kaun hai jalwagar taaron mein kis ka hai asar

·        Dhundoon kahan mein bekhabar mujh ko teri talaash hai

·        Mera Feroze naam hai teri talaash kaam hai

·        Allah hai ya tu Ram hai mujh ko teri tal­aash hai 

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so finally, I got this my childhood, middle school prayer we used to say everday during 1947-1950;

Iqra'

Mujko hai teri justuju, mujhko teri talash hai..

Khaliq mere kaha hai tu mujko teri talash hai 

Davendra K Gupta

I am also looking for full prayer, we used to say it every day in our middle school morning prayer; Please post it on my time line if you get it from some where; Thanks with Greetings

Ashraf Qureshi

Davendra K Gupta The prayer was written by my maternal grandfather, S. K FEROZE, who used to teach Persian and Arabic in Khalsa High School for Boys in Ambala, before partition. It is unfortunate that he was killed in the senseless carnage that accompanied partition. The last couplet testifies to the fact that the prayer was written by him: “ Mera FEROZE naam hai Teri talaash kaam hai..... Allah hai tu ke Ram hai mujh ko Teri talaash hai". The prayer was widely read in schools in Punjab and if I'm not wrong it was used as the anthem for Boy Scouts of Punjab. I promise that I'll post the full text as available with me. Having been born after partition I never got a chance to meet my Nana but I've heard a lot about him from my father and uncles.

 

Ashraf Qureshi

Davendra K Gupta I hope now you have the full text of the prayer. Regards

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Story telling to children in schools

 

STORY TELLING TO CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS

 

 

During our living and working in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Lesotho, America and Canada, we found that story-telling to children in schools is very common and a part of their teaching. We observed that the effect and influence of story-telling is very good for learning , at least we found very useful for our children and grand children. I thought that such a teaching method should be applied in our schools in India also; A short description of such a programme is given here :

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" If you want your children  to be smart, tell  them stories. If you want them to be brilliant, tell them more stories  "

      -    Albert Eisenstein

"  Storytelling is an age-old art shared among friends, families and strangers, and its presence can captivate young and even older learners in the classroom too."

Story telling to children is stepping stone for future learning;

makes learning easier and natural,

 

Storytelling is a form of teaching and has the potential of fostering EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE and help children gain insight into human behaviour . ( SOCIAL SKILLS)

*Stories have transformation power to see the world in a different way (EXPOSURE)

* Developed and used purposefully, storytelling can contribute to inclusion and connection, build confidence and bring about change.

 IMPORTANCE of storytelling/stories;

SKILL DEVELOPMENT: 

Develops various skills, behavioral , social, ( learning about kindness, wisdom, honesty , compassion and more) communication skills etc.

Develops confidence ( enhances their communication skills; increase their ability to express themselves; encourages them to communicate their thoughts, feelings and ideas;

 Develops listening, reading and writing skills;

Develops  imagination, creativity,,  understanding, open to new ideas,

 Stories teach about life, about ourselves and about others; and the world ( about various and different cultures); increase their cultural understanding ; expose young children to new things, places, cultures, traditions and values

 

Motivational memories with characters whose value they can emulate,

* improves social SKILLS; children learn how to pay attention and listen actively to the person talking;

* Boost LISTENING skills  ( to focus, to be attentive)

* Fosters their imagination, enhances their creativity and open to new ideas

* Increase their CULTURAL understanding ; expose young children to new things, places, cultures and traditions

* Enhances their COMMUNICATION SKILLS; increase their ability to express themselves; encourages them to communicate their thoughts, feelings and ideas

* Pick up new words and hence the VOCABULARY Promotes LANGUAGE learning by enriching  vocabulary and  acquiring new language structures

* Help sharpen memory ( through feedback, reviewing process etc )

*Increases knowledge and confidence ( exposure to new things, environments etc )

* Learn about kindness, wisdom, honesty, compassion  and more  and try to emulate ( VALUE SYSTEM)

* Develops VALUE SYSTEM  ; learn values, critical values  sharpens our opinions and values

