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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

[Set up under an Act of Parliament]

ICAI BHAWAN

PO Box No. 7100, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi – 110 002.

Phone: 91-11-39893989, 30110499; Fax: 91-11-30110591;

Website: www.icai.org; Email: ctlwto@icai.org

January 19, 2009

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Re : Meet on Cross Border Integration in WTO Regime being organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on Saturday, January 24, 2009 at TajMahal Palace & Towers, Chambers Terrace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai at 7.00 PM.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is a statutory body established under an Act of Parliament in the year 1949 for the regulation of the profession of Chartered Accountants in India. During its six decades of existence, ICAI has achieved recognition as a premier accounting body not only in the country but also globally, for its contribution in the fields of education, professional development, maintenance of high accounting, auditing and ethical standards.

The ICAI has a total membership of about 1,50,000 members and 4,40,000 students spread across the country. More than 10,000 Indian Chartered Accountants are working in different parts of the world.

As the world veritably transits to being ‘Global Village’; the accounting profession as an integral instrumentality in the process of transition has witnessed a paradigm change in its contributory role; financial reporting being core to every sphere of economic activity. The shift in the business philosophies due to dawn of a new world trade order further emphasizes a broadened role for the accounting professionals as strategy formulators and facilitators. Moving to such role of a value creator, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has endeavoured to imbibe the best practices globally and has been playing the role of an enabler by getting its 150K strong membership base to acclimatize themselves with such practices.

The ICAI is managed by a Council, which functions through standing and non standing Committees. One such non-standing committee is the Committee on Trade Laws and WTO. This Committee is formed with a view to fully utilize the opportunities available to the members of ICAI in the WTO regime and to develop appropriate competencies to meet the challenges posed by the GATS agreement.

The Committee on Trade Laws and WTO of the ICAI has scheduled a Meet on “Cross Border Integration in WTO Regime” as per following program:-

Program

Cross Border Integration in WTO Regime

Day, Date & Time: Saturday, 24^th January, 2009 at Taj Mahal Palace & Towers, Chambers Terrace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai at 7.00pm

7. 00 PM – 7.30 PM	Inaugural
7.30 PM – 8.00 PM	Financial Markets Crisis: Accountants' Perspective by CA. P. R. Ramesh, FCA
8.00 PM – 8.30 PM	Role of Professionals to Maximise Benefits ofRTAs/FTAs by Mr. Suhail Nathani, Partner, Economic Laws Practice
8.30 PM – 9.00 PM	Business Opportunities in Emerging Economies: Through the lens of a Professional by CA. Gautam Doshi, Group Managing Director, Reliance ADAG
9.00 PM	Cocktail & Dinner

Eminent personalities from Banking, Insurance and other regulatory bodies shall be delivering addresses during the Meet. The meeting will be attended by the representatives of various counslates, trade associations, chambers of commerce, CEO/CFO of Indian and Foreign banks and ICAI members.

Keeping in view the stature of the event and the fact that the major trade/business bodies/ people will veritably converge to the Meet; we would be extremely privileged if you could kindly grace the occasion as Chief Guest with your kind words of wisdom during the Inaugural session (7.00 PM – 7.30 PM) of the Meet onCross Border Integration in WTO Regime on Saturday, 24^th January, 2009 at Taj Mahal Palace & Towers, Chambers Terrace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai.

Your presence and words of learning will enthuse and add a new dimension to the Meet and it will be an encouragement and enlightenment to the delegates attending the Meet.

With kind regards,

Yours Sincerely,

CA. Anuj Goyal

Chairman, Committee on Trade Laws and WTO

AND THE CORRECTION THEREAFTER:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Kindly ignore our earlier email of today on the captioned subject. We deeply regret for the inconvenience caused. Kindly see the revised communication as placed below.

Kind regards,

Secretariat of Committee on Trade Laws and WTO

The meeting will be attended by the representatives of various counslates, trade associations, chambers of commerce, CEO/CFO of Indian and Foreign banks and ICAI members.

Keeping in view the stature of the event and the fact that the major trade/business bodies/ people will veritably converge to the Meet; we would be extremely privileged if you could kindly participate in the aforesaid meet on Saturday, 24^th January, 2009 at Taj Mahal Palace & Towers, Chambers Terrace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai. Please send us your confirmation as per attached confirmation proforma.