The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) will tie up with colleges in different parts of the country to have study centres and to offer its programmes to the students.
Atul H. Mehta, president of the institute, told presspersons here on Sunday that it plans to have 100 study centres this year. These will be mainly commerce institutes and by the time a student graduates, the student would have become a qualified company secretary too.
Mr. Mehta was in the city to inaugurate a students’ conference organised by the Coimbatore chapter of the institute.
Further, the institute is in the process of launching e-learning programmes. It has held discussions with some of the major IT companies in this regard. Students will be able to interact with the faculty, listen to video lectures, have access to resource material, online. It has also introduced open book examination for elective papers. T
here is a need for more company secretaries in the country. The institute has four lakh students and 40,000 members. There is a shortage of 2,000 to 3,000 company secretaries, he said.
With Secretarial Standards introduced in the Companies Act now, the number of litigations is expected to go down. “We are conducting various programmes to create awareness. We are also conducting training for the regulators,” he said.
The institute is in the process of launching e-learning programmes
