ICAI Invites Members to act as Observers at Examination Centres

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(ICAI) notified Empanelment of Members to act as Observers at Examination Centres for Chartered Accountants Examinations.

It is proposed to empanel members to act as Observers for the forthcoming November -2022 Chartered Accountants Examinations scheduled as under:

CA Examination

Eligibility criteria for empanelment:

Members who fulfill the following criteria are eligible for empanelment, to act as Observers.

i) He/ she should not be more than 65 years of age as on the date of empanelment, i.e.25th August 2022.

ii) His/ her name should have been borne on the Register of Members as on 1st May 2020 and continues to be so;

iii) Neither he/ she nor his/ her relatives* or dependant* is / will be appearing in the ensuing Chartered Accountants Examinations for students / Post – Qualification Course Examinations in November 2022 in any examination centers in India or Abroad. However, applying or appearing in ISA – AT will not be considered a disability for observership for CA Examinations.

[* the term “relative” or “dependant” for the purpose shall include, in relation to an individual, the wife, husband, son, daughter-in-law, daughter, son-in-law, grandson, granddaughter, brother, brother’s wife, brother’s son, brother’s daughter, sister, sister’s husband, sister’s son, sister’s daughter, wife’s brother, wife’s sister and husband’s brother and husband’s sister]

iv) He/ she is not coaching students for any of the examinations/test conducted by the Council of the Institute in any institutions/organization including Regional Councils / Branches of the Institute and also private coaching.

v) He/ she has not been convicted by any court of Law and no disciplinary proceedings are pending against him/her, either by the ICAI/Disciplinary Directorate or by any other organization, both in India or abroad.

vi) He/ she is not associated with the Institute as an elected/ co-opted member of the Council/Regional Council/Managing Committee of any Branch of the ICAI.

vii) He/ she shall abide by the Guidelines for Observer and/or any other instructions.

viii) He/ she is not a covid patient / or having symptoms of the Covid and will not take any assignment of Observer’s duty if detected on duty dates.

Honorarium

An honorarium of  3000/- per day / per session and ` 350/- as conveyance reimbursement for ‘A’ class cities and ` 250/- for other cities per day (to cover the cost of local travel). besides reimbursement of postal expenses, if any, will be paid.

The list of A class cities is as under:

Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi/ New Delhi, Hyderabad/ Secunderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata/ Howrah, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, and Pune.

Duties of Observer:

A member will be allotted duties in the city of his professional address only as per Institute’s records.

(To avoid any hardship in allotment of Observer assignment, Members are advised to update their professional Address/City in ICAI through the SSP Portal in accordance with the examination cities, if not updated)

The main duty of the observer is to ensure that the Question Paper Packets meant for the day of the exam, with the right code of the day are collected from the bank, (where they are kept under safe custody) opened and distributed to the candidates. Accordingly, Observer is required to be present in the assigned branch of the Bank/Examination Centre from the time when the code key is opened in the bank till the conclusion of the examination, i.e. till the answer books are pooled, reconciled, packed and handed over to the designated courier agency (including answer sheet of physically handicapped candidates, if any) for dispatch to the Examination Department.

How to empanel:

A member who fulfills the above-mentioned eligibility criteria, desirous of empaneling himself/herself for the assignment, may do so, online at http://observers.icaiexam.icai.org.

Applications by any other mode will not be entertained.

The activity schedule of the portal is as under:

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