Minutes of SAC RM-03 (13/02/2022)
Minutes of SAC RM-03 (13/02/2022)
The 3rd SAC meeting was convened on Sunday 13th February 2022, from 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm IST. The minutes along with the voter’s list, are attached below.
Warm Regards,
Sanath Santhosh Albin P James
Speaker Deputy Speaker
1. Announcements
The meeting started with the Speaker presenting remarks on the attendance and participation of the SAC Councillors in the Emergency Meeting held the day before. The B21 SAC councillors have been added to the council, and they were also present during the meeting.
The meeting then proceeded with the report of the Executives and their Councils.
2. Reports
Joint Secretary
- Pedals Go was contacted to have electric cycles to move around the campus. However, they need at least 1500 active students to test the product; hence the testing process will be conducted in the following semester.
- Bus Services will be continued from the next month.
Sports Secretary
- The Fives tournament was conducted along with the TAS. Everyone, including non-teaching staff, had participated in the event, and it was a success.
- A new court for Kabaddi and Kho Kho will be introduced.
- A new high jump and long jump pit has also been pipelined.
- The renovation of the 12th Mile ground is taking place.
- Sports re-join will commence soon.
Technical Affairs Secretary
- To improve the Startup culture NITC, Interface is set up working along with the TBI. The project is specially funded by TBI and the IIIC.
- Tathva will be taking place on the coming weekend (18-20th Feb).
Cultural Affairs Secretary
- The Financial Report of Navaragam was submitted to the Finance Committee.
- The Diamond Jubilee celebrations were successful and were done along with the ALAS.
- A proposal for a cultural room for home teams is pipelined.
- In the coming weeks, interest groups for cultural activities will be initiated.
- Regarding the controversy with the Footage of the Telegu Street play.
- Raju Studios have missed the Footage of the event; however, videos taken from the Ragam team will be compiled, and it will be uploaded in the Ragam YouTube channel.
- The proposal for an official NITC Radio Station was approved, and the budget has been sanctioned. The radio would be both offline and online. A team for the same and a Faculty Convenor will be formed before the next semester.
Research Affairs Secretary
- Proposal for SCI relaxation was taken up
- The RAS, and the AAS will be a part of the Senate as student representatives
- Request submitted to the Academic Section regarding the stipend issue. Due to Covid, they are understaffed, and hence the delays are taking place.
- HRA, the PhD scholars, are collecting data from colleges across India
- The proposal for adding the defence date in the PhD certificate is underway
Alumni Affairs Secretary
- Diamond Jubilee celebrations took place on 31st December 2021.
- Proposal for the renovation of Creative Zone (CZ) was taken up.
- Database collection of alumni is under process.
- The Student Alumni Cell is re-initiated.
3. Transactions
3.1 Even Semester Elections
Then, we had started with the first transaction in the agenda, the proposal for an even semester election. The proposal was presented by the Speaker, and the councillors were asked to debate it.
The main discussion revolved around NOTA and having the final year students in the electorate.
NOTA:
The proposal for having NOTA was introduced to have a sense of accountability for the EC candidates even if they are standing as a single nomination. Even if 10-15% of the students vote for NOTA, the EC member can reflect on their policies and make necessary changes.
The Councillors asked if re-election would happen if NOTA won. If it didn’t happen, they argued that NOTA would sow a seed of disbelief among the GSB, and it could negatively impact the EC member and the attitude of the GSB to the position.
Final Years in the electorate:
If the even semester election comes to be, a student would only be able to vote a year less than their academic year. i.e. (a B. Tech student would only be able to vote for three years, and a PG student would only be able to vote for one year ).
However, a few councillors pointed out that the final years would be passing out and that they would be voting for EC members that wouldn’t represent them. The rebuttal to this was that they would have issues such are the grade-cards graduation certificate that concerns the next EC.
Since the members couldn’t come to a conclusion for the above topics, they were excluded from the proposal.
The 4th year EP councillor had proposed an introduction of the Rank Voting System. Further discussions regarding the same need to be done it the coming SAC Meetings.
3.2 Change in EC duties.
The following transaction on the agenda was the Change in EC duties.
