Membership and Community Support:

In addition with its long term fundraising strategies, Namaste Radio is also initiating other measures like memberships (family and individual) and other special events. Namaste Radio has realized that participation of the community is vital to its growth. To incorporate participation and reap its benefits; Namaste Radio is in the process of being registered as a charity organization. Greater community support and a general membership process help leverage internal and external funds. It also helps to improve the quality of programs.

Thus Namaste Radio is seeking the support of Nepalese families and individuals to join as members and contribute CAD 20.00 a year for general membership. The idea behind this is that every family or person who becomes a member will take initiative in caring for Namaste Radio. It is also seeking financial support from Nepalese community organizations in North America. Namaste Radio acknowledges the fact that Nepalese organizations in North America are interdependent and need to support each other on issues of importance to realize full potential in our society and grow in the North American economy at large. We are hopeful it will generate a dialogue between Namaste Radio and the Nepalese community and help ensure trust, make it easy to conduct elections in 2007, improve the quality of its program, develop reliable financial inflow and improve long term sustainability.

Member Advantages:

• Vote and elect board members in general election and become a board member
• Participate in opinion surveys to depict listeners choice
• Participate in 2007 summer elections after which the board will be a elected one
• Receive discounts from sponsor businesses
• Certificate of membership and avail reference for various purposes
• Individual and Family birthday announcement on our Saturday broadcast (let us know by Thursday)

Article 3 of NNCA’s By-Laws – Membership

3 – 1. Qualification
Any person subscribing to the purpose of NNCA or Namaste Radio and paying the membership fees fixed up by the Board of Directors shall be deemed a Member in good standing of NNCA, subject to the provisions of this Article 3. There shall be the following classes of membership: general, honorary and life, as defined in Rules and Regulations. Membership shall be non-transferable.

3 – 2. Renewal
General membership is on annually renewal basis. It can simply be done paying applicable fee to the organization before the date of expiry. Failing to do so, results in natural termination of membership.

3 – 3. Revocation
The Board of Directors, by two-thirds of majority at a meeting duly called at which a quorum is present, may revoke the membership of any Member not felt to working in the interest of the organization.

Membership shall lapse upon non-payment of renewal fees in time.

3 – 4. Duties
It shall be the duty of every Member to:

General Members 2007:

1. Mr. Anil Thapa, Mississauga
2. Mr. Kedar Basnet, Malton
3. Mr. Durga Adhikari, Toronto
4. Mr. Roshan Basnet, Pickering
5. Mr. Tikaram Niure, Toronto
6. Mrs. Jyotsana Thapa Rana, Mississauga
7. Mr. Anand Shrestha, Toronto
8. Mr. Bhuwan Parajuli, Toronto
9. Mr. Tulsi Upadhaya, Toronto
10. Mr. Ram Prasad Kandel, East York
11. Mr. Surya Bhattarai, Malton
12. Mr. Ishwori Dhakal, Malton
13. Mr. Uttam K.C, Malton
14. Ms. Radha Basnyet, Ottawa
15. Ms. Kamala Ghimire (Regmi), Brampton
16. Mr. Jiban Sahani, Toronto
17. Dr. Bishnu Poudel, Brampton
18. Mr. Rajen Shrestha, Markham
19. Ms. Shrijana Dhungel, Brampton
20. Ms. Ichha Laxmi Shrestha, Malton
21. Mr. Ram Raja Aryal, Mississauga

General Members 2006:

