New Delhi - National Integration Assembly (NIA) is a committed body to serve the HIV/AIDS affected people, including women and children and also planning to start mobile hospitals to alleviate their sufferings. It expects that all concerned States in India would cooperate the NIA to enable it to serve them better.

It surveys the number of people suffering from this fell disease and keeps its own record to facilitate the organization to provide proper relief as per the gravity of the pateients. It has special care cell for children.

All people or allied organisations in India and abroad  can apply to NIA for any help like educating material for such patients free of cost. NIA's Website is in the process of making and it shall be available on the net very soon.

NIA has estimated and apprehends that there are about 11 million Indians affected by HIV/AIDS and not  5.1 million as the authorities claim. The Indians are always hesitant to conceal their disease, particularly HIV/AIDS, and hence the survey figures go wrong.

The Vice President Mrs. Tripta Bhatia explained to the people how NIA functions and what are its financial resources. She elaborated all the legal aspects of the body.
She started to speak right from the Membership of the NIA. She said:

1. Any Indian national having the age of 18 or above can volunteer one's services to the Assembly for the promotion of country's unity, regional peace, Indo-international relationship, to help social causes like family planning, HIV/AIDS affected people, blind and physically handicapped irrespective of nationality, religion, caste, color, or creed.

2. Any similar organizations may be enrolled or affiliated as Associate members by a special resolution of the Executive Committee.

Procedure for Application

3. (a) The applicant should fill the prescribed application form duly recommended by one member and seconded by the other member along with the prescribed category of  membership fee and send the same to the Secretary/Resident Secretary of the NIA.

 (b) The application should be addressed to the President and may be sent to the Secretary/Resident Secretary for placement before the Executive Committee for its approval.  The Committee has a right to accept or reject the application without assigning any reason.
 
 (c) The condition given in para 3 (a) above is mandatory for all prospective members to comply with for eligibility of any type of membership or patron-ship.

 (d) The President, if he is a founder member of the NIA, shall hold the power of selecting any person or personality keeping in mind furtherance of the aims and objects of the organization.

Membership/Membership Fee

4. (a)  Regular Membership: The annual rate of membership fee other than signatories or founder members or noted social workers/reformers shall be Rs. 55000 or US$ 1200, whichever is less or as prescribed by the Executive Committee from time to time. This membership shall be for a period of 1 year from 1April to 31 March, both days inclusive.

(b) Honorary Membership: A sum of Rs. 5500 or US$ 120, whichever is less or as prescribed by the Executive Committee from time to time.

(c)  Life Membership:  Life Membership is on selection basis by the Selection Committee, composed of three members, President, Secretary/Resident Secretary and Treasurer/or any other member.  Deserving Persons from any country having diplomatic relations with India can be enrolled for life membership @ a fixed fee of Rs. 5,50,000 or US$ 12,000, whichever is less or as prescribed by the Executive Committee from time to time. The Life Membership is for 12 years.

(d)  Patrons: Patron are on selection basis by the Selection Committee. Deserving Persons from any country having diplomatic relations with India can be selected or nominated as Patron @ a fixed fee of Rs. 55,00,000 or US$ 1,20,000 whichever is less or as prescribed by the Executive Committee from time to time.

Note: All fees are non refundable.

Funds

5. (a) Membership Fees, sale of literature, books, films, advertisements, and voluntary contribution/donations in cash and in kind etc. from India and NRIs abroad.

(b) Voluntary contribution or donations in cash or in kind from other than Indians within India or abroad to be used for social purposes including HIV/AIDS affected people.

(c)  60% funds shall be allocated exclusively for the social purposes including HIV/AIDS affected persons, 10% for publicity, 15% for maintenance of office and welfare of the staff and office bearers. The remaining 15% is left to the discretion of the President to meet emergencies.

6. All payments including Membership Fee shall be paid in the name of National Integration Assembly and sent to the Secretary/Resident Secretary at the Central Office. An account is to be opened with any Scheduled Bank or Limited Bank anywhere in Union Territory of Delhi having facilities of transferring the amount from foreign countries or transmitting the amount to the social organizations in foreign countries.

Operation of Bank Accounts

7. The bank account shall be operated under the signatures of the President along with Treasurer or Secretary or Resident Secretary or Vice President.  There shall be total four signatories.  Two signatories shall sign at a time to operate the bank transactions, but President shall be one of  them as a compulsory signatory in each operation, or as otherwise resolved by the Executive Committee.

Executive Committee

8. The Executive Committee shall consist of minimum 7 members and maximum 30 members (4 nominated by the President. The remaining 3 - 26 elected in Annual General Meeting, the announcement of which shall be given to the members by the Secretary/Resident Secretary at least 15 days before the annual session. 

9. The Office Bearers shall be:
                                                                               
     

	Minimum	Maximum
President	1	1
Vice-President (Region or country-wise)	1	10
Secretary	1	1
Resident Secretary	1	1
Additional Secretary (Region-or country-wise)	1	8
Treasurer	1	1
Executive Members	1	8

   Total  7 minimum & 30 maximum and this strength can be enlarged by the Executive Committee.

