August Minutes of Meeting (MoM)BOD and ADVBD meeting started on August 25th at 9:30pm ESTAttendees:Anil Singh – CARamesh Yadav – CAAnand Mishra – CAAmrita Sehgal – ORBaal Trivedi – TXAlka Singh – MADivy Raj – NJPrabhat Sinha – DCNeil Pundit – FLRajesh Jha – FLGhajanfar KhanAbsentees:Shyam ChaudhuryNaresh SahuMohammad ZamanWe appreciated the services of the outgoingmembers and welcomed the continuing and the re-elected members.1. What’s high on your mind?·        Anil – Sports facility improvements for girls in campus. preferably in their hostels. A theme song for our Alumni Assoc·        Amrita – Upliftment of BIT Sindri and Alumni·        Divy – Girls Safety in Campus·        Anand – More NA participation from Alumni and Implementation of ideas·        Baal – Prioritizing the projects for the Basic Need specifically around Girl student’s need·        Prabhat – A week long conference in India·        Rajesh – Collaborate Research Projects with local Research Institutions·        Ramesh – Strengthen BITSAA of NA. Scholarship issue needs to be closed out.2. Annual Meet Report:·        Annual NJ Meet. took place on 24th and 25th July – Summary presented by Divy and Neil·        Annual CA Meet. took place on 14th and 15th Aug – Summary presented by Anil and Anand·        Ramesh Yadav proposed Webcast Process documentation for future for other regions – Anand to complete the documentation·        Whether to combine two days meet into one day event in order not to stretch the event too much.3. Monthly Telecon Meeting Date & Time:We will continue the same date and time last Tuesday of the Month for the monthly BOD meeting starting at 9:30pm eastern time.4. Review Priorities:·        External Priorities – Less ambitious projects. so completion can be attained more aggressivelyo       Safety and security of Girls Studentso       Recruitment of the Facultyo       Wi-Fi campus wideo       Infrastructure – maintenance and neededo       Student placement·        Internal Priorities – can be done with local alumni onlyo       Reaching a goal to reach out to 1000 alumni membero       Public Toilet Project – 1M budget. awaiting NOC. working with Girijesh. We had Aug 4 visit by Secretary Ajay Kr Singh. in charge . is 10 point speech (details on the website) within 3 yrs BIT will regain its old glory of itself comparable to IIT.5. Representatives to the Association InternationalDefine a requirement to qualify for International Association Representative – active member of the association.·        Ghazanfar has named Shree Prakash (1986 EC) from Toronto·        Naresh Sahu to represent US6. New Business·        Ramesh Yadav welcomed to the newly elected members.·        Forming a committee to lead a project to completion.