Meeting Minutes

Date : Saturday 5/21/2022
Time : 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST
Attendance : 7
Host : Khalil
Meeting Minutes : Khalil
Discussion Items:
1. Kick Off – by the Host
1. The meeting was kicked off with a simple trivia about the JMC Alumni
2. Knowledge Sharing with JMC Students – by Br Faruk
1. Br Ramanan and Br Faruk conducted a knowledge sharing session with the current JMC students
2. The main question from the students – how to land into a job?
3. Dr Ruknudeen suggested that the meeting format should be like a “Town Hall” where 25% is for the presentation and 75% for the Q&A.
4. Dr Ruknudeen said that he would talk to the JMC to have the “Town Hall” format for these sessions in the future
5. Br Faruk mentioned that we need more volunteers from our group to share their knowledge with the students
3. Non-Profit 501 C3 Status Update – by Dr Ruknudeen
1. JMC to open a NCRA account so that funds can be transferred to the college. This step is very important to start the Non-Profit status
2. This will help alumni members in USA to donate without any legal issues
3. The application form was prepared in one of the meetings earlier by the Non-Profit team members. The next step decided in that meeting was to get it reviewed the an attorney.
4. UPSC Status – by Br Khalil
1. The alumni chapters from USA, UK, Singapore met with JMC core team
2. Br Mubeen shared the minutes of meeting form that meeting. It was read through in the monthly meeting today
5. New Thoughts – Br Ramanan
1. Ramanan Shared some of the thoughts that may be helpful for the alumni members living in USA. It is welcome by all the participants to have agenda in the upcoming monthly meetings. Some of the suggestions are to bring awareness about the,
2. Legal issues related to the children (there was an incident where a child fell in the house, and it became a legal case on the parents)
3. Visa related issues
4. Kids school / college studies
5. Ask the group members “what is the area of concern”
6. Next Monthly Meeting: Saturday, June 18th. (As Br Mohaseen is travelling to India, need to find a host for the June meeting)

March,19 2022
JMC NA Alumni Monthly Connect

Meeting Minutes:

When : 03-19-2022, 3:00 PM EST to 4:15 PM EST via ZOOM
Host in Chair: Br. Shabeer Mohammed
Participants: We had the total of 11+ members who attended the call today.

Agenda topic covered in minutes:

1. Introduction of Agenda – Summarized by Host in Chair.
2. Overview of “Global Jamalian Block Project” – Dr. Ruknudin
3. Knowledge Sharing Activities – Br Ramanan & Br. Mohamed Faruk
4. 501c Application updates – Br. Mani & Br Akbar
5. Update MOU between EVC and JMC – by Dr Ruknudin.

Action Item
1. “Global Jamalian Block Project” – Dr. Ruknudin
• Well explained about this project.
• Few questions came up like, what is this being used for ?
• Where is it going to be built ? Do we really need it etc
2. Knowledge Sharing Activities
• Great initiative – Kudos to Ramanan and Faruk.
• Few concerns came up like, there were no interactions from the students and it was only one way.
• Will it be good, so that no professors are allowed to be in the session to take away the shyness from the students.
• Start with easier topics instead of complex topics, so that students get used to it and can be more interactive.
• Have smaller groups like CLUBS with minimal similar interest students and go more in detail.
3. 501c Application updates – Br. Mani & Br Akbar
• Team working on it with full focus and work in progress.
4. Update MOU between EVC and JMC – by Dr Ruknudin.
• This is another wonderful initiative which would give a great name to our College and Jamalians.
• Memorandum of Understanding between Emory University and JMC
• Ruknudin explained it very well and also had some concern that it is progressing in a very slow pace.
• Will get back to college team and expedite the process. Dr. Abdul Jabbar at EVC will be the contact person for this project.

Meeting concluded at 4:15PM EST and we will skip APR 2022 meeting and next meeting will be in May 2022

