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being organized at Jaypee University of meetings, and highlighted the main
Information Technology, Waknaghat Solan - achievements of the Section during
173234 (HP), India from December 22 to 2015. She informed the members that
24, 2016 Delhi section membership is growing
(www.juit.ac.in/pdgc-2016/) and there is a large increment in the
count of Graduate student members.
Besides the above conferences, Section She also informed the members that
approved the following ones too for which this time the record number of
Online application / signing of MOU is in the activities, nearly 196 in numbers held
process. out of which Section conducted 34
technical, administrative and
2016 IEEE Seventh India International professional activities including
Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE- INDICON 2015. She thanked and
2016) Conf # 38176 being organized at congratulated the members who
Thapar University, Patiala, India from received awards/recognitions from
November 17 to 19, 2016 (with IEEE PES- IEEE in 2015.
IAS Delhi Chapter, & IEEE PELS-IES Delhi 2. Confirmation of minutes of
Chapter as Financial Co-Sponsors) previous AGM: The Minutes of the
(http://thapar.edu/content/csed/IEEE2016.h last AGM held on 22nd Feb, 2015 were
tm) presented and approved (proposed
by Prof. A. Q. Ansari and seconded by
2nd International Conference on Recent Prof. M N Hoda).
Advances and Innovations in Engineering 3. Presentation of Secretary’s
(ICRAIE-2016) being organized at Poornima Report : Dr. Prerna Gaur Secretary of
College of Engineering, Jaipur & Poornima the Section read the Secretary’s
University, Jaipur, India from December 23 report, which was approved by AGM
to 25 (Friday-Sunday), 2016 (proposed by Prof. Subrata
(http://icraie.poornima.org/) Mukhopadhyay and seconded by Mr.
P.V.Ekande). The report is attached as
International Conference on Quality,
Annexure-I.
Productivity Reliability, Optimization and
Modelling (ICQPROM - 2017) being 4. Report by the Treasurer: The
organized at Manav Rachna International Treasurer of the Section, Mr.
University (MRIU), Faridabad, Haryana, Ravindra Joshi, presented the
India from 5th to 7thJanuary 2017 accounts for the year 2015. It was
(www.icqprom2017.org) decided that chapters should also
submit their balance sheet to the
Minutes of AGM of IEEE Delhi Section Section before the submission of L
held on Jan 17, 2016 (Sunday) 50 forms. The financial report was
(as circulated on Feb 27, 2016, & approved by the AGM (proposed by
adjusted to fit in format) Prof. M.N. Hoda and seconded by
Dr. Rachana Garg).
Time: 10:00 am 5. Felicitation of Awardees from
Venue: Seminar Hall, Kamla Devi Block, MGA, HQ and R-10 during 2015
India International Center, New Delhi.
and Presentation of PES
1. Welcome by the Section Chair
Outstanding Chapter Engineer
Prof. Mini S. Thomas: Prof. Mini S.
Award for 2015: All the awardees
Thomas, Chair-IEEE Delhi Section
from R 10, MGA and HQ during 2015
welcomed the members and the
guests present and declared the were felicitated. PES outstanding
meeting open. She started the Chapter Engineer Award for 2015 was
presentation with Robert’s rule of presented to Dr. Prerna Gaur.
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6. Declaration of 2016 Delhi Section IIT Delhi as Member
Mr. H. L. Bajaj
Executive Committee and
Former Chairman, CEA
Introduction of Members: Prof.
9. Any other item with the
Bhim Singh, Chairman, Nomination
permission of the chair:
Committee announced the slate for
 It was urged by the members
Section Executive Committee for the
that WIE activities and notices
year 2015 as follows:
should be sent through an e

Sl.# Name Organization Position mail group and Chair, WIE
1. Prof. Mini S Thomas (JMI) CHP. would be doing the needful.
2. Prof. K. Subramanian (ex-NIC)  Prof. Mini S. Thomas, IEEE
EXEC. V.C.
