Note from the Council

The Glorious 63rd year of NASA India started with a huge success of the 62nd Year Annual NASA Convention which was hosted by the 62nd year Council at Innovative Film City, Bidadi, Bengaluru. The first Executive and Zonal Council Meet of 63rd year gave a kick start to the year’s proceedings with a brief discussion about all the events and roles of each council member. Since the 63rd year is the amendment year, the council understands its responsibility regarding the same and aims to bring everything back on track.

I’m glad to represent my view and learnings through the first edition of the 63rd year Thought Paper Scissors Newsletter. The primary intent of this newsletter is to inform everyone in the association about the new steps and initiatives taken by the Council. TPS being the quarterly newsletter of NASA India, reaches out to all the associated stakeholders and provides a glimpse of the working of the association.

Through the 62nd-year theme “Embark”, we travelled a path full of new achievements and worked for a better association in terms of credibility and reach to new collaborations and platforms. Now we are ready to understand our roots with the theme of the 63rd year “Rudiments” that will take us to our point of origin and help us improve and grow better than ever. The association has travelled a long journey and it not only creates a platform for knowledge exchange but also gives the students a chance to become leaders among different colleges and prepare them to be upstanding members the architecture fraternity. I’m pleased to inform you all that despite being challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, the association is still working at full pace, expeditiously pulling things online for the betterment of the student fraternity and the Association.

Coming to the main agenda of the 63rd year, the focus is on the Amendment of the NASA India Constitution and making sure everyone starts understanding it from its sole purpose of identifying new measures that can be taken for further improvement. For better outcome, the zonal council meetings were held via online platforms and discussed with the General Council in order to take their input and suggestions from their understanding of the association. Apart from that it started with many challenges, one of them being the Supreme Court Judgement on the practice of Architecture Profession. Considering this the right time to achieve the 2nd goal of the association, the #REDO campaign has been started to give the student community a better understanding of the Architect’s Act 1972.

I wish good luck and safety to everyone in the current situation and hope that even in these challenging times, we as an association can create more talented leaders for the nation. Thank You!

Ashwith Koyyala

National Secretary