Respected Members &Beloved Students,

SubhoBijaya to all respected Members, Students and Employees of the Institute.

Hope you are safe and healthy.

It is a great honour for me to be the Chairman of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India – Eastern India Regional Council for the term 2020-21. I am extremely grateful to my council colleagues for reposing their trust and confidence in me and electing me as Chairman. I assure you that I will put my best efforts to attain greater heights for the profession and the Institute as a whole. 

I am also thankful to all the Former Presidents, Former Chairmen and members of the Institute for their immense support & blessings.

I assure that our team EIRC will give the best for the betterment of our profession as well as achieving towards the goal of our Institute.

All of us across the globe are going through unprecedented and challenging times due to COVID - 19 pandemic. In thisscenario of prolonged lock-down and subsequent unlock due to contagious and pandemic COVID-19 virus which resulted inloss of human lives in the country and elsewhere world-wide, we would put our best efforts to render services and strategic decisions to the Government in reforming the economy.

We have already started communicating with different schools and colleges for conducting extensive Career Awareness Programmes through virtual modefor the benefits of students at various schools and colleges in Kolkata and the overall Eastern Zone.

We hope that all of our members have paid their membership fees to the Institute for the year 2020-21 in time. Our members have been constantly sharing knowledge by participatingin webinars or by writing academic articles for the benefit of stakeholders of the Institute and same bein published in EIRC News - eJournal.

We have organized several programmes during the last month for the benefit of both members & students. Faculty Meet was organized on 19^th October 2020. Student Meet was organized on 28^th October 2020 where CMA Balwinder Singh, Immediate Past President, ICAI had kindly graced the occasion as Chief Guest.

On 18^th October 2020, EIRC under the initiative of Seminar & Workshop Committeehad organized a virtual Seminar on “GST-Annual Return GSTR 9C & TCS on Sale of Goods”. CMA Ashok Nawal, Founder, Bizsol India Services Pvt Ltd was the Guest Speaker. CMA Biswarup Basu, President, ICAI, was the Chief Guest. CMA P.RajuIyer was the Special Guest of Honour, CMA C.R. Chattopadhyay, CCM, ICAI was the Guest of Honour.

Wishing you all a Happy &Prosperous Diwali, ChhatPuja, Jagadhatri Puja, Guru Nanak Jayanti.

With Best Wishes

CMA Ashis Banerjee