Delhi Section 2016, addressed
3. Prof. Abdul Q. Ansari(JMI) V.C.
the gathering. She put
4. Dr. Prerna Gaur (NSIT) SEC.
forward the following points:
5. Dr. Shabana Urooj (GBU) J.S.
6. Mr. Ravindra Joshi (IPDDL) TRS.  There are only 14 chapters
7. Prof. Bhim Singh (IIT-D) P.C. that include 18 societies.
8. Prof. M. N. Hoda (BVICAM) MEM. Volunteers should come
9. Mr. Daman Dev Sood (CI) MEM.
forward to form new chapters
10.Dr. Manpreet Singh Manna(AICTE)
where membership is more
MEM.
than 12 in societies. Some
11. Dr. Bharat S. Rajpurohit (IIT Mandi)
MEM. society chapters are not
12. Dr. Sumit Srivastava (MU, Jaipur) active enough like Circuit and
MEM. systems, Communications,
13. Prof. Ashwani Kumar(NIT, Kkr) Solid State Circuits and Signal
MEM.
Processing, who have large
14. Dr. Rohit Y. Sharma (IIT Ropar)
memberships. It is serious
MEM.
matter that proper
15.Dr. Nitin (JUIT, HP) MEM.
16.Dr. Jasdeep Kaur Dhanoa (IGDTUW) organization and reporting of
MEM. activities is not done by such
society chapters.
7. Appointment of Auditor for 2016:  It was pointed out that the
Prof. Sukumar Mishra of IIT Delhi was eligible volunteers should be
appointed as the internal auditor for identified and encouraged to
the IEEE Delhi Section for 2016. nominate for international
8. Appointment of Nomination awards.
Committee for 2016: The  She also requested that public
nomination committee for the visibility of IEEE should be
year 2015-2016 was constituted as improved by involving the
per the following: decision making bodies.
Prof. Bhim Singh
 Adopting a village should be
IIT-Delhi as Chair,
encouraged and social
Prof. Ranjan K. Malik,
projects should be launched
IIT-Delhi as Member
Prof. Subrata Mukhopadhyay there. Membership drive
GTBIT as Member committee should have at
Prof. Shiban K. Koul
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least one member from each Graduate Student Members, 3220 Student
Members.
society

 Senior Membership elevation
We have 2 subsections, 14 society
should be taken up on priority
chapters, 3 Affinity groups and 110 student
by the team. People from branches and branch chapters. Second
Industry would be the second Subsection-Rajasthan Subsection was
focus. formed in the year 2015.Our leaders
understand that the role of IEEE is to help
In all 88 (Members=72, Student technologists do their job well. And our
Members=14 and Special Invitees = growing membership surely indicates
02) person attended the AGM. success in that mission. Section is
10. The Treasurer, Mr. Ravindra Joshi, committed towards education and
professional development and a number of
proposed a ‘vote of thanks’ and the
events were organized this year in these
meeting ended with thanks to the Chair.
areas. I present the activity report:
11. Various Chapters and Affinity Groups This year record number of activities, 196 as
held their AGMs before Lunch. of now, were organized by the Section,
12. Special lecture on ‘Digital India Society Chapters and Affinity groups. These
Initiates’ by Dr Ajay Kumar, Additional include Technical lectures by several society
Chapters, distinguished lectures, the events
Secretary, DeitY was well appreciated
especially designed for Graduate student
by all.
Members, Women Engineers, young

professionals and Conference INDICON in
IEEE DELHI SECTION-Secretary Report 2015. Around 800 delegates from about ten
2015 countries mainly USA, Brazil, Australia,
Chairperson, Past Chairs and Members of South Africa, Bangladesh and from different
EXECOM, Fellows, Senior Members, part of India attended the conference. IEEE
Members, Young Professionals and student Delhi Section is the only section in India to
members of IEEE Delhi Section, Greetings organize the IEEE R10 Mobile App Design
and a warm welcome to all in the Annual Contest, an IEEE India Strategic Initiatives
General Body meeting. I, Dr. Prerna Gaur, AdHoc Committee on Student Retention
Secretary, Delhi Section take this under Delhi Section Initiative. IEEE Day
opportunity to thank all IEEE members for celebration was witnessed in many student
giving me the opportunity to serve as branches with partial funding by the section.
Secretary Delhi Section for the year 2015. I Delhi Section celebrated its 40th year on 13th
am also thankful to all the Section Executive May’2015 at BVCOE. IEEE R10 Branch
Committee Members for their whole hearted Counselors- Chairs- Mentors meet was
support and guidance. organized for the first time in DTU in
Delhi Section is under large section category September by IEEE Delhi Section. IEEE Delhi
and is among the fastest growing in sections Student-Young Professionals-Women in
in IEEE. Our Strength as on Dec’15 was Engineering Congress 201c5 was organized
more than 5000 and today as per latest at NSIT in April and in Jamia Millia Islamia in
statistics as captured on Jan 14, 2016 from September 2015. Another initiative of our
SAMIEEE database, IEEE Delhi Section has Chair, Mini S Thomas E-Execom Meeting
5388 active Members, consisting of 2 were organized to limit the expenses. TISP -
Honorary Members, 6 Life Fellows, 5 Teacher In Service Program Workshop were
Fellows, 21 Life Senior, 205 Senior organized at Jamia Millia Islamia and Indira
Members, 5 Life Members, 1205 Members, Gandhi Delhi Technological University.
