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“It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within

ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe Zantamata

My friends, the healers,

The times are tough for sure but we the healers, the neuroscientists, dealing with the most

difficult system of human being are created by the God just for such times! When the humanity is inflicted

upon with immense pain and misery and when one is groping in dark for a helping hand we are there! Right from

the moment we decided to join neurosciences as our future profession, love and indulgence we had accepted

being worthy of mental ruggedness and tough demeanor as Neuro-professionals. Pandemic or no pandemic

we had accepted to be gritty warriors in the most deadly wars waged against humanity by dangerous

diseases.

Apart from treating patients day in and day out NSI members have donated Rs Ten Lakh to PM care fund as a

national duty, with pride. Such pandemics can create temporary problems but they open up many permanent

avenues and opportunities too in return, which need to be exploited. Nation is fighting at many fronts

simultaneously including problems at our borders and in such difficult times we all need to stand rock solid

with our nation. These difficulties should embolden our resolve to regain our old glory, as a nation. As rightly

said, gold needs to be subjected to intense heat to purify it and same is probably happening to ‘Bharat’, our

motherland. We will certainly excel in every field, God willing, and be victorious. India is knocking at the door of

very select club of world powers and succeed we will, let no one be in doubt. To achieve this we all Indians need

to do our best honestly in our lives and respective professions. As neuroscientists we ought to do our best but,

obviously, with full care and precautions to protect ourselves. It’s our ‘karma’ to treat patients and help them in

their difficult times without being scared or neglectful. A doctor has no religion though a human being may

have. As a doctor we need to give our best to our patients irrespective of their caste, creed, religious or

political affiliations. I need to emphasize this, as off late we can see some disturbing trends in the society.

Here I pay my sincere condolences to all our colleagues who have lost their lives due to pandemic or

otherwise.

The praise society is showering upon medical professionals in this pandemic is temporary, friends. We should

do our best without getting affected by it or by absence of it, just out of our duty.

The clinical work has taken a backseat for time being so let’s utilize this time for increasing knowledge, to

pursue lost interests, polish our hobbies, to develop some new passions and most importantly to reconnect

with our family, friends and even foes whom we created out of mistakes, ignorance or carelessness.

Recovering a lost relationship gives lot of satisfaction and takes lot of weight away from the soul and one feels

very light at the end. Lots of webinars haven taken place, are taking place and will take place in future also.

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Kindly ensure that these don’t clash with each other, are relevant, not repeats and are not organized just for

pharmaceutical companies as a tool to remain in business.

The conferences all over the world have been cancelled and postponed for next year. The elected bodies of

various professional societies have also been retained for next year. Our EC too took cognizance of these

issues and being a democratic organization conducted a referendum. I am highly thankful to our consecutive

three past presidents Prof. BS Sharma, Prof. RC Mishra and Prof. Deepu Banerjee for their kind help in

conducting this mammoth exercise. Finally, NSICON 2020 Kolkata has been postponed to 2021 with Kolkata

remaining the venue and the same elected body has been retained for next year too i.e till NSCON 2021 at

Kolkata. I am afraid you all have to tolerate me for one more year as president of NSI. I personally thank you all

for helping in resolving this issue by participating in referendum.

I will fail in my duties if I don’t congratulate Prof Basant Misra and Prof Atul Goel for organising a wonderful

academic ‘Mahakumbh’ at Mumbai in the form AANSIM2019.

Finally, I wish you all and your families a very safe, healthy and fruitful times ahead.

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert Schuller

Jai jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai swabhimaan and Jai Hind!

Dr Lokendra Singh

President

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Dear Friends,

It gives us great pleasure to present to you the Second NSI Newsletter for this year. This

newsletter has the proceedings of the Mid term Executive Committee meetings which were

held virtually in the month of May.

As all of us aware, we are going through an unprecedented pandemic. In view of these

unprecedented circumstances, the educational activities of the society like the educational courses for the

residents, superspecialty CME etc had to be done online. However, we are trying to compensate for the lack of

conventional physical meetings by increasing the number of webinars as well as the range of topics being

covered in these webinars. The other academic activities like the publications of the Current Practice in

Neurosciences, Neurology India including the supplements are being published as per schedule.

