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The SS-1, Secretarial Standard on meetings of the board of directors being effective from 01st July, 2015, were voluntarily adopted by big corporate as a good secretarial practices. But now SS-1 after coming into force made a big challenge for the private companies and unlisted public companies in the practice of preparation of notice of the board/committee meetings and its minutes thereon, along with attendance register and other records.
India has laws for everything. Without laws Indians follow nothing. The Children’s School Bags Act, 2006 prescribes school bags should not weigh more than 10% of the body weight of the child. Similarly, it may be proposed, that laws should not create more problems than they aim to solve.
Of late, the Information Technology made it practicable to have all kinds of meetings through Video Conferencing. Meetings through Video conferencing has telescoped the world and has made it look smaller than ever before. Now throughout the world, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is approachable just at a click of the mouse.
Secretarial standard on general meeting issued by the Institute of company secretaries of India and approved by central government. The aim of secretarial standard is to promote good corporate governance. The standards are basically compilation of good secretarial practices with a view to ensure proper corporate governance.
ICSI has issued on the basis of Queries received by it Responses to Queries received on Secretarial Standards on Board Meetings (SS-1) and on Secretarial Standards on General Meetings (SS-2) Link to Download Frequently Asked Questions and Answers Directly from ICSI Website on is as follows :- Responses to Queries received on Secretarial Standards on […]
A. FREQUENCY OF GENERAL MEETING: Every Company in each Calendar Year, hold a General Meeting called the Annual General Meeting. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: The Board shall every year convene meeting of members called Annual General Meeting. Annual General Meeting specifically called to transact Special Business.
BACKGROUND: The drafting and maintenance of minutes of meetings has traditionally and for long been core functions of the Company Secretary. Justifiably so, for, the Company Secretary doesn’t merely writes minutes, he writes history- the history of the company, the history of the corporate sector and in a vicarious manner, of the economy and the […]
Secretarial Standard on Notice of General Meeting seeks to prescribe a set of principles for the convening and conduction of General Meeting and matters relating thereto.This Standard also deals with conduct of e-voting and postal ballot. IMPORTANT: If any time there is any amendment come into Companies Act, 2013 and such changes or any provisions […]
CS Raghav Bansal SECRETARIAL STANDARD-1 Today companies are not isolated entity they have crossed the borders have internationally recognized so there is a clear need to bring uniformity in secretarial standards and thus introduction of Secretarial Standard-1 has timely and appropriate. Secretarial Standard also intends to reduce the ambiguity in law and to adopt best […]
These Secretarial Standards (SS-1 and SS-2) shall apply to Board Meetings and General Meetings, in respect of which Notices are issued on or after 1st July, 2015.
