10 may 2004
The builder has started work! Marking was done and and construction of temporary buildings like site office and watchman's shed has started.

23 Apr 2004 - Building Progress
The work of choosing the builder was undertaken in a systematic manner. Six building firms had put in their applications; Five of them were shortlisted. the architect drew up the bill of quantities and gave it to these companies. Four of the five companies sent in their quotes. Each of them were interviewed and urged to revise their quotes in relevant areas. The revised quotes were reviewed by the architect and the building committee; the committee further considered the rating of the builders by the architect. At its meeting on 22nd April 2004, the committee unanimously decided to give the contract to Ms. T R Rajan.

7 Apr 2004 - Building progress
Work is progressing rapidly for the alumni building to come up. The nonfunctioning bore well near the site has been set right; new piping and a new pump were installed - the flow of water is good. The short listed builders have taken the bill of quantities from the architect; their quotations will be scrutinized soon. The schedule of starting the building by end April is being adhered to.

Building Committee Meeting - 27 Mar 2004
The Building committee met on 27th Mar 2004. The following decisions were taken and a process of getting tenders from shortlisted builders was initiated.

• Borewell –private engineers to look at the problem. KMSGs and HCS’s contacts – Atlanta pumps – authorized to do the job.

• Soil testing report arrived today – soil is good; 5-6’ filled up soil – no tunnels and silos seen.  .

• Five of the six applications that were received from builders were approved to be short listed. These builders will be given the tender documents for them to quote. The tender document is ready for distribution.

• Schedule from now on:
  • Tender document  will be given on 3^rd April
  • Quotations will be opened on 10^th April
  • Comparison of quotes by 17^th April
  • Finalization of builder a week later
    9 months for construction of civil structure

Write up in Deccan Herald 2 Mar 2004
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar022004/spt1.asp

Message from Dr. Sathya, President;  9 Mar 2004

Dear  Alumni

I wish to bring this matter to your attention that  you are aware  that BMC Alumni is very active now and organized both social and academic events. also helped the college  interests in many ways.

As  an  ongoing programme we had organized a CME programme on  7 march in the college auditorium. To make this event successful  sent enough communication to most of them via college principal ,letter of communication and  organized good speakers in their field with excellent audiovisual set up that too no registration fee. With all that I am sorry to state that the attendance was scanty with response to our efforts. Our efforts were futile. 

We have done our  best to communicate with each and every alumnus, many addresses were not  correct . For sure you know where we are and how to contact us. But  we do not where  each one is situated. My earnest request to you is to get in touch with us our web site  is www.bmcalumni.com ,please open the site to all information ,get in touch with Dr Lakshman  who will give all information required his  e mail ID is lakshman@58family.net 

You are already aware 2005 is golden jubilee year of the college. We have a task ahead of us to present state of the art digital library as thanks giving to the college, this can not be done without your financial support.

As an alumni of BMC please help us to help the students of BMC ,a good cause
you deserve

Kind regards
H C Sathya
President

CME Programme - 7 Mar 2004
A CME was held between 10am and 1pm at Bangalore Medical College auditorium. Dr Nagaraja rao was the MC. Dr Sathya welcomed the gathering. The programme was followed by lunch.

The CME was in 2 sessions. The first session was chaired by Dr Parameswara and Dr Munichoodappa. Dr Omprakash spke on Ethics in Medical Practice. Dr Ramesh S spoke on Paediatric laparoscopic surgery and Dr. Udaykumar Maiya spoke on recent advances in Radiation oncology.

The second session was chaired by Dr Maiya M and Dr Sathya HC. Dr Raghu spoke on coronary angiography in acute MI and Dr Vajay Malur spoke on his experiences of high altitude trekking in the Himalayas after CABG.

Ground Breaking Ceremony of the Alumni Building - 27 Feb 2004
The Ground breaking ceremony was held on 27th Feb 2004. The CM was called away to Delhi for political consultations and hence Dr Maalaka Reddy, the Honourable Minister for Medical Education did the honours. The other dignitaries who attended the function included Dr Chandrashekara, the VC of RGUHS, Dr Ramanand Shetty, the DME, Sri. Uday, the Chief Architect, Sri Siddappa, the Chief Engineer and Dr Meera Meundi, Principal of BMC.

