New Syllabus for Company Secretaryship Course

The Council of the Institute approved the new syllabus for Foundation, Executive and Professional Programmes, which is contemporary in approach and global in perspective. The new syllabus has been given contemporary spirit by incorporating Electives at the Professional Programme level.

The new syllabus for Foundation has been implemented w.e.f. February 1, 2012 and the first examination for the same was held in December, 2012 session under the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) system.

With greater emphasis on due diligence, financial management, compliance management, corporate governance, sustainability and ethics, etc., the New Syllabus for Executive Programme comprises Seven papers instead of six papers as at present and Nine papers at Professional Programme level including one Paper to be opted by the students out of five elective papers namely, (i) Banking Law and Practice; (ii) Capital, Commodities and Money Market; (iii) Insurance Law and Practice; (iv) Intellectual Property Rights – Law and Practice; and (v) International Business-Laws and Practice, instead of eight papers as at present. The Council has decided to implement the new syllabus for Executive Programme w.e.f. February 1, 2013 and the Professional Programme w.e.f. September 1, 2013.

-ICSI President