Trustee informed that suitable resolutions were required to maintain the corpus of Brig. Kathpalia Fellowship and Gen. N.C. Sanyal Professorship. Therefore, the following resolutions were adopted.

" Resolved that Rs 1 Lakh donated by Mrs. Kathpalia would be placed in a corpus to start the Brig. Kathpalia fellowship in hand surgery. Upto Rs 10000/- from the interest would be awarded , annually, as fellowship amount and the rest used to augment the corpus."

" Resolved that Rs 1 lakh provided by the organising committee of APSICON '96,held at Delhi would be placed in a corpus to start the Gen. N.C. Sanyal Professorship. Upto Rs 20000/- from the annual interest would be awarded, once in 2 years, as Professorship amount and the rest used to augment the corpus. Further resolved that selection would be done by a committee consisting of President APSI, President and Secretary of Delhi Chapter of APSI and Prof. of Plastic Surgery AFMC ,Pune. In the absence of Prof. of Plastic Surgery AFMC ,Pune, Senior Advisor Plastic Surgery at RR Hospital, Delhi will be on the committee.

" Dr. Suresh Gupta pointed out that the Resolution moved by the Maharashtra Chapter and printed on page 9 of the Trustee's report that was circulated, was worrying because it called for having a permanent office of APSI in Mumbai. Prof. Sawhney also expressed his opinion against the resolution. Prof. Goleria informed that in subsequent years it would be necessary to have a permanent address of the Association. A registered office did not preclude or prohibit other functional offices as may be decided by the Executive Council, as is the practice now. Acquiring the Association's own office premises would boost up the status of the Association just as building up of significant corpus funds has already done. The General body unanimously disapproved of the resolution and formed a committee of Prof. Sam C. Bose, Prof. R.K. Nair and Prof. Ramesh Chandra to discuss the utilisation of funds. Prof. Tambwekar , Chairman organising committee APSICON 1999 then suggested that the funds be utilised to have a building for the Maharashtra Chapter. This was unanimously accepted, and therefore, the committee formed above was dissolved. The following resolution was adopted.

" Resolved that out of the total savings of Rs 477,865/- of APSICON '99 a corpus of Rs 150,000/- be created to promote scientific and educational programs of the Maharashtra Chapter of APSI and the balance amount of Rs 327,865/- be used to create 'Maharashtra Chapter Office Premises Fund'. "

Introduction of the new President. The incoming President
Dr. P.K. Bilwani was introduced to the house.

Plans for year 2001 & APSICON 2001
Dr. P.K. Bilwani informed the house that he would be holding APSICON 2001 at Ahmedabad .He also informed that the organising secretary will be Dr.Vijay Bhatia and the exact venue was being still worked out. He requested for a resolution to be passed for opening an account.

It was unanimously resolved that 'Dr. P.K. Bilwani was authorised to open a bank account in the name of APSICON 2001 and the following will be the signatories to the account. Dr. P.K. Bilwani, Dr. Vijay Bhatia & Nitin Shah " .

Adjournment.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.

Dr. S.K. Bhatnagar
President

Dr. Rajeev B. Ahuja
Secretary