I request our members to go through the proceedings of the EC meetings to understand the context in which

certain unprecedented decisions were taken by the EC.

Stay Safe and Stay healthy.

N Muthukumar

Hon. Secretary

Neurological Society of India

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PresidentDr Lokendra SinghEmail:

President ElectDr V P SinghEmail:

Hon SecretaryDr N MuthukumarEmail:

TreasurerDr Daljit SinghEmail:

Editor Dr P Sarat ChandraEmail:

Past PresidentsDr. Atul GoelEmail:

Dr Suresh NairEmail:

Organizing Secretary for AANSIM 2019Dr Ketan DesaiEMail:

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Executive Committee MembersDr Achal Kumar SrivastavaEmail:

Dr Dilip PanikarEmail:

Dr Girish MenonEmail:

Dr JKBC ParthibanEmail:

Dr K SridharEmail:

Dr Lakshmi NarasimhanEmail:

Dr Manjari TripathiEmail:

Dr Rakesh JalaliEmail:

Dr Sanjay PandeyEmail:

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Members Present:

2020/MEC/01 Obituary

2020/MEC/02 Minutes of last EC meetings

2020/MEC/03 Secretary's Report

Lokendra Singh, N Muthukumar, V P Singh, Daljit Singh, Atul Goel, P Sarat Chandra, Suresh

Nair, Dilip Panikar, Girish Menon, K Sridhar, Rakesh Jalali, Sanjay Pandey, Ketan Desai, Sandip Chatterjee,

Manjari Tripathi, Lakshminarasimhan Renganathan, Achal Srivatsava

NSI Central Office: Navneet Arora & Kiran Arora

Dr Lokendra Singh, President welcomed all the EC members to the online midterm council meeting amidst

COVID pandemic and called the meeting to order. He expressed that there are several important issues that

are to be deliberated and hoped to have a very fruitful discussion.

He then handed over the proceedings to Dr Muthukumar who also welcomed all the members to the EC

meeting and proceeded with the agenda for the meeting.

At the onset Dr Muthukumar informed the EC members regarding the sad demise of Dr Simon Hercules and Dr

Jayant Mishra. The EC members stood in silence for a minute to pay their respects to the departed souls.

Dr Muthukumar informed the EC that the minutes of the annual and the 2nd annual EC meeting have already

been circulated and also published in the March edition of the NSI newsletter and asked for the EC's approval in

passing of the same.

The minutes were passed being proposed by Dr Sridhar and seconded by Dr. Panickar

Dr Muthukumar then presented the Secretary's report. He mentioned that this online meeting is being

conducted in lieu of the meeting scheduled to be conducted in Agra but could not be done due to the Covid

pandemic.

thHe then updated the members regarding the membership status of the society. He informed that as of 13 of

May 2020, the full members of the society stands at 2372 and 672 as the associate members. This year we have

enrolled 61 new members out of which 28 are full members and 31 are associate members. Among the 28 full

members, there are 27 neurosurgeons and 1 neurophysician. Among the 33 associate members, 25 are three

year residents and 8 are 6 year residents.

He then presented a report on the NSI Board of Education. He informed that this year's first educational

course was held at KGMC, Manipal and was organized by the Chair of the BOE, Dr Manas Panigrahi and the local

organizing secretary was Dr Girish Menon. The foundation course had 24 registrations and the instructional

course had 35 registrations and there were 11 observers. 21 faculty members participated from different

parts of the country in addition to 9 local members. The second educational course is going to be an online

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Minutes of the Midterm Executive Committee Meeting, 24th May 2020

half day on May 31st, 2020. The programme for the same has already been finalized and widely circulated.

