To advocate the need and scope of Secretarial Audit and to give a practical approach on conduct of secretarial audit under the specified and other laws amongst corporates and members, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) jointly with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry organised a National Seminar on Secretarial Audit in the Capital recently.
The seminar threw light on the regulatory, institute and industry perspective; giving comfort to board on compliance management; audit principles applicable to secretarial audit; reporting on fraud and ensuring compliance of SEBI regulations and other applicable laws including sector specific laws.
CS Atul H Mehta, President, ICSI said that this National seminar on Secretarial Audit has been organised to sensitise the members of ICSI through workshops, seminars, master classes, formal and informal discussions so that the members become well versed with the Secretarial Audit.
Mehta talked about the various laws in the country which needs to be complied by the companies for the secretarial audit whereas CS Vineet Chaudhary, council member, ICSI talked about the need to work together to built up the systems and processes around secretarial audit.
The national seminar on Secretarial Audit was addressed by experts of eminence including CS NPS Chawla, chairman, NIRC of the ICSI; CS Sutanu Sinha, chief executive and officiating secretary, ICSI; Pavan Kumar Vijay, former president, ICSI and chairman, SSB; SC Vasudeva, chartered accountant, SC Vasudeva and Co; Savithri Parekh, chief (legal and secretarial), Pidilite Industries ltd.; B. Murli, senior vice president, legal and company secretary, Nestle India ltd.; Ilam C. Kamboj, associate vice president, legal and company secretary, Hero Moto Corp ltd. and many others.