CA PROGRAM - UPGRADING BENCHMARK

Some more major initiatives taken by the Institute in this regard include introduction of live classes for students. ICAI, under the able leadership and guidance of Mr. Amarjit Chopra, President has taken a very bold initiative to launch Live Classes on behalf of the ICAI on a national basis. The vision of the Council is to initially provide classroom teaching in about 19 locations and to be expanded to more than 200 cities with about 1850 classrooms all across India to enable oral teaching to all the CA students. The Institute is proposing to utilize 2-way Video Conference Technology to provide a reach to each and every nuke and corner of the country by topmost leading faculties in the country including faculties from Board of Studies, faculties drawn from IIM, XLRI, Technical and Specialized experts from top leading institutions of the country including Shri Ram College of Commerce, St. Xavier College Calcutta and Sydnem, Mumbai. The practical knowledge will be shared by leading experts and top practitioners. This will enable a high level of education reaching all across the country. Initially the Live Classes will be provided on optional basis. CA Education is facing some very significant threat from Dummy Training. Training to CA students is the back bone of training. The students learn while on job, implementing academic knowledge to practical situations. Students who prefer dummy training never get that kind of exposure and resulting in significant impact on quality of CA profession. 

To address the menace of dummy training and its impact on the quality of CA students, examination

system has been toned up to ensure that CA students are not able to pass in the absence of real practical training. The latest examination papers in last couple of attempts are a clear indication in this regard. The transfer of articles trainee have been banned except in extraordinary genuine cases. The practicing chartered accountants need to come forward and ensure that the stigma of dummy training is completely killed. Let us take a pledge from all our colleagues that under any circumstances dummy training or partial training will not permitted by them. The entire future of CA profession is at stake. Let us all unitedly eradicate "Dummy". ICAI is considering further up-dation and up-gradation of the CA course including providing Indian CA education in various parts of the world. ICAI qualification is already recognized to mutual recognition agreement with England & Wales, Australia. Canada and Singapore negotiations are in advance stage. Let us work together to make ICAI a truly international topmost qualification in accounting and finance.