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| Indian Section Annual General Meeting |
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| 3rd AGM of the Indian section was held on Friday 12th May 2011 in the Conference Hall of Divisional Railway Manager’s office at Bangalore division. The meeting followed the Telecom Standards Committee workshop attended by all the 16 zonal railways and Research, Design and Standards Organization (RDSO) of Indian Railways. AGM started at 17:30 hrs after the conclusion of Standards Committee meeting. |
| 21 members were in attendance. The meeting was chaired by the Country Vice President of the section, Sh. Arun Saksena. After the opening remarks by the chairman and apologies from members who cannot attend, the minutes of the last AGM held at Secunderabad in May 2010 were read and confirmed as being the true record of the meeting. This was followed by acceptance of committee report on the transaction for the year including the draft financial statement of the section for the year ending 31st March 2011. This was followed by formation of 3 working groups as follows: |
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Working group to finalize a proposal for adoption of ISA processes and systems on Indian Railways (IR). |
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Working group to prepare a report on the adoption of V&V principles and processes in the design and adoption of modern signaling technology on Indian Railways. |
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Working group to prepare proposal for adopting IRSE licensing and certification in the design, testing and maintenance activities of railway signaling on Indian Railway and its various Metro systems. |
| After discussing other minor items, the Secretary announced the result of election and the composition of the Indian Section’s Management Committee and its Office holders which is listed below: |
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Sh. A. K. Misra, Additional Member, Telecom, Railway Board as Chairman IRSE Indian section. |
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Sh. Kapil Khanna, Atkins as Vice Chairman, IRSE Indian section. |
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Sh. Anshul Gupta, ED/ RailTel as Secretary cum Treasurer, IRSE Indian section. |
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Sh. B Krishna Kumar, retired IRSSE as Management Committee member. |
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Sh. Arvind Gemini, Director, Kalindi Rail Nirman, as Management Committee member. |
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Sh. Kalyan Banerjea, CEO, Urban Engineering Association, as Management Committee Member. |
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Sh. Prashant Rao, CSTE Delhi Metro, as Management Committee member. |
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Sh. Alok Sinha, Invensys as Management Committee member. |
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Sh. R K Chouhan, Atkins as Management Committee member. |
| AGM meeting was then closed. |
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