Rules & Procedures – AMIMUN – NITI AAYOG

1. The session will begin with Roll call wherein you have to mark your
presence. Remember, there is no concept of PRESENT AND VOTING in
this forum.
2. Post the roll call, the committee will enter into the round of Opening
Statements. The default time for opening statements shall be 60 seconds.
Opening statements are speeches which are used to clarify your stance on
the agenda at hand.
3. Opening statements are recommended to be given by everyone,
though not obligatory. Opening statements will be done at once, unlike
the GSL which never exhausts.
4. Remember that this is Niti Aayog and not a political meet so you all
have to ensure that you follow the working of the think tank of the
government and focus more on policy formations and collaborative
working.
5. Post the opening statements, we shall be entering into Sessions
6. One kind of session will be a Discussion session under which you will
be establishing a sub-agenda and deliver speeches in respect of the same.
7. A speech in a discussion session will be for a maximum of 60 seconds.
8. After each speech in a discussion session, we will be recognizing one
person for asking Point of Information (PoI). PoI is a question based on the
speech made by the other person.
9. Another kind of session will be called a lobbying session which can be
taken to decide the future course of debate.
10. The executive board will recognize you to speak in discussion session
while no role will be played by executive board in a lobbying session
11. For a discussion session, it is recommended to decide the sub-
agendas before-hand so that we do not waste time in forming a consensus
via lobbying session and voting.
12. If we have time left, we will be moving for a document which shall be
made clear there and then.

How will you be recognized?

In order to get recognized, you can click on ‘Participants’ tab in the menu
and there is an option of ‘Raise hand’, you can even click that, but
remember to lower it down once you are recognized.

Points

All four points will be considered in the forum:

Personal Privilege – A point of personal privilege is usually raised if

someone has any physical discomfort during the proceedings of the
committee. But this being a virtual conference, the point shall be used to get
repetition of a part of a statement which was not audible/clear due to
network issues - to be raised via writing in the ‘chat’ option in the menu or
verbally.

Enquiry – A Representative may rise to a Point of Enquiry requesting an

explanation from the Executive Board on the Rules of Procedure or the
committee proceedings. This point may not interrupt a Speaker – to be
raised via writing in the ‘chat’ option in the menu or verbally.

Order – The PoO shall be raised on the factual inaccuracy in the speech of
any member – to be raised via WhatsaApp/Telegram chat on Moderator’s
personal chat in the format:

P.O.O.
on :- (Portfolio of the member who committed the error)
From: Your portfolio
Quote : "what was the factual error quoted by the member"
Fact: “correct fact”

***POINT OF ORDER TO BE SENT WITHIN 2 MINUTES OF THE SPEECH

MADE***

*if the above given format is not followed the PoO shall not be
recognised and marked
Information – This is a point on which a question in context of the speech
may be asked. A member can ask questions on the speech verbally as well
as through chit.

An equal recognition would be ensured from the side of the executive board.

You have to send the question in the form of a POI Chit in the
WhatsApp/Telegram group.

One Member can only send 15 POI chits in the whole conference.

The member to whom the question has been asked can send the reply of the
POI in the group and the reply to a PoI chit will be marked on average basis.

Format for the chits :

P.O.I. # (# contains the serial number of the chit)

Via eb @ (this is the tag option of WhatsApp)
To: (portfolio of the member)
From : (your portfolio)

REPLY # (#contains the serial number of the chit)

Via eb @ (this is the tag option of WhatsApp)
To: (portfolio of the member)
From : (your portfolio)

*if the above given format is not followed the PoI/REPLY shall
not be recognised and marked
  Equal recognition will be ensured
 Substantive intervention on the discretion of the participating
members
 Try not speaking out your name/point when you are being recognized,
just raise your hand so as to avoid chaos

Format for the Recommendation paper

Recommendation Paper
Date :-
Agenda :-
Committee :-
Portfolio :-
Content (In pointers)

Format for Policy Paper

Policy paper

Committee:

Date:

Agenda:

Parties/Members involved:

Sub Agenda 1:

Sub Agenda 2:

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**If a recommendation paper is being made, it should be named as
Portfolio_Recommendation Paper. E.g. Narendra Modi_Recommendation
Paper

** If a press release is being made, it should be named as Policy Paper –

Block. Eg Policy Paper-Chief Ministers

** The documentation has to be submitted via mail at

mayank.msd97@gmail.com

For any further queries, feel free to ping.

Mayank Singhal

+919716143676