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Annual Report 2013 – 2014

Presidency Alumni Association Calcutta (Registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961)

Annual Report 2013-2014

Presidency Alumni Association, Calcutta Page 1 of 15

Registered Office: Presidency University 86/1 College Street, Kolkata - 700 073. Tel: 91-33-2219-2391 Email: [email protected] Website: www.presidencyalumnical.com

Auditors: M/s. P. K. Sarkar & Co. 128 Metropolitan Co-operative Housing Society Kolkata – 700 105.

Bankers: United Bank of India Bank of India Axis Bank Yes Bank

Contents: Page No. Executive Council 2 Subcommittees 3 Membership, Budget 5 Activities of the Association 9 Treasurer’s Report 14 Auditor’s Report 14 Audited Accounts and Balance Sheet 15

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Executive Council for the year 2013-2014

Chief Patron: Malabika Sarkar

Vice Chancellor, Presidency University

President: Anindya Kumar Mitra

Vice-Presidents: Animesh Sen Jayanta Mitra

Secretary: Bivas Chaudhuri Joint Secretary: Prabir Dasgupta

Assistant Secretaries: Basabi Bandopadhyay

Sudipa Chatterjee Saswati Mookherjee

Treasurer: Milan Bhowmik



Members:

Alak Banerjee Aneek Chatterjee Arnab Kr Khasnobis Bhaskar Roy Choudhury Devashish Sen Harendranath Bhattacharya Jaydip Mukhopadhyay Jishnu Dasgupta Kamalkali Poddar Kaushick Saha Mamata Ray Madhushree Ghosh Meghna Dass Rupa Bandyopadhyay Satyabrata Chowdhury Shyamashree Sen Sreyashi Ghosh Surya Sankar Chaudhuri Swapna Kar Urmi Chatterji



Editorial and Publication Board

Editor-in-chief Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Editor Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Member-in-charge Rupa Bandyopadhyay Convenor Shyamashree Sen

Members Editorial Ayanendranath Bose Aneek Chatterjee Bharati Ray Biswanath Das

Gopa Datta Bhowmik Mamata Ray Prasad Ranjan Ray Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Swapna Kar Uma Dasgupta

Publication Amitava Sinha Devashish Sen Jishnu Dasgupta

Milan Bhowmik Pradeep Guptoo Ram Ray Ujjal Chowdhury

Advertising Alak Banerjee Bisakha Ghosh

Sandip Kar Satyabrata Chowdhury Sudipa Chatterjee Surya Sankar Chaudhuri



Cultural Sub-Committee Chairperson: Swapna Kar Convenor : Kamalkali Poddar Members: Ardhendu Bikash Sharma

Arnab Kr Khasnobis Bisakha Ghosh Devashish Sen Dipika Mazumder

Madhushree Ghosh Meghna Dass Milan Bhowmik Prathama Sen

Subir Bhattacharya Urmi Chatterji

Seminar Sub-Committee

Chairperson Satyabrata Chowdhury Convenor Dipika Majumdar Members Ajita Mukherjee Amitava Chatterjee Aneek Chatterjee Chaitali Basu Devashish Sen Harendra Nath Bhattacharya Saswati Mookherjee Ritabari Roymoulick

Re-Union Sub-Committee

Chairperson Alak Banerjee Convenor Devashish Sen Members Ashim Sinha Basabi Bandyopadhyay Brajagopal Samanta Bhaskar Roy Choudhury Harendranath Bhattacharya Jishnu Dasgupta Kamal Kanti Ghosh Milan Bhowmik Saswati Mookherjee Satyajit Sen Sreyashi Ghosh Sudhi Ranjan Sengupta Swapna Kar Urmi Chatterji



IT Sub-Committee

Chairperson Jaydip Mukhopadhyay Convenor

Sreyashi Ghosh

Finance Sub-Committee

Chairperson Bhaskar Roy Choudhury Convener Sudhiranjan Sengupta Members Alak Banerjee Basabi Bandopadhyay Meghna Dass Milan Bhowmik Rupa Bandyopadhyay Satyabrata Chowdhury Satyajit Sen Shyamashree Sen