* Improves THOUGHT PROCESS ( imagination, creativity, thinking  and expression etc)

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STORY_TELLING PROGRAMME IN A SCHOOL: 

* Story-telling programme can be initiated in a school any time in a most flexible manner; 

* May start at any level /standard/class of children  as a regular programme or casual weekly /periodically as suits to the environment of the school;   or

may a a few minutes at the end of the class as suits to the teachers; 

Probably, should be started in an experimental way by forming three groups of children and watching the effect on them:

A; group of children , no story-telling to them;

B;  group of children with story telling to them;

C;  group of children with story-telling to them with REINFORCEMENT ( by giving them some assignments and taking feedback etc.)

An experimental programme can be designed for feedback from the children of different groups as how they interact among themselves with others and outside the school at home with their friends, family member etc;

A competitive environment can be created by giving children various assignments based on the stories and evaluating their performance and awarding them certificates and trophies  of MERIT and Prizes etc. 

One school /your school can serve as a MODEL and then motivates other schools to introduce such a programme if successful in your school; Competition can be extended to several schools locally, then at District level- state  level and even at National level; ( Such programmes are already there for Maths, Geography, Public Speaking etc. at various levels in Canada and USA): https://www.northsouth.org/public

 

Potential of a story-telling programme as a new technique of learning/teaching of school children must be tested in our schools.

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SELECTION OF STORIES: 

Short stories can be selected /identified according to the type of story from Internet,  Google and many other websites; for example ;  http://sushmajee.com/; 

http://sushmajee.com/stories/index-stories-1.htm

stories for children (Shishu Sansar); http://sushmajee.com/shishusansar/index-shishu.htm

1; General stories; http://sushmajee.com/stories/index-stories-1.htm

2. Inspirational Stories: http://sushmajee.com/stories/inspirational/index-inspirational.htm

3. Religious stories; http://sushmajee.com/stories/inspirational/index-inspirational.htm

4. Historical stories: http://sushmajee.com/shishusansar/stories-historical/index-historical.htm

5 Motivational: ( Great Indians)  http://sushmajee.com/shishusansar/stories-great-indians/index-great-indians.htm

 (Great People)     http://sushmajee.com/shishusansar/stories-great-people/index-great-people.htm

 

 

 

पंडित श्याम लाल शर्मा जी; उनके साथ बचपन की कुत्छ यादें

 पंडित श्याम लाल शर्मा जी; उनके साथ बचपन की कुत्छ यादें :

 श्याम लाल जी के हमारे परिवार के साथ बड़े घनिष्ट संबंध थे ! उनके पिताजी, श्री नथूमल जी , मेरे बाबा , श्री राम स्वरूपमाल जी के साथ काम करते थे , बाबा जी को लिखना पढ़ना नहीं आता था , लिखने पढ़ने का सारा काम , उनकी  ज़मींदारी का , स्याम लाल जी के पिताजी ही संभालते थे ! हम सब लोगों का उनसे और उनके परिवार से बड़ा घनिष्ट संबंध था ! बचपन से ही में उनसे , उनके परिवार से लगभग दैनिक रूप से ही मिलता जुलता रहता था ! वह सब लोग भी हमारा बहुत ख्याल रखते थे, बहुत पियार करते थे ! 

बचपन की उनके साथ की बहुत सी यादें हैं, परन्तु यहाँ केवल कुत्छ ही दे पाउँगा ! श्याम लाल जी बचपन से ही बहुत बुद्धीमान थे , यदि उनको ठीक से शिक्षा और अवसर मिले होते तो वह भी  सफल ेइंजीनियर  होते ! राम ओ तार जी की चक्की पर काम करते थे! चक्की  पर केवल आटा  ही  पिस्ता था , श्याम लालजी ने दूसरे कमरे में धान कूटने की मशीन लगा दी , फिर कुत्छ दिनों के बाद, रुई धुनने की मशीन उसी दूसरे कमरे में लगा दी ! चक्की को चलने बिजली के मोटर के पटे तथा उनकी दिशा बदल कर , अलग अलग प्रकार से एक ही मोटर से काम करते थे ! रुई धुनने की मशीन झालु में पहली और आखरी बार आई होगी !

