"Dr. Dilip V. Satbhai is the senior partner of Messrs D. V. Satbhai & Co. Chartered Accountants having registered office located at Karve Road, Pune. The senior partner of the firm was the Chairman,Vice-chairman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Pune Branch of the Western India Regional Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for various years. He was also a co-opted member on various committees of Central and Western India Regional Council of The institute of chartered accountants of India New Delhi in the past for several years, New Delhi and Mumbai. In the year before last year he was selected as the faculty member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India to deliver lectures on GST on all India basis under FIP and was appointed as the Convener of the Pune GST study group, a local think tank for studying the GST law and help the needy tax payers. WIRC has nominated him as a member of a subgroup of indirect tax committee of the Western India Regional council in the same year. He was the member of Internal Audit standards Board of the institute of chartered accountants of India, New Delhi. He was also appointed as member of a study group for Government accounting and financial planning for local bodies in India. He was the member of finance committee of the Maratha Chamber of commerce and industries. He has written several articles on matters of interest on Direct and indirect Tax Laws, Economics, Commerce and Investments consultancy and Labour laws."
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