Madam/Dear Sir,

The President, in terms of the authority given to him by the Council at its 314th meeting held from 10th to 12th February, 2012, has constituted a Pune-based Group, comprising of the following members for finding out ways and means to streamline and render more services by practising Chartered Accountants as Lecturers in colleges and institutions for practical subjects like Accounting, Auditing, Taxation etc. as Expert Faculties, which is expected to reduce the gap between theory and practice and make commerce education more meaningful, practical and effective:

• CA. S.B. Zaware, Council Member (Convenor)
• CA. Dinesh Gandhi, Regional Council Member
• CA. Vijaykant Kulkarni, Past Chairman, Pune Branch
• Dr. Y.R. Waghware
• CA. Umesh Kulkarni

CA. Leena Khanwilkar, DCO Head, Pune would act as Secretary to the aforesaid Group.

The terms of reference of the above Group will comprise of the following:

• To identify the members from Pune Region, who are engaged as full-time teaching faculty in Government ? aided private colleges in Pune Region
• To have an official dialogue with the Joint Director of Higher Education, Pune Region in the said matter
• To have discussions with members of teaching faculty from Pune Region
• To submit a report with findings and recommendations to ICAI.