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MIG C C AGM held on 11th Dec

MIG C C AGM held on 11th Dec., 2011
(Please note that these are not minutes but only my personal account of the meeting)
The marathon AGM went from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 only to be adjourned till further notice following heated arguments and claim of Mr. Pravin Barve slapping Mr. Mohan Nagpurkar. No resolutions could be passed as the discussion went on and on over the points like:

• Mr. Pravin Barve’s England tour advance balance write-off
• The Club’s constitution not being correctly amended
• Non-existant MC resolution submitted for FD with NKGSB bank

Mr. Kalbag, the Chairman, denied permission to move any resolution on the above points. The AGM agenda viz. adoption of the annual accounts, confirmation of the last AGM & EGM minutes etc. was not discussed and no resolutions were passed.
After the meeting was adjourned, a few members supporting the above points were to continue the AGM by electing a new Chairman for the AGM. I left the Club at that point as I do not support such avoidable tussles.
Meanwhile Mr. Siddharth Pardhe, MC Member, was asked to leave for 15 minutes for insulting behavior towards the members.
Unfortunately, I believe, all these things resulted into filling complaints to the police station.

MiG AGM 2011

Dear Members,

I have raised a few points for discussion in the AGM dated 11-12-2011 and request you to contribute your views and request your attendance for the ensuing AGM for discussion on all such issues in the broader interest of our Club.

Discussion is proposed by me on:

·        Avoidable complication that would arise from the proposed Constitutional amendments

·        Need to have proper protocol from issuing AGM/EGM notices

·        Should renovation expenses be capitalized? It results into overstatement of the ‘Surplus’.

·        Reduction in Bar revenue?

·        Low average interest earnings

·        Why large amounts of ‘Advances’ remain outstanding for a long period?

Copy of the letter submitted to the Club is given below for your perusal.

From:

Mrs. Deepa Tidke

8, Nandanvan, 4^th Road, TPS-III,

Santacruz-East, Mumbai – 400 055

Date: 29^th Nov., 2011

To,

The Chairman,

MIG Cricket Club,

Bandra – East,

Mumbai

Dear Sir,

I request you to kindly place the following point/information before the AGM scheduled on 11-12-2011. You information to me will be highly appreciated. I request you to kindly read this letter in the AGM so all the members are aware of the various points raised.

1.     Proposed Constitutional amendments:

The proposed amendments that would alter the last election results retrospectively would result into many complications and new litigations. The election results are declared, MC & Board of Trustees formed and all members informed. See the scenario if Mr. Uchil gives up his Managing Committee seat:

·        Vote garnered by him would have gone to any other contestant/s

·        So, any adoption in his place is contrary to the principles of natural justice

·        As he contested on ‘Barve Panel’ he would be right to claim the right to nominate any other person in his place.

·        The ‘Change Report’ would be challenged and more litigation to follow.

I propose that let the status quo be maintained and the amendment be made effective with effect from the next election. Alternatively, let fresh elections for both the Managing Committee and the Trustees be held by the AGM decision.

2.     AGM Notice signed by Mr. Subodh Kulkarni, President:

Kindly inform the AGM that whether the post of ‘President’ is as per the constitution of the Club and whether he is authorized to issue such important AGM notice. If he is not authorized, this AGM itself would become null & void.

3.     Additions to the Buildings:

I propose that details of the additions to the buildings in 2010-11 Rs. 1,00,95,737 (Fixed Assets Schedule No. C) be placed before the AGM. In case the same are for renovation/refurbishing of the premises, the same should be treated as expenses and not to be capitalized.

4.     Overstatement of the Surplus:

The income & expenditure Account may result into unrealistic surplus in such a case. The controllable operational surplus, if further adjusted for the savings in the power bill and rates & taxes is then a DEFICIT OF Rs. 4,05,026.

5.     Reduction of Income from Ordinary Membership Fees:

I propose to place before the AGM the reasons why the same has been less this year by 6%. Whether number of Ordinary members has reduced this year? Actually new memberships were issued during the year.

6.     Reduction in Permit Room Income:

I propose to place before the AGM the reasons why the permit room income has reduced where is expected to substantially increase on account of increased no. of members, increase in rates etc. Additional bar is proposed as the present one is becoming crowded! So how the income was reduced? I proposed to place before the AGM, to be duly certified by the Auditors, the following details:

·        Opening stock plus purchases during 2010-11 of the total liters spirits

·        Aggregate liters of the different spirits sold during 2010-11 as per the sale bills

·        Closing stock of the different spirits in liters

7.     Reduction in Interest Income

Interest income is reduced by Rs. 6,90,837 where the deposits have increased by Rs. 4,74,64,986. The avg. interest works out to only 7.60% p.a. I propose to place before the AGM bank wise deposit details and details of any interest loss due to premature withdrawal of deposits during the year.

8.     Life Memberships Issued during the Year:

As per the annual reports, new 98 life memberships were issued as against increase in the fees at Rs. 3,02,07,000; working out to Rs. 3,08,234. Considering the fee @ Rs. 4,00,000 per new life membership, the amount should have been Rs. 3,92,00,000, thus, indicating a shortfall of Rs. 89,93,000/-. I propose that details of the amount collected from each of the new Life Membership issued during 2010-11, with the names, be placed before the AGM to remove any confusion in this respect.

9.     Loans & Advances:

Major part of the amount of Rs. 1,87,30,533 seem to be outstanding for a very long period. I propose to place party-wise and date-wise detail of the advances before the AGM for the members’ information.

I also request to inform the AGM that whether the ‘Mobilization Advance’ of Rs. 25,00,000 paid to a party in the school project matter is now to be recoverable and if so, what steps have been taken to recover the same.

10. Incorrect AGM minutes:

The minutes recorded in the Annual reports are not correct, particularly, in respect of the various points raised by me those find no mention. Further, it was minuted that Dr. Shimpi gave satisfactory replies to the points raised by me in my letter whereas actually none of the points were replied. Also, it is stated that all the decisions of the Managing Committee are informed to the members. It is not true. At least I have not received any such information till date since the last more than the last 10 years! There are many other such instances of misstatements.

In view of this, I propose that the video recording of the AGMs/EGMs may be put on the web site of the Club for impartial view of the members on the proceedings. You may appreciate that even the Parliamentary proceedings are shown live on TV! This will make our Club the first one to take such right step towards transparency in its functioning. The proceedings are anyway video taped.

            Thanking you,

Deepa Jayant Tidke (LT-18911)

MiG CC 2011 Election

Dear Members of MIGCC,




Thanks for your support. It gives me strength to take the cause further though I lost. Please feel free to contact me for any issue or suggestion that I shall be pleased to take it further with the Club’s management.



To ensure free & fair elections I had requested for modification of the election’s Code of Conduct. Copy of the same along with reply from the Election Office Adv. Mr. Khatavkar is attached for your information is attached.



I shall keep you appraised of the developments from the different fronts from time to time, including that of the progress of the investigation by the Charity Commissioner’s office along with the documents those are otherwise available under RTI. I believe that members have right to be aware of the overall functioning of the Club.



My contact details: Mobile: 9892029336; 9324287750



Emial: deepatidke@yahoo.co.in


Please find the scanned copies of the letters in Pages of this blog! Thank you!

Congratualations to Mr. Patki!  The Supreme Court's order has resolved the long standing issue. I suggest our club arrange a party to celebrate and thank Mr.Patki and his team.  We can have the party on the ground!

Status Report on my Complaint to the Charity Commissioner

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