IMAN GROUP

IMAN Group
(A Sec 25 Company, Non-profitable under the aegis of Manipuri Muslims
Online Forum)
Type of Organization: A Sec 25 Company/NGO/Trust (non-profitable)

A Sec 25 Company or Trust will be formed as per company’s act guide lines.

This will be totally non-profitable company. A section 25 company is a company with limited liability that may be formed for "promoting commerce, art, science, religion, charity or any other useful object," provided that no profits, if any, or other income derived through promoting the company's objects may be distributed in any form to its members. After the company/trust is registered, a website should be launched with the facility to donate money online and to join member by paying the membership fees online.

The company/trust will organize conference once in a year to be attended by all members at anywhere in India under the lead of the members dwelling in that part of the India. We may name it 1st IMAN (if it is the name) Convention. The convention will be done with the convention fees to be paid by the members. Nothing from the fund will be utilized. The members have to subscribe for fooding and lodging fees which will be decided depending on the location we select. The local members will make all arrangement. The accommodation and fooding will be catered to some small event managing companies if necessary.

We will need members form Judiciary as legal advisor in the group to give us the legal view on every steps we take. We need Management students to make complete module of the task to be taken orderly. We need IT students to develop the webpage, launching website and other IT related issue such as database management. Except judiciary, we have members from every field. There may be some Law student in the forum but we need practicing advocate or request some retired judges from Manipur to be the legal advisor of the company. We too need account people or economist to handle the accounts of our transactions.

Opening a current bank account is must to reserve our fund under the name of the company. All contributions of the member and donations should be transferred to the Bank A/C.


Activities:-
1) Madrasa Education
How to implement:

a) We need to talk to administrator the feasibility of introduction of General education to go side by side with Islamic education

b) We have to tie up with some educational institute in the state who can conduct the exam of these madrassa students as private student till it is not compulsory to be under BSEM i.e. Class VII.

c) The duration of Madrassa course needs to be examined first.

d) If the madrassa course takes 5 years, then the students will start general education after two years so that when they finish the madrassa course, they can get direct admission to the school from Class–VIII (which perhaps comes under BSEM). They will study for 2 years and get cleared the HSLC exam.
e) If they want to continue higher education in Alimiat line (Madrassa course), they can get direct admission in Nadwa, Lucknow for 3/5/7 years respectively depending on their education.

f) After they graduated from Nadwa, they will get admission directly in AMU, JMI and HU (Hamdard University) in Master programs.

g) Necessary funding towards the expenditure likely to be incurred in providing books, tution fees and teachers salary will be borne by the Company without making any burden to the Madrasa.

2) Mosque (Masajid) Reformation:

a) Every one of us knows the condition of these Mosques in Manipur. The Imams and Moujins are not getting the emolument they deserve to get due to lack of coordination among the families living under the coverage of the Mosque (Mohalla).

b) The Muslim brothers in the mohalla do not contribute the yearly subscription of very small amount (which may be perhaps not even a cost of one shirt) to the Masajid committee who runs the administration.

c) The imams besides leading the Namaz do not provide any other opportunity to earn his livelihood. We need to provide them sustainable job so that he can give proper education to his children and have a good image unlike many who does not even have a good cloths and runs all day with a cycle to collect money. The Imams need to live life happier than us. Then they can only show us the correct way of living. Due to their financial conditions, they are forced to do something which are not suited and people claimed that they should not do like this being an Imam.

d) The Imams should be recruited under a board or committee and given the salary not less than 5000/-. They should also be give other source of income such as compulsory sending every child of the households to him to learn Quran reading with fixed fees (to be fixed by the families). At least he should get 100/- per child so that he gets another 5/6 thousands in a month.

e) The criteria of imam selection will be his vast knowledge on modern world and in depth knowledge of Quran and Hadith, his vocal, Qiraat. Besides, we may look some X factor too. In the same way, the Moujin should also be recruited with his Vocal, health and be remunerated not less than 3000/-.

f) He(Imam) should be listened by all families. He should have regular interaction session with the youths and try to enlighten the youths about Islam and its application. The question and answer session should be best where they can ask any kind of question right from sex to anything else.

g) The mosque should have a reading room where all kinds of books on Islam and stories of prophets, scientific approach to the Quran should be made available and open 24 hours to read to the public.
h) There will be quarter for Imam as he may be from any part of Manipur/Outside though Moujin will remain local. When the project is implemented in more than one Mosque, their post will be made transferrable in 5 years tenure.

