1. Name
‘COLLECTIVE’, written in English, and ‘कलेक्टिव’, in Hindi.
2. Flag
Red flag with length and breadth in 3:2 proportion, with ‘COLLECTIVE’ written horizontally in the center, with hammer and sickle.
3. Membership
Any student or youth above 14 years can be a member of COLLECTIVE, if the person accepts and implements the Program and Constitution of COLLECTIVE towards contributing to the left revolutionary student-youth movement of India. In exceptional cases, the age bar can be relaxed. The members will have to contribute Re. 2 for annual renewal of membership.
4. Rights and Duties of Members
a. Members will abide by the Program and Constitution of the organization and implement the decisions taken by the Units/Committees. Members will actively uphold the revolutionary legacy of the student youth movement of our country and internationally.
b. Members will attend meetings, participate actively and creatively to further the cause of the movement and organization. Members will campaign, contribute and raise funds in support of the movement. Members will attend the sensitization workshops organized by the organization.
c. Members have the right to elect and get elected. Members have the right to resign with stated reasons.
d. Members have the right to express their opinion in political and organizational matters to their same committee and all higher committees in a written and organized manner, even if that differs with the decisions taken in the committee meetings and conferences.Under exceptional political circumstances, an opinion, which is not in contravention with the Program of the organization, but is different from the decisions of the Unit/State Committee, can be allowed to be practiced, under the supervision of the State Committee.
e. Members can exchange within themselves and express their views publicly in political matters, which are not contradictory to the aims and objectives of the organization or the revolutionary movement. The state committee can intervene in such matters if it feels that the discussion is disrupting the integrity of the organization.
5. Organizational Structure and Conference
5.1. Conference
a. Conference will be the highest body of organization for taking political and organizational decisions. In between the conferences, the State Committee will act as the leading body for taking political and organizational decisions, followed by the Unit and Committee of the areas and institutions. In between two meetings for a committee, the executives will be taking decisions and will report in the next committee meetings.
b. The Conference will be happening once in two years. With the declaration of the Conference, the State Committee will start renewing the whole membership. After the renewal and new membership, the State Committee will settle the proportion of delegates for the State Conference with respect to total membership, the dates and venue of the conferences and other draft documents and draft proposals for the conference. In the interim years, the whole membership will be renewed under the supervision of the State Committee and any Committee can organize its organizational conference, for settling organizational matters and discussing political matters in the interim years.
c. Quorum for any unit conference will be half of the total and in case quorum is not fulfilled twice the number of persons present will be considered as valid membership for representation into higher conferences.
d. The Agenda of the Conference, its Steering Committee, Presidium will be proposed by the state committee and finalized by the conference itself. In case of difference of opinion, majority opinion will prevail, after sufficient deliberations. The agenda of the Conference should include:
i. Report and review of the activities from last Conference
ii. Planning for the coming time
iii. Accounting of fund
iv. Electing the State Committee, the State Executives, Reporting Person(s) for cases against discrimination and sexual harassment and any other teams such as publication team, cultural team and so on.
5.2. Committees and Executives
a. Between two conferences, the State Committee will be responsible for monitoring of overall organizational activities according to the guidelines settled by the conference and will take intermediate political and organizational decisions. Any Committee including the State Committee can include other members in the body as invited member, if it feels the need for doing so. The State Committee will have to meet at least once in two months. The State Committee can form activity based teams for better organizational functioning.
b. The conference will elect President, Vice-President (optional), General Secretary, Joint Secretaries (optional) and Treasurer. President will be chairing the meetings of the State Committee and will take decisions in consultation with Vice-President and General Secretary in between two meetings of the State Committee. In case of absence of President, Vice-President and in the absence of either, General Secretary will be responsible for these roles.
c. The area/institution based Units can form a Unit Committee taking all or a portion of its members, according to the size of the Unit. The Unit Conference will elect its President, Secretary and Treasurer for proper functioning of the unit including convening meetings and taking intermediate decisions. Between two Conferences, the State Committee can nominate members of the Unit Committee, as per the development of organizational activities.
d. Except in case of emergency meetings, information of the meeting needs to reach all members. 24 hours before any meeting. The quorum for all units and bodies will be one third of the total constituent members of that body. In absence of the quorum, the meeting will be postponed. If the quorum is not getting fulfilled even in the second attempt, the committee has a right to take a decision even though the quorum is not completed.
6. Prevention of and Action against Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
The State Committee and other Unit Committees will be responsible for undertaking sensitization workshop for members of the organization, at least once a year. The State Committee will ensure constitution of a body, with women members as majority, as and when any complaint against sexual harassment is brought to notice. Any grievance can be brought to the notice of the State Committee or a reporting person, nominated by the conference. It is the duty of every member to ensure any grievance should not be loosely discussed among members or other people but immediately brought to the notice of State Committee or the Reporting Person for due process to follow.
7. Disciplinary Action
Disciplinary action can be taken against any member, Unit or Committee for acting against the Program, Constitution and interest of the organization. In any such case, the offense needs to be clearly stated to the concerned person and they have to be given the chance to explain their point-of-view. Disciplinary action can be only taken by the decision of the State Committee, which can include criticism, warning, removal from elected post, suspension or expulsion depending upon the case. A member facing disciplinary action has the right to appeal. Such appeal has to be submitted in written manner to the State Committee and in such cases, the State Committee has to review and respond back in a time-bound manner.
Given the present state of organization and membership, the Delhi State Committee is being given the responsibility for giving membership, forming committees and monitoring organizational activities in other parts of the country and for maintaining national level coordination and fraternal relations. The next conference will review this and consider necessary changes.
8. Change of Constitution
The Program and Constitution of the organization can only be changed in the Conference with 2/3rd majority in favour of the proposed change.