73 Associate Members, 24 Affiliates, 621 Electronic Devices Society, Power
Engineering and Industry application society
joint chapter with Power Electronics society
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and Industrial Engineering joint Chapter National Workshop On Renewable Energy &
organized many distinguished lectures, Smart Gridat IIT Mandi by PES-IAS and
National and International Conferences were PELS-IES Delhi Chapter, One Day National
technically co sponsored by section, Workshop on Cyber Security and Forensics
computer society and Education society.19th by IEEE CS Chapter, One day Workshop on
Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Lecture was Bio-medical Signal Processing by Education
organized at IIT Delhi on the topic of - Society and One Day Workshop on Women
“HVDC Growth in US and India by Dr. Tapan Entrepreneurship by WIE Affinity group
Manna, IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. were organized this year. The Section,
Daylong Seminar on OCEAN THERMAL under SIGHT, provided 12 Solar Lamps to
ENERGY CONVERSION “Opportunities & needy in Nepal after the devastation due to
Utilization” was organized by TMC and LED earthquake.
Lamps In Slum Houses of Delhi were This section and members being vibrant
distributed by HTC team .2nd R K Vir throughout the year, we observed several
Memorial Lecture with theme on Solar awards coming to the section volunteers
Energy - Opportunities in Rail Sector was and Affinity groups and Section Societies.
organized on 04-Jan-2015 at Engineers Chair, Prof. Mini S Thomas has been
Bhawan in the memory of Past Chair, Late awarded 2015IEEE Educational Activities
Shri R K Vir was organized on 4th January Board Meritorious Achievement Award in
2015. Many Industrial visits for the Continuing Education. Heartiest
Engineering students were organized congratulation on this great achievement.
sponsored by PES-IAS Delhi Chapter. All Ms Aparna Neelkanth Mahajan and Prof.
India Computer Society Student and young Poonam Bansal from MSIT got the 2015
Professional Congress 2015, AICSSYC-2015 Outstanding Branch Counselor Awards from
was also organized for the first time by the IEEE MGA. Mrs. Aparna Mahajan for her
section at NSIT. exceptional recruiting efforts in the IEEE
This year was full of activities as many Member-Get-a-Member (MGM) program
dignitaries including President & CEO of during 2015 and have earned Delhi Section
IEEE, Prof. J. Roberto De Marca of Brazil, an additional award of $300. She is in the
Prof. Roger U Fuji, IEEE Computer Society third place as recruiter in the Asia and
President 2016, , Prof. Saifur Rahman, Pacific Region. Heartiest congratulations to
Director of Advanced Research Institute her for the time and energy she has
Virginia Tech, USA, Shri. John D. Mc Donald, devoted. IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter is one
Director GE, Grid Solution USAand of the 84 chapters listed to meet the HPCP
Mohammead Shahidehpour, IIT criteria and received funding through this
Chicago,USA., Prof. San Murugesan, program from Power Engineering Society.
Director of BRITE Professional Services, This chapter has also been selected as
Sydney, Prof. Anil Gupta , Padamashree the Continued Performance Outstanding
Awardee and Senior Faculty, IIM Large Chapter 2015 Industry Application
Ahmedabad, graced the occasion during Society. Our sincere congratulations to the
INDICON 2015and AICSSYC-2015. Dr. chapter and its volunteers. This year, for the
Howard Michel – President and CEO of IEEE first, all three R-10 Darrel Chong Awards are
and Dr. Jim Prendergast – ED and COO of won by Student branches of Delhi Section.
IEEE visited the Section in August. Prof. MSIT- won the GOLD, DTU-Silver and NSIT-
Akhtar Kalam of School of Engineering & Bronze. A huge round of applause to the
Sciences, Victoria University, Melbourne performance. Congratulations to Vaibhav
gave Technical Lecture on the Issues Vats of NSIT and Mansi Tripathi of IGDTUW
associated with implementation of on being selected as a 2015 IEEE Computer
Embedded Generation. Many One day Society Richard E. Merwin Student
workshops like One day Workshop for Ambassadors!
