RSSDI - Nomination

Eligibility & Rules:

1. To get elected to the Central EC, one shall be a member of the RSSDI for at least ten years. For the posts of the Vice President, the Honorary Secretary General, or the Honorary Treasurer, a candidate should have held an elected position in the Central EC for one term (three years). No member shall be eligible to apply for the post of President / President elect, unless such member has served on the Executive Committee for at least two terms (six years) of which one term should be of an executive post of Vice President, Hon Secretary-General or Hon Treasurer.

2. No member can hold simultaneously elected post in any capacity in State EC and Central EC.

3. All members of Central EC will serve as Ex-Officio members of the State EC they reside in. All members who apply in Central EC should have completed one term in their State EC necessarily.

4. The President Elect, the Vice Presidents, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer and six All India executive committee members shall be proposed, nominated, and elected on an all-India basis.

5. The remaining six EC members shall be proposed and nominated one from each zone (North, South, East, West, Central and Northeast as per Govt of India geographical demarcation) and elected on all India basis.

6. The list of zones and their constituent states and union territories as per the Ministry of Home Affairs website:
Ministry of Home Affairs website link I.e. https://www.mha.gov.in/en/page/zonal-council

7. All applying members should have participated in diabetes related activities in the area of public awareness, education, research, or leadership role, proof of which needs to be provided.

8. The decision to accept a nomination of a contestant will be decided by the nomination committee as mentioned below. The decision of the nominating committee will be binding and final. The nominating committee will scrutinize all applications without any bias.

9. No EC member shall serve on the Executive committee for more than three terms (which may be less than 9 years) or nine years. An EC member shall remain eligible for the post of President Elect even after completion of 3 terms (which may be less than 9 years) or nine years. Once someone has served as President Elect/President/Past President, he or she cannot apply for any executive post again in the centre or state.

10. All individual nomination should be accompanied by the Biodata of the applicant, nomination duly proposed and seconded by valid RSSDI member and the applicant willingness to contest and serve on EC

11. Validation by the Proposer and Seconder will be the sole responsibility of the contestant. Failure to complete the due nomination process by July 15 th midnight will amount to disqualification of contestants.

12. Candidates contesting in elections can send only communications to members mentioning the post they are contesting by text message. All communications from contestants must stop once e-voting commences. Any attempt to influence or canvass after e-voting commences will be considered as violation of election code of conduct and amount to disqualification. Any candidate, sending biodata, indulging in any other form of canvassing which is not approved by election committee directly to members (voters), collecting voting credentials from members, indulge in groupism to influence voting, involve third parties in any manner or uses derogatory language against other contestants will be considered as violation of Election ethics leading to disqualification proceedings. If any candidate or member is found indulging in the same, he or she shall be debarred from the election and shall be debarred from contesting elections for next six consecutive years. The decision of the election committee will be final and binding. Anybody raising complaints against a contestant must provide proof of such an act of Violation of Election Ethics for consideration by the Election committee.

13. It is the responsibility of all members to update personal information (email, cell phone number) in the membership database of the RSSDI. It will not be the responsibility of the EC or Secretariat in event a member is unable to participate in the elections due to wrong or missing information available in the RSSDI database.

14. Recommendations by Proposer and Seconder should be received before the closure date of submission of nominations. The individual candidate should ensure this.

15. All nominations will be scrutinised by Nomination Committee for eligibility of candidature as per constitution

16. All communications related to the elections to be sent on the email- [email protected]

RSSDI National Executive Committee Elections for the term 2026-2029