1. MEETING IDENTIFICATION Date: December 3, 2006, 11:00 AM Attendees: 33 members attended. Occasion/Meeting Description: Annual Membership meeting for the year 2006.  Held at Crown of India, 660 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, NJ 08536. (609) 275-5705 2. AGENDA 1) Approval of 5/27/06 meeting minutes. 2) Election of three trustees for year 2007 and 2008. 3) Financials: Mrs. Madhu Dalal/Ram Arya 4) Committee Reports: a) Scholarship: Dr. Jagbir Singh b) Fund Raising: Mr. Dev Dabas. c) Membership: Mr. Tavathia/Kapoor Singh  d) Projects: i) Rathora School: Dr. Jagbir Singh ii) Nagori School: Dr. Jaipal Rathi iii) Kalirawan School: Mr. Ram Arya iv) Medical Clinic, Sikar: Dr. BL Chowdhury v) Sidharthi Mem. Aryuvedic Clinic, Barhana: Mr. V. Ahlawat vi) New Projects: Mr. Ram Arya e) Website: Kapoor Singh/Sikha Singh f) Accounts Audit: Mr. Vikram Singh 5) Any other items members wish to discuss 3. MEETING DETAILS Meeting was held at Crown of India.  Mr. and Mrs. Virendra Tavathia hosted the meeting. The meeting started with informal initial introduction among members. Chairman of the Board, Dr. Jagbir Singh chaired the meeting.  33 of 80 members were present and therefore a quorum was complete. The NAJC president Mr. Ram Arya welcomed and thanked every one for attending the meeting. Approval of 5/27/06 meeting minutes As the minutes of the meeting were sent in advance with the invitation letter, they were approved by the members unanimously. Election of Three trustees Three names recommended by the Board were V. Tavathia, Pradeep Lamba, and Raj Rani Tanwar. No other name was recommended or proposed by anyone else and threfore these three were elected unanimously for a two year term in 2007 and 2008. Financials: The treasurer Mrs. Madhu Dalal was unable to attend the meeting, Mr. Arya presented the financial status report of NAJC. The financial report was sent in advance with the invitation letter. Committee Reports: a) Scholarship: Dr. Jagbir Singh, chairperson of the Scholarship Committee, gave the details of the scholarship awarded. Dr. Jagbir Singh sent the details of the scholarship payments, new applications received in email before the meeting. The same information was sent to the members with the meeting notice.  Ten scholarships were recommended by the scholarship committee, out of them 5 were renewal and 5 were new.  All the recommended scholarships were approved by the board. b) Fund Raising:  Mr. Dev Dabas presented the fundraising committee report.  $8000 was raised by the Golf event organized by the committee.  The golf event was organized at Holly Hills Golf Club.  Deepika Tanwar contributed $2,300, which she received as birthday gifts. c) Membership Committee: Mr. Tavathia gave details of membership committee.  He informed the members that 9 new members were added during 2006. d) Projects: 1- Rathora School: Dr. Jagbir Singh gave detail and progress about the school. There is coeducation up to 5th grade and there are classes from 5th to 10th grade for girls only. The school also provides education for 11th & 12th grades but for that students need to register in some other school as school is recognized only up to 10th grade. The construction of a Library is in progress and the school is doing very well. 2- Nagori School: As Dr. Rathi was not present, Mr  Arya gave the details and progress about the school. There are about 650 students in the school and the school is doing very well. Construction for the hospital started and by the end of the year OPD will start operating. 3- Kalirawan School: Ram S. Arya gave the details and progress about the school. Currently the school is from KG to 6th grade and 60 LKG students will be added every year. The school received the recognition up to 8th grade from Haryana Government. The school building is ready and will be able to accommodate up to 12th grade. Construction of 8 new teacher’s quarters completed successfully. 4- Medical clinic, Sikar, Rajasthan: Dr. B.L. Choudhary was not present, Mr. Arya gave the details about the project. The medical clinic is ready and a full time nurse has been appointed. The school is looking for the part time Doctor to provide the medical services to the girls. 5- Shidhanti Memorial Clinic, Barhana: Mr. V. Ahlawat gave the details of the project. The project is currently supervised by Mr. Rajpal Shastri. 6- New Projects: A. Request from Jat Jyoti for funds: Members discussed the request from Jat Jyoti. As the editor of the publication did not fulfill the prior membership commitment and the communication behavior of the editor was not found appropriate, members decided not to send any more funds. B. Jan Jagriti: The program helps the students of the villages in different aspects of educations like teaching spoken English, computer education, library etc. Jan Jagriti selected Bharana village as a model village to implement the plan. Jan Jagriti requested for help of 4 lakh rupees. Some of the NAJC members agreed to fund the project and the board and members approved the funding of 4 Lakh rupees. C. Gramin Mahila Shiksha Sansthan: Mr. Arya gave details about the school and fund raising program. The school requested NAJC to fund the Science Lab. The cost of the lab is estimated to be 8 Lakh rupees. Members decided to postpone the project and discuss it again in the next meeting D. Keru Shikshan Sansthan also sent request for funds. NAJC decided to postpone this project for time being. E. Anu Tomer, a rifle shooter requested funds to buy the new rifle to participate in the international competitions. Mr. Kapoor Signh volunteered to get more details for Anu and coordinate the fund raising. F. Vedic Kanya Gurukul requested funding to build a hall for the students. The approximate construction cost of the hall is about Rs/- 40 Lakh. Members decided that NAJC does not have funds right now for such a big project. G. Mr. Ram Narayan requested funds for the publication of Kisaan Darashan. Mr. Sanjay and Joginder Rooperia volunteered to fund the project. e) Website Committee: Mr. Kapoor Singh gave details about the progress of the new website. The address of the Website is http://www.najatcharities.org.   g)   Accounts Audit: Mr. Vikram Singh analyzed the yearly accounting and was very satisfied that the accounting follows the procedures. He also was satisfied with the Audited Financials of 2005. h) Next Meeting Date: Members decided to have a fund raiser in April or May instead of a half-yearly meeting. Mr. Dabas was asked to chair this Fund Raiser, which he graciously accepted. Members thanked the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Virendra Tavathia. There being no other agenda items, meeting was adjourned.