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Membership - Detailed Rules
Membership : The membership of the Association shall consist of
the following ten Categories:
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a)
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Founder
Members
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b)
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Honorary
Fellows
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c)
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Life
Fellows
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d)
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Benefactors
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e)
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Honorary
Members
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f)
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Life
Members
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g)
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Members
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h)
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Associate
Mmebers
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i)
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Institutional
Members
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j)
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Student
Members
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k)
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Institutional
Life Members
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(b) The designatory letters for use by various categories of members of the
Association shall be
Fellow
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F.C.A (Ind.)
Founder Member, Life member or Member
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M.C.A (Ind)
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Associate
Member -
A.M.C.A (Ind.)
Any person discontinuing his membership or otherwise ceasing to be a
member shall be precluded from using the above designatory letters after
his name and shall not in any form or by inference indicate that he is
connected with the Association.
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(4) Founder Members : Life Mmebers enrolled before 31st
Dec 1980 shall be designated as Founder Members.
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(5)Honorary Fellows :
a) The Association may elect distinguished scientists as its Honorary
Fellows.
b) To be eligible for election as a Honorary Fellow of the Association, a
person must satisfy the following Criteria:
i) He should
have shown evidence of original work in cartography or allied fields.
ii) He
should have at least ten years of acceptable proffessional experience;
and
iii) He must be engaged actively in the advancement of cartography in any
of its aspects.
c) The power to elect Honorary Fellows shall vest in the Executive
Committee. Such election shall be supported by not less than two-thirds
of the total number of members of the Committee or three-fourths of the
members present and voting, which ever is less.
d) Once elected a person shall remain a Fellow of the Association for
life; and the total number of Fellows at any time shall not exceed ten.
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(6) Life Fellow - TRANSFER FROM LIFE MEMBER TO LIFE FELLOW/DIRECT
ADMISSION
Criterion
for admission as Life Fellow: i) The applicant should not be less than 45
years of age. He/She should fulfill the eligibility conditions of Life
Member as laid down in the Memorandum, Rules and Bye-laws of the
Association. ii) The applicant should be a person of eminence in the
field of Cartography and allied fields. iii) The applicant should be
actively involved in achieving the aims and objects of the Association
for the advancement of Cartography. iv) The applicant should have at
least of 10 years of professional experience in the field of Cartography
and allied fields or should be holding a responsible position in a
leading Institution to the satisfaction of the Executive Committee.
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(7)Benefactors: Persons who
donate Rs. 2000/- or more at a time to the Assocition for the Promotion
of cartography and whose membership has been approved by the executive
Committee shall be its Benefactors.
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(8)Honorary Members:
a) The
Association may elect persons of eminence in the fields of
Geography/cartography and allied sciences from outside India as Honorary Members.
They shall be elected unanimously by the Executive Committee in
accordance with the Bye-Laws and shall hold office during life.
b) The total
number of Honorary Mmebers at any time shall not exceed twenty.
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(9)Life Members : Persons keenly
intrested in the development of cartography, geography or allied
disciplines (or such other qualifications as may be determined from time
to time by the Executive Committee) and who have paid the fee prescribed
by the Executive Committee from time to time shall be life members.
However, the Executive Committee may relax the professional
qualifications prescribed in special cases.
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(10)Members : Persons
possessing at least a Master's degree in cartography, geography or allied
discipliens or who are engaged in teaching, research or other
professional activities and who have paid the fee prescribed by the
Exceutive Committee may relax the professional qualifications prescribed
in special cases.
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(11)Associate Members : Person
who though working in other cognate feilds, are genuinely interested and
wish to participate in the work of the Association shall be Associate
Members on payment of the fee prescribed by the Executive Committee from
time to time.
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(12)Institutional Members : Geographical
and cartographical societies and associations, departments of geography
and cartography in universities and colleges and other academic and
research institutions engaged in geographical and cartographical research
and recognised as such by the Executive Committee shall be the
Institutional Members or Institutional Life Members on payment of the fee
prescribed by the Executive Committee from time to time.