January ,30 2022
JMC NA Alumni Monthly Connect
Meeting Minutes:
When : 01-30-2022, via ZOOM
Host in Chair: Br. Ahamed
Our Principal(Ismail Mohaideen Sir), Dr.Mazhar and Dr.Syed Ali Padusa were participated from College side.
Principal Provided the updates about various topics, I am precising here only specific to ‘Jamal Vision IAS Academy’ project.
– College is very interested in this project and working on FCRA account. Still some roadblock exists.
Updates from Dr.Syed Ali Padusa
1. – Offer given to Mohamed Asfaq Ali, will be joining as STAR Faculty, in April-2022.
– Has vast experience, Worked in Delhi as UPSC coaching faculty.
2. Ramya
– Junior Faculty Shortlisted candidate
– Currently cleared PRELIMS,
– JMC to provide food and accommodation, prepare themselves for next appearance
– Will couch our JMC aspirants
3. Hameeshudeen Shiek , Ramanadapuram,
– Junior Faculty, Shortlisted candidate
– Currently cleared PRELIMS,
– JMC to provide food and accommodation, prepare themselves for next appearance
– Will couch our JMC aspirants
Currently 25 male students and 15 Female students in the current batch as part of existing nursery program will be rolled over to our project.
Update from Dr.Mazhar
From our Vision IAS Academy fund, sponsored Rs.75,000 to Aspirant Thaslima for her studies. This financial aid put her as Hostler and coaching material help.
She took mockup exams for 2013 to 2019 and cleared all Prelims exams with 95% marks average. Very potential candidate will appear UPSC after finish her masters in JMC(Jul-2023).
We ( JMC NA chapter and Vision Team (SG and UK) ) got lot of energy from this proceeding.
Appreciate the efforts from Dr.Syed Ali Padusa and Dr.Mazhar Shab.
We will setup a follow-up meeting shortly.
Please continue support this project, share the progress to your chapter, we all together do something back to our students community in our college.

June,19 2021
JMC NA Alumni Monthly Connect
Meeting Minutes:
When : 06-19-2021, 9:00 pm EST to 10:15 PM EST via ZOOM
Host in Chair: Br. Mohamed Faruk
Participants: We had the total of 13+ members who attended the call today
Agenda topic covered in minutes:
1. Introduction of Agenda – Summarized by Host in Chair.
2. Finance Team update by Br Akbar.
3. UPSC Project update by Br Ahamed.
4. Discussion on Alumni funds collections by Br. Mohamed Faruk / Br Muneer.
5. Discussion on how to involve more members at our monthly meeting by Dr Ruknudin.
Action Item
1. Finance Team Update – Br Akbar
• We are ready with the Zelle account setup by the Bank of America
• We opened the account with 3 different banks and finally the third bank could able to setup zelle.
• As of now we are still working with the preparation of by laws, we will need sometime to start the non profit application to IRS.
2. Development on UPSC project
• Team has conducted fundraising meeting with several alumni and non alumni.
• We are in the process of conducting another meeting with New Jersey brothers.
• We are also discussed about the matching process by the corporations.
3. Discussion of alumni funds collection
• Team want to postpone the effort of collecting the annual funds as we are working with them for UPSC project funds.
4. How to involve more members.
• Team discussed about the survey poor response
• Teams needs to call the individual friends connections to encourage them to attend the calls.
Meeting concluded at 10:15PM EST and we will next meeting on August 31, 9:00PM EST

1. Br Ahamed Shared the status of IAS Academy.
Discussed the progress
As of now we are waiting for the response from the college
College is discussing about the plan we proposed and will come back in few days.
Br Ahamed and Akbar explained why we had to change the plan
2. Br Faruk shared the JMC job portal status
Br Faruk showed the current status of job portal, number of job seekers, employers etc
He emphasized the importance of registering ourself as job seekers and employers
3. Br Faruk gave a demo about editing JMC Alumni portal to update meeting minutes.
Br Faruk showed how an alumni can post meeting minutes and other topics in our alumni website
We also discussed about restricting the content only to alumni
4. Br Akbar provides the status of Non profit and 501c status
Br Akbar provided the status of non profit setup and bank account setup
He addressed the issue of setting up zelle transfer
Br Akbar is going to work with Wellsfargo to solve zelle transfer issue
If zelle is not possible we will discuss about other options
5. Br Kahlil provided the status of Constitution/ Bylaws plan
Prepare the draft by Feb end
Review by panel by March end
Review by all members by April end
We also discussed about using a Lawyer to review the bylaws
Attendees: Br Akbar Ahamed, Br Ahamed Kasim, Br Shajahan, Dr Ruknudin, Dr Abdul Jabbar, Br Mohamed Faruk, Br Amanulla Razak, Br Thiruselvam Viswanathan, Br Shabeer Mohammed, Br Riaz Mohamed, Br Khalil, Br Mohamed Foiaz, Br Sirajudeen Kassim, Abdul Kader

Date Time Attendance Host Minutes
Saturday 12/19/2020 8:00pm – 9:00pm ET ~10 Br Khan Br Khalil
Agenda:
1. The host walks thru the agenda. Please find the detail agenda at the portal (https://www.staging3.jmcalumniusa.com/)

