Companies/Agencies Seeking Verification of Chartered Accountants Qualification to Remit Fee. — (13–10-2014)

In terms of the deci­sion of the Finance Com­mit­tee of the Insti­tute tak­en at its 23rd meet­ing on the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Exam­i­na­tion Com­mit­tee, it was decid­ed to charge a sum of Rs.500/- per per­son as the edu­ca­tion ver­i­fi­ca­tion fee from the companies/agencies seek­ing such ver­i­fi­ca­tion of qual­i­fi­ca­tion effec­tive from 23rd May, 2012. The fee is payable by way of a demand draft drawn in favour of the Sec­re­tary, The Insti­tute of Char­tered Accoun­tants of India and payable at New Delhi.

How­ev­er, the Departments/Ministries of the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment, State Gov­ern­ments, PSUs etc. are not required to remit the said edu­ca­tion ver­i­fi­ca­tion fee. Fur­ther, it is also clar­i­fied that such fee is not to be charged from the con­cerned mem­bers and stu­dents of the Institute.

In view of the above, the Companies/Agencies seek­ing such edu­ca­tion­al ver­i­fi­ca­tion may send a request let­ter duly signed by the com­pe­tent author­i­ty of their organ­i­sa­tion along­with req­ui­site fee (wher­ev­er applic­a­ble) as stat­ed above along­with copies of the Marks Sheets/Passing Certificates/Rank Cer­tifi­cates per­tain­ing to Char­tered Accoun­tants Exam­i­na­tions required to be ver­i­fied by the Insti­tute to the Addi­tion­al Sec­re­tary (Exams), The Insti­tute of Char­tered Accoun­tants of India, ‘ICAI Bhawan’, Indraprastha Marg, New Del­hi — 110002.