He further informed the EC regarding the conduct of the webinars during the first half of the year. He informed

that from January to May, 6 webinars were conducted covering a wide range of topics which were as follows:

· January – Posterior fossa tumours

· February – Radiosurgery as the primary treatment modality

· March -Atypical, anaplastic and recurrent meningiomas

· April - Pediatric supratentorial tumours

· April - Telemedicine

· May - Cerebral revascularization

He further updated the EC regarding the other activities of the society. He informed regarding the publication

of Current Practice in Neurosciences. He informed that this year two issues of the same were published so far.

The first issue dealt with Pituitary incidentalomas and the second issue dealt with Chiari malformation: to

decompress or to fix? He further informed that the third issue has been submitted to the publisher.

He then informed that this year there were no applications for domestic or international traveling fellowships.

He also informed the EC regarding the venue for NSICON 2022. He informed that as decided in the annual EC

meeting held during the NSICON 2019 at Mumbai, a team from EC comprising of Drs. Daljit Singh and Sanjay

Pandey was supposed to visit the two competing venues for NSICON 2022, viz, Bengaluru and Bhubaneswar.

However, in view of the pandemic, the same could not be done.

He further updated regarding the matter of Friendship meeting with SBNS 2020. He informed that the SBNS

had originally invited NSI as a friendship society for their meeting in September 2020. However, about a month

ago, they intimated that they have postponed their meeting to September 2021 in view of the prevailing

pandemic. Also he informed that as of now there was no information from CNS regarding the status of the CNS

meeting in Miami in September, 2020.

He also informed that the Superspeciality CME for the year 2020 will be an online CME and the specialty

covered will be Vascular.

The Secretary's Report was passed being proposed by Dr K Sridhar, seconded by Dr JKBC Partibhan

Dr. Daljit Singh presented the Treasurer's report. He presented the facts and figures pertaining to accounts of

the society. He informed that the accounts till 31st March 2020 are under finalization and the returns will be

filed in time. He presented the report from 1st April, 2019 to 31st March, 2020. He informed the EC regarding the

income received by the society. He also presented the details of expenditures. The members were very

appreciative when he mentioned that 10 lac amount was donated to the PM Cares Fund. He also informed that

Rs 10 lac were given as seed money to Kolkata in December 2019. He also presented the details of the various

amounts paid to the participants of various courses and national and international fellowships.

He further updated the EC that both the IT cases of 16-17 and 17-18 have been sorted out and no penalties were

levied. The professional fees of the CA from Mumbai, for the advice given and attending hearing of the

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society's appeals, was also discussed and it was decided that the CAs would be remunerated for their services

after the receipt of the bill for their respective fee.

Dr Daljit then sought the advice of the EC regarding the issue of central office management expenses. The EC

deliberated and unanimously was of the opinion that the annual increment has to done as per norms. EC

resolved to remit the amount to the central office.

The issue of donation from Mumbai contribution was also discussed. It was resolved to take 25 lac as donation

to the corpus and the rest of 70 lacs towards revenue expenses.

The issue of Jaipur accounts was also discussed. Dr Daljit Singh mentioned that the account of Jaipur NSICON

has not been closed as their GST cases have still not been settled. He informed that until the Jaipur accounts

are finalized NSI would be unable to transfer the 50% of the surplus back to Jaipur. EC discussed the matter

and

Dr Atul Goel was concerned about the delay in the audit of the accounts. Dr K

Sridhar expressed that every year the account has to be audited irrespective of the account closure. Dr Daljit

responded that all our audited accounts were presented in the December meetings and hence there is still

time for the audit of accounts. Dr VP Singh was of the opinion that until the account is closed no amount should

be transferred back to Jaipur as that will lead to confusion which is not desirable. Dr Daljit clarified that for any

annual conference the central auditor relies on the CA of the conference for information and data and

therefore it is not possible to scrutinize each and every item and details pertaining to the meeting. The EC

congratulated Dr Daljit Singh for the successful settlement of IT cases of both the year.

Further he also mentioned that the renewal for 80G was also to be done before 31st of August. Dr Ketan Desai

updated on the status of Mumbai accounts. He mentioned that most of the accounts are complete but GST

settlement is a cause of concern as it has to be taken into account that the vendors have legitimately paid their

GST on time. The audit of the accounts will be done in time as soon as the balance payments were received.