Dr Lakshman was the compere. Dr Srinivasa Gowda welcomed the gathering. Dr Sathya gave a report of the alumni association's activities. The dignitaries spoke congratulating the association. Dr Acharya proposed a vote of thanks.

Dr Maalaka Reddy did the actual pooja at an auspicious time, assisted by Purohits from the Venkateswara Temple. This was followed by coffee and snacks.

The function was well attended; it was well received and had a good coverage in the press. See below for selected picture links.

News item about alumni in Deccan Herald of 24 Feb 2004

Building Subcommittee  22 Jan 2004
The following is the present composition of the building subcommittee:

Chairman: 
N R Acharya

Convenor:  
K Lakshman

Members:   
H C Sathya, 
S R Gurumurthy, 
Rangaraj                       
K M Sreenivasa Gowda,  
K R Murthy                        
Mahadevaiah, 
Munichoodappa
Ramesh Bilimaga (India)
Vasudev,
Uday Shetty  (UK)
Sreepada Rao,
Krishna MS,
Krishnamurthy
Ram R Krishna  (USA)

BMC Alumni Association  EC meeting  held on 12 Jan 2004 at BMC
It was resolved to constitute a Building subcommittee to oversee the collection of funds and its disbursement for the construction of the library building. Dr N R Acharya  was chosen as the chairman and Dr Lakshman K as the convener of this subcommittee.. The President, secretary and the treasurer of the alumni association and the organizing secretary of golden jubilee celebrations committee would be ex officio members. The other members would be Dr K Ramachandramurthy, Dr Munichoodappa, Dr Mahadevaiah. Dr Vasudev and Dr Uday Shetty were chosen as subcommittee members from UK. Representatives from USA would be nominated by NRI BMCites shortly. The committee will have the power to co-opt other members as the situation demands. The convener  will have the responsibility of convening the meeting of the building subcommittee, assisting the treasurer in maintaining accounts, scrutinizing the bills before recommendation for payment and liaise with the NRI alumni members regarding the progress of the building.

A separate account in the name and style of  BMC Alumni Building and Library Fund will be opened. The signatories of this fund would be Dr Rangaraj, treasurer, Dr N R Acharya, the chairman of the building subcommittee and Dr Sathya, the president of alumni association.

It was decided to have an Alumni CME in March as a part of alumni academic activities   and a get together in February as a part of the alumni social programme.

20 Dec 2003
Meeting with the Health Secretary
Representatives of the executive committee of the alumni association met the health secretary, Sri. Siddaiah, recently. The events being planned for the golden jubilee celebrations and the donation of the library and lecture theatre were discussed. The secretary was very appreciative of the efforts of the alumni association. he promised complete cooperation towards speedy completion of the documentation and the permissions that are required from the government. He further assured the principal of the college of substantial financial inputs from the government for the college, to commemorate the golden jubilee

7 Dec 2003
Appointment of Library Assistant
The alumni association decided in the EC meeting to continue the services of a library assistant in a part time position. His tenure as the employee of the college had come to an end. His work will assist the postgraduate students in getting access to information on the net. He will work as the computer operator in the library and assist the secretary in some aspects of the alumni association's work.

4 Dec 2003
Golden Jubilee Celebrations Brochure / Fund raising
The plans for donating a digital library and a lecture theatre to the college to mark the occasion of the Golden Jubilee are in full swing. The brochure is ready; it is being distributed in India and abroad and fund raising activities are going on. We request all the alumni to not only contribute liberally to this noble cause but also contact their BMC friends and expand the networking for fund raising. The brochure will be sent to interested alumni who may need it to distribute to their friends. Please send you requests for brochures to lakshman@58family.net or call on 6766870 or 98451 79891. The brochure will shortly come up on this website as well. Dr Srinivasa Gowda will be addressing the alumni in Florida at the KSMDA conference in end December, putting forward the appeal for funds. Dr H C Sathya is actively working in the UK for a similar purpose.

