Summary of the meeting of the EC on 15 Nov 02
Members present:

P R Nott
M A Murthy
K V S Hari
T Shankar
M. Umarji
Jayant Haritsa
B. Ananthanarayan
D. Sengupta
V Venkataraman
V. Kumaran (invitee)

* Condolence note on Prof. Anil Kumar's death to be prepared by FA
and personally delivered to the family. FA to offer all help in
expediting matters relating to benefits to be received from IISc.
Ec requests Prof. Umarji to meet
the family and personally deliver the note. Need to check if
Gajendra Barik is entrusted to take care of expediting IISc's response.

* Minutes of the previous GBM to be put on the web.
* Housing:
        + Details of the X plan needed
        + Shortfall of about 200 houses. Ask for 140 E-type. Kumaran,
        Murthy and Anindya to prepare a document to be given to the
Director
        + Murthy presented a pending item with the Housing allotment
Committee
        regarding the error in allocating an E-type quarter to Prof.
Govindarajan, SERC.
        Prof. Govindarjan has been asked to move to a D-type house. EC
requests
        all faculty to co-operate with the administration. EC also
        would like to stress that such lapses should not repeat in future.
        + IISc has proposed that an affidavit has to be signed by every
member
        seeking campus housing. EC agrees to the content of the affidavit.
* Payments to Faculty: EC desires that a copy of each advice to be sent to
each faculty
within a month

* Traffic: FA could nominate a person to be on the traffic committee
* Medical plan:
        + A view was expressed that Faculty cannot pull out of the plan of
IISc
        + FA needs to gather market intelligence about various insurance
plans
        to explore if better options are available. Debasis and
Abinandanan to
        gather information
* Creche: Improvements needed. More space. More help. Venkataraman to
prepare a note.
* Internet: Rudra Pratap to be contacted for a note on the requirements
* FA awards: EC proposes to institute awards
        + for excellence in teaching
        + for the Employee of the Year
        + Jayant and Umapathy to prepare the guidelines
* Networking alumni:
        + EC was briefed about the IISc heritage Fund which is a
        non-profit society registered in the US. Prof. Kaialth, Stanford
University
        is the President. But he wants to close it due to lack of other
volunteers and interest from IISc. To be discussed with the Director.