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(13)Student Members : Persons
who are pursuing a regular course in cartography, geography or allied
disciplines in a recognised institution of higher learning shall be
student members on payment of the fee prescribed by the Executive
Committee from time to time.
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(14)Membership Fee
: Fees for different categories of membership shall be prescribed by
the Executive Committee. However, until it decides otherwise, the
following shall be the prescribed membership fees for the categories
listed below :
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Life
Member
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Rs.1000
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Member
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Rs.
150/-
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Institutional
Member
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Rs.
1000
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Associate
Member
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Rs.
100
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Student
Member
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Rs.
50
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Institutional
Life Member
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Rs.
8000
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All
amount should be paid in lumpsum
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(15) A member
may resign membership by a letter addressed to the president of the Assocition
and delivered at the registered office of the Association. Such
resignation shall take effect from the date of the letter (or if it is
undated, from the date of its receipt at the registered office of the
Association).
If any
member has not paid his membership fee for two consecutive years inspite
of written reminders from the Honorary Secretary/Treasurer, the Honorary
Secretary may serve him a final notice for payment within three months.
If the member fails to clear his dues within the period stipulated in the
notice, he shall be deemed to have resigned his membership and threafter
will cease to have any connection with the Association, nor will he enjoy
any rights and privileges.
The member
who has resigned or is deemed to have resigned from the membership of the
Association is required to return to the Honorary Secretary the diploma
or certificate of membership, if any, issued to him by the Association.
In Special
case the Executive Committee may restore the membership of a person
provided he/she applies for the same to the president of the Association
in writting and agrees to pay all arrears of subscription. The Executive
will decide each such case on merits.
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(16) (a)
All persons or institutions shall be deemed to have become members of
respective categories of the Association from the financial year in which
their membership fee is paid or in which they are elected office bearers
of the Association unless he has paid the membership fee at least one year
before the date of such election.
(b) Renewal of
membership by members, Institutional Members, Associate Members, and
Student Members will be contigent upon the payment in adcvance of the
Membership Fee on or before the 1st April of each year. How
ever, one month period of grace will be allowed for the renewal of the
membership.
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(17) The Association shall maintain a register of members in
which a seprate section will be devoted to each of the ten categories of membership.
The register shall give:
(a) the name and address of each member.
(b) the date on which he was addmitted; and
(c) the date on which he ceased to be a member.
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(18) Rights
and Privileges of Members :
(1) Founder Members, Fellows, Life Members, Institutional
Members(i.e the person duly accredited by the institution to represent
them on the Association at the rate of two persons per instution) and
Members shall have the following rights:
(a) to attend all meetings of the Association
and to vote there at;
(b) to elect office bearers of the
Association;
(c) to hold office under the
Association on being duly elected in accordance with the provisions of
Rules and Bye laws.
(d) to present papers and participate
in the discussions at the academic conferences of the Association and to
receive the papers related to the same;
(e) to receive a copy of the official
journal of the Association; and
(f) to receive other publications of
the Association at such concessional rates as may be decided by the
Executive Committee from time to time.
(2) Honorary Members shall have the following rights:
(a) to present papers and participate
in the discussions at the academic conferences of the Association and to
receive the papers related to the same;
(b) to receive a copy of the official
journal of the Association; and
(c) to receive other publications of
the Association at such concessional rates as may be decided by the
Executive Committee from time to time.
(3) Associate Members abd Student members shall have the
following rights:
(a) to present papers and participate
in the discussions at the academic conferences of the Association and to
receive the papers related to the same;
(b) to receive other publications of
the Association at such concessional rates as may be decided by the
Executive Committee from time to time.
(4) It shall be open to any person, on approval by the
Association and on payment of the prescribed fee to register himself as a
sessional member of the Association for any conference organised by it.
Such Sessional Members shall have the rights to present papers and
participate in the discussion at the academic conference for which they
are registered and to receive the papers related to the same. They shall
have no rights and thier membership shall cease when the conference is
over.
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