चककी के ऊपर जुगाड़ लगा कर अपने आप से बनाकर चार पंखड़ी  का पंखा भी लगा दिया था ! यह सब देख कर मुझे बचपन में बहुत अध्भुत लगता था !  कौनसी  मशीन लगनी है, कान्हा से आएगी , कैसे चलेगी, यह प्रश्न , उस समय के लिए बड़े कठिन थे परन्तु, शयाम लाल जी यह सब करते रहते थे!

कुत्छ समय बाद उन्होंने अपना साइकिल सुधारने, किराये पर देने का कार्ये  शुरू किया, धीऱे धीरे , गैस की लालटैन , शादियों में  गैस की लालटेन तथा लाउडस्पीकर किराये पर देने लगे ! रिपेयर का काम तो किसी भी प्रकार का हो , आज भी कर लेते हैं ! किसी भी प्रकार की कोई भी चीज़ हो, जुगाड़ लगा कर ठीक कर ही लेते हैं! 

उनकी बुद्धि  व् क्षमता को में नमन करता हूँ !

अभी , झालु में सब से अधिक आयु के हैं ! वरिष्ठ , सम्मानित व्यक्ति हैं! इस वर्ष, २०२२,  गणतन्तंर दिवस पर , उनसे धव्ज आरोहण कराया गया , सम्मानित किया गया ! उनके के लिए दीर्ध आयु की कामना करते है !  , 

A Ghost in ( पूर्ण आश्रम ) Poorna Ashram-DAV College Hostel, DehraDun

 In 1953 July,  after my High School from HIC, Chandpur, I took admission in DAV College , DehraDun. I was given a seat in Dayanad Ashram - a hostel of the college on campus. After some time, all the students of first year ( 11th class) were transferred to Poorna Ashram, another very small hostel of the college , also on the campus. It was wonderful location on the west side of the college , having varandah on both the sides of our rooms. One varandah opening towards DBS College ( then DAV Inter College ). Our warden , Prof Pathak, HOD, Law Department lived next to our hostel; His wife died just a few months ago and there was a rummer that as a Ghost, she lived on a giant tree in front of the house of the warden . There was a water tap just under the tree.

Budh Deo Sharma ( from Najibabad) was on one of our classmate who also lived in Poorna Ashram, one day  had a bet that anyone  dare to get a tumbler of water from that water tap in the middle of night because of the presence of the ghost.Though I was young at the age of 17 years, did not believe in the ghost. I accepted the challenge and went in dark night at about 12 midnight time to fetch the water. As I reached, I heard strange voices coming out from the huge tree ,and as I reached there , some thing started coming down slowly. I took my water and snatched the object coming down. To my surprise, I found that it was a blanket which was lowered by Budh Deo , he also got down from the tree with strange figure and sound. Any way the drama was over with a climax. I gave him a good beating for staging this scary drama. Perhaps, it could have been a fatal incident for a weak heart. I reported the incident to Prof Pathak and he was very furious on Budh Deo. Later Part is not interesting for this blog.

Be brave, there is no Ghost, it is made by people to create scary stories.

 

My childhood Memories; Seth Saifulla, Rafiq, Shafiq and Azizul Nabi, BOMBAY Visit in 1958;

 Seth Shafiullah , perhaps left Jhalu for Bombay  in his childhood in early 1930s; He was from ordinary Barber family of the town. His son Rafiq was my classmate upto primary education.later he also left for Bombay. Seth had three wives, two used to live in Jhalu and one in Bombay .we were his family friends.

It was 1958 , August , after my B.Sc. went to Bombay to attend my interview for a job with Western Railway at Church Gate  Railway Station office . I stayed with my friend , Rafiq and his family . They had a small residence in a multi- story Building, KULSUM Terrace near most famous Taj Hotel. Seth and Rafiq had a very nice and big  "TAJ SALOON" with ten serving chairs in COLABA, Bombay. (Shafiq , younger brother of Rafiq had his own Saloon , somewhere in Colaba area. Rafiq,s mother was very loving and  caring person.She insisted me that I must eat with them but I was hesitant being a vegetarian. Rafiq took me to a restaurant and asked them to provide me only with vegetarian meal. But to my surprise, I found a bone in my vegetables. They told, that they use the same serving spoon for veg and non-veg food . For the rest of my stay in Bombay, I took my food with Rafiq,s family. I fully enjoyed my stay with them. In spare time , I used to sit with Rafiq and Seth in their saloon. 

