I am pleased to inform that the stage is set for polling to take place on 3rd and 4th December, 2021 in select cities and on 4th December, 2021 in other cities in accordance with the Chartered Accountants (Election to the Council) Rules, 2006. I am sure, you must be excited to exercise your franchise to elect leadership of the Institute for not only to manage the affairs but to take the profession to newer heights.

I am writing now to request you to continue to follow COVID-19 protocol and especially maintaining adequate social distance norms in and around polling booth besides continuous wearing of face mask and sanitizing hands. We are making arrangement to place hand sanitizer bottles in the polling booth.

Kindly take a note that use of mobile phone and other communication devices are not permitted inside the polling booth including secret chamber. Any violation will be dealt with, according to the rules.

Please make sure that you use only Arabic numerals like 1, 2, 3 and so on while marking your preferences in the ballot paper. Any other manner of marking preference will render the ballot paper as invalid.