| By Laws - contd. |
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| 1. The Hon. General Secretary will
arrange to hold an Annual Conference of its members once every year
unless they cannot do so far unavoidable circumstances. The quorum
for the General Body Meeting shall be more than half of the regular
members of the Society or a minimum of sixty members, whichever is
smaller. |
| 2. The venue of every Annual Meeting
is fixed by the General Body of the previous year on recommendation
of Executive Committee. |
| 3. General Body of the Annual Conference
will entrust the willing members to form an Ad-hoc Committee to go
ahead with the Annual Conference on behalf of Kerala State Ophthalmological
Society next year. They should form an organising committee with a
Chairman and Secretary with the Office-bearers and must be intimated
to the President/Gen . Sec. KSOS. This is the duty of the electing
Organising Secretary. |
| The General Body will recommended
the following: |
| a)
Decide a suitable venue for the next meeting. |
| b)
Whom to entrust the affairs of the meeting-a local ophthalmic body
or a group of KSOS members who are regular in attending the State
Conference. |
| c)
Formation of a Scientific Committee for Kerala State Ophthalmological
Society. |
| 4. Scientific Committee which consist
of the following persons |
| a)
An elected person from the General Body. He will be the Chairman. |
| b)
An elected member from the Annual Conference Committee. He will be
the Co-Chairman. |
| c)
Editor of K J O |
| d)
President and Gen. Secretary KSOS (as Ex-officio members) |
| e)
Two more members to be co-opted from the local ophthalmic society
/ club who is hosting the Annual Conference. |
| This committee will look the following: |
| a) Subject for the symposium |
| b) Will scrutinise all the papers
submitted for their originality, subject and presentation. A member
who wants to present his paper for the conference should sent three
numbers of typewritten copies to the Chairperson of the Scientific
Committee, sixty days before the data of the Conference. |
| c) The Committee will arrange all
the scientific programs of the Conference. |
| d) The Scientific Committee Chairman,
KSOS along with President and Gen. Secretary in consultation with
the executive Committee KSOS will select a suitable person from our
fraternity who has helped in furthering of our knowledge in Ophthalmology
and contributed his mite to the Society. He can choose the subject
for oration. There are two Oration Awards alternating each year. They
are Alexander Memorial Oration Award and Dr. Oommen Memorial Oration
Award. The nominee will get a brass plate engraved with K S O S emblem
and the name of award and nominee with a citation. He will get full
traveling allowance and accommodation. The nature and periodicity
or theses awards are subject to the scrutiny of the Executive Committee
from time to time. |
| e) The Scientific Committee will arrange
the Scientific exhibit in the Conference. |
| 5. The programme of the Conference
is to be conducted by the Annual Conference Chairman in consultation
with State President and Hon. General Secretary. |
| 6. Organising Secretary and Treasurer
of the Annual Conference should submit an audited accounts of the
Annual Conference to the Hon. General Secretary/ Treasurer and Executive
Committee within six months after the Conference. |
| 7. Fifty percentage of the profit
or Rs.50,000/- whichever is higher should be given to the parent body.
Out of this amount, 60 percent will be transferred to the journal
fund. |
| 8. The scientific committee chairman
in consultation with the President and Hon. General Secretary will
appoint suitable members as judges for the following awards. He should
intimate the same to the select persons well in advance. |
| 1. Dr. K.C. Sankara Menon Award for
the best paper-KSOS members only. |
| 2. Prof. Dr. Siva Reddy Award for
the best paper – open to all. |
| 3. Prof. Dr. K.C. Subramaniam
Award for the best paper. Post-graduate students only. |
| 4. Dr. S. Tony Ferandez Medal for
best video film. |
| 9. Workshops for furthering knowledge
can be conducted by the affiliated Ophthalmic clubs or institutions
willing to conduct such CME’s after consultation with the executive
head of the Society (Gen. Secretary). K S O S will give financial
help of Rs. 15,000/- per year for the workshop/CME’s conducted
under the aegis of KSOS. The above mentioned amount may be changed
by the executive committee from time to time. The allotted amount
will be divided equally among the local organisers at the end of every
KSOS year. |
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| The General Body of the society shall consist of all
life members. |
| The General Body shall be the final authority in all
matters of the society. The ownership of all the properties of the
Society is vested with the General Body. |
| It shall meet once every year in the month of November
or as decided by the General Body. The General Secretary shall convene
the meeting by giving 21 days clear notice. Extraordinary general
body meeting can be convened by the executive committee at shorter
notice. |
| The quorum shall be one-third of the membership or
sixty members whichever is less. In the event of quorum not being
met, the meeting may be adjourned and recalled after half an hour. |
| The General Body shall consider and approve the reports
of the General Secretary, Treasure, Editor of the Journal and the
Chairman of the Scientific Committee. |
| It shall approve any membership applications for the
Society. |
| It shall elect the office bearers of the executive
committee. |
| Decide a suitable venue for the Annual
Conferences of the coming year - a local ophthalmic body or a group
of KSOS members who is regular in attending the State Conference. |
| Form a Scientific Committee for Kerala
State Ophthalmological Society. |
| Scrutinise and ratify the decisions of the executive
committee as necessary. |
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