The EC also agreed on the Zoom cost for 1000 participants from April onwards. Dr Narasimhan mentioned that

the Zoom meeting can be streamed on Youtube channel so that more number of viewers can view the same.

Other alternatives for online meetings such as Cisco WebEx, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams were also

discussed. Mr Navneet clarified that we are not passing through the Chinese servers at present with the Zoom

platform, we are using the Indian and US based servers. He also informed that all precautions as per the

government advisory were being taken. The EC resolved to look into the Cisco WebEx platform for conducting

future meetings.

The Treasurer's report was then passed. Proposed by Dr K Sridhar and seconded by Dr Sarat Chandra.

At this stage, Dr Atul Goel expressed that the society money is for the welfare of the members and should be

used in a much better way. He sought proposals from the members regarding various options. Dr Lokendra

Singh suggested allocating some amount for the development of basic sciences. Dr Sarat Chandra suggested

creating SOPs for various procedures which are at present lacking in the Indian context. The EC was very

receptive of the idea. Dr JKBC Partibhan suggested having a national level NSI research foundation. Dr Laxmi

Narsimhan and Dr Y R Yadav suggested the creation of sub-speciality centers where young consultants after

advised Dr Daljit Singh to discuss with Dr Bhartiya and ask him to get the account audited and close the

accounts as soon as possible.

their residency can have their training. Dr Lokendra also mentioned that already a document had been created

for the same and urged the EC members to go through it. Dr Muthukumar suggested that subspeciaty

fellowships can be created by NSI and the duration of these fellowships should be at least 6 months with NSI

paying a stipend to the trainee. Dr Daljit Singh suggested that there should be a capping to the amount to be

paid to the recipients and more discussion needs to be done to iron out the issues regarding the same. Dr V P

Singh mentioned that this discussion had happened before also and the board of education was entrusted to

make the guidelines for the same. He further mentioned that a lot of homework has to be done regarding the

same. Dr Sridhar also expressed his views and mentioned that this proposal has been discussed earlier but

nothing concrete could be done in between the meetings. The best way to do it is to have a task force to lay

down the guidelines and criteria on each aspect related to training program and research. Dr Sarat Chandra

suggested that the mentor and the mentee work together on a research project, create a research paper and

the criteria should be set such that the fellowship money is handed over after their research paper is

published in Neurology India. Dr Atul Goel mentioned that an award can be instituted for the best paper in

research published in Neurology India. Dr Girish Menon also expressed similar views. The EC deliberated on

the same and a task force was created, consisting of Dr YR Yadav, Dr K Sridhar, Dr Girish Menon, Dr JKBC

Partibhan and Dr Atul Goel. The task force shall lay down the broad guidelines for recognition of centers,

choosing of candidates, duration of the fellowships, workout a budget for each trainee. The same shall be

presented in the next EC for approval. It was also decided that Dr Atul Goel will be the chairperson of the task

force.

Dr Sarat Chandra presented the editor's report. He informed that out of the last 6 issues, 5 issues had been

coordinated by him as a way of transitioning after the term of Dr Sanjay Behari was completed. He informed

that he had updated the title page picture with unusual architectural images instead of nature images. He also

informed regarding the new features introduced in the journal. He mentioned that he planned to bring out very

relevant articles form the past which had not been indexed earlier, under a new section, Pearls of the Past,

along with the expert commentary from the author. He also briefly described about the other newer initiatives

started for the journal. He mentioned that the plagiarism check is now done at the outset before sending it to

the reviewers. He further informed that the “thank you” certificates for the reviewer acknowledging the total

number of reviews performed by the reviewer are now been issued. He also urged the EC to encourage more

and more people to undertake reviewing. He also presented the journal statistics for the year 2020. The EC

was very appreciative of the report and congratulated him for his efforts. Dr Manjari suggested that some

funds can be made available to the reviewers who review in time as an incentive for the good work. However,

majority of the members did not agree to the idea of remuneration for the reviewers. Dr VP Singh suggested

that it would be a nice idea if the top 10 reviewers could be honored during the annual conference in some

format. The members were appreciative of the idea. The report was passed, proposed by Dr Daljit Singh

seconded by Dr Suresh Nair.