Discussion Items:
• Year accomplishment – by the Host
• USA chapter contributed USD 3,000 towards COVID-19 relief
• Br Aman had received the “Alumni of the Year” award
• A Jamalian family was helped thru this USA chapter
• Etc. (refer agenda for the complete list)
• 501-C-3 status – by Br Akbar Ahamed
• a. Registered in NJ as NPO
• 501-C-3 – will take 2-3 months
• Proceeding with opening bank account
• Bylaws – by Dr Ruknudeen
• Br Khalil and Br Muneer to lead this effort
• Dr Ruknudeen and Br Faruk to oversee the effort
• Civil Services – by Br Ahamed
• Talking to the Shankar academy to come to JMC facility to train the students
• Due to the COVID-19 the batch may be limited to 15 members
• JMC Core Team is doing the below
• Dr Badhusha & Dr Mazhar
• Prepare brochure, AV from principal, etc.
• USA Chapter Team is doing the below
• Shahjahan called 15-20 people to have internal discussion
• Doing feasibility study, top-down, bottom-up approaches
• Reaching out to IKLAS, ILMI
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• Asking JMC alumni in Chennai to do the groundwork such as talking to IKLAS, ILMI
• So far pledged 19K (13 gold, 2 silver)
• Working on the model for the program
• Few areas to be addressed such as:
• JMC Core Team needs to be more aggressive
• JMC Core Team needs to have placement cell
• Needs to have Dr Badhusha in next few monthly meetings
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• Miscellaneous – Dr Ruknudeen
• New templates for the monthly agenda and minutes to be prepared
• The monthly meeting agenda and the minutes should be uploaded to the portal
• Br Akbar Ahamed will join Br Faruk and Br Tolkappian to maintain the portal

Monthly Meeting – August 2020
Meeting Minutes:
When : 08-22-2020, 9:00 pm EST to 10:00 PM EST via ZOOM
Host in Chair: Tholkappian
Participants: We had the total of 17 members who attended the call today
Agenda topic covered :
1. Office Bearers announcement – Dr Ruknudin
2. Internship Program update – Amanullah
3. Alumni membership Fund creation – Mohamed Faruk
4. Update on UPSC program – Ahamed
Discussions
One of the most senior members of this chapter, Dr.Ruknudin Announced the recent selection of officer bearers. This is kind of temperory setup until this chapter is formalized and by-laws are formed. It’s decided that this set up will remain for maximium of two years from Today (8-22-2020) and then there will be an election to choose the next group of people to take this group forward. Temporary by-laws will be formed for the first two years…This includes but not limited to requesting regular attendance (80%) of the officer beareres in all the NA Alumni meeting.
• EXECUTIVE COUNCIL – This group responsibility is to oversee a regular operation of the North America chapter.
President: Abdul M Ruknudin
Vice president: Mohamed Faruk
Vice President: Nilamudeen Shaihu
Secretary: Mohaseen Baig
Joint Secretary: Tholkappian Vadivelu
Treasurer: Hekmatyar Khan
Joint Treasurer: Akbar Ali
• BOARD OF DIRECTORS – This group will act as a advisory for the executive council.
Dr. Abdul Jabbar
Muneer Ahamed
Amanullah Razak
Shabeer Mohammed
Ghulam Mohideen
Internship program update was given by Aman.
Alumni Fund creation discussion
A committee is formed to work on this effort. Mohamed Faruk, Muneer Ahamed, Riaz Ahamed, Farook Majeed, Tholkappian and Ruknudin will come up with ideas on this. This group has to hash out things that includes…
a) what should be the MINIMUM amount that can be collected from members , $50 per year or $100 per year with no maximum
b) Should it be made mandatory or optional ?
c) How the money should be collected ?
d) How the money should be spent ?
e) Prioritize the projects to spend money etc…
Ahamed updated the group on the UPSC program. There was not a lot of progress made on this because of C-19 situation but the college is showing interests in this program.
This chapter agrees that this is an important project that needs to be carried forward. Ahamed shared that 60 out of 860 people elected from Tamilnadu which needs to be improved.
General comments from the meeting:
1. Try to have local meeting with other Jamlians locally wherever you are and encourage them to participate in the meetings. Maintain social distancing :-). Once the C-19 situation gets better plans can be made for physical gathering.
2. Form a Committee for public relations that would work on talking with other Jamalians and encourage participations in the meetings. This group should also work on the following….
a) Contacting people who are not registered to have them registered in the website
b) Contacting people who are partially registered to have them complete the information
c) Contacting people to encourage them to attend the monthly meetings
d) Contacting people who are not in the Whatsapp group and have them added
Group always appreciates any constructive inputs to take this chapter forward in giving back to college and needy students back home.
Next Meeting – We will have our next meeting on September, 19 – 2020