Message from Dr H C Sathya,
President, Alumni Association, 21 Oct 03

50th anniversary of Bangalore medical college

Dear BMC alumni

50th anniversary of Bangalore medical college will be celebrated in the Year 2005. As an alumni it is our moral responsibility to associate in this Golden Jubilee celebration being held in the city of Bangalore. Our association has some responsibility and obligation for the college. With this objective, plans have already have been made to construct a modern library for the college from our side. More than 6500 doctors have been qualified since the inception of the College and are placed all over the globe, many are practicing abroad in the US, UK and other parts of the world, holding a distinguished position.

Our alumni took a new shape since the inauguration in July 2000, when Karnaka state health minister inaugurated function. Lots of Encouragement came from our principal of the college. Thanks to the support of the executive committee who stood with me and supported uninhibitedly. Since that time we targeted the issues pertaining to the improvement of the College, and helped the college in one form or the other such as sponsoring students need, library need with photocopying machine etc.

We have actively participated in US based KSMD meeting held in Bangalore, honored some as distinguished members of alumni, some as honorary members. Now we have our own web site (www.bmcalumni.com), you are welcome go to our site as to see the progress or suggestions you may have. Now our main task is to construct a modern library as a commemoration for The Golden Jubilee. The estimated cost is around 10 million rupees. A place has already been identified in the college campus. Some positive response has already been recieved.

We further need a huge financial support and help to this Venture. A generous donation is needed. As an office bearer I look forward to your help and support in this matter. Please contact Dr Bhanumathi, who is our UK coordinator, for further information

12 September 2003 - EC Meeting
The Executive committee met recently and deliberated on many important issues. The following salient decisions were taken.

1. The secretary reported that the registration formalities have been completed. An attempt is now being made to obtain tax exemption to all the donations received.

2. It was decided to reduce the NRI membership fee drastically. Life membership is now 50 US Dollars or 25 Pounds Sterling.

3. It was decided to hire a private architect to make plans for the alumni building coming up adjacent to the PPC block.

4. A brochure is being made to disseminate information about the Golden jubilee celebrations and to help in fund raising.

5. A new bank account will be opened to receive funds towards the golden jubilee activities.

A new committee is being formed to spearhead the golden jubilee activities. Dr K M Srinivasa Gowda will be the Organising Secretary. Details of the committee will be posted as soon as the composition is finalised.

29 Aug 2003
Here is an important message  from Dr. H C Sathya, President of the Alumni Association, for doctors planning to go to UK for further studies and training. Dr Sathya is presently in  UK, working as a Consultant in Cardiology. He has first hand experience of the conditions in  UK.

He writes " Many young doctors come over to UK spending considerable amount of money on travel, visa and stay. Doctors from Karnataka form a large part of this group. They stay in suboptimal conditions in east London and elsewhere. It is very difficult to get clinical attachments. While many Indian consultants try to help them, they can only offer limited help, because of various constraints in the system".

Dr Sathya urges young doctors planning to UK to bear this in mind before making the final decision to go across. For more information you can contact Dr Sathya at sathyahc@hotmail.com.

18/07/03
Dear alumni,

The membership drive and the work of updating the database is in progress; it is tough work unless we all pool our resources together, spend time on this and get others to register with the association.

We feel that one or two persons from each batch should take the lead in this work; those of you interested in doing this may kindly contact the secretary or Dr Lakshman at lakshman@58family.net. These key persons should then contact their class/batch mates and get their details. This networking will ensure maximum membership.

The address list we presently have with the association is neither complete nor accurate. We have posted out 1340 letters; so far, 20 alumni have responded by giving us the details we requested; 55 letters have been returned with the label 'addressee not found' on them; response from the rest is still awaited. This is clearly a poor response. We request all of you to communicate with us and urge your BMC friends to communicate with us. We could all actively use the bulletin board on this website.