Dr Ketan Desai, organizing secretary, AANSIM 2019 presented the conference report. He informed that the

Joint meeting of the 15th Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 68th Annual Conference of

the Neurological Society of India and International Meningioma Society Congress was held from 5-8

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December 2019 at the Renaissance Convention Center Hotel, Powai, Mumbai. The meeting had received an

overwhelming response from the attending delegates, faculty and also our trade partners.

He informed that the total number of registered delegates were 1610. In addition, 135 registered delegates

were from the Society of Indian Neuroscience Nurses (SINN). Of the 1610 registered delegates for the AANSIM

2019, 230 were international delegates and faculty from all across the globe. American Association of

Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) were the Guest

societies and their members also participated in the Congress.

He further informed that on 4th December 2019, a Head Injury Awareness Program was held at Renaissance

Convention Center Hotel and 300 delegates attended the event. An Animal Cadaver Sylvian fissure Dissection

course was also organized on 6th and 7th December 2019 at the venue with the active help from Johnson &

Johnson and 65 delegates attended and took advantage of the available course.

As a part of AANSIM 2019 program, Six Preconference Workshops were held at different academic

institutions across the city of Mumbai and the average attendance was 25 delegates in each workshop

program. Eminent National and International Faculty actively participated and shared their experience and

knowledge with the participating delegates. At the end of the workshop, participating certificates were given

to the faculty and the delegates. A similar preconference workshop was held at J J Hospital for the SINN

Delegates and 40 delegates participated in the said workshop. The Young Neurosurgeons Fellowship award

was awarded to 65 young neurosurgeons based on their applications on first cum first basis and age below 35

years. The registration fees were reimbursed and a complimentary accommodation on twin sharing basis was

given to all awardees. They were also awarded a fellowship certificate at the end of the meeting.

The Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) had given 4 credit points to the attending delegates and 5 credit

points to the attending faculty. Similarly, 2 credit points were given to the faculty of the workshop and 1 credit

point to the attending delegates.

Besides conference website that had all relevant information related to the meeting, there was also a

Conference app that gave real time information of the meeting. The academic program of the meeting

consisted of Invited Talks, Guest lectures, plenary sessions and free papers. There were 2-D and 3- D videos

sessions every day during the meeting and all attending delegates participated in a big number in all academic

sessions. After the meeting, links were sent to all registered delegates for downloading the Conference

attendance and paper presentation certificates. The Abstract Book was made digital in PDF format and was

sent to all registered delegates well in advance prior to the meeting.

At this stage he thanked Dr. Basant Misra for guiding, supporting and helping him all throughout his journey of

AANSIM 2019. Also, he thanked all EC members of NSI for supporting, encouraging and guiding him. A special

thanks to Dr Atul Goel then President of NSI, Dr Lokendra Singh, the current President of NSI, Dr Muthukumar,

Secretary of NSI and Dr Daljit Singh for helping, guiding and fully supporting him.

Members congratulated Dr Desai and Dr Basant Misra for a wonderful meeting.

2020/MEC/07 NSICON 2020:

As Dr Sandip Chatterjee , the Organizing Secretary of NSICON 2020 could not participate in this online meeting

because of the internet service disruption caused by the cyclone in West Bengal, he had sent a letter to the EC

on behalf of the organizing committee of NSICON 2020. Dr. Muthukumar mentioned that he had already

circulated this letter to all EC members and he also read out the letter during the meeting for official and

documentation purposes.

The letter was as follows:

Dear Members of the NSI EC,

As Organizing Secretary of NSICON 2020, I would like to inform you that the core organizing committee of this

conference has had a meeting which was partially telephonic and partially web based, and all the members of the

organizing committee came unanimously to the following decisions:-

BACKGROUND: The organizing committee has been entrusted to hold the annual conference of The Neurological th th

Society of India in Kolkata in 2020. To that effect, the conference was planned to be held from 17 – 20

December, 2020 at The ITC Royal Bengal Hotel & Convention Centre. This has been booked for this purpose. An

event management company has also been engaged for this purpose.

However, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a complete change in the social, medical

and financial scenario of the country. With social distancing becoming a new normal, organization of an event

where over a 1500 people are close together in one venue is not only a challenge medically and socially but

logistically and legally as well. The organizing committee felt that the pros and cons of conducting such a

conference are very briefly as follows:-

PROS in favour of having the conference:-

1. The organizing committee has already made some investments in the form of renting an office and in the

form of paying a small advance to the hotel and event manager concern. It would be nice to follow

protocol and have an annual conference as usual.

2. If a conference was held, then a presidential oration could be held and this being an election year, it would

be possible for the EC to change a new EC be appointed. Although this is not within the purview of the

organizing committee, it would be keeping to normal protocol.

3. The investments made in form of renting an office, hiring an event manager and payment to the hotel

would not be lost in the event of cancellation of this meeting.

CONS against holding the conference:-

1. It is extremely likely that an assembly of 1500 people will not be permitted anywhere in this country in

December. This is particularly keeping in mind that the present pandemic is unlikely to subside before

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2. It is extremely unlikely that even if the pandemic had eased that members of the NSI would be happy to

travel by flights to Kolkata. This would mean that if a conference was held, it would be a very truncated

meeting with very few people attending the meeting. The organizing committee unanimously felt that in

this situation, it would be better to have no meeting than to have a truncated, austere meeting which

would be a meeting just conducted for sake of uniformity.

3. The big pharmaceutical companies have expressed privately reservation about being able to honour their

commitments that they made to the organizing committee in the first month of this year. They are

uncertain giving the financial environment, about their ability to deliver their promise in terms of

sponsorship.

4. The hotel ITC Sonar, which is a super deluxe hotel will need to be paid appropriate advance very soon if the stmeeting were to be held. The organizing committee had promised them an advance by the 1 of May, 2020

by which time the players in terms of the pharmaceutical's companies had promised to make their

payment. However, this has not happened. If the organizing committee now makes a payment which may

be upto the tune of about rupees 30 lakhs, and after this circumstances caused the conference to be

cancelled or postponed, it will be difficult to recover this money which would then impose a huge financial

burden on the organizing committee.

In conclusion, the organizing committee unanimously felt that the ideal solution would be to postpone the

conference by one year and have the same in 2021 December. Although, this would still cause a certain amount of

financial loss to the organizing committee, it would still be bearable at the current time. Kolkata does not want to

be remembered as hosting a suboptimal meeting of The Neurological Society which has a risk of being attended

by a few people only. However, the organizing committee also felt that since the decision of the executive

committee of The Neurological Society of India is supreme and binding, should this august body insist that the

meeting being held, the organizing committee would have no choice but to proceed with the same. It would do so,

with this note of dissent and would go on to organize the meeting. Given the huge financial liability involved, it

would be a very austere truncated meeting, and the organizing committee would have to look at a cheaper venue

for the same.

PS: As you know, after writing this letter in the last 3 days, Kolkata & Bengal has been ravaged by a super cyclone

which has gone through the centre of the city. There has been few lakh cores of rupees of damage estimated in

this state. Structural damage is yet to be fully assessed and the city is not yet functional with no internet, no

electricity or water supply in large areas and trees still lying on various roads. The venue hotel itself has also

suffered significant damage. Although it is to early to assess the financial impact of this super cyclone, it would

make the financial feasibility of this conference even worse, coming as it were on the heels of the COVID

pandemic.

With best wishes,

Sandip Chatterjee

In view of the above letter received from the Organizing committee of NSICON 2020 at Kolkata, the EC

deliberated on the issue and decided to postpone the conference calendar by one year as follows:

NSICON 2021 : Kolkata

NSICON 2022: Agra

NSICON 2023: To be decided between the two bidders, Bengaluru and Bhuvaneswar (who had originally sent

their bids for 2022) after venue inspection.