Monthly Meeting – July 2020
Meeting Minutes:
When : 07-18-2020, 9:00 pm EST to 10:00 PM EST via ZOOM
Host in Chair: Muneer Ahamed
Participants: We had the total of 20+ members who attended the call today
Agenda topic covered :
1. Update on Internship project – Br. Aman
2. Update from UPSC project – Br. Ahamed
3. Update from JMC Scholarship project – Br. Muneer
4. Update from Mentoring and Career Development project – Br. Faruk
5. Discussion on Alumni events / programs / Office Bearers – Dr. Ruknudin
Action Item
• Internship Engagement
• Internship Care Takers
• Syed Fasiullah
• Akbar
• Amanullah Razak
• Requirements shared with JMC (Prof. George and Safiudeen) : May 20th
• Candidates where shared with TamilNadu Online (Based on Dallas, Texas) : Jun 4th
• 3 Candidates short listed : MCA Students
• Noorual Sirajudeen
• Sardhar R
• Shaik Abdulla
Engagement from July to Dec 2020 to start with
Letter to College from TN Online
• JMC UPSC Academy
Introduction – Proposal
We, JMC NA Alumni are so grateful for JMC for its services for our success and have planned to pay back to the college and community in a fruitful way.
In this thought process some of our Alumni wanted to support the college to start an effective civil services coaching program which will help our young aspirants be successful in serving the community and country.
The idea was greatly appreciated by our college Principal, Management and many other Alumni members.
A team of JMC NA Alumni conducted a feasibility study with some experts, identified some challenges and came up with the following proposal.
Our mission is to provide awareness and training young JMC students to excel in this exam and serve for the betterment of the minority community in Tamil Nadu and India as a whole.
Progress..
JMC, currently running “Jamal Civil Services Nursery“ part time program. After UG/PG aspirants has to go a fulltime academy to be successful in UPSC program.
Conducted subsequent Zoom meeting with JMC professor Dr. Saifudeen to understand the existing UPSC Nursing program and its progress/challenges.
We had a meeting with Mr. Syed Ali, Head of IKLAS IAS Academy Tirunelveli branch and discussed their achievements and challenges.
Presented this proposal to JMC Civil Services Team along with Principal. We are waiting to hear back from them.
Dr. Ruknudin constantly keeps the Principal and staff updated with the progress and acting as a correspondent between NA Alumni and JMC Management.
Dr. Khan Hekmatyar, a NA Alumnus who had great experience in civil service exams provided good details and challenges about this program.
Program Proposal
Shortlist 30 highly motivated and committed JMC aspirants via entrance exam, academic performance and professors feedback.
Conduct face to face interview with aspirants along with parents.
Student must have completed Bachelor or Master Degree with expectational skills.
This should be a full time program (24×7) in JMC Campus.
Setup separate boarding facility that will keep them to focus on the study and potential distraction from others.
Setup state of the art coaching facility that includes libraries, internet and access to all coaching materials.
Fees structure should be based on their family financial and social backgrounds.
Initial coaching duration should be 1 ½ years followed by first attempt.
Hire experienced faculties of different subjects on hourly basis or fulltime if needed.
Conduct motivational events to keep the interest intact.
Select top 5 highly committed potential aspirants and support them for successive attempts.
Motivate and guide others for successive attempts with limited resources.
Finally motivate the unfortunates for non civil services exams(ex: TNPSC)
Challenges
Identifying highly motivated, committed and brainy aspirants.
Outsource coaching – Identify result producing IAS Academy (exp. IKLAS/Shankar Academy).
Tie up and bring them to JMC facility to train our students.
Aspirants may require several attempts to produce result.
Dropout possibilities are high.
Fund the program.
Team
• Ahamed Kasim (1999 MCA)
• Khan Hekmatyar (1993 B.Sc. Chemistry)
• Abdul Kader (1999 MCA)
• Akbar Ahamed (1999 MCA)
• Abdul Ruknudin (1974 Zoology)
• Shajahan Shahib (1999 MCA)
JMC Scholarship Project
Committee Members: Br. Faruk, Br. Muneer, Br. Ryas
Committee formed based on input from JMC Principal
Goal is to collect donation from JMC NA Chapter Alumni members to
support JMC Scholarship and NA chapter Projects.
One time annual contribution from NA Chapter members.
No minimum or maximum requirement ($50,$100…)
Collect funds under an existing 503c charitable organization instead of starting our own.
Contribute towards JMC scholarship during the annual JMC Alumni meet held every year on August 15th.
Questions or Proposal at the meeting
There should be a yearly minimum set for contributions / donations by JMC NA Chapter members.
Committee should look into creating a 503C Organization
Need to draft policy on how the different JMC NA Chapter projects should be prioritized and funded by the donations received.
How about creating an Endowment ?
Mentoring and Career Development project
In the past few meeting we had discussed about the project, we are still waiting for our JMC contacts to setup time from various department such as Computer Science, MBA, Chemistry and so on.
Due to Covid situation, this initiative is getting delayed, will follow up on this.
Discussion on Alumni events / programs / Office Bearers
Dr. Ruknudin to work on the organization structure for the JMC NA Chapter
Dr. Ruknudin to request nominations for various post and announce the office bearers in the next meeting