3) Poverty Alleviation:

a) The percentage of education or rather good education is very minimum in Muslim society. If the Company can contribute little help to the society, it will make a big revolution in 10/20 years.
b) We need to find out no. of villages or Khun in a town and its child population under the age of 5. Depending on the fund (generation of fund will be in the next topic), we may select the 1/2/3 or whatever poorest family from each KHUN (village) and get them admission in the nearby school. The trust will assist admission fees, uniforms, tuition fees( if applicable) till he completes XII class.

c) Every year there will be identification of poor family without any notification so that favourism is avoided. We should select only one child per family. If no family left, another child may be selected from the same family.

d) When these students advance to the higher classes, the expenditure too will be increased. So, the family of the children should be provided some works with the assistant Govt. scheme. One of the jobs which I foresee with good return and needs no training and education for the villagers is dairy farm, fish farming and poultry. Villages have enough places to set up this kind of farming except fishing (we need some philanthropist to give land and get some rental in return as purchase of land may not be perhaps possible).

e) Setting up the firms just not completes the task. We need to sing some MOU with hotels, college/school hostels, restaurants and market contractor (if available) to sell these products. The requirements of the hotel and the farmer are to be discussed and signed the MOU.

f) The fishery department, poultry and MOBC may be for sure having scheme for funding such projects.

g) This way, we will provide these families to earn income and support his family for a longer period and may be after some years they may not require any funding from the TRUST.

Fund Mobilization/Generation:

This is one of the most important activities for the organization. All our aims and objective can be achieved only on getting enough funds. How do we generate fundfor the TRUST. Will the people of Manipur and the member accept the proposal ortaken in perspective. Will it be dumped just like any other fraud organization?What can be the best possible way to approach the masses of the Manipur and Manipuris outside Manipur and India?
Well questions are many but answer is very limited. The only option left is trust. To make successful project, we need to prove to the people of Manipur without any political influence that we are doing something for the people of Manipur. We will need many volunteers to do this job. They cannot be paid at the beginning but if projects keep going as per plan, we will surely employ for the company. We need some honorary jobs besides their daily routine to execute the activities outlined above.

Followings are the way of mobilizing funds:

1) Membership fee and its monthly subscription: As we are setting up non-profitable organization, every member has nothing to get from this organization but to contribute from his kitty. We may decide the membership fees with due consultation. My proposals are as follows:-

Govt.Servant with pay above 50,000/- P.M. -Rs. 5,000/-
Govt.Servant with pay above 30,000/- but less than 50,000/- - Rs. 3,000/-
Govt.Servant with pay above 15,000/- but less than 30,000/- - Rs. 1,000/-
Govt.Servant with pay above 10,000/- but less than 15,000/- - Rs. 300/-
Other Govt. Servant -Rs. 100/-
Research Scholar in receipt of Fellowship -Rs. 500/-
Students -Rs. 100/-
Professionals abroad (minimum but can contribute more) - 100$

If the number of members is taken as 300 (the existing number) the one time membership fees may raise around 50 thousand to 1 lakh (roughly) or more than that. All these members will give monthly subscription not less than Rs. 100/- (no limit of maximum contribution). In the first year, we may perhaps generate 3.6 lakh @ Rs. 100/- only. But I will contribute not less than 200/-. So there may be many such persons who wish and can contribute more then we expect. Approximately we can take around 5 lakhs per annum.

