AFOVA New Letter 2 of Year 2021

Section 3 – Value Add / Special Tasks CV 2 No. 02 / 2021 Page 26 of 332 Did AFVOA Spend a Pile for Hosting eConnect Meetings? Did we? When the present Managing Committee is on the threshold of handing over charge to it’s succeeding Committee, it would be in the fitness of things to review the per capita expenditure per meeting of the Members, to allay the fears raised from some quarters during the same time last year about the presumed ‘extravagance’ in hosting eConnect Meetings by the M C. Here is a quick summary: No of eConnect Meetings till Date Average Number of Members Actual Zoom License Expenditure till Jul 26, 2021 * Per Capita Expenditure Per Member per Meeting Probable Zoom License Cost without Sponsorship Probable Per Capita Expenditure Under F A B C D E F 39 245 Rs 8,190 Rs 0.86 Rs 17,550 Rs 1.84 Note * The Zoom License expenses were incurred by AFVOA Chennai only for the first 7 months. The free use of personal license (Zoom Pro) for the remaining 8 months was sponsored by a benevolent Member. Please note that even if the M C had not utilized the free sponsorship, the per capita expenditure per member would not have crossed Rs 2.00 per event. Even at the start, four tenets of financial propriety were laid down for incurring any type of expenditure by theMC : Extreme due diligence, competitive pricing, utmost economy