Sreyashi Ghosh

Membership and Office Management Sub-Committee Chairperson Basabi Bandopadhyay

Convenor Lopamudra Duttagupta

Members Alak Banerjee Jishnu Dasgupta Malayasree Bhattacharya Milan Bhowmik Saswati Mookherjee Sudipa Chatterjee

N.B. 1. President, Secretary and Joint Secretaries are ex-officio members of all sub-committees, 2. Vice Presidents are the permanent invitees to all sub-committees

Public Relations Chairperson Shyamashree Sen Convenor Meghna Dass Members Amitava Sinha Arko Datta Atig Ghosh Chandreye Chatterjee Dilip Das Jishnu Dasgupta Pradeep Guptoo

Rupa Bandyopadhy

Debate Sub-Committee Chairperson Members Madhusree Ghosh Sakti Bhattacharyya Ashim Sinha Convenor

Milan Bhowmik



Dear members, On behalf of the Executive Council and on my personal behalf, I extend to you all a very warm welcome to this Annual General Meeting. I have the pleasure in presenting this Annual Report of Presidency Alumni Association, Calcutta, for the year 2013-2014. Membership

The overall membership strength of the association stands at 4079. The year wise membership profile of last five years is in Table 1.

Financial position

The Association has transferred Rs. 2 lakhs in this year to the Reserve Fund raising the total Reserve Fund to Rs. 24.60 lakhs. Total endowment amount in bank is Rs. 7.01 lakhs for prizes and oration.

Year Total Member-

ship

Addition during

the year

Male – Female

Enrollment

2009-2010 3722 87 42 45

2010-2011 3834 112 53 59

2011-2012 3953 120 59 51

2012-2013 4013 60 37 23

2013-2014 (upto June,

2014)

4079 64 35 29

ANNUAL REPORT for the year 2013-2014

Table 1: MEMBERSHIP STATUS AND PROFILE DURING LAST FIVE YEARS



Budget and Accounts

( in Rs. )

Year

2011-2012 2011-2012 2012-2013 2012-2013 2013-2014 2013-2014 2014-2015

Target Actual Target Actual Target Actual Target

Subscription 100000 162875 160000 116000 160000 103025 150000

Bank Interest 130000 148649 150000 163772 150000 205062 210000

Advertisement 500000 534839 500000 6,29,201 500000 579500 500000

Donations & Sponsorship

200000 31310 100000 83007 50000 326000 150000

Total 9,30,000 8,77,673 9,10,000 9,91,980 8,60,000 12,13,587 10,10,000

Table 2: COMPARATIVE BUDGET AND ACTUAL INCOME (IN RUPEES) OVER LAST THREE YEARS AND BUDGET ESTIMATE 2014-2015



(in Rs.)