Rafiq introduced me with Azizul Nabi, my another classmate upto middle school, he was running a Taxi. He took me all around Bombay during my stay in Bombay. He will take me along with his passengers and drop me at some interesting point like Chowpati, Juhu, Hanging Garden etc. and will collect me to drop me at another point. Thus my friend gave me free ride and shown me whole Bombay. How nice of him. I do remember the facitivities of Ganesh Pooja in Bombay and Ganesh Visarjan in Chowpati.

I left my contact with them since long. They and their families must be living in Colaba, Bombay happily. I wish them well.

SHER MAAR PANJU; Our earliest known ancestor; Historical Background of our family in Jhalu

 

A little background about our family as I knew from my grandparents and other elders; It comes from a small rural background, small town, JHALU, (Bijnor, UP). Our ancestors  lived there for long time, but the earliest story is known that they were land lords and their rivals, pathans-a muslim community also had  farm lands over there. On one occasion of RAKSHABANDAN day, those pathans killed all our male ancestors and then according to the custom of that time, ladies committed SATTI (Satti was the rituals those days that after the death of husband, widow used to self immolate). We still have that old Satti House in the town. In fact, our Grah Devta also lives there.In earlier days, we used to go there and bring our Grah Devta home for important ceremonies like marriage, naming and yagopaveet etc. It was only one pregnant lady living with her parents away from Jhalu, survived. Later, she gave birth to a baby boy who when grew adult , thought seriously to find out his roots. In fact, a deep feeling of revenge for that carnage happened to his ancestors. Having this in mind and determination , with all opposition from his mother and other parental relatives, he walked to JHALU. He came up to  our garden ( where we had a well and a small room for shelter)  near KHARI , he faced a lion. The lion was chased by the ruler (Nawab) of Ruhelkhand for hunting. He had no option except to face the lion. He took out his turban and inserted in the mouth of the lion and thus lion was suffocated and died. Nawab chasing the lion , found the young boy holding the lion dead. He appreciated his courage and awarded him the title of " SHER MAAR PANJU" ( meaning the person who killed the lion by his Punja-hands ) for his bravery. He was so pleased that he further on asking his welfare etc. awarded him back the land of his ancestors and asked the pathan to go away from the town to a new town established for their resettlement- NAWADA KALAN ( New village/settlement ) and warned them not to look back for any revenge or atrocities to the young person. He then, resettled in his ancestors town , JHALU with all  his property and land given back to him. I could not get his real name but SHER MAAR PANJU. He is the most recent historical ancestor of our GARG family which is now quite big and wide spread all over, ( broadly known Mahalwale  , kothiwale and us ) . Most of the family members settled in other cities and abroad, now only a few are left in the town.

The history of my own family is given in another blog. https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7434278182063497637/3162980977026679503

MAHELWALE;

I do not know much about the hierarchy of the family but from my personal observation and knowledge:

1. One group of family used to live in the Mahel with the heads; Shri Goipnath jee, Shri Niyader Mal jee, Shri Raghunath Prasad jee ( His father shri Baldev Prasad jee??); Shri Kishan Lal jee ;

2. Second group: Just in front of Mahel: Shri Rajju Mal jee, Shri Roshan Lal jee,

3 Third group: Shri Chiranjee Lal jee ( sons; Ram Gopal jee and Om Prakash jee);

   Shri Ram Prasad jee - Known as Kanoogo jee ( sons......                               )

   Shri Faqir Chand jee ( sons; Jai Prakash, Ram Kumar, Rameshwar Prasad, Devendra Kumar, Sushil Kumar  ;  ?????) 