Graduate student members on LabVIEW &
NI Hardware Platform at NSIT, One Day Sincere and heartfelt congratulations to all
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the Chapters Chairs, Affinity groups- Chairs, 8. Prof. Sukumar Mishra (IIT-D)
members, student branches and chapters 9. Ms. Jyoti Jain (MSIT)
and their respective branch counselors 10. Prof. R. S. Bhatia (NIT-KKR)
involved. I look forward for another year of 11. Er. Vijay K. Dutt (ex-Rlys)
dynamic growth and achievements in the 12. Er. Ravindra Joshi (TPDDL)
Section. I hope that with the enthusiasm 13. Prof. M. N. Hoda (BVICAM)
and energy of all members and volunteers 14. Mr. Daman Dev Sood (C&R)
the section would scale new heights in 15. Prof. Dinesh K. Jain (DCRUST)
terms of activities and membership count. 16. Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay (GTBIT) in
My sincere best wishes for 2016 Chair

Grades Dec- Dec- Dec- Dec- Dec- Welcoming all those present in the Annual
11 12 13 14 15
General Meeting IEEE Delhi section
Affiliate 26 37 24 23 24
Consultants Network Affinity Group Chair
Associate 61 77 61 70 73
members stated that altogether 5 activities, 2
Fellow 7 7 7 7 5 Administrative (1 Annual General Meeting, &
GSM 351 470 499 646 621 1 Exec Com Meeting online) and 3 Technical
Honorary 3 3 2 2 2
Activities were carried out in the year 2015.
Member
In order to be pro-active, it was opined to
Life 3 4 5 6 6
Fellow have more quality activities singly or jointly
Life 5 5 6 5 5 with other IEEE and non-IEEE
Member
Organizational Units. Of course in the year
Life 15 17 21 21 21
2015 it was possible to have activities at
Senior
Member 1109 1168 1134 1177 1205 BVICAM as well as at DTU. The effort would
Senior 175 169 192 193 205 continue to spread the activities at different
Member places as well as on various aspects too
Student 2894 3200 3222 2991 3220
covering the areas of Computer &
Member
Information Technology, Energy & Power,
Total 4649 5157 5173 5141 5387
Communications & Signal Processing,
Dr Prerna Gaur Electronics & Nano-Technology, Control &
Secretary, IEEE Delhi Section Instrumentation, Environment & Economy,
etc. For this he appealed to the Members to
Minutes of Meeting of IEEE Delhi cooperate.
Section Consultants Network Affinity
Group The other issue that was brought out was
concerning role of the Affinity Group to the
No. IEEE/Delhi-2016/007 extent of its difference from the usual
January 21, 2016 (Thursday) Society Chapters as well as other Affinity
Groups. It should concentrate on advising
Date & Time: January 17, 2016 (Sunday), on various technical & professional issues
13:00 to 13:30 hours; when sought in the areas covered by IEEE.
Venue: IIC, New Delhi It would be technology based and
Members in attendance – experience oriented and free from any
monetary or bias towards any particular
1. Prof. Bhim Singh (IIT-D) product and / or system (until and unless
2. Prof. Ashwani Kumar (NIT-KKR) single-branded as per availability to the best
3. Dr. Prerna Gaur (NSIT) of knowledge & belief) according to IEEE
4. Dr. Ashu Verma (IIT-D) norms in vogue. In this context to follow
5. Dr. Mukhtiar Singh (DTU) Indian Power Group’s role was cited as
6. Dr. Rachana Garg (DTU) example referring to the contribution of its
7. Dr. R. Saha (ex-CEA) Members.

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It was decided that the Executive 10. Mr. S Ahmad
Committee of IEEE Delhi Section 11. Mr. Pradeep Kumar
Consultants Network Affinity Group would 12. Mr. Chinmay Jain
be continuing for 2016 as well as given 13. Mr. Ranjan
below.
2. Confirmation of the minutes of the last
1. Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay (GTBIT) - AGM was proposed by Dr. Prena Gaur,
Chairperson Immediate Past-Chair of the Chapter and
2. Prof. Dinesh K. Jain (DCRCST, Murthal) – seconded by Prof. Sukumar Mishra and it
Secretary-cum-Treasurer was unanimously approved.
