Members present :

1. Prof. A. Surolia : President
2. Dr. T. A. Abinandanan : General Secretary
3. Dr. V. Kumaran : Joint Secretary
4. Mr. T. Shankar : Treasurer
5. Mr. M. Adinarayanamurthy : Member
6. Dr.B.Ananthanarayan : Member
7. Mr.C.Rajanna : Member
8. Mr.Balachandra : Member

Record of Discussions :

1. The President, Prof. Surolia, started the meeting by welcoming
everyone. He informed the members that the Fifth Pay Commission Anomalies
Committee has resolved the problems related to the Assistant Professors.
However, the demand that the SSO's pay scales must be in parity with that
of the Assistant Professors has not been resolved. He emphasized that this
latter demand was made in every meeting that the FA office bearers had
with the Director, Registrar and the Anomalies Committee.

He informed the members that the demand for the creation of the position
of CSO has been on FA's agenda for several years now. Even though this
demand could not be pursued to its fruition earlier, there is a strong
feeling among the SSO's that the time is ripe for this issue to be taken
up. It was decided that FA will extend its support for this initiative. It
was also felt that a small committee should be entrusted with the job of
taking all necessary action.

Prof. Surolia is of the view that as long as anomalies in pay structures
(for various categories of FA members) exist, they should take the highest
priority in all future meetings of FA office bearers with the
administration officials. The other members concurred with this view.

2. Mr. Shankar and Mr. Adinarayanamurthy informed the members that the
Director is likely to visit the space vacated by the erstwhile FLS
sometime this week. He will take a decision about whether some of that
space is to be allotted to the FA. In the meantime, they are drafting a
letter to the Director describing the acuteness of this problem, and Prof.
Surolia will sign it and send it.

3. Dr. Kumaran informed the members about the FA website
(http://www.iisc.ernet.in/~facasn/), which contains a variety of
information of interest to the FA members. He requested everyone to visit
this site, and give him/Prof. Manohar their comments. He also requested
the members to volunteer to maintain sections of this site.

4. Dr. Kumaran highlighted the areas where the Institute has to act for
ensuring a smoother professionsl life for the FA members. These areas
include

a. Currently the Institute follows the Central Government rules for most
areas; however, for retirement benefits and provident funds, we are
currently following the Central Universities Retirement Benefit Rules
(CURBR) which was last modified in 1967. Since then the council has
adopted various resolutions in this regard modifying some of the rules,
but these are not available at any one place. It would be much better if
we could uniformly follow the central government rules for these as well,
since everyone would know the rules and they would be automatically
modified from time to time.and follows a different set of rules regarding
our PF and retirement.

We must ask for uniformly following the CG rules for everything.

b. We must ask for periodic user meetings to be held by the Schemes
Section, CSIC and SID.

c. We must request the Director to rationalize the functioning of CSIC,
Schemes and SID at the earliest.

d. We must impress upon the Director that computerization of all aspects
of administration must be taken up on a priority basis. In the absence of
a centralized initiative (based on the recommendations of the Committee
headed by Prof. N.J. Rao), each unit is pursuing computerization in its
own way, leading to sub-optimal results.

e. We should ask the administration for the list of all the
Institute-level committees, so that this information can be displayed on
our Website.

f. We should ask for a status report on the construction of new apartment
complexes, for which the plans were finalized some six months ago.

5. It was decided that the office-bearers will seek an appointment with
the Director. It was also decided that a list of agenda items (along with
details of FA's views/demands) to be discussed in this meeting will be
sent to the Director before the meeting.

6. The meeting concluded with thanks to the Chairman, and to all the
members present.