New Managing Committee for 2012-14

Prof. J S Babu Rao & Advocate Mallikarjuna Rao and all their associates as a panel have swept the polls conducted at the AGM held on 17-6-2012 defeating CB Richard & K Sarada and their followers. It was an unprecedented turn out at the AGM this year despite rain and humidity. Started at 3 pm, the poll process went on upto 8.30 pm.

Here, they are, victorious -

President
Prof J S Babu Rao

Vice Presidents
SV Rama Bhadra Raju
K Hanumantha Rao
K Indra Reddy

Secretary
Advocate K V Mallikarjuna Rao

Joint Secretaries
T Srikanth
S Anji Reddy
V Viveknath

Treasurer
T Pentaiah

Joint Treasurer
K. Jacob

& 13 more EC members


The outgoing Managing Committee proposed meaningless amendments to the bye-laws much to the disappointment of Senior Citizens, Members serving in Govt Departments & Women who are active in other Associations etc. Those proposed amendments were not authorized by the Executive Committee, either. The lesson to be learnt is "Never disrespect senior citizens and elders".

SR Nagar, the longest busbay of Hyderabad

Kaveri travels multi-axled Volvo bus was caught in fire on the Ameerpet main road on the night of Sunday (10-6-2012). After noticing the smoke, passengers jumped out of the the bus and fled. Flames spread to the entire bus and even before the arrival of fire tenders the bus was completely destroyed. The incident took place when the bus belonging to Kaveri Tours and Travels, was going towards Central Bus Station at Gowliguda from BHEL.

Five fire tenders from Film Nagar, Sanathnagar, Secunderabad, Gowliguda and Langar Houz, besides a snorkel, rushed to the spot to extinguish the flames. Police confirmed that there were no casualties in the incident. The apparent cause is sparks in the battery chambers near the luggage boot of the bus. Another version is the bus was parked on a heap of ash that was gathered from a computer shop of a building that caught fire in the afternoon, the same day.

The Bombay highway that passes between SR Nagar and Vengal Rao Nagar has become the longest busbay of Hyderabad city causing pollution and posing threat to life.

Confusion clouds over amendments

 - Y. Babji, Past President  

The Executive Committee of the Association met on 9th June 2012 in  a state of utter confusion over the amendments to the byelaws of the Association. With just one week left for the AGM, nothing is clear. Due to irrational amendments proposed to be adopted, majority of the members got irritated mainly for the reasons namely-

(1) down-sizing the number of vacancies to the position of the Vice Presidents and the Joint Secretaries, but increasing the strength of Joint Treasurers 

(2) unprecedented and prohibitive imposition of cash deposit for each and every nomination &

(3) restricting the entry of Senior Citizens, those working for Govt and local bodies, representatives of women associations etc into the Managing Committee of the Association.

Criticism is that these proposed amendments were never discussed and adopted in any of the earlier EC meetings, but proposed unilaterally, without even consulting the seniors.

The meeting witnessed chaos and disorder when members left the meeting, disgusted, abruptly.