• Opening remarks by the President.
  
  President Dr. B. Sadashiva Murthy welcomed all the members to the meeting and thanked them for attending APSICON 2002. He announced the achievements of the year by members. Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan had received the prestigious Padamshri, Dr. Narendra Pandya had been appointed as honorary surgeon commodore in the Armed Forces Medical Services, Dr. S.A. Subramani had received PhD from Bangalore University and Prof. S.K.Bhatnagar had received Fellowship of Academy of Medical Sciences.
  
  
• Reading the notice of the meeting.
  
  The notice of the meeting was considered read, as circulated in the July 2002 Newsletter of the Association.
  
  
• Confirmation of the minutes of the last General Body meeting held at Mehsana.
  
  Minutes of the General Body Meeting held on 29th September 2001 at Mehsana and circulated vide Newsletter November 2001 of the Association was confirmed to be in order and the following Resolution was adopted.
  
  Resolved that the minutes of GBM held at Mehsana on 29th September 2001 be taken as read and are hereby approved and adopted.” Proposed by Dr. P.A. Thomas and seconded by Dr. Gopalakrishnan.
  
  
• Secretary’s report and matters arising out of Executive meeting held on 26th November, 2002.
  
  Welcome you to this general body meeting. I would like to inform you of the decisions taken during the Executive Committee meeting held on 26th Nov. and take your approval for same.
  
  It has been decided that the Sushruta orator for 2003 will be Dr. P. V.Joshi. Gilles’ orator for 2003 will be past President Dr. P.K. Bilwani. M.M. Mukherjee orator for next year will be Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan.
  
  It has also been decided that Godrej Visiting Professor for 2003 will be Dr. Louis Schekar from Louisville. Also for next year Ethicon Professor in Plastic surgery will be Dr. V. Bhattacharya, Ethicon Professor in Cosmetic Surgery will be Dr. Mune Gowda, Ethicon Professor for Microsurgery will be Dr. V. Srinivasan.
  
  Reports of the following have been approved.
  Ethicon Professorship
  Dr. Mukund ThatteEthicon Cosmetic Surgery Professorship
  Dr. R. Murugesan
  Ethicon Micro-Surgery Professorship
  Dr. Abraham Thomas
  N.C. Sanyal Professorship
  Dr. K.Sridhar
  Ethicon Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship
  Dr. Vijay Kumar
  Ethicon Training Fellowship in Microsurgey
  Dr. Sameek Bhattacharya
  R.G. Saraiya International Training Fellowship
  Dr. B.K. Majumdar
  Brig. Kathpalia Fellowship in Hand Surgery
  Dr. Prabhat Shrivastava
  APSI sponsorship to attend APSICON 2001
  Dr. Nitin Sharma & R.K. Mishra
  
  Dr. G. Vishwanath could not go on Ethicon Training Fellowship because he was not granted leave from Armed Forces because of deployment on border. The Executive has decided that an exception would be made in this case and Dr. Vishwanath would be allowed to complete his training next year, and Ethicon would be requested to grant the same, since the non compliance wasn’t due to personal reasons.
  
  Dr. G. Balakrishnan has not submitted the report on Venture Fund sanctioned to him for development of Goniometer Feed back Device, and he has been allowed to submit the report by 1st March, 2003 positively failing which the award would be cancelled.
  
  It has been decided to award the following fellowships for next year.
  Ethicon Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship
  Dr. R. Ravindra Bharathi

  Ethicon Training Fellowship in Microsurgery
  Dr. Lt. Col Ravishankar

  Ethicon Training Fellowship in Plastic Surgery
  Dr. Avinash Deodhar

  R.G. Saraiya International Training Fellowship
  Dr. P.V. Sudhakar

  Brig. Kathpalia Fellowship in Hand Surgery
  Dr. Suresh M.A.

  Myovatec Training Fellowship in Plastic Surgery
  Dr. Tibar Banerjee

  APSI sponsorship to attend APSICON 2002
  Dr. Rajesh Watts & Madhurima Sharma

  Dr. R.N. Sinha award for best paper in IJPS for 2001 was given to the paper on ‘Intersex,Transsexualism and Gender Reassignment Surgery’ by Dr. Rajeev B. Ahuja and Dr. Sameek Bhattacharya.

