MoM of General Body Metting held on 28th Feb 2023

The first General Body meeting of IEEE Rourkela Subsection for 2023 was held on 28th February 2023 in MS Team. There were 30 numbers of members attended the meeting in MS Team. Link: https://tinyurl.com/d8ty2uab.

The following resolutions were made in the meeting:

Agenda 1: Welcome by Chair

Prof Kamalakanta Mahapatra, Chair IEEE Rourkela Subsection for 2022, welcomed all the Rourkela Subsection members to the General Body Meeting. Prof. Mahapatra appreciated the members’ efforts to carry out various technical activities for the year 2022. He also mentioned that the IEEE Rourkela subsection was awarded for outstanding achievement in member recruitment for the Kolkata section during the 2022 membership year.

Agenda 2: Report on the activities during the year 2022

The yearlong activities of 2022 were discussed, where we have conducted student activities and professional activities such as expert talks, courses, and conferences. All the events conducted were reported on the IEEE website by the vTOOL event reporting tool. There were six no.s of expert talks, 3no.s of workshops for academic and industrypersonnel, and five no.s of short-term courses organized and technically sponsored by the IEEE Rourkela Subsection. Apart from this, two events were organized by our student branch. Also, two no.s of conferences were technically sponsored by Rourkela subsection.

Agenda-3: Selection of new Office Bearers & EC members for the year 2023

It was decided in the executive meeting dated 12th Jan 2023 that the same Executive committee may continue this year if there will be no nomination file for any post by any member of the subsection. A mail was circulated on 30 January 2023 about the formation of Slate for 2023 to all members, and no nomination was received till this meeting.

Hence the following EC members are selected for 2023:
Chair: Kamalakanta Mahapatra (93357715)
Chair-Elect: Dipti Patra (80661219)
Vice-Chair(s): Snehashish Chakraverty (94413826) and Poonam Singh (40281863)
Secretary: Sanjeev Patel (90569628)
Jt. Secretary: Earu Banoth (93541087)
Treasurer: Ayas Kanta Swain (92248006)
Immediate Past Chair– Sambit Bakshi(92530884)

Agenda-4: New member induction in EC

Adding new members in various capacities was decided to function the subsection smoothly. The following are the new Vice chairs selected for different positions in EC:
Vice-Chair WIE– Susmita Das(80661266)
Vice-Chair Technical Activities– Sougata Kumar Kar(91176905), Monalisa Pattnaik(92125882).
Vice-Chair Student Activities– K. Ratna Subhashini(90375596)
Vice-Chair Membership Development– Suchismita Chinhara(93078385), Pravat Kumar
Ray(93927501), Santanu Sarkar(90588281)
Vice-Chair Newsletter & Publicity– Arnab Ghosh (92678649)
Vice-Chair Website– Puneet Kumar Jain(92613543)
Apart from these, a few issues related to website development, PIN location coverage, and bank account opening were discussed that the new EC would take care of in the future.
A screenshot of the meeting is given below.

Finally, the chair congratulated all the new EC members and thanked all for joining the meeting and sharing their ideas for the development of the Rourkela subsection unitedly.