<p>New Delhi: India will need around 1 lakh company secretaries by 2030 amid rising economic growth and increasing focus on good governance, according to the company secretaries' apex body ICSI.</p><p>Currently, there are more than 73,000 company secretaries and out of the total, around 12,000 are practising company secretaries.</p><p>Company secretaries play a key role in the corporate governance framework in ensuring compliance of companies with various statutory requirements.</p><p>Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) President B Narasimhan said there has been a paradigm shift in the way the country's economy is perceived today and company secretaries have essentially become a significant linchpin in making India one of the most preferred investment destinations of the world.</p>.India needs to create 14.8 cr additional jobs by 2030 given population growth: IMF DMD Gita Gopinath.<p>India will need around 1 lakh company secretaries by 2030, he told <em>PTI</em> during a recent interaction.</p><p>On an average, the ICSI gives membership to over 2,500 people every year.</p><p>Going by projections, India is expected to become a $7 trillion economy by 2030.</p><p>"It is eminently possible for the Indian economy to grow in the coming years at a rate above 7 per cent on the strength of the financial sector and other recent and future structural reforms... under a reasonable set of assumptions with respect to the inflation differentials and the exchange rate, India can aspire to become a $7 trillion economy in the next six to seven years (by 2030)," a finance ministry report said in January this year.</p><p>Meanwhile, to attract more young talent into the profession, the institute has also started direct registration of graduates and post graduates in the company secretary executive programme.</p><p>Among other initiatives, ICSI has introduced secretarial standards to bring uniformity in the secretarial practices followed across corporate boards.</p>
<p>New Delhi: India will need around 1 lakh company secretaries by 2030 amid rising economic growth and increasing focus on good governance, according to the company secretaries' apex body ICSI.</p><p>Currently, there are more than 73,000 company secretaries and out of the total, around 12,000 are practising company secretaries.</p><p>Company secretaries play a key role in the corporate governance framework in ensuring compliance of companies with various statutory requirements.</p><p>Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) President B Narasimhan said there has been a paradigm shift in the way the country's economy is perceived today and company secretaries have essentially become a significant linchpin in making India one of the most preferred investment destinations of the world.</p>.India needs to create 14.8 cr additional jobs by 2030 given population growth: IMF DMD Gita Gopinath.<p>India will need around 1 lakh company secretaries by 2030, he told <em>PTI</em> during a recent interaction.</p><p>On an average, the ICSI gives membership to over 2,500 people every year.</p><p>Going by projections, India is expected to become a $7 trillion economy by 2030.</p><p>"It is eminently possible for the Indian economy to grow in the coming years at a rate above 7 per cent on the strength of the financial sector and other recent and future structural reforms... under a reasonable set of assumptions with respect to the inflation differentials and the exchange rate, India can aspire to become a $7 trillion economy in the next six to seven years (by 2030)," a finance ministry report said in January this year.</p><p>Meanwhile, to attract more young talent into the profession, the institute has also started direct registration of graduates and post graduates in the company secretary executive programme.</p><p>Among other initiatives, ICSI has introduced secretarial standards to bring uniformity in the secretarial practices followed across corporate boards.</p>