Some 3,000 voters will elect eight directors from 14 contestants. Voting will commence from 9:30am at the chamber secretariat at Motijheel and continue until 5:00pm with a one hour break at 1:00pm.

Candidates of Samamana Parishad and Ganatantrik Parishad, the two panels contesting in the polls, went on intense campaign to win the election.

Of the eight directors, four will come from general group, two from associate group and one each from trade and town group.

Meanwhile, Shafiqul Islam has been elected director uncontested from trade group while Mohammad Lutfor Rahman Badal from town group.

Candidates of Samamana Pari-shad from general group are MA Muhaimin Saleh, Md Shahjahan Khan, KMH Shahidul Huq and Kamrul Islam. They will contest with Ganatantrik Parishad's Osman Gani, Humayun Kabir, Md Bashirullah Bhuiyan and Syed Abdul Jalil.

In associate group Ganatantrik Parishad's candidates are Shahnewaz Chowdhury and Shafiqur Rahman who will compete with Samamana Parishad's Manzur-ur-Rahman (Raskin) and Md Alauddin Malik.

Sources said Samamana Parishad is likely to sweep the board as it has got support from 12 former presidents of the chamber, a trade body of mostly grassroots businessmen which was established in 1958.

According to the constitution of DCCI, eight directors out of total 24 in the DCCI board retire in rotation after serving a three-year term. Elections to the eight vacant director posts are held every year. The newly elected eight and 16 serving directors elect one president, one senior vice-president and one vice-president for a one-year term.

This year the presidential and vice-presidential elections will be held on December 9.