Taking a lead towards educating the general public about the recently passed Companies Bill 2013, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) launched a series of videos ‘Primer on Companies Act 2013’ on YouTube. On the occasion of its 45 th Foundation Day, ICSI President, S N Anathasubramanian launched the set of 16 videos along with a new course ‘Corporate Compliance Executive Certificate’.
Through these videos, ICSI aims to explain the basic fundamentals of the law in simple language. Explaining the objectives behind this initiative, S N Ananthasubramanian, President of ICSI said, “The institute is conscious of the need to reach the masses across the country, which is possible, if the education is free. For this purpose, it is leveraging technology through Mass Online Open Courses (MOOC) to provide free education on the company law.”
While talking about the series ICSI’s Secretary, MS Sahoo said, “We have produced 16 videos to inform the masses and all those who have an interest in company law.” The videos have been developed by the institute and are of 35 minutes duration. These videos would also be available of the ICSI website apart from the YouTube.
Apart from these, ICSI also started a new course ‘Corporate Compliance Executive Certificate’ to help produce skill oriented compliance professional. The course is meant for those students who for any reason are not able to complete their company secretaryship programme.
After completion of the certificate course, individual id required to undertake continuing professional education as the certificate is valid for a period of three years.
ICSI constituted under the Company Secretaries Act of 1980, is the only recognized professional body to develop and regulate the profession of Company Secretaries in the country. ICSI has on its rolls 27,313 members including 5,225 members holding certificate of the practice. Currently, the institue has nearly 4 lakh students enrolled. ICSI has its headquarters at New Delhi and four regional offices at Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai along with New Delhi.