Dear
Alumni,
Greetings
from IITMAA.
We
are pleased to announce that Elections are to be held to elect new Decade-wise
Committee Members for the next term (2015 to 2017) of the Executive Committee
of IITMAA.
I,
Prof. P. Sriram (1982-BTAE), have been appointed the Electoral Officer of the
current 2015 Decade-wise Committee Members Elections to IITMAA and am currently
with the Aerospace Engineering Department at IIT Madras. I shall therefore
ensure that a fair opportunity is provided to all alumni of IIT Madras to
participate in the Decade-wise Committee Members Elections of 2015. The
detailed schedule of the same is given below.
Alumni
desirous of serving the Association as Decade-wise Committee Members can by logging
into our website after 5th October 2015, officially express their intent as
well as the decade for which they would like to be nominated using the online
facility provided therein to do so.
Please
note that as per an amendment to the Bye-laws made during the AGM of 2011, only
alumni who have completed five years of membership with the Association can now
contest the Elections.
Also
note that "All positions are global and alumni from any part of the globe
can contest these Decade-wise positions”
Please
find below the positions for which elections are being called for as well as
the detailed procedure and deadlines for each of the stages of the election
process:
DECADE
WISE EC MEMBERS ELECTION - 2015
Elections
of Decade-wise Committee Members for the following five decades, namely:
1.
1st Decade: 1964 - 1973 Batches
2.
2nd Decade: 1974 - 1983 Batches
3.
3rd Decade: 1984 - 1993 Batches
4.
4th Decade: 1994 - 2003 Batches
5.
5th Decade: 2004 - 2013 Batches
The
election will be by electronic web based voting called e-Polling; details of
which will be made available on our website.
DETAILED
ELECTION PROCEDURES & SCHEDULE:
1.
Alumni must be registered in the database of the Alumni Association on its
website at (http://www.iitmaa.org) to participate in the election process.
2.
Election webpage can be accessed through a link on the homepage at
www.iitmaa.org “Decade-wise Committee Members Elections”.
3.
Alumni desirous of contesting the election for their respective decade can now
express their interest in the same from10.00 hrs [IST] on the 5th of October
2015 until 18.00 hrs [IST] on 15th October, 2015.
4.
Alumni desirous of Proposing / Seconding the contestants for the different
posts should do so online, again available on the election web page, from 18.01
hrs on 15th October, to 18.00 hrs [IST]
on 23rd October, 2015. If there are no contestants, the link to Propose
/ Second will inform you that there is no contestant to Propose / Second. An
alumnus cannot propose and second the same contestant.
5.
The e-Poll will be conducted by Election Officer Prof. P.Sriram (1982-BTAE). He
will receive the Expression-of-Interest /Candidate. Registration /Nominations
from the election web page as and when they occur. The last date automatically
would be up to 18.00 hrs [IST] on 23rd October, 2015.
6.
Contestants can withdraw their candidatures from 18.01 hrs on 23rd October to
18.00 hrs [IST] on 26th October, 2015.
7.
The Election Officer will announce the final list of eligible contestants after
the lapse of withdrawal time for contestants at the election web page at 18.01
hrs [IST] on 26th October, 2015.
8.
Casting of votes through e-Polling by the global alumni community will commence
from 18.02 hrs [IST] on 26th October, 2015 and go on until 17.00 hrs [IST] on
7th November, 2015.
9.
The results of election will be announced by the election officer on 18.00 hrs
on 7th November, 2015. [IST] at an EGM to be convened for this purpose and
subsequently on the website as well as the various yahoo groups and other
social media forums.
10.
If any of you face problems in the above election procedure kindly contact:
generalmanager@iitmaa.org for administrative issues and techsupport@iitmaa.org
for technical issues
Happy
Polling.
Prof.
P.Sriram(1982-BTAE),
Election
Officer
sriram@iitm.ac.in
Place:
Chennai
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