  There was no valid application for Venture fund next year. Col. A.S. Bath, President APSI, Delhi Chapter’s application to hold a CME program for Post Graduates at Army, RR Hospital, in Delhi, in May next year was approved and the funds for this program will be provided by Prof. C.R. Sunderrajan Educational Fund and the CME program will be called Prof. C.R. Sunderrajan CME Program. Dr. Nitin Mokal’s application for grant of funds to hold a workshop and CME program in Mumbai from the Maharashtra Chapter Fund has been sanctioned.

  It has been decided by the Executive committee that to augment the Buffer Fund 10% of the savings submitted by the organizers of APSICON will be placed in the Buffer Fund and the rest will be kept as per wishes of the organizers. The following Resolution was adopted.

  Resolved that 10% of Savings provided by the APSICON Organising Committee will be placed in the buffer fund” Proposed by Dr. A.K. Singh and seconded by Brig. L.P. Sadhotra.

  It has been decided that Rs 87000/- returned by Dr. Rajasabapathy, previous Editor will be added to the corpus of the Journal. The following Resolution was adopted.

  “Resolved that Rs 87000/- provided as savings by the previous Editor will be added to the corpus of the Journal.” Proposed by Dr. V. Bhattacharya and seconded by Dr. Gopalakrishna.

  It was decided in the last general body meeting that from the money lying in the Documentation Centre Fund 50% would be used to bring out the APSI Directory and 50% would be provided to the Editor to meet his short fall. This money could not be used because of a technical snag and these liabilities were met with by the Treasurer from the funds lying with him for office expenses. It has now been decided that the Documentation Centre Fund will be used to augment the Journal Corpus. The following Resolution was adopted.

  “Resolved that Documentation Centre Fund will be used to augment the Journal Corpus”. Proposed by Dr. Ramakrishna Nair and seconded by S.N. Sharma.

  It was decided that the Editor will be provided 50% of the amount due this year to settle his liabilities. All issues of the Journal printed but not mailed by him will be distributed at the current APSICON. The Journal will be mailed by the President to the members who have not attended the conference There are several suggestions provided by the Editor and the Journal advisory Committee. It was decided that these suggestions would be forwarded to the next Editor for his opinion and then placed before the Executive Committee. If any of the suggestions require Constitutional amendments then the matter would be referred to the Constitutional Committee.

  Treasurer informed that even after meeting his liabilities he had a surplus of Rs one and a half lakh. It was decided that Rs 30000/- would be placed in each of the corpus of Gilles Oration, Sushrut Oration, Peet Prize, Kilner Award and the APSI Sponsorship to attend APSICON. The following Resolution was adopted.

  “Resolved that Rs 30000/- would be placed in the corpus of each of the following from the savings lying with the Treasurer, Gilles Oration, Sushrut Oration, Peet Prize, Kilner Award and the APSI Sponsorship to attend APSICON.” Proposed by Col. Mehta and seconded by Col. A.S. Bath.

  It has also been decided that all other unutilized funds will be placed in the Buffer Fund. The following Resolution was adopted.

  “Resolved that all unutilized funds will be place in the Buffer Fund”. Proposed by Dr.Karoon Agrawal and seconded by Dr. V. Jayaraman.

  Prof. Goleria has resigned as Chairman of APSI trust for personal reasons and his resignation has been accepted by the Trustees. The Executive Committee places on record the exemplary services rendered by Prof. Goleria and thanks him for same. Remaining trustees have now recommended the name of Dr. N. Pandya as a trustee to fill the vacancy. The name of Dr. K.S. Shekar was also included in the Executive meeting. Dr. K.S. Sekhar and Dr. Narendra Pandya both declared that they were not candidates if an election was going to be held. As none of them withdrew their candidature it was decided to leave the vacancy unfilled till the next General Body meeting.

  Prof. Goleria has written a letter stating that there are some errors in the treasurer’s report and the Treasurer has informed that he is aware of these and will have them rectified.

  It was noticed that many State Chapters of APSI have not submitted their statement of Accounts to the Treasurer as was decided earlier. So it has been decided by the Executive committee that a notice will be issued through the minutes of this meeting in the Newsletter that the State Chapters which do not submit a statement of account for last financial year to the Treasurer by 1st March 2003 will automatically have their Chapter annulled. The Treasurer will also write specific letters to the State Chapter that are defaulting and for which valid office address is available with him.

