IFFCO has set its election process in motion which would begin from 1st of December and conclude before May 17th 2014.
Readers could recall that Cooperative Development Director at IFFCO, Dr G N Saxena had made this announcement in the IFFCO AGM in May this year. Talking to Indian Cooperative Dr Saxena said “process has started and thankfully it would end on time”.
IFFCO set up a Sub-committee comprising of board members to deliberate on the election process as well as suggest ways of bringing in reforms to conform with the 97th CAA.
The Committee which had its first meeting on Monday recommended that all the directors should be elected. Earlier, about 10 Directors used to be nominated by the Federations. The practice would be done away with this time round.
Another important recommendation relates to rights of the member whose membership spans less than one year. The Committee has recommended that such persons will have voting rights but they cannot contest elections for any position.
Explaining the complex process of the cooperative election, Dr Saxena told Indian Cooperative that it would be a tow- tier process. The process for election of the delegates would be completed by February next year.
After 60 days notice the process for election to the Directors from among the delegates would start. Hopefully the process should be completed by May 17th, he added. IFFCO is the largest cooperative with more than 40 thousand societies as its members.
Another significant recommendation of the Sub-committee is disallowing co-opted directors from participating in the election of office bearers such as Chairman or Vice-Chairman.
R D Agrawal, senior Advocate in the Supreme Court has been chosen as the Returning Officer.
November 15th has been kept as the cut-off date for the new members which could be extended up to 30th for the defaulters.