KOTHIWALE:

I do not know much about the hierarchy of this group of our family;

the oldest pesron, I know- Shadi Lal and his son Asharfee Lal ; Asharfi Lal ,s sons are; Shri Anand Prakash, Veer Prakash and Dheer Prakash : 

Om Prakash, ( son; Ishwar Chandra Agarwal) Satya Prakash ( Son; Hari Prakash) and Shyam Prakash, ( sons;                                       ) 

Jyoti Prakash, Ved Prakash, and  

Roshan Lal, ( Sons: Ram, Lakshman, Charat Bharat, Bhole) Jagdish Prashad ( sons, Sushil Kumar,             ???)

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CONSTITUTION OF THE HIC   ALUMNI

1.      NAME
The association shall be called the Hindu Inter College Alumni " (hereinafter referred to as the "Association").
 

2.      PLACE OF BUSINESS
The place of business of the Association shall be as mentioned or such other address as may subsequently be decided upon by the Committee and approved by the Registrar of Societies.

Hindu Inter College

CHANDPUR (Bijnor)

 

3.      OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the Association are set in line with the Mission;
3.1. To encourage friendly relationship amongst former students of the College

3.2. To give support to any deserving project that is connected with the welfare of the College.

3.3.  To promote co-operation amongst former and present students of the college through sporting, social and cultural activities.
 

4.      MEMBERSHIP
4.1. Ordinary and Ordinary Life Membership shall be opened to all former students of the collegel.

4.2. Honorary Membership may be conferred on the current Principal and members of the teaching staff of the college. They shall not have any voting right or hold office in the Association.

4.3. Honorary Life Membership: The committee may elect to an Honorary Life Membership, any person who, in their opinion, has rendered valuable service to the Association. He shall not have any voting right or hold office in the Association.
 

5.      RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OR MEMBERSHIP
Only Ordinary and Ordinary Life members shall be eligible to hold office, to nominate or second a candidate for election and to vote a General Meetings of the Association.
 

6.      APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
Applications for Ordinary and Ordinary Life Membership shall be made through online form which will be sent to the Hon Secretary. Applications shall be considered by the Committee whose decisions shall be final. A copy of the Constitution of the Association shall be email to every approved applicant.
 

7.      ADVISORS
The committee may invite the principal and teachers of the college to be advisors of the Association.
 

8.      SUBSCRIPTIONS
8.1. There shall be no entrance fee but an application for ordinary membership.

8.2. Ordinary Life Membership shall be opened to all former students who are 35 years old and below with no subscription fee.

8.3. All former students who are 36 years old and above shall pay the sum of One thousand Rupees ( Rs.1000/) for Ordinary Life Membership. Subscription shall be due upon confirmation of application and members will be notified of the mode of payment.

8.4. There shall be no annual subscription fee required hereon as each activity organised by the Association shall be minimally charged.

8.5. No subscriptions shall be levied on Honorary Members, and Honoray Life Members. The subscription for retires shall be reduced or waived.
 

9.      RESIGNATION AND RE-ADMISSIONS
9.1. A member shall give written notice to Honorary Secretary of his intended resignation by giving one month's notice and before the first day of December.

9.2. The Committee may, at its absolute discretion, accept an application for re-admission to membership of the Association.
 

10.   SUPREME AUTHORITY AND GENERAL MEETINGS
10.1. The supreme authority of the Association is vested in a general meeting of the members presided over by the President.

10.2. An Annual General Meeting, for which fourteen days' notice shall be given, shall be held in February or March each year. The meeting shall receive the report of the President for the year under review, consider, and if approved, pass the previous financial year's accounts submitted, elect members of the Committee and honorary auditors and transact any other business which may arise or pass any resolution or motion of which at least seven days’ notice in writing shall have been given to the Honorary Secretary.

10.3. An Extraordinary Meeting, for which fourteen days' notice shall be given, may be called by the Committee for any business which would require to be dealt with by a general meeting. Such a meeting shall also be convened within twenty one days of the receipt stating the nature of the business and signed by not less than fifteen members.