  A letter has been received from the students of Prof. C. Balakrishnan that they wish to give Rs 2.5 lakh to APSI to start an Oration in his name. It was discussed that as the time for Scientific papers was already too short during the conference we may have Prof. C. Balakrishnan Professorship on the lines of Godrej Visiting Professorship. 90% of the interest accrued annually would be given to the Visiting Professor and 10% would be added back to the corpus. An eminent overseas Plastic Surgeon would be selected by a committee of incoming President and a committee consisting of 3 ex students of Prof. C.Balakrishnan. The following Resolution was adopted.

  “Resolved that ‘Rs 2.5 lakh provided by ex students of Prof. C.Balakrishnan would be placed in a corpus to start the Visiting Professorship in his name. 90% of the interest accrued annually would be given to the Visiting Professor and 10% would be added back to the corpus.” Proposed by Brig. L.P. sadhotra and seconded by Group Capt. Anil Behl.

  A letter has been received from Dr. K.S. Sehkar, Past President APSI that they wish to augment the corpus of Prof. C.R. Sunderrajan Educational Fund to Rs 5 lakh. The new rules for this program will be:

  1. A CME program and operative demonstration will be organized at National level, once a year, independent of the APSICON.
  2. It will be a 2-3 day teaching program.
  3. The program will be under auspicies of APSI and would be named “Prof. C.R. Sunderrajan Plastic Surgery Education Program”.
  4. Those who desire to hold this teaching program can apply to the APSI office a year before the proposed program.

  A letter has been received from Vasudhan Arjin Cosmetic and Laser Surgery Pvt. ltd. that they wish to donate Rs 1.25 Lakh to APSI to start a Fellowship in Laser Surgery. It will be governed by the existing Rules for Fellowships except that the duration of this Fellowship will be 3 days or more. The following Resolution was adopted.

  “Resolved that “ Rs 1.25 lakh provided by Vasudhan Arjin Cosmetic and Laser Surgery Pvt. ltd. will be placed in corpus to start a Fellowship in laser surgery. 80% of the interest accrued annually will be given to the candidate and the balance added back to the corpus.” Proposed by Dr. Ramakrishna Nair and seconded by Dr. Rakesh Khazanchi.

  Topics for Symposia for year 2003 suggested by the Executive were Surgery of the breast, Current concepts in wound healing and scars, and Cranio-facial surgery. It was decided that the convenor would finalise the programme and inform the Secretary, APSI two months before the conference. It was decided that Symposium will be held on ‘Current concepts in wound healing and scars’and Dr.Mathangi Ramakrishnan will be the moderator. As Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan was not present Dr. V. Jayaraman accepted the responsibility on her behalf.

  Reporting on progress of 2005 Asia Pacific Conference to be held in Mumbai, Dr. Daver informed that the conference would be held in months of Feb-March 2005. Dr. Ravin Thatte had been appointed as Chairman of the Scientific Committee. He said that by next APSICON he would have more details.

  Reporting on Progress of Registration of Amendments to the Constitution Dr. Tambwekar informed that our application for Registration was still pending and is likely to take some more time.

  It has been decided that the National Representative for IPRAS Congress next year will be incoming President Dr. K.Sridhar.

  It has been decided to confer Senior Membership to Dr. Sreehari Rao and Prof. C.R. Sunderrajan.

  On the issue of giving Rs 1 lakh to ASI as promised by Past President Dr. S.R. Tambwekar it was decided earlier that Dr. B. Sadashiva Murthy would discuss the issue with ASI and inform if they were willing to retain a section / session on Plastic Surgery. I have received a letter from Secretary ASI that they have agreed to watch the interest of Plastic Surgery and will have a session on Plastic Surgery, provided some Plastic Surgeons who are members of ASI are willing to organize it, and so Rs 1 lakh is to be paid to ASI to honour the commitment. As has been minuted earlier the money would be paid from the savings of Goa Conference which are now lying as part of Maharashtra State Chapter premises fund. The following Resolution was adopted.

  “Resolved that Rs 1 lakh from Maharashtra State Chapter premises fund would be paid to ASI to honour the commitment made to ASI.” Adopted unanimously.

  A letter was received from Dr. V. Bhattacharya that the issue of Presidentship and holding of the Annual Conference should be delinked. As under the current constitution the President is responsible for appointing the organizing secretary it would require an amendment and hence the matter has been referred to the Constitution committee for deliberation. Following this the Constitutional committee met and decided that under the current constitution there was already a provision for the President to appoint an organizing secretary from any city in the country and any person desirous of organizing the conference could very well approach the President. So the current status of the President’s prerogative of appointing the organizing secretary should remain, changing which would require a constitutional amendment and would be unnecessary.