3. Er. Ravi K. Aggarwal (Ex-Doosan) – Past 3. The secretary’s report on the various
Chair activities conducted during the year 2015
4. Prof. Bhim Singh (IITD) - Member was presented by Dr. R Saha as attached.
5. Mr. Daman Dev Sood (Continuity & He highlighted that the Chapter had
Resilience) – Member conducted altogether 31 activities, out of
6. Prof. Sukumar Mishra ( IITD)-Member which 27 were technical, 1 was professional,
7. Er. Rajendra K. Asthana (Ex-BHEL)- and 5 were administrative. He stressed that
Member efforts would be given to organize more
activities during 2016. The list of the various
Meeting ended with vote of thanks. activities is attached herewith.
4. The Income-expenditure profile of PELS-
Issued by IES Chapter accounts for the year 2015 was
Subrata Mukhopadhyay presented by Dr. Mukhtiar Singh, Treasurer.
Chair, Consultants Network Affinity Group Members raised the point that signatories in
IEEE Delhi Section the accounts in SBI Hauz Khas Bank should
be changed according to the Slate. It was
Minutes of the IEEE PELS-IES Delhi assured that the required exercise to change
Chapter Annual General Meeting (held the signatories would be carried out shortly
on 17th January, 2016) by Feb 2016. As per the Slate of PELS-IES
(as received on January 28, 2016) for 2016, the signatories in the SBI Hauz
Khas Bank for PELS accounts would be the
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of IEEE present Chair, Dr. J. B. V. Reddy, Secretary
PELS-IES Delhi Chapter was held on 17th Dr. Radheshyam Saha, and Dr. Mukhtiar
January, 2016 (Sunday) at 12.30 pm at Singh, Treasurer of IEEE PELS-IES Delhi
Seminar Hall I & II, Kamla Devi Block, India Chapter 2016 with any two authorized to
International Centre. It was attended by 14 sign the cheque.
members. The minutes of the meeting are 5. Thereafter, the Chapter accounts for
as follows: 2015 was placed by the Treasurer as
1.A warm welcome was extended to the audited by Mr. Ravinder Joshi, Treasurer,
members of the PELS-IES Delhi Chapter and IEEE Delhi Section. The statement is also
other IEEE members by the Secretary, Dr. attached herewith.
R. Saha. The following members 6. Prof. Ravinder S. Bhatia, NIT,
participated: Kurukshetra (General Chair, IICPE 2014)
1. Prof. Subrata Mukhopadhyay handed over a SBI Cheque dated 15-12-15
2. Prof. Bhim Singh amounting Rs. 25,000/-in favour of Chapter
3. Prof. Sukumar Mishra account as part of surplus accrued from the
4. Dr. Radheshyam Saha proceedings of IICPE 2014.
5. Dr. Mukhtiar Singh 7. Dr. Prerna Gau, Past Chair & other
6. Dr. Prerna Gaur Members of the Nomination committee
7. Dr. Rachana Garg declared the Slate for the year 2016 for the
8. Prof. Ravinder S. Bhatia Exec Com of IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter
9. Dr. Ashu Verma as under:
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S No. Position Name Organization 4. Dr.Om Vikas Member
1. Chairperson Dr. J. B. V. Reddy DST, Delhi 5. Mr.Vijay Devnath IEEE Member
2. Secretary Dr. Radheshyam Saha CEA 6. Mr.V.K.Gupta Member
Delhi 7. Mr.Daman Dev Sood IEEE Member
3. Treasurer Dr. Mukhtiar Singh DTU, Delhi 8. Mr.R.S.Kuntal IEEE MEMBER
4. Past Chair Dr. Prerna Gaur NSIT, Delhi
5. Member Prof. Ravinder S. Bhatia NIT, 1.0 Welcoming the participants, Mr.Ekande
Kurukshetra thanked all EXEOM Members for
6. Member Prof. Sukumar Mishra IIT- Delhi their cooperation & contributions. He
7. Member Prof. Madhusudan Singh DTU, also thanked all TEMS Members for
Delhi 8. Member Dr. Ashu Verma IIT- Delhi their support.
9. Member (YP) Mr. Ranjan IIT- Delhi 2.0 Minutes of AGM-2015 were confirmed
as no comments received.
