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Western India Regional Council, abbreviated as WIRC of ICAI is one of the 5 Regional Councils of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and the largest among them. It is located in Mumbai and serves a membership of more than 85000 Chartered Accountants and circa 225000 CA students, in a network of 32 branches in the three states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and two Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
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Branches
In all, WIRC has 32 branches, with the recent most Kalyan-Dombivli branch being formed on 17 January 2016. The main regional office of WIRC is located at Mumbai in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra
- Akola
- Ahmednagar (Est. 2002)
- Amravati (Est. 27 March 2008)
- Aurangabad (Est. 17 June 1986)
- Dhule (Est. 1 June 2013)
- Kalyan-Dombivali (Est. 17 January 2016
- Jalgaon
- Kolhapur
- Latur
- Nagpur
- Nanded
- Nashik
- Navi Mumbai
- Pimpri-Chinchwad (Est. 27 March 2008)
- Pune
- Sangli
- Solapur
- Thane
- Vasai
Gujarat
- Ahmedabad
- Anand
- Bharuch
- Baroda
- Bhavnagar
- Bhuj
- Gandhidham
- Jamnagar
- Navsari
- Rajkot
- Surat
- Vapi
Goa
- Goa
Regional Council Members
Following is the list of members of WIRC elected for the years 2016-2018
- CA Shruti Shah - Chairperson
- CA Hardik Shah - Vice Chairperson
- CA Kamlesh Saboo - Secretary
- CA Shilpa Babasaheb Shinagare - Treasurer
- CA Pradeep Kanaiyalal Agrawal - Chairman WICASA
- CA. Balkishan Agarwal
- CA. Vishnu Kumar Agarwal
- CA. Rakesh Ganpat Alshi
- CA. Lalit Laxminarayan Bajaj
- CA. Sushrut Chitale
- CA. Drushti Rahul Desai
- CA. Manish R Gadia
- CA. Sandeep Kailashchand Jain
- CA. Sarvesh Nandlal Joshi
- CA. Abhijit Jayant Kelkar
- CA. Purushottam Lal Khandelwal
- CA. Vikrant Murlidhar Kulkarni
- CA. Satyanarayan Goverdhanlal Mundada
- CA. Priti Savla
- CA. Priyam Rameshbhai Shah
- CA. Umesh Ramnarayan Sharma
- CA. Aniket Sunil Talati
Students' Council
The students' wing of WIRC is Western India Chartered Accountants Students Association (WICASA). The managing committee consists of 12 members who are Chartered Accountancy course students, pursuing their articleship. Apart from this Committee at regional level, there are separate WICASA Committees at Branch level which are again managed by Chartered Accountancy Students pursuing 'articleship' The Managing Committee at Branch level consists of 7 members.