  The constitutional committee also reviewed the electoral process and decided that the current procedure of electing candidates in the GB meeting should continue for the time being. By postal ballot it was felt that a person who is not seen also has a chance to get elected but the current situation provides for better interaction.

  Letter has been received from Dr. S.R. Tambwekar, Chairman APSICON 99, held at Goa about the Rules for awarding funds from Maharashtra State Scientific Committee fund started with a saving of Rs 150000/- from the conference. It states that the funds will be awarded by APSI, for any scientific activity in Maharashtra, after the proposal has been approved by the Executive committee of Maharashtra State Chapter, for the year.

  A letter has been received from Dr. P.K. Bilwani enclosing a cheque of Rs 160,750.74 as savings from Mehsana conference. The organisers have expressed a desire that the money be used for Promotion of Scientific Activity in Gujarat and the money be kept in a corpus. It was decided that the money would be kept in a corpus after deducting 10 percent amount which would be placed in the buffer fund. The organising committee of APSICON 2001 has left it entirely to the discretion of APSI to frame appropriate Rules and Regulations regarding selection of applicants. However, if there are no applicants in a particular year the entire interest money be added back to the corpus. The following Resolution was passed.

  Resolved that 90% of the money provided from savings of APSICON 2001 would be placed in a corpus for Promotion of Scientific Activity in Gujarat and the balance would be added to the buffer fund.’ The Resolution was adopted unanimously.

  The following is the list of awards given during the conference.

  Kilner Award for 2002 - Dr. Sameek
  Bhattacharya Peet Prize - Dr. S. Rajasabapathy
  APSI Best Paper Award - Dr. S. Doraiswamy
  Mc Neil Prize for best audio-visual - Dr. S. Doraiswamy presentation
  Kammath Prize for best poster - Dr. Mukund Reddy presentation

  Following applications were approved for membership:

Fresh Applications for Associate Membership

 

1. Bharat Rattan Jindal
2. Harish Chandra Ghildiyal
3. Raveendra Reddy Ganji
4. Arvind Antony
5. Narayan Murthy V.B.

Applications for Conversion of Associate Membership to Full / Full Life

1. Viraj Tambwekar
2. Ashit Shah

Applications for Conversion of Full Membership to Full Life

1. Saha Vedula Padmini - Full Life

The application of Dr. Chacko for Full membership was not approved because he did not possess the requisite qualifications.

It has been noticed that several members have not paid their dues for many years. Many of them have also changed their addresses and not informed the office. Members who have not paid for 3 years are to be terminated by constitution but this has not been enforced strictly. It has now been decided that members who have not paid for 3 years or more will be given an opportunity to pay by 31st December 2002, and the Treasurer will issue a final notice to them stating this fact. Following this, names of the defaulters will be deleted from records. The names of the defaulters were placed on the notice board at the Registration desk.

The term of the current Reviewers and Judges for prize sessions has ended this year. It has been decided to appoint the following for next 3 years.

Reviewers for Peet Prize : Dr.Mukund Reddy, Dr. A.K. Singh and Dr. P.S. Bhandari
Judges for Peet Prize : Dr. B.M. Daver, Dr. Suresh Gupta and Dr. James Pandian.
Judges for APSI Junior best paper award : Dr. Benoy Verghese, Brig. L.P. Sadhotra and Dr. Ramesh Sharma.

The Treasurer has some difficulty in operating his account at the current bank and has requested permission for changing his bank. The following Resolution was adopted.

"Resolved that the Treasurer is permitted to change his bank". Adopted unanimously.

President elect Dr. K.Sridhar has requested permission to open bank account for APSICON 2003 at Chennai and Coimbatore as the workshop will be organized at Coimbatore and the secretariat will be at Chennai. The following Resolution was adopted.

"Resolved that " APSICON 2003 account will be opened at Chennai and Coimbatore and would be operated by Dr. K.Sridhar, Dr. S. Rajasabapathy, Dr. K. Ramachandran. Proposed by Dr.Mukund Thatte and seconded by Brig. L.P. Sadhotra.

Secretary's Report was approved unanimously.

• Editor's report and accounts for the year.