Dr VP Singh presented the status of elections for the year 2020. He informed that elections are due for all the

posts this year. He mentioned that the nominations would be called for from 1st of July. He mentioned the last

day for receiving the nominations would be 30th September. From 1st October the list would be displayed. By

22nd October nominations can be withdrawn. He further mentioned that the elections would be done through

e-polling. Dr Lokendra Singh mentioned that the whole year has been a standstill due to Covid and should be

declared as a nil year. He further mentioned that in most of the societies the same EC is being carried over to

the next year. Dr Sridhar expressed that he had already sent a letter to the council in this regard. He informed

that the president and the president elect are elected positions and they have duty to perform on behalf of the

society. He further mentioned that in all likelihood there may not be an annual conference happening this year

and therefore the same EC should continue for the next year. Dr Daljit Singh mentioned that there is no

problem in conducting elections electronically and anyone can vote from their home. Dr.Muthukumar said

that there may be objections from several members to this proposal as some might be aspiring to become

members/office bearers of the society and delaying the elections would deprive them of their legitimate

chance. EC deliberated on the matter. Dr Daljit Singh further objected saying that the EC does not have the

power to alter the normal process and continue for another year. Dr Manjari suggested taking a legal opinion

on the same as this is an unprecedented situation, a Force majeure, before the further process. Dr K Sridhar

suggested that by doing an electronic poll and asking the members what they feel about the situation maybe

the right thing. Dr.Muthukumar mentioned that the EC does not have the constitutional mandate to take a

decision like extending its term by one year. He also suggested that if the EC desires to postpone the

elections, then the decision of the EC should be ratified by the GB by conducting an online poll and this poll

should not be supervised by any office bearer/ member of the EC as it would amount to conflict of interests.

Hence, he suggested that such a poll should be conducted by three immediate past presidents who have

recently left the EC. This would be Dr. Deepu Banerji – President 2017, Dr.R.C. Misra – President 2016 and

Dr.B.S.Sharma – President 2015.Members discussed about the same. EC after detailed discussions decided to

conduct a referendum among the members regarding the postponement of the elections and this referendum

will be supervised by the three past presidents as mentioned above. EC further authorized Dr Muthukumar to

talk to the three past presidents, Dr RC Mishra, Dr BS Sharma and Dr Deepu Banerji, to discuss the matter and

request them to conduct the elections. It was also decided that the decision of the GB as conveyed by this

referendum will be final and will be binding on the EC.

As the matter was already discussed Dr Muthukumar mentioned that it need not be discussed again.

Dr Muthukumar informed that he had received two letters to be discussed in the EC meeting.

He informed that the first letter was from Dr Sanjat Behari wherein he had requested the kind permission of

the Executive Committee of NSI to enable him to publish a compilation of articles published in 'Neurology

2020/MEC/08

2020/MEC/09 NSICON 2021

2020/MEC/10 Letters for discussion

Elections for the year 2020


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India' from 2015 to 2019, related to the history of neurosciences in India as well as to the history of various

neuroscience departments of India, featured in the sections: Timeless reverberations, Citadels sculpting

future and Journey through the eons. This compilation would be in the form of a coffee table book that will be

distributed to all members of NSI during the next annual conference on a complimentary basis. It will enable

the collection in a single place, of the history of neuroscience of most of the major institutes of India and of the

eminent people who have played an important role in developing neurosciences in India.

EC discussed Dr. Behari's letter. Dr Sarat expressed that he should also be involved in this project as the

present editor. Dr. Sarat Chandra was asked by the EC to talk to Dr. Sanjay Behari and take this project

forward.

The next letter was from Laxmi Narasimhan in which he had informed that the Thieme publishers wanted to

bring out 4 issues on Epilepsy under the aegis of NSI. Dr Narasimhan also informed that there would be no

financial obligations on NSI. The EC asked Dr Narasimhan to discuss the details with the publishers and

present a detailed proposal regarding the copyrights, sale proceeds etc to the EC which will then consider this

proposal.

