Attention Members
PROGRAMME CREDIT HOURS TO BE SECURED BY MEMBERS
The Perspective Planning Group
constituted by the Council had recommended compulsory attendance by members at
Professional Development Programmes as a means of ensuring constant updation of
knowledge and skills of members. The Council of the Institute, accordingly,
formulated Guidelines for Compulsory Attendance of Professional Development
Programmes by Members which hitherto required every member in practice of the
Institute, to secure 6 Program Credit Hours (PCH) in a year or 20 Program
Credit Hours in a block of 3 years by attendance of approved learning programs.
The Professional
Development Committee in its 88th meeting held on February 16, 2007
discussed in detail again the need for regular attendance of professional
development programmes by the members and decided to recommend to the Council
to increase the requirement of obtaining programme credit hours by Practicing
Company Secretaries to 12 programme credit hours in a year or 40 programme
credit hours in a block of three years.
The Council in its
172nd meeting held on March 16-17, 2007 considered the
recommendation of the Professional Development Committee and decided to
increase the requirement of obtaining programme credit hours by Practicing
Company Secretaries to 12 programme credit hours in a year or 40 programme
credit hours in a block of three years effective from 1st April,
2007.
The requirement
specified above does not apply to:
(i) A
member who has attained the age of 65 years.
(ii) A member to
whom the Professional Development Committee may in its absolute discretion
grant partial/full exemption on account of facts and circumstances of the case
which, in the opinion of the said Committee, prevents such member from compliance
with these guidelines.
The Updated Guidelines for Compulsory
Attendance of Professional Development Programmes by Members are available on
the website of the Institute www.icsi.edu.
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Procedure to view and
take print of the Certificate of Programme Credit Hours:
A software has
been designed and developed so that members can view and take print of the
Certificate of Programme Credit Hours. The software can be used as follows:
1. Members can register
themselves for this facility by visiting http://www.icsi.edu/webmodules/credithours/login.asp and providing their
membership number, date of birth and password.
2. After
Logging in the Members will be able to view and print their Certificate for
Programme Credit Hours. The Certificate contains the details of Programmes
attended by the Member since April 1, 2003."