  December, 2002 is the end of my term(2000-2002) as Editor. For the last 3 years I have tried my best to improve the quality of Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, both in appearance as well as in quality. We have done many new experiments and started new columns, all of them are successful in my opinion.

  Let us forget what has happened in the past. Now our journal is not sick. It is healthy and growing. Let us do something to make it better. As an editor at the end of my term I will like to suggest few measures to improve the journal:

  (i) Restructuring of Editorial Committee: as I have suggested in Journal Committee meeting.
  (ii) Publisher must be fixed at the earliest. This will help in improving the quality.
  (iii) Dynamic Business Secretary must be elected
  (iv) I have sent last 3 issues for review by Medline Editorial Committee. The matter is to be followed carefully. I expect, IJPS, to be indexed before June 2003. Let us hope for the best.
  (v) I regret my failures: These are
  (a) Failure to get or collect funds for smooth running of IJPS.
  (b) Failure to get adequate subscriptions. I could manage only 16-17. At present one subscription means one thousand.
  (c) Failure to get Journal Indexed. I have made last attempt sometime 2 weeks back.
  However, I will closely monitor my attempt to get indexed and try my best to get the result before next meeting, if not before June 2003.

• Treasurer's report and accounts for the year.
  
  Treasurer's report had already been circulated. It was approved. Proposed by Dr. P. A. Thomas and seconded by Dr. S.N. Sharma.
  
  
• Trustee's report for the year.

  This is for the first time that the trustee's report has not been circulated to the members with the "Audited accounts". This is also the first time that the accounts are going to be submitted without the general body's approval. Moreover due to technical discrepancies and its change in format as compared to previous years, the accounts are going to be rectified and submitted as said by the Hon. Treasurer in due course.

  Let me bring home to this august body that once the trust is formed, the Charity Commissioner (Government) is the "Custodian" and the trustees are the mere administrators and have to work under the laid down laws of the Director of Income tax (Exemption) and the Charity Commissioner - as per `existing memorandum and bye laws of APSI' as already submitted to the authorities. No change or amendment to these would be carried out without the prior approval of the said authorities and of which they need to be informed immediately.

  This has to be clarified in view of the unpleasant discussion over the "Documentation Center Fund" which was created by the resolution passed on 1st September 1990 at the 25th National conference at Pune.

  Furthermore the Trustees feel that the honorable members should desist from using any `pamphlet literature' which is often a source of unpleasant disputes, which can be resolved by discussion. After all we are your representatives and you all have put `trust' in us.

  Under the 80 G exemption till last year, we have had to spend 75% of our income toward the activities, but from this year we have to spend 90% of our income towards our laid down aims and objectives. With the income falling steeply due to fall in the interest rates, this would leave very meager amount to plough back to the association corpus. Therefore we earnestly request one and all, to help in getting funds, to continue the association activities at the present level. Moreover the substantial contributions from the IX th congress fund that we had till last year are going to be substantially down. We shall have to make provisions particularly for annual international dues installments, which may go upto Rs 60,000.00 or so with increase in membership and fall in rupee conversion ratio.

  Few years' back, we had started the " Buffer Fund " and it was resolved at Goa meeting that " 5%" of Gross of the annual meetings collection shall be contributed towards this, which has not been followed so far. Apparently a realistic view has to be taken regarding this by this august body.

  "We have applied for renewal of our 80G exemption" and shall be forthcoming soon. But I would like to put on record the department now looks through the record of our activities and spending as the funds have increased substantially over the last decade.

  The TDS refund of IXth congress has been explained in detail to the convener. The delay has been due to initial late submission of TDS certificates. The matter is pending with the Tribunal and is being actively persued.

  We have some investment in"UTI-64" and shall have to wait till the Government policy decision in May 2003 and would subsequently know the " damages".

  The Registration of our " Memorandum and bye-laws" of the Association is under progress with the Charity Commissioner. Dr. Tambwekar, Chairman of Rules committee, who has been entrusted with this, is following it up. He has reported that it is in nearly final stage of discussion.

  Trustees recommend having a suitable resolution passed for the utilisation of the "Documentation Center Fund" which can then be submitted to the authorities and fund be utilised accordingly.

  In view of the meager returns from the " Corpus " of some of the awards " Promoted by the Association", the trustees recommend to enhance the same, so that the "Award Prize" is commensurate with other prizes.

