ESI Election 2026 Announcement

06th March, 2026

Dr Sachin S Suroshe

General Secretary

Ref. No. ESI Election/2026

To

All the members of the Entomological Society of India

Sub: Nomination for election of council of office bearers and members of the Executive Council 2026

Dear Colleague,

Duly seconded proposals are invited for the following office bearers of the Society falling vacant at the end of the current term:

1.     President

One

To be Elected

2.     Vice President

Three

To be Elected

3.     General Secretary

      (Head Quarter)

One

To be Elected

The following positions are nominated by the elected EC

4.      Vice President

(Honorary)

Two

To be Nominated

5.      Chief Editor

      (Head Quarter)

One

To be Nominated

6.     Joint Secretary

      (Head Quarter)

One

To be Nominated

7.     Treasurer

      (Head Quarter)

One

To be Nominated

8.     Zonal President and Councilor

Head Quarter

To be Elected

North Zone 1

To be Elected, 

Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh,  Punjab

North Zone 2

To be Elected, 

Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand

North- East Zone

To be Elected, 

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura

West & Central Zone

To be Elected, 

Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,

Maharashtra

East Zone

To be Elected, 

Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,

Odisha, West Bengal 

South Zone 1

To be Elected, 

Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu

South Zone 2

To be Elected, 

Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana

 

The proposal should reach the Returning officer Dr Babita Yadav, Division of Entomology, IARI New Delhi-110012 on or before 25th March 2026. The nomination can be sent by email to esielection2026@gmail.com to reach on or before Midnight 12:00 PM of 25th March 2026. The proposal received after that day and time will not be eligible. The consent of the members whose names are proposed and seconded for election may also be obtained and sent along with the proposals via email: esielection2026@gmail.com, failing which the proposal will become invalid.

 

Eligibility for the election of the office bearers of the ESI:

All the office bearers shall be elected for a period of three years except in the case of the Chief Editor, whose period of office will be decided by the EC. All shall be eligible for reelection. Any vacancy occurring within the period of three years will be treated as an interim vacancy. These vacancies will be filled by nomination with approval of EC.

President: A senior member of high academic repute and FESI for the last 10 years.

Vice-President: A senior member of high academic repute and FESI for the last 10 years.

General Secretary: FESI for the last 5 years

  • Zonal President & Councillor: FESI for the last 10 and 5 years, respectively.
  • In the case of unavoidable delays in the elections, the EC will continue to function until new EC takes over.
  • Before sending proposal/ nominating for any position, proposer and seconder should not have any dues pending. They all must be the member on the date of proposing any candidate for election to EC.
  • In case of equal votes among the candidates, the present President has the right to cast a single vote to have the final decision.

For the position for which the nominations are not received, the EC will have the power to nominate.

The candidates who filed their nomination but not willing to contest can withdraw their nomination by email/ hard copy on or before 31st March, 2026 by 5 pm.

Election process will be mainly online as practiced in similar Societies. Supplementary hard copy voting is also available simultaneously for which the following procedure is to be followed.

Collect ballot paper in person from the ESI office during working hours. Follow the instructions given therein and deposit the ballot in the designated box kept in the office of the ESI.

Members who have not registered online in the entosocindia.org are urged to register immediately. Any difficulty in the same may be communicated via email: entosocindia@gmail.com.

The final list of eligible contesting candidates along with voting schedules will be uploaded on 31st March on the society website: entosocindia.org

Kindly visit our society website regularly for updates regarding election process.

With kind regards,

(Sachin S Suroshe)

 

The Entomological Society of India (ESI)

Division of Entomology
Room No- 4A, ICAR-IARI
Pusa, New Delhi- 110012

Contact: 011-35747337, +91-8506990160, 9718121160
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