8. It was deliberated that the following 3.0 Mr. Ekande gave report on activities
activities should be taken up: held on 2015.OTEC Conference 2015
(a) Drives for increasing IEEE membership and TMRI-2015 held at Jaipur were
and to elevate all eligible Members to Senior important events.The contribution of
Members of IEEE, Mr.V.K.Dutt in organizing OTEC
(b) Technical talks by IEEE distinguished Conference 2015 was appreciated
lecturers (DL) or eminent speakers, and highly.
(c) Industrial visits for IEEE Student 4.0 Since Dr. Mahendra Kumar could not
Members and promote professional attend the AGM due his other
activities. Important priorities, it was decided that
Balance-Sheet 2015 will be circulated
The meeting ended with vote of thanks. with Minutes of the AGM Meeting.
5.0 The EXECOM 2016 was proposed &
Dr. R Saha approved. The New EXECOM is as
Secretary, IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter noted below:

Distribution: 1. Mr. V.K.Dutt Chairman
To all the members of IEEE PELS-IES Delhi 2. Dr. K.Subramanian Vice Chairman
Chapter Enclosures: 3. Mr. P.V.Ekande Past Chairman
i. Secretary’s Report 4. Dr. A.Murli M.Rao Secretary
ii. List of IEEE PELS-IES Chapter 5. Dr. Mahendra Kumar Treasurer (Till
Activities during 2015 Mr. V.Devnath becomes TEMS
iii. Financial statement of Chapter Member & takes over)
accounts for 2015 6. Dr. Om Vikas Member
(dropped) 7. Mr. Vijay Devnath (Treasurer up
on becoming TEMS Member &
Minutes of the AGM-2016 Meeting of takes over.)
IEEE TEMS CHAPTER DELHI 6.0 Meeting was concluded with Vote of
(as received on Jan 30, 2016) thanks.

The AGM-2016 Meeting of IEEE TEMS P.V.EKANDE
CHAPTER DELHI was held on 17/01/2016, CHAIRMAN IEEE TEMS CHAPTER DELHI
at India International Centre, New Delhi
from 12.30 hrs to 13.30 hrs. Minutes of Meeting
IEEE Delhi Section CS Chapter
Present: AGM
1. Mr.P.V.Ekande Chairman (as received on Jan 31, 2016 from
2. Mr.V.K.Dutt Vice Chairman Mr. Daman Dev Sood)
3. Dr.A.Murli M Rao Secretary
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Date: 17/Jan/2016 d. The first Execom meeting of the
Venue: IIC, New Delhi Execom may be planned on
Time: 1pm-1:30pm 12th February, where ideas for
The following were present: activities for the year would also
be invited.
1. Dr. Sumit Srivastata
2. Dr. S S Tyagi Minutes of IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter
3. Mr. Daman Dev Sood Annual General Meeting (Held on 17th
4. Mr. Ashok Golas Jan, 2016)
5. Mr. PV Ekande (as received on Feb 02, 2016)
6. Mr. Vijay Devnath
7. Dr. Anil Kumar Dubey The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of IEEE
8. Mr. Prakash Meena PES-IAS Delhi Chapter was held on 17th
9. Dr. A Murali Rao Jan, 2016 (Sunday) at 12.30 pm at Seminar
10. Prof. MN Hoda Hall, Kamla Devi Block, India International
11. Mr. Om Vikas Centre. It was attended by 14 members.
The following members were present:
The following points were discussed: 1. Dr. Rachana Garg(Chair)
2. Prof. Sukumar Mishra(Immediate Past
Chair)
a. The slate for 2016 was presented as
3. Dr. Alka Singh (Treasurer)
communicated earlier and was
4. Prof. Bhim Singh
approved as below:
5. Prof. Subrata Mukhopadhyay
 Dr. A. Murali M Rao
6. Prof.Mini Thomas
Chairperson
7. Mr. Ravindra Joshi
 Prof M N Hoda Vice
8. Dr. Prerna Gaur,
Chairperson
9. Dr. Ashu Verma,
 Sh. Daman Dev Sood
10. Dr. Ashwani,
Secretary & Treasurer
11. Mr.V.K.Dutt,
 Dr.K.Subramanian
12. Dr.D.K.Jain,
Member
13. Ms. Jyoti Jain, &
 Sh Devanath V
14. Mr.Chinmaya Jain
Member

 Dr. Shyam Tyagi
Dr. Bharat Rajpurohit has expressed his
Member
inability to attend the meeting. The minutes
b. The account summary was
of the meeting are as follows:
presented. Mr. Devnath pointed a
1. Address by the Chapter Chairperson In
difference of INR 18464 between
his address, Dr. Rachana Garg, Chair, IEEE
the Credits and Debits. This is
PES-IAS Chapter, welcomed the members
clarified that this is possible that
present in the AGM and informed that the
the expenses were more than the
year 2015 had been an eventful year with as
inflow. For records, the only
many as 50 activities. The PES chapter has
inflow to the Chapter is annual
received the High performing chapter award
grant (INR 12000) and the
for 2014 program year and IAS Continued
interest accrued on the positive
Outstanding Performance Large Chapter
balance.
