The Institute’s attention has been drawn today to an SMS purportedly sent from a code source viz. `TM-ICAI ELC’ which tends to give an impression that the same has linkage to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and its election in an abbreviated form. It has also been brought to our notice that the concerned message has reportedly been sent to all the members of a particular region.
During the last few days, the number of requests to intervene and bring halt to the issuance of SMSs and emails to voters at large has been on the increase. The general complaint of the voters is that the receipt of enormous mails and SMSs – many a time repeated mails from the same persons causes disturbances to their professional as well as personal life.
