Constitution

Executive Committee:
  [Elected during the II Conference of ISTR at Cochin in 2005]


  President: Dr. Ravi Chaturvedi
  General Secretary: Prof. B. Amamthkrishnan
  Mmebers:
  Dr. Asha Pande
  Dr. Bishnupriya Dutt
  Dr. Mahesh Manglat
  Dr. C. Gopan
  Dr. Bal Sarvanan

   
  Please Contact for detail : 
  Prof. B. Ananthkrishnan 
  General Secretary,
  Indian Society for Theatre Research, 
  S. N. School of Performing Arts ,
  University of Hyderabad, 
  Hyderabad 
  Phone: R- 040 23011181/23137220
  O- 04023135522 Tele/Fax 040 23011553
   akru_ananthu@yahoo.com
   baksn@uohyd.ernet.in  

               INDIAN SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH

  Memorandum OF ASSOCIATION and Byelaws

  1. Name

  The name of the society shall be "Indian Society for Theatre Research" which is referred as  ISTR hereafter. 

2. Address:

The present address of ISTR shall be as follows:

C/0 Department of Dramatics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 (India)

2. Jurisdiction:

The jurisdiction of ISTR shall be the territories of entire Indian Republic.

4. Aims and Objectives:

The Aims and Objectives of ISTR shall be:

a.         To promote liaisons between organizations and individuals devoted to theatre research in India, and to assist in organizing societies for theatre research at the provincial and university level.     

b.         To organize national and international congresses, conferences and symposia.

c.         To encourage interdisciplinary studies involving theatre research by promoting relations with other research fields and to collaborate in undertaking works of international theatre research, as well as to aid in every way all other projects to foster theatre research in India.

d.         To facilitate the wide distribution of works of scholarship, technical works, and any important popular works in the field of theatre research, by means of books, periodicals, exhibitions, audiovisual productions, and other methods of communicating and storing information;  

e.         To obtain facilities in libraries, museums, etc. for theatre research in India.

f.          To assist members to obtain grants for their work from foundations, trusts and other grant-making bodies.

g.                  Establish a comprehensive database on Indian Theatre for the use of research.

h.                  Launch and maintain a web site on Indian Theatre, theatre research and the activities of the Society.

i.                     The Society may acquire assets for conducting the above said programmes through grants and financial assistance from government and non-government agencies, donations, advertisements etc.

j.                    To spend all its income for the achievement of its aims and objects without any prejudice.

5. Membership:

a)                  Associate membership of the ISTR shall be open to any person who undertakes to promote the work and supports the aims and objectives of the ISTR and accepts its laws and bylaws on payment of prescribed fee.

b)                  An Associate Member shall have all the rights and privileges accept the right to vote and to contest the elections for various offices of ISTR.

c)                   The Associate Member can apply for Full Membership hereinafter referred as Member to the Secretary of ISTR on prescribed form after three consecutive years of his membership in ISTR. Such applications will be considered by the Executive Committee and will be accepted on the basis of the academic and organizational contribution by the applicant to promote the aims and objectives of ISTR as referred in Clause - 4.

d)                  A Member shall have all the rights and privileges including the right to vote and to contest the elections for various offices of ISTR.

e)                   Each member shall pay an annual subscription stipulated by the Society time to time. The term of membership shall be one year from the 1st of April to the 30th of March every year.

f)                    The Executive Committee may also offer Honorary Membership to those eminent scholars and artist of Indian Theatre whose association it considers to be valuable for the promotion of the aims and objects of ISTR.

g)                  The first signatories of the Memorandum of the association of ISTR shall be the Founder Members of ISTR and shall be its Full Members from the date of its registration under the Registration of Societies’ Act.

6. Termination of Membership

Membership in any category shall cease/terminated on the following grounds:

a.         When member/s resign or cease to exist;

  b.         When they are expelled as a result of a vote of the Executive Committee if found guilty of working against the aims and objects of ISTR

7. General Council:

All the members referred in Clause 5 shall constitute the General Council of ISTR.

8. Powers and Functions of General Council:

a.                  To establish the broad outlines of the ISTR's policy, and delegates its implementation to the Executive Committee.

b.                  To review the reports, recommendations and financial statements presented by the Executive Committee and to take the appropriate decisions.

c.                   To ratify such financial charges - subscriptions, contributions, etc. - as have been authorized by the Executive Committee between its meetings to be imposed on the members of the ISTR.

d.                  To expel any member, who fails to fulfill statutory obligations towards the ISTR, if the Executive Committee so requests.

e.                  To vote in accordance to the provisions of Clause 5 (b) and to elect the Executive Committee of ISTR.

f.                    To approve the annual budget.

g.                  To make amendments, additions, deletions, etc. in the Constitution and bylaws of the Society by two third majority of total members of ISTR.  However such changes shall be the subject to the legal approval.

h.                  It has final control over the constitution and its modification. Any member wishing to amend the constitution must give notice in writing to the Secretary at least one month before the date of an Executive Committee meeting. Amendments may be presented to a General Assembly for ratification only when the Executive Committee has approved them.

9. Meetings of the General Council and Quorum

a.                  The General Council shall meet at least once in a years, however, if needed a special meeting can be called any time by the President/Secretary.

b.                  1/3 members of the Society shall constitute the quorum of the General Council.

c.                   Special meeting of the General Council can be convened on the notice of not less than 7 days.

d.                  Such meeting can be adjourned in absence of quorum, which can be called again after 7 days, however quorum shall not be essential in such meetings.

e.                  On the written request of 1/3rd members of ISTR or 50 members, which ever is less, a meeting of the General Council shall be called by the President/ Secretary within a period of one month, failing which any 5 members out of 1/3rd or 50 signatories of such request, shall be empowered to notify such meeting of General Council. All the decision taken in such meetings of General Council shall be mandatory.

10. Executive Committee

An Executive Committee shall be constituted with the following office bearers and members, not to exceed more than 15 in any case, to administer the Society:

a.         President                                 -           One (1)

b.         Vice President                          -           One (1)

c.          General Secretary                    -           One (1)

d.         Treasurer                                 -           One (1)

e.         Editor of ISTR Publications       -           One (1)

e.         Members                                  -           Ten (10)

 


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