The CA examinations are going to start from July 5, 2021 till July 20, 2021, in offline mode. After which a group of 6,000 students are about to appear in the upcoming Chartered Accountancy (CA) examinations wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to take Suo- Moto cognizance of multiple issues including the postponement of examination due to the adverse effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, extension of old course attempt amid other relief. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is all set to hold the CA Foundation, inter and final exams from July 5, 2021, until July 20, 2021, in offline mode on a Pan India basis. The letter comes nearly a week after a plea seeking to highlight similar concerns was filed in the Supreme Court and it was heard by the top court on Monday (June 28).
According to the statement, the CA students wrote in a letter stating that "We student want to request our country's most popular and students friendly Prime Minister sir to kindly take Suo Moto cognizance in this matter and allow us postponement for some days so that we student can appear in the exam without any fear of chances of losing lives on our near and dear ones. Adding that, they said that "we don't want any cancellation of exams but vaccination is something you yourself emphasize. CA students who are going to appear in this exam fall in the age group of 18 to 23 and it will be injustice with the students as well as their family members also if they are pressurized to appear in this 15 days long physical exam without giving them an opportunity to vaccinate themselves."
Whereas candidates also raised certain other concerns in the letter that were raised by students before the ICAI, but the institute had allegedly failed to address them. On behalf of 3,00,000 students who are appearing for the exam, the group of CA students requested PM Modi to provide an unconditional opt-out facility along with the additional alternate attempt for such students. They also requested to extend the last attempt for old course Students by one year and to direct ICAI to provide transportation and accommodation facilities to students whose exam centres have been shifted by ICAI.
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