18/07/03
Dear Alumni,

The second of the three goals we have before us for the golden jubilee of the college is to donate a lecture theatre and digital library to the college to mark the occasion. The present thought is to have a modern lecture theatre to seat 150 students and provide it with state of the art audiovisual equipment, including, a modern sound system, a powerful computer and multimedia projector.

We also envisage upgrading the library to a digital library with a server and about 20 nodes; providing access to full text articles through subscriptions to digital databanks and building up a CD library with multimedia facilities.

The college has promised to give land in the PPC block for this purpose. The proposed building will house the lecture theatre and he digital library and in addition an office and a board room for the alumni association. The approximate projected cost for this is Rs. 80 lakhs.

The third goal is to celebrate the golden jubilee with a gala function where all the alumni can participate; specific plans are not yet made for the function. A committee is being formed by the government to plan this; BMC alumni are going to be involved in a big way.

Your suggestions and comments on this are most welcome; please contact us on lakshman@58family.net.

An open letter to all the Alumni of BMC
08/07/2003

Dear Alumni,

As many of you are aware, the alumni association took on a new Avatar 2 years ago; we have been trying to get the alumni involved in the working of the association; we have put up a website; we have some basic information regarding the constitution and aims and objectives, on the website. We have had a few get-togethers in Bangalore; the overall response has been lukewarm.

With the Golden Jubilee of the college coming up in 2005, there is now an urgent need for all of us to come together and do something substantial for the college that has helped us reach where we are now. We have identified 3 areas of concerted effort that is needed to reach this goal.

1. Membership drive and updating the database.

2. Presenting the college with a state of the art lecture theatre.

3. Celebrating the Golden Jubilee with a befitting function

We will post details of what has been done and what we plan to do in these core areas in the next few days.

We need your help, cooperation and suggestions in each one of these activities. Please use this website and its bulletin board actively and give us your inputs.

The EC approved plans to update the database of the alumni members. Presently we only have postal addresses of the members. Some of these addresses may be inaccurate or might have changed. Also we can save time and money by communicating electronically. Hence, we have sent out letters to all the members requesting them to confirm the correct postal address and give us the Fax number and email addresses. We request the members to respond to this at the earliest.

The Golden Jubilee of the college is in 2005. Plans are underway to have celebrations to mark this occasion. Suggestions from the alumni regarding this are most welcome. You can mail us at lakshman@58family.net, sathyahc@hotmail.com, or dr_gurumurthy@hotmail.com.

We have plans to donate a modern lecture theatre to the college. The college has promised to give us a site to build this on, in the PPC block. We are getting in touch with architects to get ideas as to how best to do this.

Dear Alumni,

It has been more than a year since we inaugurated our Association.Since that time we have progressed in a gradual manner. I am happy to inform you that we have recently donated a Xerox machine to BMC Library, as it will be useful to post-graduate students. The Principle of our College was happy. We are also planning to link our web-site to Bangalore Medical College.

Please make use of the web-site. Kindly send suggestions if any to improve our Association.We are still in a teething period, as we do not have sufficient funds to help our college. I earnestly request you to encourage your friends to become members of our Association.

You are perhaps aware that The Karnataka Medical and Dental meeting was postponed due to resent set-back in u.s. will be held as a three-day programme at the end of June and one of the evenings will be a dinner meet from BMC on subscription basis. Please make use of this opportunity to meet old friends on this occasion. Many of our Alumni who are abroad will be happy to meet you

I look forward to your kind co-operation and participation. Please patronize BMC Alumni.

Dr.H.C.Sathya,
President,
BMC Alumni

The BMC Alumni association presented a xerox machine to the BMC Library. Seen here is the Prinicipal, Mrs (Dr) Meera Muendi receiving the gift from Dr. H C Sathya, President and Dr. Gurumurthy, Secretary, of the Alumni Association. " This gift meets a very important requirement of our Library. We are very thankful to the Alumni Association for the same" said, Mrs. Muendi.

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