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Friday, 2 October 2015

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM IITMAA’S PRESIDING ELECTION OFFICER REGARDING DECADE WISE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ELECTIONS 2015



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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