May,17 2020
JMC NA Alumni Monthly Connect
Meeting Minutes:
When : 05-17-2020, 3:00 pm EST to 4:15 PM EST via ZOOM
Host in Chair: Br. Mohaseen Beig
Participants: We had the total of 20+ members who attended the call today
Agenda topic covered in minutes:
1. Introduction of Agenda – Summarized by Host in Chair.
2. Overview of Principal meeting conducted on 16th May 2020 was narrated by Br. Mohamed Faruk.
3. JMC Alumni WhatsApp group policy & regulation to be reviewed & enforced.
4. IAS, IPS & others civil service academy to be initiated & established. This should be combined efforts and jointly need to be reviewed with Global Alumni & JMC management.
5. JMC NA Alumni scholarship program need to be kickstarted to benefit present students studying in JMC.
6. Alumni mentorship program to empower and guide present students and help them to reach their goal in various fields.
7. Dr. Jabbar Gave an overview about his study on Covid19 & the work they put in for Vaccine
8. key JMC staff members contacts to be published in JMC NA website & WhatsApp group.
Action Item
1. JMC NA WhatsApp group to be redefined with new policy & regulation – Mohaseen beig
• Refrain from religious and political discussion
• Post & comment only to college alumni or college related topics and stick to purpose of the group
• While posting Arabic words, reiterate the meaning in English for everyone understanding.
2. Development of Job communication portal with JMC Global Alumni
• New job opportunity to get notified in JMC job portal for the benefit of alumni and students registered in JMC Job portal.
• Priority to Jamalians who are deliberately looking for any job, career opportunity & growth.
• Encourage current students looking for internship & training with stipend can make use of the portal and can get in touch with the sponsor. (Br.Syed & Br.Akbar identified for this initiative)
3. IAS & Civil Service exam coaching
• JMC NA team of three to review & evaluate the challenges in establishing the academy.
• Internal NA team to connect with JMC Mgmt in charge and re-initiate the discussion
• USA NA team identified for this initiative as below
• (Br. Ahamed.K , Br. Khan , & Br.Akbar or Br.Khalil )
4. Mentor ship Program for students to fulfill their aspiration dreams in their respective fields.
• Dr.Jabbar to initiate and arrange MOU between Emory & JMC for deserving students after lock down.
• Mentor-ship will start from foundation studies covering various streams (Botony, zoology & chemistry)
• Technology Mentor-ship program to be initiated after the discussion with Dr.Saifudeen & Dr.George.
• USA NA team identified for this initiative as below
• Science Mentorship – (Dr. Jabbar , Br.Mohaseen beig )
• Technology Mentorship – (Br. Aman, Br.Siraj & Br.Fazlullah )
5. Initiation of Scholarship program from USA Alumni Chapter for financially needy students
• Yearly JMC provides scholarship to 1500 students per year.
• Due to Covid situation and lockdown anticipating more students this year
• Scholarship amount ranges from rs.3500 to 15000 for each student
• USA NA team identified for this initiative as below
• (Br.Faruk, Br.Riaz & Br.Muneer)
6. Student Career Guidance & Moral Support
• Identifying students & support in higher studies and share success stories to build confidence.
• Coordinate & align with mentorship program and guide students for job placement
• USA NA team identified for this initiative as below
• (Br.Akbar, Br.Khalil & Br.Mubeen)
Few questions asked
1. How can I contribute back to JMC – yearly for a student scholarship ( Br. Akbar Ahamed )
2. How to link JMC students for internship with Projects in US companies?