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NEW DELHI, JUL 4:  The profession of company secretaries is in for an image makeover with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) planning a series of measures, including renaming the intermediate and final papers as ‘executive’ and ‘professional’ programs, prefixing the word ‘CS’ before a professional’s name and even searching for a new name for itself.“For many years, ICSI has been receiving suggestions from members for changing the name of the Institute. The matter had also been taken up with the government on several occasions. Our council has now formally taken a decision to look into this and we have come out with a list of proposed names that can replace the existing one,” ICSI president Preeti Malhotra told FE.

At its meeting last month, the ICSI council had sought views and suggestions of members to a list of options that include either maintaining its current nomenclature or adopting a new one from among ‘Institute of Chartered Secretaries of India’, ‘Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Advisors of India’, ‘Institute of Corporate Secretaries of India’, ‘Institute of Corporate Secretaries and Advisors of India’ and ‘Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of India’. “It is an effort at international benchmarking,” Malhotra said, also pointing out to the recent name change of the ministry of company affairs (that governs the professional institutes in India) to ministry of corporate affairs.

Interestingly, the apex body governing the company secretarial profession in the UK is called ‘Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), a name that also figures in ICSI’s new plans.

Malhotra said that there was a lot of demand for company secretary students who were in demand even after completing their intermediate exams. “A CS intermediate is technically very sound and has knowledge of company and other corporate laws. A new branding would always help these professionals who for various reasons cannot complete their course,” she said.

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Company Secretaries  in India can now prefix the word CS

The Council of the Institute (ICSI) in its 173rd meeting held on June 23-24,
2007 has decided that a member of the Institute may prefix CS to his name in
order to distinguish himself from other professionals and to create brand
image of the CS profession.