Reduced rates Views By Brig Kamboj

13 Jan 10.
Dear Members,
First of all Very Happy Lohri, Very Happy Sankranti and Very Happy Pongal to all of you.

Reference emails below.

Taking first the suggestion of Cdr Pathak, yes Associate Membership is helping in registering more members tremendously but why –

because the rates of membership are low for Associate Membership.

Now for views below by Gen Jaini –

Sir,
1. I wish to submit that till the time IESM continues to link the requirement of funds with the requirement of numbers of members required for struggle for justice and recognition by the Govt of India (and by the ESM or public), success will continue to evade us.


2. In my humble opinion, the path to our success lies in delinking the requirement of more funds from the requirement of more members.


3. Very rightly during the last Core Group meeting at Noida, held about two months ago, it was decided that –


a. An exclusive drive for collection of funds will be started.


b. A suitable letter will be drafted by the Governing Body and circulated among the Core Group Members and the ESM.


c. Members in groups should go around and collect funds from the ESM who are very well to do and collect funds from corporate offices – large or small.


4. Would Gen Jaini kindly tell us what happened to the decision at Para 3 above?


5. I am constrained to state that majority of the members in the Governing Body are obsessed with the idea that higher membership fee is essential for larger amount of funds required for success of IESM. Till the time this idea is revised – we will neither have sufficient funds nor sufficient number of members!!! - Choice is yours.


6. Many of us have pointed and the Governing Body is fully aware that large membership fee only leads to more money in the corpus and not for immediate requirement of funds!!! THEN WHY WE ARE AGAIN PLEADING FOR HIGHER MEMBERSHIPS FEE?


7. Point raised by Gen Jaini about legal hassles being a very heavy load on few of the Governing Body members is very valid but, does it mean we stop the drive for more members and more funds???


8. Point raised by Gen Jaini that review whether lower membership fee has helped – very valid point. Please compare the members enrolled during period 13 Aug 08 to 14 Dec 09 (16 months ie 4000/16) to the members already enrolled since 15 Dec till date (one month).

Please at least extend the period of lower membership fee for another 3 months.

In addition, please remember - the day you revert the membership fee to the original rates – enrolling of new members will come to almost a stand still.

Even if you feel that reducing the membership fee has not helped - reverting it to higher level will have drastic adverse effect on enrolling more members.

I most humbly appeal to the Honourable Members of the Governing Body and the Honourable Members of the Core Group to dispassionately think on two separate issue –
A - how to enrol more members and


B – how to raise more funds.


Delink these two issues if you do not want the IESM movement to die down prematurely.

Very fond regards to all of you –
Have nice celebrations of the festivals that are on.
God by with you and your families.
Chander Kamboj