1. Mr. Rajeev Thapa, USA
2. Mr. Daksha Paudel, Toronto
3. Dr. Bishnu Paudel, Brampton
4. Mr. Jalak Paudel, Brampton
5. Mr. Nar Bahadur Tandon, Brampton
6. Dr. Lila Bhandari, Mississauga
7. Mr. Rajan Shrestha, Markham
8. Mr. Surya Bhattarai, Malton
9. Dr. Ram Marahatta, Brampton
10. Mr. Bharat Paudel, Mississauga
11. Mr. Gopal Bhandari, Toronto
12. Mr. Dil Bahadur Pantha, Mississauga
13. Mr. Lekhnath Sapkota, Mississauga
14. Mr. Bhuwan Parajuli, Toronto
15. Mr. Subash B.K, Brampton
16. Mr. Sudhir (Sasa) Pandey, Toronto
17. Mr. Dorje. Toronto
18. Mrs. Jamuna Gurung, Toronto
19. Mr. Rajkumar Puri, Toronto
20. Mr. Pradeep Lal Shrestha, Brampton
21. Mr. Roshan Basnet, Pickering
22. Mr. Dipesh Limbu, Toronto
23. Mr. Shashi Rana Chhetri, Toronto
24. Mr. Suraj Bharati, Toronto
25. Mr. Hari Tamang, Brampton
26. Mr. Ram Prasad Kandel, Toronto
27. Mr. Rodesh Shakya, Toronto
28. Mr. Ganesh Bhandari, Mississauga
29. Mr. Kedar Basnet, Malton
30. Mr. Ananda Shrestha, Toronto
31. Mr. Aknarayan Aryal, Mississauga
32. Mr. Taranath Rijal, Mississauga
33. Mr. Phanindra Acharya, Mississauga
34. Mr. Lekhnath Shivakoti, Toronto
35. Ms. Anjali Moktan, Toronto
36. Mrs. Reena Upadhyay, Toronto
37. Mrs. Anita Sharma, Toronto
38. Mr. Man Badhur Bhandari, Toronto
39. Mrs. Ganga Adhikari, Toronto
40. Mr. Giri Raj Adhikari, Toronto
41. Mrs. Rashmi Paudel, Toronto
42. Mr. Anil Ranjitkar, Toronto
43. Mrs. Sama Upadhyay, Toronto
44. Mr. Anup Neupane, Toronto
45. Mr. Rikesh Shrestha, Toronto
46. Mrs. Anita Rizal, Toronto
47. Mr. Uttam Makaju, Toronto
48. Mr. Komal Sapkota, Scarborough
49. Mr. Bishojeet Basnet, Scarborough
50. Mr. Shirendra Raj Giri, Toronto
51. Mr. Raju Thapa, Toronto
52. Mr. D. B. Thapa, Toronto
53. Mr. Shanta Thapa, Mississauga
54. Mr. Surya Bahadur Panta Chhetri, Mississauga
55. Mr. Roshan Moktan, Mississauga
56. Mr. Durga Adhikari, Toronto
57. Mr. Tulsi Upadhaya, Toronto
58. Mr. Pramod K.C, Toronto
59. Mrs. Sujan Adhikari, Toronto
60. Mr. Deepak Bajracharya, Toronto
61. Mr. Kishor Rajbhandari, Toronto
62. Mr. Parjapati Sharma, Mississauga
63. Mr. Bhupindara Bhandari, Toronto
64. Mr. Ram Parajuli, Scarborough
65. Mr. Asutosh Upadhaya, Toronto
66. Mr. Anil Thapa, Mississauga
67. Mr. Purna Paudel, Markham
68. Mr. Ram Prasad Paudel, Toronto
69. Mr. Sanjiv Rizal, Toronto
70. Mr. Jimmy Ghimery, Mississauga
71. Mr. Sabin Ninglekhu, Toronto
72. Mr. Bishnu Aryal, Toronto
73. Mr. Ramesh Paudel, Scarborough
74. Mr. Chandra Bahadur Khadka Chhetri, Markham
75. Mrs. Jyotsana Thapa Rana, Mississauga
76. Mr. Suman Rajkarnikar, Scarborough
77. Mr. Ishwar R. Chand, Toronto
78. Mr. Iftekhar Rana, Toronto
79. Mr. Yam Khatri, Toronto
80. Mr. Biru Basnet, Toronto
81. Mr. Shyam Bahadur Dhungana, Brampton
82. Mr. Santa Rajbhandari, Brampton
83. Mr. Dhundi Raj Pandey, Brampton
84. Mr. Badri Prasad Bhattarai, Brampton
85. Mr. Suman Maharjan, Mississauga
86. Mrs. Ganga Adhikari, Mississauga
87. Mr. Krishna Timilsina, Mississauga
88. Mrs. Sushma Thapaliya, Mississauga
89. Mrs. Banuja Acharya, Mississauga
90. Mrs. Tika Prasai, Mississauga
91. Mr. Dipendra Paudel, Mississauga
92. Mr. Bikal Tiwari. Mississauga
93. Mr. Prakash Adhikari, Brampton
94. Mr. Madhu Bilash Devkota, Brampton
95. Mr. Mohan Aryal, Brampton
96. Mr. Sagar Pokharel, Brampton
97. Mr. Shambhu Dhamala, Toronto
98. Mrs. Mandabi Ojha, Toronto
99. Mr. Shankar Nath Adhikaree,Toronto
100. Mr. Madan KC, Toronto
101. Dr. Tulsi Dharel, Toronto
102. Mr. Pradeep Bista, Toronto
103. Mr. Kapil Dhungana, Mississauga
104. Mr. Dibesh Regmi, Toronto
105. Ms. Radha Basynat, Ottawa
106. Mr. Manoj Pokharel, Brampton
107. Mrs. Rama Pokharel, Brampton
108. Mr. Manish Pokharel, Brampton
109. Mrs. Sarah Pokharel, Brampton
110. Mr. Ashish Pokharel, Brampton
111. Ms. Shrijana Dhungel, Brampton