The next elections to the Council and the Regional Councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India are scheduled to be held on 4 th and 5 th December, 2015 in cities having more than 2500 members and on 5 th December, 2015 at all other places in terms of the provisions of Rule 21 of the Chartered Accountants (Election to the Council) Rules, 2006 specified by the Central Government.

According to the provisions of clause (3) of Schedule 2 to Rule 6 of the aforesaid Rules, a notice is required to be published giving the voters in cities, having more than one polling booth located at different addresses, an opportunity to exercise their option to vote at a particular polling booth within that city.

In compliance with the same, this Notice is being published for information of such voters. It may be clarified for general information of members that the list of voters as on 1st April, 2015 is drawn, on the basis of professional addresses given by the members, and such address is taken into consideration for the purpose of allotment of voters to different polling booths in a city.

It has been our endeavour to allot the polling booth near to the professional addresses as given by the voters. It is possible that a voter might prefer to exercise his franchise at a polling booth within the same city but located near his residence/office which is not as per the Institute’s record his professional address.

This announcement helps such voters to indicate their option for a polling booth located at a place which is not near to their professional address.

For instance, based on the professional address of a voter, he would be, in the normal course, allotted a polling booth situated at `A’ place. Suppose, he prefers to exercise his franchise at `B’ place which is near his residence or office (but not his professional address), as the case may be, he is required to indicate his option for the polling booth at `B’ place in response to this announcement. Otherwise, he would be required to vote at the polling booth situated at `A’ place only.

It may be noted that the option is restricted to one of the polling booths located in the same city only. For the forthcoming elections to the Council and Regional Councils, it is proposed to set up more than one polling booth at different locations in Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi/New Delhi. The locations of the proposed polling booths in these cities are published below.

It is notified for the general information of members that any member in such a place, wishing to vote at a particular polling booth, may send his written request to the Secretary, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, ICAI Bhawan, Post Box No. 7100, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi – 110 002, so as to reach him latest by 17 th August, 2015.

Request received after 17 th August, 2015, will not be entertained. It may be mentioned that as far as Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi/New Delhi cities are concerned, the general allocation of polling booth to voters would be done on the basis 2 of pin-code numbers. In other words, the pin-code number corresponding to the professional address given by a member would be the basis for allocation of particular booth.

The details of proposed locations and pin-codes proposed to be attached with each location at Mumbai and Delhi/New Delhi are given in Appendices I for reference and general information of members. In respect of Bangalore city, the details of pin-codes proposed to be attached with such polling booths would be announced shortly. The proposed locactions in respect of Bangalore and Kolkata cities are as under:-