Year 2011-2012 2011-2012 2012-2013 2012-2013 2013-2014 2013-2014 2014-2015

Budget Actual Budget Actual Budget Actual Target

Autumn Annual 140000 65350 200000 163264 160000 198824 200000

Founders' Day 120000 336315 250000 114281 120000 87690 100000

Endowment Expenses, others payment to college/university

10000

11500 12000 22601 25000 7500 15000

Office Expenses 70000 75706 75000 73095 75000 99618 100000

Printing & Stationery 17000 33522 35000 16840 15000 4287 5000

Meeting &AGM Expenses 20000 12018 15000 42258 40000 45186 50000

Postage Expenses 30000 22678 23000 15802 20000 16549 15000

Audit Expenses, Legal fees, other charges

15000 2025 4000 9737 6000 12425 13000

Misc. Expenses 5000 870 1000 487 1000 7294 5000

Event Expenses 225000 167414 250000 81300 150000 107911 150000

Telephone 10000 10271 10000 10950 11000 15390 12000

IT expenses 20000 3000 3500 23100 5000 3989 5000

Total 6,82,000 7,40,669 8,78,500 5,73,715 6,28,000 6,06,663 6,70,000

Table 3: COMPARATIVE BUDGET AND ACTUAL EXPENDITURE OVER LAST THREE YEARS AND BUDGET ESTIMATE 2014-2015



Activities of the Association

1. ENDOWMENTS

The following endowments have been continued. Sm. Dalia Datta has donated Rs. 1 lakh in memory of her father Satyabrata Ghosh, from which two prizes will be given to students who score the maximum marks in Physics (Part II) and Physics (Part III) examination, respectively. Shri Gopendra Nath Roy has donated Rs. 30,000 in memory of his father Balai Charan Roy, from which one prize will go to the student who scores the maximum marks in M.Sc. Physics. Dr. Sisir Kumar Mazumder has created an endowment of Rs.1 lakh for oration on Science and Humanities. Smt Swapna Roy had created an endowment of Rs.1 lakh in the year 2014 in memory of her husband Late (Dr.) Sumit Roy, alumnus, from which one prize will go to the topper in B.Sc in biological science. Shri Prasanta Pal, alumnus, had created an endowment of Rs. 15,000/- in memory of his father-in-law Panchanan Pal from which one prize will go to the highest marks holder in the first & second semester combined in B.Sc in Mathematics.

2. AUTUMN ANNUAL

On the occasion of the Founders’ Day celebration, the 42nd volume of the Autumn Annual, under the Chief-Editorship of Sm Nabaneeta DevSen and the Editorship of Shri Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, was released on 20 January, 2014. The Association expresses its gratitude to all those who have acquired advertisements towards generous financial support for the publication and other activities of the association.

3. ACADEMIC SEMINAR

A seminar lecture was organized in association with the Physics department where Prof. Bikas Chandra Sinha delivered a lecture to the present students on 14 August, 2013 at PLT-1. The programme was supported by Dr. Sisir Kumar Mazumder endowment fund. To commemorate the bi-centenary birth anniversary of Rev Krishnamohan Bandipadhyay, alumnus, a programme was orgainsed jointly with the Sociology and Bengali Departments on 1 October, 2013 at AJC Bose Auditorium of the University where a panel discussion on the subject- ‘Is Derozio still relevant in Presidency?’ was held where Prof Amal Mukhopadhyay, Prof Rajat Kanta Roy, Shri Chittabrata, Shri Sandipan Mitra and Smt. Anamitraa Chakrabarty spoke on the subject. A skit based on the



novel- ‘Persecuted’, written by Rev. Bandopadhyay, was staged by the present students of the above departments. Shri Saktipada Bhattacharyya introduced the novel to the audience. A seminar was organised on 28 February, 2014 in collaboration with the Philosophy department in memory of Late (Prof) Probas Jiban Chowdhury, alumnus and former teacher of the department, on the subject-‘ Science, arts and philosophy’, under the support of Smt Ritabari Roy Moulik, alumnus and daughter of Prof. Chowdhury. Dr. Amalendu Chakrabarty, former head of the Philosophy department, delivered the lecture.

4. PRESIDENCY DEBATE

Smt Nandita Dasgupta, has created an endowment of Rs. 3 Lakhs in the name of her husband Late Sudhansghu Dasgupta, alumnus and great debater of his time, for inter-college/university annual debate. The debate, to be popularly known as Presidency Debate, will be organized by the alumni association where the team Presidency will comprise both alumni and present students. One debate will be organized between team Presidency and any other peer level institution every year.

5. ALUMNI TRUST FUND

Presidency Alumni Trust has been created for supporting various development of the university and providing scholarships to the university toppers in arts and science in undergraduate courses. The trustees have reported that so far Rs. 4,37,186 has been collected from the donations and interests. All alumni are requested to donate to the trust generously.

6. WEBSITE RECONSTRUCTION

Shri Sandip Kar and Shri Anindya Dutta, both alumni, have taken initiative to reconstruct the website. We thank all alumni who have donated for this purpose

7. ACG Distinguished Alumnus Award

Atul Chandra Gupta (ACG) Distinguished Alumnus Award Endowment fund has been created with the donations of Shri Parthasarathi Sengupta, Shri Saktinath Mukherji, Shri Animesh Sen, Shri Subir Dutta and Shri M K Chaudhury in the honour of Atul Chandra Gupta, the first President of the Alumni Association, with a view to felicitating a distinguished alumnus every year. The Award 2011 was conferred to Shri Somnath Chatterjee [alumnus, 1945-1949], a distinguished parliamentarian, lawyer and former Speaker of Loksabha in the year 2012. Though association had decided to confer next two awards to Shri Amartya Sen and Shri Tapan Roy Chowdhury, the function could be organized due to some operational inconveniences



8. BIJOYA SAMMILANI

Bijoya Sammilani was organized on 24 November, 2013 at Derozio Hall. Shri Amita Dutta, alumnus, and her troop presented the dance performance - ‘Durga’. The programme was followed by dinner.

