Western India Regional Council
# Western India Regional Council

Western India Regional Council, abbreviated as WIRC of ICAI is one of the five 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.

## 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
* Bandra Kurla Complex (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 2019-2021

* CA. Lalit Bajaj - Chairman
* CA. Vishal P. Doshi - Vice Chairman
* CA. Murtuza Kachwala - Secretary
* CA. Jayesh Kala - Treasurer
* CA. Hitesh Pomal - Chairman [WICASA]
* CA. Abhijit Kelkar
* CA. Anand Jakhotiya
* CA. Arpit Kabra
* CA. Arun Anandagiri
* CA. Balkishan Agarwal
* CA. Chintan Patel
* CA. Drushti Desai
* CA. Hitesh Pomal
* CA. Kamlesh Saboo
* CA. Manish Gadia
* CA. Murtuza Kachwala
* CA. Shilpa Shinagare
* CA. Sushrut Chitale
* CA. Vikash Jain
* CA. Vimal Agrawal
* CA. Vishal P. Doshi

## 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.

