Historical Preview

After the separation of chhattisgarh from M.P. state in the month of Nov. 2000, National IMA H.Q. New Delhi appointed Dr. Surya Prakash Saxena Durg, who was then the Vice President of IMA M.P. State Branch, as conveyor, & entrusted him to from new state branch in newly establishing state Chhattisgarh. He had given responsibilities to workout & make all infrastructure required fro the new state branch like formation of adhoc state working committee & its working till the elected body come in force, constitution & By Laws, & date of application, legal financial separation from the old parental state M.P., transfer of membership along with the deposit, conduction of election & installation of elected body of IMACGSTBR. He was instructed to organize meeting of all President & Secretaries of (21) branches situated in Chhattisgarh. Empowered upon by IMA NHQ New Delhi Dr Saxena called meeting of all Presidents & Secretaries on 17th Dec 2000 at Hotel Giriraj Jail Road Raipur (Hosted by the IMA Raipur). Dr. R.K. Kathariya Jt. Secretary (F) IMA National HQ New Delhi was present as observer & for guidance to meet out any difficulties. Election were conducted in most democratic way & thus the adhoc working committee came into existence on the same day headed by Dr. J. L. Arya as State President Dr. S.P. Saxena as Hony. State Secretary & Dr. Anoop Verma as state treasurer, Zonal Chairman from old two zones, all past State Presidents from Chhattisgarh with one representative from each IMA branch located in state.  And thus the IMA Chhattisgarh State Branch came under IMA Map in country on 17th Dec. 2000 as new state body. Adhoc State working body started functioning well & made different committees, viz Memorandum, Rules & By Laws committee, Legal action committee, IMA News Letter committee, State award committee, to workout in state.

*Legal Separation from parental State IMAMPSTBR
Inter state joint meeting was organized Jabalpur & at Ujjain where legal separation was done. Dr. S.P. Saxena was present to receive the list of membership transferred to Chhattisgarh IMA, all accounts & other Financial obligation towards IMAMPSTBR at Ujjain meeting & received money in drafts which was fix deposited.

*IMA State Head Quarter
As per the constitution IMA State HQ, rotating every two years for six years. IMA ST HQ first was at Durg from 2000-04 & the Hon. State Secretary was Dr. S.P. Saxena followed by at Bilaspur from 2004-06 Hon. Secretary Dr. B.R. Nanda. From 2006-08 State HQ will be at Raipur & will be look after by Dr. Narendra Agrawal Raipur.

*Memorandum, Rules & Bye Laws
Memorandum, Rules & Bye Laws of IMA Chhattisgarh State Branch came into existence from 2nd April 2002. It was performed by the committee headed by Dr. J.L. Arya appointed by the convenor Dr. S.P. Saxena. All the activities of IMACGSTBR comes under the control of this laws. Official release was done at IMA NHQ New Delhi on 8th Sep; 2002 by then National President of IMA Dr. Arul Rhaj, & Hony Secretary General Dr. Sanjiv Malik, Dr. J.L. Arya President IMACGSTBR & Dr. S.P. Saxena Hony State Secretary Were present.