Cutting the Flab

Yusuf Rassiwala addresses members of the Club after the exercises 

The Club today took a significant decision to reduce the composition of its managing committee from nine members to three while calling for immediate elections. These three members, would in effect, constitute the office bearers of Big Laaf.
Yusuf Rassiwalla also extended a warm invitation to all members for the Eid Party being hosted by the Club tomorrow. ‘It would give us great pleasure if everyone is present and nobody gets left out,’ he said.
The decision to cut the managing committee to size was spurred by certain hard facts which had made it untenable to sustain extra flab. It was explained that in a large club of say, 200 or 300 members, having nine people on the committee may make sense, but not in a club our size.
Moreover, to have almost one-third of the total membership drawn into a managing committee dilutes its importance and gives rise to needless ego clashes. A small, compact and cohesive committee will be much more effective -- not to mention, be constantly on notice as it can easily be replaced.
What’s more, the pool of eligible members for election gets expanded automatically. This is in keeping with the Big Laaf policy that once having served their term, members of a committee must make way for fresh blood.
For the record, the memorandum and bye-laws of the Club permit a minimum of three members and a maximum of nine on the committee – apart from the provision of co-opting two additional members. Yusuf R and Shekhawat remain the two Chairmen Emeritus of the Club.

Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
A small Managing Committee is ideal for a Club like ours. It is good that its size has been pruned. Let's hope that the new committee will bring new zeal and energy among all members.

Bihari Milwani:
Wow! Now we can have more members for constituting a sub-committee for parties.