 Quorum for the purpose of electing Office Bearers

10. The term of the office bearers shall be 3 financial years.
The quorum for the election of the Office Bearers from amongst themselves shall not be less than 50% members of the Executive Committee including Proxy. All the office bearers are eligible to be re-elected.

11. Promoter signatories shall be life members of the Executive Committee provided they pay a token Membership Maintenance fee of Rs. 1100/- annually. The defaulters shall not be entitled to vote in any meeting unless otherwise decided by the Executive Committee.

12. Promoter Signatories shall remain the life members of the Executive Committee without paying any donation or fee after attaining the age of senior citizen of 60 years.  They shall relinquish if they resign or expelled.

President

13. The President of the Assembly shall be the Chairman of the Executive Committee and shall preside over all meetings including general and extra ordinary meetings.  In his absence the senior office bearer shall preside the meeting.

Powers of the Executive Committee

14. The powers of the Executive Committee are as under:-
(a)  Subject to the provisions of these present regulations laid down by the Assembly in General Meeting, the Executive Committee may exercise all powers which are not by any these present required to be exercised by the Assembly in General Meeting but no regulation made by the Assembly in General Meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Executive Committee.

(b) Can remove any member from the membership of Assembly without assigning any reason if it is thought fit that he/she is acting prejudicial in the interest of the Assembly.

(c)  The business of the Assembly shall be managed by the President with assistance of the Secretary or Resident Secretary subject to the supervision and control of the executive Committee.

Minute Book/Register of Members

15. The Executive Committee through the Resident Secretary shall cause to be kept a book in which the minute of the proceedings of General, Extra Ordinary General and Executive Committee Meetings shall be regularly recorded.
A Register of members shall be maintained at the Central Office, the electronically maintained register shall also be valid.

Meeting of Executive Committee

16 (a)  The Executive Committee may meet together for the discharge of business, adjourn and regulate their meetings and proceedings as they shall think fit.  The quorum necessary for the transaction of business shall not be less than 3 members.  The meeting of the Executive Committee may be convened any time by the President or the Resident Secretary, giving 15 days notice.
(b)  Questions arising at any time shall be decided by a simple majority.  In the event of an equality of votes the Chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote.
Suing

17. The Assembly may sue or be sued against in the name of President.

Annual Meeting of the General Body

18. The Assembly shall meet once a year on a date and at a place previously arranged by the Secretary or Resident Secretary and at least 15 days notice shall be given by him/her to the members, specifying the place, date and hour of the general meeting.  Such meetings shall be called the Annual General Meetings.

All the meetings shall be known as extra ordinary general meetings and shall be called on the direction of the Executive Committee or the President.

The quorum necessary for the meeting shall be 1/10th of the membership or 25 members which ever is less.  No business can be transacted if within 30 minutes of the hour specified for the meeting no quorum is formed.  The meeting shall stand adjourned to such date, hour and place as the members present at the meeting may fix.  No quorum shall be necessary for the adjourned meeting.

The following business be transacted in the annual general meeting:-

(a)   Adoption of the Report of the Resident Secretary for the year;
 (b)  Adoption of the Audited Balance Sheet of the Assembly for the year;
 (c)  Election of 3-26 members to the Executive Committee.

Alteration and amendments of Rules

19. The rules and regulations may be amended at any time through an extra Ordinary General Meeting giving notice of 15 days to the Members of the Assembly for the consideration thereof and such proposition shall have been agreed to by the votes of 3/5th of the members delivered in person or by proxy, and confirmed by the votes of 3/5th of the members present at a second extraordinary general meeting convened by the Executive Committee at an interval of one month after the former meeting.

Vacancies in Executive Committee

20. All vacancies, which occur in the Executive Committee during the year, shall be filled by nomination by the President.

Restriction

21. No member without written authority of the Resident Secretary has a right to get any literature concerning this Assembly printed to present the Assembly.

Disqualification for Members

22. The Membership shall cease-
(a) When he/she submits his/her resignation:
(b) When he/she ceases connection with the cause represented by the Assembly;
(c) When he/she is found to be unsound mind by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(d) When he/she applies to be adjudged an insolvent;
(e) When he/she becomes indebted to Assembly and is in arrears for over six months with out any sufficient cause;
(f) If he/she is removed from the primary membership by the executive Committee.

Dissolution of the Assembly

23. Any member not less than 3/5th of the Assembly may determine that it shall be dissolve forthwith or at the time then agreed upon and all necessary steps shall be taken for disposal and settlement of the property of the society, its claims and liabilities according to be rules of the said Assembly thereto.  Such resolutions shall be adopted at an Extraordinary General Meeting and will be dealt with according to section 13 of the societies registration Act XXI, 1860.

Provision of Society Registration Act

24. The provision of the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 shall apply to the Assembly.

CONTACT US:

(New Delhi -India)

National Integration Assembly (NIA),
R-8/3 Green Park
New Delhi -110016
India
Email: nia.global@gmail.com
Phone: 00911126867125
Fax: 00911126565093

London contact:

NIA
107 Grove Green Road
Leytonstone
London - E11 4EF
Phone: 02089263016

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