9. SANTINIKETAN PROGRAMME

The cultural function in Santiniketan was organised on 13-14 December, 2013. Shri Anindya Mitra, Shri Jayanta Mitra and Smt Rupa Bandopadhyay hosted various cultural programmes at their respective houses. Smt Bratati Bandopadhyay performed on 13 December evening at Jayanta Mitra’s house at Purvapalli, Shri Manoj Murali Aiyer and Shri Uttam Das baul performed on 14 December evening at Anindya Mitra’s house at Ratanpalli and Santhali dance was organised at Rupa Bandopadhyay’s house at Deer Park on 14 December afternoon. The hospitality extended by all the above alumni at their respective house was outstanding in standard and ambience.

10. PAST VS PRESENT CRICKET MATCH

The Annual Cricket Match between the past and present students was held at the College ground on 18 January, 2013. The past students won the match. Shri Bivas Chaudhuri, Secretary, Alumni association gave away the trophies.

11. FOUNDERS’ DAY CELEBRATION AND RE-UNION TEA

The Founders’ Day of the university and Reunion for the year 2014 were celebrated on 20 January 2014. The Alumni Association organized a Reunion Tea on the university lawn. Around 1800 persons comprising students, teachers, non-teaching staff and alumni joined the programme.

12. ANNUAL CULTURAL PROGRAMME

The annual cultural programme was held on 12 July, 2014 at Sisir Mancha. Bengali play- Dampati written by Manoj Mitra was staged under the direction of Shri Biatnbindu Bandopadhyay. The association expresses its gratitude to the noted thespian and alumnus Shri Bibhas Chakrabarty for booking Sisir Mancha.



13. REMEMBRANCE

The Executive Council on behalf of all the members of PCAA deeply mourns the sad demise of our alumni namely, Jibanlal Deb, Mihir Mukherjee, Barun De, Jyotirmoy Mitra, Susantakrishna Deb, Kamala Ghosh, Dipankar Lahiri, Sunit Kumar Roy, Sukanti Hazra, whom we have lost forever during the year. Their memory will ever be cherished with love and admiration. [The list of

deceased is based on the information received by the alumni office and may not be complete].

14. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The overall performance of the association during the year 2013-2014 was highly satisfactory and with higher achievements. I take this opportunity to express my grateful thanks and appreciation for the unstinted support and cooperation extended by the Executive Council and above all, the members of the association and other well-wishers. I also thank our bankers and auditors for their support. I express my gratitude to the administration of the Presidency University for the support and cooperation. I would also like to express my appreciation of the university staff for their constant cooperation. Shri Dilip Roy is always a source of inspiration for running this alumni association and I pay my deep regard for his services notwithstanding his failing health. I also thank Shri Tapas Roy, Office Assistant, for his sincere work.

Bivas Chaudhuri Secretary PAA (2013-2014)



Treasurer’s Report It gives me immense pleasure to present the Audited Annual Accounts of the Association for the year ending 31 March 2014. Members may kindly observe that the quality and the procedure adopted for maintenance of accounts are in uniformity with the requirements of the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961. Lastly, I take this opportunity to express my grateful thanks to the Executive Council and Finance Sub-Committee of PCAA for the cooperation extended during the year. I also thank the Auditors, Bankers and sponsors for their valuable service and support during the year. Milan Bhowmik Treasurer, PAA (2013-2014)

Auditor’s Report We have checked the Receipts & Payments Account and Income & Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet and certify that they exhibited true and correct receipts and payments, income and expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2014, and state of affairs of the association as on 31 March 2014, so far information and explanations, given books and records and vouchers presented for our verification. Observation: Accounts were maintained on cash basis.

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