The proposal was to keep a separate the Ragam Convenor from the CAS and the Tathva Convenor from the TAS from here forth to reduce the burden of the Executives. The above proposal was even recommended by the DSW office.
The councillors requested for the formation of a sub-committee for setting a basic guideline that can be followed so that the CAS and TAS can choose nominee’s that fit the basic requirements.
3.3 Social Welfare Committee.
The following agenda was the establishment of the Social Welfare Committee. The GS and JS had requested for the formation of a sub-committee with them and a team that can present a report and proposal for the same.
3.4 Scholarship Help Desk.
The next item on the agenda was the Scholarship Help Desk. The GS and the JS had requested the SAC councillors to find out one student from each scholarship so that the documentation process can be catalogued and presented to the students in the upcoming batch. A sub-committee for the same will be formed.
4. Voting
Once the above points in the agenda were discussed, the meeting was adjourned, and the voting for the proposal of the Even Semester election and the Changes in the EC duties took place. Since the above proposals were constitutional amendments, the voting was as follows:
- The vote shall be considered valid only if at least two-thirds of the total current strength of SAC votes on the proposal.
- The proposed amendment shall be treated as passed only if at least two-third of the votes is in favour of the amendment.
The Voter’s List for the amendment is attached towards the end of the document.
The Results of the Proposals are as follows
Hence both the amendments have been passed and will be presented to the DSW office.
If students are not satisfied with the above amendments, then:
- If at least 10% members of the GSB make a signed request to the Speaker within 15 days of the announcement of the decision to reconsider the decision, the Speaker shall convene an RM for this purpose.
VOTERS LIST
| SL No | Name | Roll Number |
| 1 | Akshith | B180457EC |
| 2 | Ojaswi Singh | B180487CE |
| 3 | Amal Mohammed | B180657EP |
| 4 | Kasagana Bhargav Naga Charan | B180881EE |
| 5 | Kunal Ravikumar Jagtap | B180921CS |
| 6 | Kapa Sowmika Reddy | B180975ME |
| 7 | Yaswanth P M | B181014BT |
| 8 | Muhammad Misfar | B190119AR |
| 9 | Karnatakapu S S Narayana | B190135BT |
| 10 | Sakhineti Praveena | B190197EC |
| 11 | N UJWAL KARTHIKEYA | B190362ME |
| 12 | ANTONY MARTIN | B190514CS |
| 13 | Srinathan Jatharthan | B190520EE |
| 14 | Faisal Shaikh | B190852EP |
| 15 | Simhadri navya sri | B190871CE |
| 16 | Parvathi Rajesh | B191093CH |
| 17 | AJMERA PARIKSHITH | B191223MT |
| 18 | DEVAVRATHAN A | B200151EP |
| 19 | ABHIRAM K R | B200214EE |
| 20 | Sagi Mohit varma | B200390 |
| 21 | Guru Prasad | B200476CH |
| 22 | Adithyan M | B200562CE |
| 23 | Hotha Durga Swetha | B200785CS |
| 24 | Pramod Kumar Reddy kopperla | B201014EC |
| 25 | Katewad Komal Singh | B201146ME |
| 26 | T NAGA VENKATA SIVA KUMAR TEJA | B201269MT |
| 27 | Anagha Sivadas | B201275BT |
| 28 | Bhavya Bollineni | B210084AR |
| 29 | Vyom Bhalala | B210146BT |
| 30 | Shishir Satyam | B210249CH |
| 31 | Diya Philamine Jose | B210299CE |
| 32 | Kailas Nath | B210518CS |
| 33 | POTHUGUNTLA TEJASWINI | B210726EC |
| 34 | Joel George John | B210838EE |
| 35 | Adarsh V J | B210978MT |
| 36 | Fadilah Fizzah A | B211084ME |
| 37 | Bhumika | B211198PE |
| 38 | Rahul Rajan | M200311MT |
| 39 | Albin P James | M200591PH |
| 40 | Kankipati Deepankar | M210206EC |
| 41 | Phaneendra | M210242ME |
| 42 | Antara Sablok | M210308AR |
| 43 | Muvvala Sheethal Pavan Puthra | M210331CE |
| 44 | Prince Thankachan | P170103CE |
| 45 | Muhammad Rabeeh VP | P180119NS |