We, the pediatric surgeons of India, do hereby unite to form an association titled " Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons " with a view to propound, to practice, to promote, to project and to propagate the specialty of Pediatric surgery, to render high quality Pediatric surgical care, to foster fraternity and familial feelings amongst the members, to pursue professional practice with ethics and empathy and to stay away from a milieu muddled with mundane materialism.