Option of choosing Polling booth near to your Office or Work Place in ICAI Election 2015

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 pin­code num­bers. In oth­er words, the pin­code 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 pin­codes 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 pin­codes pro­posed to be attached with such polling booths would be announced shortly.