Voting through electronic means
Start Date
18 February 2019, 12:00 am
 
Dear IIC Member,
 
Sub: Voting through electronic means


          A copy of Election Bye-laws has already been forwarded to all eligible members.  We are pleased to extend the facility to exercise the right to vote by electronic means.  This facility has been arranged through M/s. Karvy Fintech (“Karvy”).
 
2.       The E-voting shall have Event Number “4424”.  Every eligible Member has been assigned distinct User ID and Password by email from M/s Karvy. Members are to login with the provided login Id. and password on the voting URL https://evoting.karvy.com.
 
3.       The remote E-voting facility will be available round the clock during the following period:
 
Commencement of Remote E-voting
 
From 9.00 a.m. (IST) on 18th February 2019
End of Remote E-voting Up to 5.00 p.m. (IST) on 25th February 2019
 
 
4.       The E-voting will not be allowed beyond the aforesaid date and time and the E-voting module would automatically get disabled upon the expiry of the aforesaid period. 
 
5.       If you do not wish to cast your vote through electronic means, you would have the option to physically cast your vote at the voting booth at IIC from 16th to 19th March 2019 any time from 0900 hours to 1700 hours on all these dates.
 
6.       Please read the attached instructions carefully before exercising your vote electronically.
 
          Thanking you,
 
 
 
Yours faithfully,

 
Kanwal Wali
Secretary

The procedure for Voting by Electronic Means is as follows:

  1. Launch Internet browser during voting period by typing the URL: https://evoting.karvy.com.
  2. On the homepage top, a link 'IIC Biosketch' is available. On Clicking on 'IIC Biosketch' it will direct the Members to the list of nominated candidates for election. On clicking on the name of the candidate, his picture and brief Biosketch page would open. To go back to the Home page, please click on the “Home Icon” placed at the top.
  3. On Home page, enter the login credentials (i.e. user id and password) as given to each member in the covering note mail sent   by M/s Karvy of dated 16th Feb. 2019.
  4. After entering the details of User ID and Password, enter the Captcha details in the box and click on "LOGIN".
  5. You will now reach password change webpage wherein you are required to mandatorily change your password. The new password shall comprise of minimum 8 characters with at least one upper case (A-Z), one lower case (a-z), one numeric value (0-9) and a special character (@,#,$, etc.,). Example: Abc@2019.
  6. You need to login again with the new credentials and on successful login, the system will prompt you to select the e-Voting event.
  7. Select the EVENT as India International Centre and click on "SUBMIT".
  8. Now you are ready for e-Voting as "Cast Vote" page opens.
  9. In case of Individual category, kindly tick mark (✓) against the appropriate Box to select ONE candidate for Board of Trustees (BoT) and TWO candidates for Executive Committee
  10. In case of Institutional category, kindly tick mark (✓) against the appropriate box to select ONE candidate for Board of Trustees (BoT) and ONE candidate for Executive Committee (EC).
  11. Once you have selected the candidate(s) for BT and EC, please click on "SUBMIT". A confirmation box will be displayed. Click "OK" to confirm else, "CANCEL" to modify. Once you confirm, you will not be allowed to modify your vote
  12. If members have not exercised their vote and clicked on "Submit" button, in such a case it will be treated as "ABSTAINED" from e-voting and such members have the option to cast vote physically at IIC from 16th March 2019 to 19th March 2019 (0900 hrs. - 1700 hrs. Daily).
  13. Once a candidate has been selected by member and submitted the vote for BT and EC, in such case the member shall not be able to change it subsequently.
  14. E-voting option is available to all eligible members round the clock from 0900 hrs. (IST) on 18/02/2019 to 1700 hrs. (IST) on 25/02/2019. Member residing in other countries are to specially note that the time may vary from IST to their country time zone
  15. On 26/02/2019, M/s Karvy will forward to IIC the list of Members who have not cast their vote through E-voting website. Such members list would then be complied at IIC and only such members can cast their vote physically at IIC
  16. Physical voting by all those who have not voted through E-voting would be arranged at IIC (Main) from 16/03/2019 to 19/03/2019 from 0900 hrs. to 1700 hrs. daily
  17. The Counting of all votes would be done by Independent Scrutinisers on 28/03/2019
  18. For queries related to E-voting member can contact at following E-mails:
    1. Escalation level 1: send a mail to evoting@karvy.com 
    2. Escalation level 2: send a mail to nagaraja.ds@karvy.com
    3. Escalation level 3: send a mail to lakshmana.murthy@karvy.com
  19. For any other query related to elections, please write to secretary.iic@nic.in