Hyderabad: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has resigned from the governing board of Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI), a non-profit organisation floated by tainted Satyam Computers.
Along with Kalam, several high-profile members of the governing board too resigned following the recent developments in Satyam, the EMRI said in a statement on Monday.
The other members who have resigned include KV Kamath, former CEO of ICICI Bank, Tarun Das chief mentor of CII, Krishna Palepu of Harvard Business School, B Ramaraju former MD and CEO of Satyam and former president of Nasscom Kiran Karnik, the statement said.
The resignations of these persons will be submitted for acceptance at the next meeting of governing board which will be held in the next 10 days, it said.
Former Satyam chairman B Ramalinga Raju, who was the chairman and member of the governing board of the EMRI, too quit the post, the statement said.
EMRI was formed in 2005 as a non-profit organisation to provide free emergency response services in PPP (public-private partnership) framework.
EMRI is currently operational in eight states including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttrakhand, Goa.
The statement said the physical infrastructure acquired and created from the funds or grants of the government are the property of the government.
It also said that the software solutions received from EMRI's technology partner (Satyma Computers) have been installed in all the states free of cost.
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