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CONSTITUTION OF MUSIC COMPOSERS’ ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
As on 16-04-2019
4 - OBJECTS

(a) To organise and unite the Music Directors in the Indian Music Industry for their mutual
protection and advancement to regulate their relations with people who avail of the
services of the Associations' members and with each other and to further and regulate the
interests of members in all ways. .

(b) To regulate and decide all questions of professional etiquette by establishing and
enforcing terms and conditions of work.

(c) To secure to the members fair conditions of life and services so as to encourage and where
possible to initiate whatever may tend towards improvement of the status, training and
qualifications of all classes of members of the Association.
(d) To try to redress their grievances.

(e) To try to prevent any reduction in their remunerations, and if possible to obtain an
advance whenever circumstances allow.
(f) To endeavour to settle disputes so as to promote industrial peace and efficiency by all
amicable means such as conciliation, arbitration, or the establishment of a permanent
tribunal.

(g) To devise a scheme or system of providence against the exigencies of old age, sickness,
infirmity death, unemployment or misfortune.

(h) To provide legal assistance to members in respect of matters arising out of or incidental
to their profession and to provide legal assistance in defence of the members rights where
deemed necessary by the General Body or the Executive Committee.
(i) To institute or defend any legal proceedings to which the Association or any member
thereof is a party or when such prosecution or defence is undertaken for the purposes of
fighting, securing, enhancing, ensuring, procuring, establishing, enforcing or protecting
the rights pertaining to the members of the Association.

(j) To publish a magazine, journal, or the like in the interests of the Association.

(k) To co-operate with organisations particularly those having similar objects in India and
Overseas and to consider reciprocal agreements with organisations in other parts of the
world.

(l) To render all possible assistance in the task of raising the level of cultural forms and more
specifically in raising the level of music in the Indian Music Industry.
(m) With the object of assisting the advancement of the general culture of the community, to
take whatever steps deemed to be necessary to improve the knowledge and appreciation
of music, copyright etc by the people of India by:

(1) Organising library of music
(2) Organising public performance/concert/events of music
(3) Organising seminars and inviting national and international musicians for
exchange of views and techniques
(4) Taking up all other activities which from time to time might be necessary to
further the interests and progress of the Association

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