10.4. The quorum for General Meeting shall be one-quarter of the total voting membership. In the event of there being no quorum, the meeting shall be adjourned for half an hour and should the number then present shall be considered a quorum, but they shall have no power to alter, amend or make additions/deletions to any of the existing rules.

*be sufficient to form a quorum, those present
 

11.   MANAGEMENT AND COMMITTEE
11.1 The management of the affairs of the Association shall be entrusted to a Committee consisting of a President, a Vice-President, an Honorary Secretary, an Honorary Treasurer and not more than five Ordinary committee members, who shall be elected at each Annual General Meeting. The names for the above offices shall be proposed and seconded at the annual general meeting and election will follow on a simple majority vote of the members. The ten sure of office of the Committee shall be one year. All officers except the Hon Treasurer may be re-elected year after year.

11.2. The duties of the Committee shall include the organisation and supervision of the day to day activities of the Association and to make decisions on matters affecting its running when the general is not sitting. It may not act contrary to the expressed wishes of the general meeting without prior preference to it and always remains subordinate to the general meetings.

11.3. The Committee may co-opt members to fill vacancies in the Committee but deems a vacancy occur in the office of President, the Vice-President shall ipso facto fill it.

11.3. The Committee shall have power to appoint sub-committee whenever it deems necessary. Members of sub-committee shall have no voting rights at Committee meetings.

11.4. The Committee shall have power to remove the name of any member from the Register of Members or deal with such member as it shall deem proper for any breach of the rules of Association or for misconduct which in the opinion of the Committee is injurious to the character or interests of the Association. Such a member thus expelled or censured may appeal at the following Annual or Extra-ordinary General Meeting whose decision shall be final.

11.5. Meetings of the Committee shall be held monthly as far as possible, and in any case not less than eight times a year. At least one half of the committee members must be present for its proceedings to be valid. At such meetings, if any Committee member without sufficient cause fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the Committee, the Committee may be resolution declare his seat to be vacant and thereupon he shall cease to be a Committee Member. Any changes in the Committee shall be notified to the Registrar of Societies within 2 weeks of the change.

11.6. A notice conveying a meeting of any Committee or sub-committee shall be issued not less than three days before the date of the meeting.

11.7. The President shall have a casting vote at General and Committee meetings.

11.8. In the absence of the President, the Vice-President shall preside at the General and Committee meetings. In the absence of the President and Vice-President, the members present shall appoint one person from among themselves to chair the meetings.
 

12.   DUTIES OF OFFICE – BEARERS
12.1. The President shall act as chairman at all General and Committee meetings. He shall also represent the Association in its dealings with outside persons.

12.2. The Vice-President shall assist the President and deputize for the latter in his absence.

12.3. The Honorary Secretary shall maintain an up-to-date Register of Members and keep all records, except financial, of the Association. He shall issue notices and keep minutes of all general and committee meetings. He shall inform every member with a copy of the rules of the Association.

12.4. The Honorary Secretary shall maintain proper book of accounts and record therein particulars of all monies and all payments made. He shall issue receipts for all payments made to the Association. He shall disburse all monies on behalf of the Association and shall be authorised to expend up to one hundred thousand Rupees (rs.1000/-) per month for petty expenses on behalf of the Association. He shall draw up monthly statements of accounts for presentation to the Committee and Annual Statements to the General Meeting.

12.5. The Executive Committee members shall assist in the general administrative matters of the Association and perform any duties assigned by the Committee from time to time.
 

13.   AUDIT AND FINANCIAL YEAR
13.1. The Financial Year of the Association shall be from 1st January to 31 December.

13.2. Two voting members, not members of the Committee, shall be elected as Honorary Auditors at each General Meeting and will hold office for one year and shall not be re-elected for consecutive years. They shall be required to audit each year's accounts and present a report upon them to the annual general meeting. They may be required by the President to audit the accounts for any period within their ten sure of office at any date and make a report to the Committee.

13.3. An account or accounts shall be opened in the name of the Association with a Bank approved by the Committee. All monies received shall be duly deposited therein except for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars which may be retained by the Honorary Treasurer for petty expenses. All authorization for the withdrawal of monies shall be signed by the President or Vice-President in addition to the Honorary Treasurer.

