Ar. Vilas Avachat; Elected as President of IIA

Vilas Vasant Avachat has been elected as the new President of The Indian Institue of Architects for the term 2023-2025.

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With the election process reaching an end, Ar. Vilas Avachat has emerged as the newly elected President of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) for 2023-2025. He will be taking charge as the new President, along with the new office bearers. He will be succeeding the previous President Ar. C R Raju, who was the President for the term 2020-2022.

With professional and academic experience spanning over four decades, Vilas Avachat had held various roles within IIA, one of which was that of the Vice President for the National Council from 2015 (until now). He has worked on various national and international projects through his firm (Vilas Avachat & Associates) established in 1991, Vilas has also been a visiting faculty for the past 20 years. Besides being a member of IIA, he is also a Council Member of the professional practice committee of Union of International Architects (UIA).

The office bears elected for IIA’s National Council Committee for the next term (2023-2025) are:

Vice President- Jitendra Shantilal Mehta
Hon.Treasurer- Sudhir Balakrishna Pillai
Jt. Hon. Secretary- Akshaya Kumar, Ranee M L Vedamuthu, Sandeep Bawdekar
Council Members– Amit Mangesh, Debatosh Sahu, George Kurian, Kamla Kant Asthana, Raj Kumar Prajapati, Sandeep Kumar Jha, Satishraj Prataprao Jagdale, Shilpa Sharma, Udaya Shankar Doni, Yayati Murlidhar Tapale

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  1. 2020 से 2022 तक पिछला IIA प्रेसीडेंट.
    2023 से 2025 तक अगला IIA प्रेसीडेंट….
    2022-2023 कहाँ गया?

  2. I hope that now all the aspirants of various groups will cooperate with new IIA president and work together for the betterment of architecture fraternity.
    शुभ कामनाएँ.

  3. Congratulations you and your team?

    IIA and CoA shal work in unison to address common issues for betterment of education and profession. It will help restore pride and professional.
    Inclusive approach always bears fruits. Collective we work to nourish and flourish.

  4. Congratulations you and your team?

    IIA and CoA shall work in unison to address common issues for betterment of education and profession. It will help restore pride and dignity of professional.
    Inclusive approach always bears fruits. Collective we work to nourish and flourish.

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  5. Architect vilas Avchat is fraud architect, in sion kamgar chs Ltd at sion, opp croma, he had changed the plan of D wing and removed the kitchen of 6 flats and showed it as passage, while drawing the plan of E wing , without the consent of the members residing in the flats. there is a police complaint against him in sion police station , and civil matter pending against this fraud, AND SURPRISINGLY SUCH FRAUD PERDON IS APPOINTED AS PRESIDENT OF IIA, GOD BLESS THE MEMBERS

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