As per the guidelines received from R10 Director, revised bylaws approved during Special GB meeting of Delhi section held on 21st September, 2025 are under review by MGA.
Accordingly, old bylaws have been uploaded on the website (as on 27th December, 2025.)
1.1 This organization shall be known as the Delhi Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
1.2 The territory of the Delhi Section as designated by the IEEE Regional Activities Board includes at present
four states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Union Territories of Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh
1.3 The Delhi Section shall have its principal offices in the city of Delhi from which it shall carry out its management and other administrative functions.
2.1 The elected officers of the Section shall be Chairperson, two Vice Chairpersons,Secretary, Joint Secretary and Treasurer. One of the Vice Chairpersons shall be designated as Executive Vice Chairperson, who shall take over from the Chairperson for the next term.
2.2 Duties of elected officers will be available from Regional Activities Department (RAD).
3.1 The term of office of the Section Executive Committee as defined in Article-5.1 shallbe one year beginning on 1st January, but in any case the outgoing Section ExecutiveCommittee will continue until their successors are duly elected and take office.
3.2 Any vacancy occurring during the year shall be filled by majority vote of the SectionExecutive Committee.
4.1 Section Executive Committee shall constitute Standing Committees which will beresponsible for functions listed below:
1. Membership Development
2. Awards and Fellow Nomination
3. Student and Educational Activities
4. Public Relations and Publication
5. Intersociety Relations
6. Section History
7. Finance
8. Technical and Professional Activities
9. Nomination
10. Humanitarian Technology Challenge
4.2 The Chairperson of each of the Committees, except the Finance Committee, will beappointed by the Section Executive Committee, from amongst the members of theExecutive Committee and their term will be concurrent with that of the Chairperson.
4.3 Each Standing Committee Chairperson, except Finance and Nomination Committee,may appoint his Committee Members in a manner that representation from inside andoutside the Executive Committee is maintained, to ensure that Section operations havebase broader than the Executive Committee.
4.4 The duties of the Standing Committee will be available from Regional ActivitiesDepartment (RAD).
5.1 Management of the Section shall be by the Section Executive Committee which shallconsist of the elected officers, nine elected members, one student member representative,immediate past Chairperson, Chairpersons of all Sub-sections and Chairpersons of allGroups / Society Chapters / Officers of India Council, if located in Delhi as ex-officioMembers. More Members not exceeding four may be co-opted by the Section ExecutiveCommittee. Immediate past Chairperson shall be included in the Section ExecutiveCommittee. In case of his / her absence / non-availability, any one of the past Chairpersonsshall be included. Out of the nine elected members at least two shall be new entrant. TheDelhi Section Student Representative shall be nominated by the Section Executivecommittee.
5.2 Meeting of the Section Executive Committee will ordinarily be held bi-monthly andwill be called by the Section Chairperson or by a written request of any five Members ofthe Section Executive Committee. Executive Committee members are expected to attend atleast 50% meetings of the Executive Committee.
5.3 50% members of the Section Executive Committee (excluding the co-opted ones, butincluding ex-officio ones) shall constitute a quorum and the business shall be conducted bymajority vote.
5.4 The financial year of the Section shall be one year with effect from 1st January.
6.1 A nomination Committee consisting of three members other than present office bearersshall be appointed by the Section Executive Committee. Immediate past Chairperson of theSection (if available) failing which any past Chairperson shall be Committee Chairperson.The Nomination Committee shall not nominate any of its members as officer in the slate.
6.2 The nominations of the Nomination Committee will be announced to the SectionMembership and, following this, a minimum of 28 days allowed for additional nominationsby petition. To be valid, the petition must be signed by 25 or more voting members.
6.3 If only one nomination is made for each office, the election will be made at the AnnualMeeting. If additional nominations are made, election will be made by ballot mailed to thevoting membership and the vote counted by a Committee appointed by the SectionChairperson. Members other than Students shall be the voting members.
6.4 The suggested time table for this procedure is as follows:
1st September – Appointment of Nomination Committee
1st October – Announcement of Nominations
1st November – Close Nomination by petition
15th November – Mailing of ballots –
15th December- Hold Annual Meeting
6.5 A plurality of votes cast shall be necessary for election.
7.1 Annual General Meeting of Section Membership is called by Section Chairperson inconsultation with Executive Committee for presentation of Annual Report, Election ofOffice Bearers & Executive Committee Members and any other agenda formulated byExecutive Committee.
7.2 In order to transact business in General Meeting at least 25 voting members (quorum)must be present. However, if the required quorum is not present at the scheduled startingtime of the Meeting, then the General Body may be adjourned. The Meeting may bereconvened after waiting for half an hour to transact the slated business without waiting forthe quorum.
7.3 Special General Meeting can be requisitioned by a petition signed by not less than 25 voting members submitted to the Section Chairperson, who in consultation with ExecutiveCommittee will call the Meeting within two months with proper formulation of agenda.
7.4 Notices for any General Meeting shall be mailed at least one month in advance andshall include date, time, venue and agenda for the meeting.
9.1 Proposals for amendment to these Bylaws may originate in the Section ExecutiveCommittee or by a petition signed by 25 or more voting members, which shall becomeoperative if adopted at General Body Meeting by majority vote.
9.2 Amendments to or revocation to these Bylaws shall be in accordance with the IEEEBylaws, RAB Bylaws and RAB Operations Manual.
10.1 Members of any town may through a petition signed by 20 or more members andapproved by the Executive Committee form a Sub-section for the purpose of organizingactivities of the Section in that town.
10.2 A Sub-section will be managed by a Committee elected annually, comprising of aChairperson, Vice-Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, immediate past Chairperson and notless than three Executive Committee Members.
10.3 The Chairperson of the Sub-section shall be an ex-officio Member of the SectionExecutive Committee and shall be responsible to the Section Executive Committee forliaison and maintaining relations with Section Executive Committee. He / she shall reportfrom time to time to the Section Executive Committee, regarding the activities of the Sub-section.
10.4 Sub-section Chairperson will submit to the Section Secretary by the 31st December ofeach year, a consolidated report of meetings held during the year and a report on Sub-section financial operations. The Sub-section shall send to the Chairperson, Vice-Chairpersons and Secretary of Section Executive Committee every circular or notification,it sends to its members.
10.5 Sub-section shall receive annual financial support depending upon its membershipand its meeting programmes.
11.1 Each Chapter of the Section shall have own Bylaws in consonance with Bylaws ofSection and IEEE.
11.2 Chairpersons of Chapters of Section can have a maximum tenure of four years.
