AGM 2016

Annual General Meeting in progress

Last day of the month. Last date for convening the Annual General Meeting (AGM), a boring statutory ritual we’ve invited upon ourselves

Bihari Milwani reads Audit Report

after registering Big Laaf with the government two years back.
That it also happened to be a day for paying homage to dead ancestors (Sarva Pitru Amavasya) deprived us of full attendance for the meeting. In the absence of quorum at the start, a 15-minute break was declared before Yusuf Rassiwala, chairman (emeritus) re-convened the meeting with a strength of 23 in attendance.
As Club auditor, Bihari Milwani read out the Audit Report for 2015-16 and handed over certified copies of the statements of accounts and balance sheet for our record.

President Mallika Kagzi makes a point

He has also, very graciously, consented to be re-appointed auditor for the current financial year.
Banoo Apa created a mild uproar when she requested to be relieved from her post of Club secretary owing to pressing health/ domestic compulsions.

Post-meeting refreshments

She assured us though, that she would continue to be part of the Managing Committee and after much debate, her resignation was accepted (“with a heavy heart”, as Siba Prasad Maitra put it). Kiran Prakash’s name was proposed as the new secretary by president Mallika Kagzi, which was promptly endorsed by a show of hands.
“I had actually approached Bijoy Gupta earlier to take charge as secretary, but he declined twice,” revealed Mallika. “So yesterday, we convened a meeting of the Managing Committee and it was then that Kiran Prakash emerged as the unanimous choice for the secretary’s post. I am glad he has given his consent to undertake this responsibility.”
Furthermore, the AGM formally ratified the expelling of Srichand Arora and Jagmohan Papneja, former president and secretary respectively, for carrying out anti-Club activities with impunity. More on this, later.