YPS scales New Heights

YPS AGM | May 27 | State Youth Centre

Youth Photographic Society scaled new heights of participation and purposefulness on May 27, 2018 in one of the most memorable Annual General Meetings in the history of YPS.

  • YPS hit its maiden century when the number of members participating in the AGM exceeded 100 (attended by 104 members), demonstrating the concern and commitment of members to the well-being of the society.
  • YPS scored another first by holding the AGM for the year within 2 months of the last date of the financial year.
  • YPS earned its highest honors by holding an election contested by two members for every one of the 9 positions in the YPS Executive Committee. Many volunteers including senior members of YPS assisted the Returning Officer, Shri. B S Rajagopal, to conduct the election smoothly.
  • Many members stayed behind till 3:30 PM to see the election concluded and results announced.

Isn’t that a wonderful demonstration of how vibrant YPS has become and how members demonstrated serious interest in the way YPS functions and grows.

YPS Executive Committee thanks all the members for demonstrating their solidarity.

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting started at 10:15 AM with around 25 members already assembled. Due to lack of required quorum, the meeting was postponed by 30 minutes to start the proceedings at 10:45 AM.

The Meeting went through the proceedings as per agenda starting with the President welcoming the members to the AGM. In his address, Shri. Satish highlighted the achievements of YPS in the last two years ever since the committee took over in 2016.

The Secretary, Shri. Manju Vikas Sastry V read out the Secretary’s report and provided details of the events conducted during the year starting April 2017 and ending in March 2018.

There were many deliberations on the financials and other functioning aspects of YPS which would be published to members in the form of Minutes of Meeting of the Annual General Meeting.

YPS Election 2018

It was then time for election. Shri. H Satish, along with members of the YPS Executive Committee, laid down the positions paving way for election of new members to the YPS Executive Committee.

The Returning Officer Shri. B S Rajagopal took over and explained how the election would be conducted. He then took the help of volunteers to use the attendance register to distribute the Ballot Forms to the members.

Since YPS dis not offer any means of canvassing to members, Shri. B S Rajagopal provided 5 minutes of time for each team contesting for YPS EC positions, to address the members present and canvas for votes.

This was followed by casting of votes through secret Ballot using the Ballot paper distributed. Members made their selections and dropped the Ballots in the Ballot Box. By this time it was already close to 2PM and the members left for lunch at the nearby Nisarga Hotel while the ballot box could be opened and the votes counted.

By 3PM the votes were counted and double checked and the Returning Officer, Shri. B S Rajagopal was ready with the results. The members had gathered back after lunch by this time. Shri. B S Rajagopal announced the votes polled in the name of each contestant and announced the new YPS Executive Committee. Shri. Satish, honored both Shri Sujay, Auditor for YPS and Shri. B S Rajagopal and honored them with mementos.

It was wonderful to take a Group Photo of the new YPS Executive Committee squatting in the front backed by senior members of YPS providing a staunch support with the large number of other members standing in solidarity.

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The New YPS Executive Committee

Shri. H Satish

President

Shri. Murali Santhanam

Vice-President

Shri. Manju Vikas Sastry V

Secretary

Shri. Girish Ananthamurthy

Joint-Secretary

Shri. S Chandrashekar

Treasurer

Shri. K S Rajaram

Director

Shri. Rakesh V C

Director

Smt. Prema Kakade

Director

Shri. Hardik Shah

Director

The newly elected YPS Executive Committee thanks all the members and solicits complete and continued support to YPS Programs and operations.