Award. She thanked the execom members
c. Dr. Anil Kumar Dubey and Mr.
for their support and cooperation.
Prakash Meena presented their
2. Confirmation of minutes of the last AGM
candidature to be part of the
held on February 22nd 2015 The minutes of
Execom – this will be discussed in
the last AGM held on Feb. 22nd 2015 were
the first meeting of the Execom.
approved as proposed by Prof. Sukumar
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Mishra and seconded by Prof. Bhim Singh. Prof. Bhim Singh. It was also suggested that
3. Presentation of Activity by the Secretary all the past chairs should be the coopted
In the absence of Secretary, Dr. Bharat members. The Chair, Dr, Rachana Garg
Rajpurohit, Dr. Rachana Garg, Chair, IEEE thanked the Nomination Committee for
PESIAS Delhi chapter presented the selecting the new Execom and assured that
secretary’s report. She made a detailed the chapter will keep pace with last year’s
presentation of the activities of the chapter activities.
during the year 2015. In 2015, chapter Meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the
conducted a total of 50 activities, out of Chair.
which 40 were technical, 5 were Dr.Rachana Garg
administrative and 5 were professional. The (Chair, PES-IAS Delhi Chapter)
outstanding chapter engineer award for
2015 was given to Dr. Prerna Gaur, NSIT, Distribution: To all the members of IEEE
Delhi, India. Thomas Alva Edison memorial PES-IAS Delhi Chapter
lecture was delivered on 28th Sept.2015 at
IIT, Delhi by Dr. Tapan Manna, IEEE PES Enclosures:
Distinguished Lecturer, on the topic 'HVDC i. Secretary’s Report
Growth in US and India'. The IEEE PES-IAS ii. List of IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter
Delhi Chapter will be cosponsoring four Activities during 2015
conferences namely, ICPS- 2016 during iii. Financial statement of Chapter accounts
March 4-6, 2016 at Delhi, IICPE 2016 during for 2015
Nov. 17-19, 2016 at Patiala Punjab, PICON (dropped)
2016 during Nov. 25-27, 2016 at Bikaner
Rajasthan and ICPEICES-2016 during July 4- Extracts from
6, 2016 at Delhi. The report was approved IEEE MGA SCOOP - January 2016
as proposed by Dr. Ashwin and seconded by (as received on Jan 29, 2016)
Prof. D.K.Jain.
4. Presentation of Financial Report by the Visit the MGA News web
Treasurer Dr.Alka Singh, Treasurer of the page (http://www.ieee.org/societies_commu
chapter, presented the financial report for nities/geo_activities/mga_news.html?WT.mc
the year 2015. The statement of accounts _id=mganews2016.01) for the latest news
was accepted as proposed by Prof. Sukumar articles, including:
Mishra and seconded by Dr.Prerna Gaur.
5. Election of Executive Committee for the * Reminder: 2015 annual reporting and
year 2016 The Nomination Committee chair, rebate requirements: due 15 March
Prof. Sukumar Mishra recommended the * Proposed amendment to the IEEE
following slate of IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Constitution on 2016 ballot
Chapter Executive Committee for the year * Welcome new members in your Section
2016. and invite them to attend an orientation
1. Chairperson, Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU webinar
2. Secretary, Dr. Bharat Rajpurohit, IIT * vTools release announcement: eNotice
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3.Treasurer, Dr. Alka Singh, DTU * IEEE Women in Engineering news:
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5. Member, Mr. Ravindra Joshi, TPDDL Leadership Conference
6. Prof. Dinesh Jain, DCRUST, Murthal * National Society Agreements – a new and
7. Member, Mr Ahteshamul Haque, JMI improved process
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The slate was accepted as proposed by Prof. committees; last call for IEEE Technical Field
Subrata Mukhopadhyay and seconded by Award and Herz Award nominations
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