Dr Daljit raised the issue to increase the salary of treasurer office staff by 20 percent for the next year.

Resolved to increase the same

As there were no more agenda and issues to be discussed, Dr Lokendra Singh thanked all the members for a

fruitful meeting and the meeting was adjourned.

Long Live NSI !!!

2020/MEC/11

2020/MEC/12 Meeting close

Any other matters


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Minutes of the Extraordinary EC Meeting held on 28th May 2020Members present:

Dr Lokendra Singh, Dr N Muthukumar, Dr Daljit Singh, Dr Atul Goel, Dr Suresh Nair, Dr Manjari Tripathi, Dr Y R

Yadav, Dr K R Sridhar, Dr V P Singh, Dr JKBC Partibhan, Dr Sarat P Chandra, Dr Sandip Chatterji, Dr. Ketan Desai

Invitees: Dr R C Mishra, Dr Arvind Agarwal

An Emergency online EC meeting was called to discuss the current circumstances of organizing the NSICON

2020 in the COVID times. President Dr Lokendra Singh welcomed all the members for this emergency meeting.

He requested that the issue of postponing NISCON 2020 needs to be sorted out democratically and expressed

that this meeting had to be called due to certain unforeseen developments and requested the members to

take wise decisions. He then handed over the proceedings to Dr Muthukumar.

Dr Muthukumar informed that the quorum is complete as most members were present. He mentioned that

there is only one agenda to the meeting and that is regarding the postponement of the annual conferences of

NSI, NSICON 2020 and NSICON 2021 with the matters arising along with its related implications. He expressed

that before the council deliberates and opines on this issue, both the organizers Dr R C Mishra and Dr Sandip

Chatterji can present their views. He also brought to the notice of the EC that both of them had already emailed

their sentiments to the EC.

Dr R C Mishra submitted that he should be heard as an Ex-president and not as an organizer of the conference.

He mentioned that his bid was very legal and strong and was also ratified by the GB. He informed that the venue

has been booked and the chief guest has also been finalized. He informed that Japanese society has agreed to

be the guest society for the conference and international commitments must be honoured in time. Dr Arvind

Agarwal also presented his views on the issue.

Dr Sandip Chatterji read out a letter which he had written a few hours before the current meeting addressed to

the President and Secretary of NSI. The letter written on behalf of the Organizing committee of NSICON 2020

outlined the inability of the local organizing committee to postpone the meeting by two years to December

2022. Dr. Sandip also reiterated this fact in the EC meeting.

Dr RC Mishra submitted that in the light of the above letter and opinions expressed by Dr Sandip Chatterji, he

wished to withdraw his proposal to conduct NSICON 2021at Agra and agreed to conduct the NSICON at Agra

in 2022.

As Dr Mishra had agreed to withdraw his claim, it was resolved that NSICON 2020 Kolkata will now be held in

December 2021.

President Dr Lokendra Singh thanked Dr R C Mishra for his kind consideration. He further thanked all the

members for participating in the EC meeting. As there were no other matters to be discussed the meeting was

adjourned.

Long Live NSI !!!


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Obituary

Dr. A. Simon Hercules19th April 2020

Dr. Jayant Misra21st May 2020

Prof Devendra Kumar Chhabra30th June 2020

Prof Dr V Satyanarayana, 13th June, 2020


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Important Anouncement

As per the decision of the EC (noted in the EC proceedings above), a referendum was

conducted (in lieu of the physical General Body meeting) to obtain the opinion of the

members regarding the decision of the EC to extend the term of the current EC by one

year and thereby postponing the elections to 2021. The referendum was conducted by

three immediate past presidents who are no longer members of the present EC to avoid

conflict of interests.

The results of the referendum are given below:

Results of Referendum

Date of commencement of election: 1st July 2020 00:00 hrs

Date of completion of election: 7th July 2020 23:59 hrs

Total number of votes polled: 363

For EC decision: 302

Against EC decision: 61

Signed by:

Dr RC Mishra

Dr BS Sharma

Dr Deepu Banerji

Past Presidents, NSI


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