2) All Govt. Employees in State and Central Govt. not in the Member:

We may request to all such brothers and sisters to contribute @ Rs. 10/- per month to the COMPANY for which receipt will be granted. Rs.10/- is nothing in these days. I do not think that they won’t agree unless they treat the COMPANY as fraud. Here convincing them comes an issue. But we may overcome with our commitment. There may be around 20,000 to 30,000 govt. servant right from Gr-D to Top level officers. So another 2 lakh can be generated per month.

3) Contribution from every Muslim Household:
The total population of Muslim may be around 2 to 3 lakh and no. of household may be around 50 thousand. Every family needs something or other to run their family in a day. In average they may be spending Rs. 10/- per day in grocery items. We may request to all Muslim shops which sales anything from grocery to apparels, tea hotels etc. to take Rs 1/- extra for a buy of more than Rs. 10/- and accounted it on daily basis. (The consumer needs to be informed by publicity and meetings and bring to consensus to pay extra Re. 1/-). If 50% of the household contribute Re 1/- per day, it can generate another 7.5 lakhs per day (Re 1 x 25000 household *30 days=7,50,000).

4) Funding from Private companies in the State:
Many private companies in Manipur especially in telecom sector have established. We may organize Marathon run for a cause and ask for the sponsorship from this companies. We will spend in such a way that 20% of the total expected earnings are spent. The company will provide the award, logistic; advertisement (depends on what they agree). This kind of cause activity may be done once a year choosing different place and time every year and generate another 50-1 lakh.

5) Zakat Collection:

There are so many Muslim philanthropists in India who are ready to give their Zakat to the good institute. Whether the COMPANY can collect the zakat money or not may be discussed with Muslim intellectuals and if agreed, it should be. We may raise another 2- 3 laks per annum.

If we sum up all the above, expected total amount would as follows:-
a) One time membership fees = Rs. 1,00,000.00
b) Monthly subscription fees(annually) = Rs. 3,60,000.00
c) State Govt. employee =Rs. 2,00,000.00
d) Contribution from Household =Rs. 7,50,000.00
e) Funding from Pvt. Companies = Rs.50,000.00
f) Zakat Collection =Rs. 2,00,000.00
Total =Rs. 16,60,000.00 (Sixteen lakh sixty thousand)

While doing the above activities we will require maximum manpower from each and every village. Since most of us are not in Manipur, it will be very difficult to involve physically thereof. So, it may be necessary to tie up with local NGOs or Clubs to publicize the cause and bring the people into consensus. Volunteers will be paid the TA and DA for the work or skilled labour fees of Manipur. We, the members need to spare at least 15 days in a year and go in different times in a group of 4/5 members to Manipur and start the drive with full swing with the assistance of the Local NGOs and Clubs authority. The required expenditure can be met from the membership fees and monthly subscription.

While bringing the people of Manipur into consensus, we may start a project out of three activities mentioned at the beginning which will make an impression of the COMPANY to the people and will make easy to introduce other activities later on. The Mosque Reformation may perhaps make most impact and will give us nice platform to introduce the COMPANY. The Imams and local will truly recognize our activity and may get invitations from other village to implement the same. If we cover one mosque in a village in coming 2/3 years it won’t be of much difficult for us to convince the people of the other project which we have.

Once the mosque transformation is completed for one mosque per village in all villages, we may take up the next project setting up income generation projects such as Poultry, fishery, dairy under the scheme of MOBC or different ministries. By this time, we may start the other modes of fund raising programs.

There may be many shortcomings in the draft and may not be in order as I have no idea as to how NGO works. It is my utmost request to all members of the forum to copy the document in Word and make remarks of the points which he thinks necessary to modify parawise at the end of document and send back to me at my address : nasir.po.sh@gmail.com for further compilation as 2nd draft. This will again circulated to all before approving it as final draft.

Yours truly,

Mohammed Nasir Ahmed
Admin MMOF
nasir.po.sh@gmail.com