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The Society shall be called the Indian National Science Academy |
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The main objectives of the Indian National Science Academy are:
 Promotion of
scientific knowledge in India including its practical application to
problems of national welfare.
Coordination among Scientific Academies, Societies, Institutions,
Government Scientific Departments and Services.
To act
as a body of scientists of eminence for the promotion and safeguarding
of the interests of scientists in India and to present
internationally the scientific work done in the country.
To act
through properly constituted National Committees, in which other
learned academies and societies may be associated, for undertaking
scientific work of national and international importance which the
Academy may be called upon to perform by the public and by the
Government.
To
publish such proceedings, journals, memoirs and other publications as
may be found desirable.
To
promote and maintain liaison between Science and Humanities.
To
secure and manage funds and endowments for the promotion of Science.
To
perform all other acts that may assist in, or be necessary for the
fulfilment of the above mentioned objectives of the Academy |
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The Academy shall consist of Foundation Fellows, Fellows and Foreign
Fellows.
Foundation Fellows: those who have accepted the nomination as Fellow
before the inauguration of the Academy.
Fellow: those
who are elected according to rules of election and admission of
Fellows.
Foreign
Fellows: those who shall be persons eminent for their knowledge of, or
contributions to science, or the welfare thereof, and domiciled
outside the territorial limits of India, who have in some way
contributed or can contribute to the progress of science in the
country. Persons of all countries other than India shall be eligible
for the Foreign Fellowship of the Academy |
ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD OF OFFICERS |
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The administration, direction and management of the affairs of the
Academy shall be entrusted to a Council composed of the Board of
Officers of the Academy, namely, a President and six Vice-Presidents
and 20 other Fellows making a total of 27. The Vice-Presidents will
have collective as well as independent responsibilities and they will
be designated as: Vice-President (Fellowship Affairs); Vice-President
(Science Promotion); Vice-President (Resource Management);
Vice-President (International Affairs); Vice-President
(Publications/Informatics) and Vice-President (Science and Society).
In addition, there shall be a provision for Additional Members of the
Council, one each to be nominated by the cooperating Academies i.e.,
the Asiatic Society, Calcutta; the National Academy of Sciences
(India), Allahabad, and the Indian Science Congress Association from
amongst the Fellows of the Academy. Further, there shall be a
provision for the Government of India to nominate, from amongst the
Fellows of the Academy, their representative on the Council as an
additional member. |
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No Council member can hold more than one Office at a time except in
circumstances relating to interim vacancies stated in rule 28. |
ELECTION AND ADMISSION OF FELLOWS |
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The election of Fellows shall be governed by Regulations framed by the Council, but these Regulations shall provide for the following points, from which a departure can be made only after reference to all the Fellows of the Academy :
Eligibility for election to the Fellowship shall be restricted to Indian citizens.
The number of Fellows elected shall be limited to 30 annually, till such time as the total number of living Fellows reaches 1000.
Each nominee shall be proposed, seconded by two Fellows on a form prescribed for the purpose. Of these, atleast one shall certify from personal knowledge of his/her scientific attainments. The Vice-President (Fellowship Affairs) shall have the power to sign a certificate on behalf of a Fellow not resident in India on receiving written request from him/her.
The selection from the total list of the nominees proposed to the Academy shall be made by the Council from amongst those recommended by Sectional Committees, following a prescribed set of Regulations framed by the Council for this purpose. The election shall be conducted by postal ballot, papers for which will be sent to every Fellow, as per the Regulations framed by the Council.
Persons who, in the opinion of the Council, have either rendered conspicuous service to the cause of science or whose election would be of signal benefit to the Academy could also be elected to the Fellowship provided that not more than two persons shall be so elected in any year, and that if two persons be elected in any year, there shall be no selection under this category in the following year. |
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The Vice-President (Fellowship Affairs) shall send a written
announcement of the election to the persons who have been duly
elected, and shall therewith send (i) the Obligation Form to be signed
and (ii) a copy of current Rules and Regulations.
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An admission fee and Fellowship subscription shall be due on election
from the persons elected as Fellows. If the admission fee and
Fellowship subscription are not paid within two months of the
intimation of his/her election as Fellow, such election shall become
inoperative. Provided that, the Council shall have power to reinstate
him/her with full privileges after the admission fee and Fellowship
subscription have been paid within a period not exceeding twelve
months from the date of his/her election. In the case of a Fellow
elected under the provisions of Rule 6(e), the Council may, at its
discretion waive off payment of admission fee and Fellowship
subscription. |
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No person, although duly elected according to the Rules and
Regulations of the Academy, shall be entitled to exercise the rights
and privileges of Fellowship, nor shall his/her name be entered in the
list of Fellows, until he/she has paid admission fee and Fellowship
subscription and until he/she has signed and returned the Obligation
Form. |
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Effective Fellowship shall commence after the payment of the admission
fee and Fellowship subscription and the signature of the Obligation
Form and shall be equivalent to the expression of a direct
acquiescence to the Rules and Regulations of the Academy then in
existence, and of an undertaking to be bound by them and by Rules and
Regulations as may thereafter be passed, as hereinafter provided. |
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Every new Fellow who has paid the admission fee and Fellowship
subscription, and has returned the Obligation Form, duly signed and
addressed to the Vice-President (Fellowship Affairs) shall, at the
first General Meeting which he/she attends, be presented by a Fellow
to the Chairperson who addressing him/her by name shall say, ‘In the
name and by the authority of the Indian National Science Academy, I
admit you a Fellow thereof’, and will present him/her with diploma in
a form prescribed by the Council certifying his/her election to the
Academy, after which the Fellow shall subscribe to a duplicate of the
aforesaid Obligation in a book to be kept for the purpose |
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