  It is proposed that it is high time that " Estimated Budget" should be framed and discussed with the incoming President, so that ways and means can be discussed to meet the shortfall.

  "APSI Chapters" is a subject of discussion from the point of view of utilisation of 80G with the I.T. department and needs in-depth discussion and urgent action.

  Trustees feel that over the years the contribution to the journal has increased and the Editor and Editorial board should make a concentrated effort to make the journal self-sufficient. As of today there is no possibility of increasing the funds from trust corpus.

  Dr. K.S. Goleria, Chairman, APSI trust has submitted his resignation. In spite of my all out efforts, I have not been able to persuade him. The Trustees recommend acceptance of his resignation. We would like to put on record our sense of gratitude and appreciation for the services rendered to the association and the trust in particular from its inception. We still look-forward to his future guidance for furthering the activities.

  Trustees have unanimously approved Dr. Sam C. Bose to be the next chairman. Trustees feel that as the Trust is registered in Bombay and I.T. returns are filed in Bombay and Dr. Tambwekar who has been involved in compiling and submission of the papers, have suggested "Dr. Tambwekar to be nominated as trustee in the vacancy created and his address shall be Trust's registered office address"

  "During the course of discussion on vacancy created, the President asked for the alternative name for the Trustee's post, though Dr. Tambwekar's was suggested unanimously. The Executive trustee suggested that it's the prerogative of Trustees to suggest the name for the vacancy as per laid down norms. As the President, so desire, he would discuss with the trustees present and report to the meeting called on 28/11/2002"

  So also it was decided after due discussion that the registered Address of the Association should be Dr. Bimal Mody, Hon. Treasurer of the Association and the administrative office address shall be of the Executive Trustee.

  The Trustees feel that there should be harmony in functioning of the Association's various wings - keeping in view that the Trustees have to work within norms of laws of I.T. Commissioner and Charity Commissioner.

  I would like to thank my colleague on Board of Trustees and the members for their co-operation and understanding and look-forward to constructive suggestion.

• New Memberships.
  
  As in Secretary's report at item 4.
  
  
• Elections to the following posts.
  President - One
  Vice President - One
  Treasurer - One
  Editor - One
  Executive Members - Two
  Dr. K. Sridhar was unanimously elected as President for the year 2003.
  The other nominations received were:

  Vice President

1. Dr. Malti Gupta Proposed by : Dr. I.N. Tiwari - Seconded by : Prof. C.P. Sawhney
2. Dr. G. Balakrishnan Proposed by : Dr. R. Venkataswami - Seconded by : Prof. J.R. Jaju
3. Dr. Benoy Verghese Proposed by : Dr. Ramakrishna Nair - Seconded by : Prof. Gurumurthy

Treasurer

1. Dr. Bimal Mody Proposed by : Dr. S.N. Sharma - Seconded by : Dr. P.K.Bilwani
   Dr. Bimal Mody was unanimously elected as Treasurer for the second term 2003-2005.

Editor

1. Dr. Mukund Thatte Proposed by : Prof. C.P. Sawhney - Seconded by : Dr. James Pandian
2. Dr. Pradeep Jain Proposed by : Dr. Shiela Rohtagi - Seconded by : Dr. A.B. Patnaik

Executive Members

1. Dr. Rakesh Khazanchi Proposed by : Dr. Suresh Gupta - Seconded by : Dr. Raja Sabapathy
2. Group Capt. Anil Behl Proposed by : Dr. Sam C. Bose - Seconded by : Dr. B.B. Dogra
3. Dr. Manoj Khanna Proposed by : Dr. S.S. Chaterjee - Seconded by : Dr. Dr. Sailesh Patel
4. Dr. Niranjan Kumar Proposed by : Dr. Venkataswami - Seconded by : Dr. K.S. Sekhar
5. Dr. Samir Kumta Proposed by : Dr. Santosh Raibakar - Seconded by : Dr. Sanjeev Deshpande

   Dr. Samir Kumta withdrew from the elections. Adm (Rtd) J.C. Sharma, Dr. Mita Prasanna and Dr. Gopalakrishnan were appointed as tellers.

   After a secret ballot the following were declared elected :
   Dr. Malti Gupta as Vice President for 2003, Dr.Mukund Thatte as Editor for 2003-2005, and Dr. Niranjan Kumar and Group Capt. Anil Behl as Executive members for 2003-2005.