Was going through the WIRC newsletter and stumbled across 5 - 6 photographs of felicitation of WIRC Chairman, ICAI President, VP etc by different branches...and this is a ritual that is enacted year after year! Hundreds of feliciation functions across the country....why?? Because we elect a New President and VP every year...so we need to showcase them across the country to our 1.5 lakh members!! Does even the PM get felicitated so much? Am sure a cross question will get thrown at me - Whats the harm in felicitating our ICAI office bearers? Simple Answer - No harm, except that the huge amount of money that gets spent on these functions, is out of Members and Students' fees!!! So obviously, the question that needs to be asked is - Why this criminal waste of money? I would think that the President/VP should chair a technical session or deliver their Presidential talk/address to members at the sidelines of a conference...why do we need a seperate/special function for the same?
Maybe the 4 Regions should hold one such felicitation function, if at all...and has anyone ever bothered to even count the attendance at these events??? I have yet to see over 200 members at any such function in WIRC. ( excluding the 22 WIRC members and former WIRC Chairmen and ICAI President ) ...How many general members are interested in these functions???
I have attended every felicitation function held by WIRC over the last 4 years in Mumbai, as our study circle - Pune West has been awarded the best study circle award each time. What bothers me is the sychophancy on display at these functions..our ICAI President is revered as ' God 's gift to mankind ' ....a person who can do no wrong...and many more such flattering adjectives. But hardly ever have i heard any WIRC office bearer/ Branch Chairman have the courage to take on the stablishment/ Central Council and expose its shortcoming. Why? Probably since the Central Grants for the multi crore building projects will dry up...
This is nothing but our version of ' Chamcha Giri ' that politicians do every day....fall at the feet of their leader and what not....... This has slowly but surely and firmly set in within our profession...
The Bottomline - We are increasingly becoming a political body and less of a technical institute! ( which is what the CA Act, 1949 expects of ICAI to be )..but who cares?
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I would suggest let all members attend these functions...they would then realize level of money wastage....all such functions are followed by five star dinner.
ReplyDeleteAgree Ambarish..i wonder whether the chef would be mentally and logistically ready for the thousands of members... :)
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