13.4. The surplus funds of the Association may be invested from time to time at the discretion of the Committee.

13.5. The Committee shall have power to authorise the expenditure of a sum not exceeding  Rs.100,000/- per month from the Association's funds for the Association purposes. Any expenditure in excess of this amount shall require the approval of the members at a General Meeting.
 

14.   PROHIBITIONS
14.1. Gambling of any kind, whether for the stakes or not, shall be forbidden on the Association premises. The introduction of materials for gambling or drug-taking and of bad characters into the premises shall be prohibited.

14.2. The Association shall not attempt to restrict or interfere with trade or make directly or indirectly any recommendation to any arrangement with its members which has the purpose or is likely to have the effect of fixing or controlling the price or any discount, allowable or rebate relating to any good or services to be supplied by them.

14.3. The Association shall not hold any lottery, whether confined to its members or not, in the name of the Association or its office - bearers, Committee or members.

14.4. The Association shall not indulge in any political activity or allow its funds and/or premises to be used for political purposes.

14.5. The Association shall not raise funds from the public for whatever purposes without the prior approval in writing of the Registrar of Societies and other relevant authorities.

14.6. The Association shall not engage in Trade Union activity as defined in any written law relating to trade unions for the time being in force in Uttar Pradesh.
 

15.   AMENDMENTS TO RULES
No alterations or additions/deletions to the existing rules shall be made except at a general meeting. Any alterations, additions/deletions shall be approved by two-thirds of the voting members present, and shall not come into force without the prior sanction of the Registrar of Societies.
 

16.   INTERPRETATION
In the event of any question or matter arising out of any point which is expressly provided for in the rules, the Committee shall have power to use its discretion. The decision of the Committee shall be final unless at a general meeting of members.
 

17.   STATEMENTS
Public statements, including circulars, letters, press releases, pamphlets, etc. shall be vetted and approval by the Committee before their release.
 

18.   DISSOLUTION
18.1. The Association shall not dissolved except with the consent of not less than three-fifths of the voting members of the Association for the time being resident in India expressed, either in person or by proxy, at a general meeting convened for the purpose.

18.2. In the event of the Association being dissolved, all debts and liabilities legally incurred on behalf of the Association shall be fully discharged and the remaining funds shall be transferred to the College Advisory committee (CAC) Fund to be managed by the CAC or donated to an approved charity or charities in Uttar Pradesh.

18.3. A certificate of dissolution shall be given within 7 days of the dissolution to the Registrar of Societies.

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  (May also consider following statements  )

 

The purposes of the Society /associationare:

(a) To provide financial assistance and support to Hindu Inter Collegel and its students through, for example, the granting of scholarships and bursaries, supporting the academic, fine arts, athletic and vocational activities of the college and its students

(b) To undertake and support projects that enhance and preserve HIC as a heritage institution and that enhance the role of HICl in the community, including providing support to the Collegel Archives;

(c) To support and undertake class and college reunions and other similar events celebrating the college, its students and its alumni;

(d) To communicate with HIC Alumni for the purposes of keeping them informed about the current activities of the college and providing a means for them to communicate with each other; and

(e) To collect monies by way of fees, donations, fund-raising activities or otherwise and to accept gifts, legacies, devises and bequests and to hold, invest, expend or deal with these funds to further the purposes of the Association.

3. The operations of the Society are to be carried on chiefly in CHANDPUR, in Uttar Pradesh.

4. The activities of the Society shall be carried on without purpose of gain for any member and any profits or other accretions to the Society shall be used in promoting its objects.

5. The Board of Directors shall consist of a Chairman, four Vice-Chairmen, a Secretary, a Treasurer and three Directors. ( may be one of them be from abroad)

 6. In the event of dissolution or winding-up of the Society all remaining assets, after payment of liabilities, shall be distributed to one or more recognized charitable organizations in Uttar Pradesh.

7. The Constitution shall become effective on the day it is signed by the officers of the Society.

 8. The provisions of paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 are unalterable.