Dear friends,

   I send a Letter to HRD ministry, that the letter was originally  posted by Mr. Debojit and I given some slight alterations to it.  So I kindly request all of you to send mail to  HRD ministry about new transfer rules and the problems which we are facing, because hereafter there is no use in sending mails to our Institute, where the mail ID of HRD ministry is webmaster.edu @ nic.in

The letter which I sent to HRD ministry is follows

Respected Sir/Madam,

This is on behalf of thousands of students who are undergoing articleship training in different parts of India. We feel that the present system of Articleship training is very strict on the students & hence it gives an undue advantage to all the members of ICAI. According to the new rule if we joined Articleship under a Chartered Accountant, then we want to complete the entire 3.5 years training under him only

 So is no option of transfer from one employer to another, because of this new rule which restricts the transfer,  some Chartered Accountant are taking undue advantage which were listed below

1. Restricting the Transfer of Articles:

The Institute had restricted the Transfer of Articles w.e.f. April 1, 2009. Due to this restriction, various students are now being forced to continue working under their present employers even though they are not satisfied with their employment. Due to this, the employers are exploiting their articled assistants to work under the terms & conditions that suit the employer. Hence, the employers are enjoying a dominant position & they are treating the students as slaves, so the students are totally handicapped.

2. Irregular/Non-payment of Stipend:

This is one of the most common problems of all the students. In many cases, the employer is not paying any stipend to the articled assistants. Also, various employers are making deductions from the minimum prescribed stipend amount for leaves that are available to the articled assistants i.e. even if the articled assistant has not taken any excess leave still amount is being deducted.

3. Nature of Work:

In offices, the employers are taking undue advantage of their trainees by delegating their personal work to them just for the sake of keeping them occupied. The students are being forced to follow their orders just because they have no other choice. Some Members are also using their Articled Assistants as Office Boys & Personal Assistants which is totally unfair on the students.

4. Leave During Exams:

Clearing the CA Examination requires a lot of hard work especially in the modern age of cut-throat competition. Students need at least 2-3 months to prepare themselves mentally for the exams but the employers do not understand this & hence they deny their articled assistants from taking sufficient leaves during the exam season. This adversely affects the performance of students in the crucial CA examinations.

5. Timings of Articleship Training:

The institute has prescribed 35 hours of articleship training in a week are very high considering the amount of coaching a CA student is required to undergo. Even when there is not much audit work, still the students are forced to sit in their respective offices & do some other unofficial/personal work of the employer which in no way is related to practical training. This results in wastage of precious time of the students which could otherwise have been utilized in studying. And in the month of September most of the employers are sucking at least 15-18 hours of work from the students. Though students like us are not having any option other than to work as per the employers order

6. Discrimination amongst Articles:

It has been found that some Articled assistants enjoy a superior position than others just because they are the relatives/close friends or are of the same caste of the Employer. Such discrimination is totally unhealthy especially in a professional course like CA.

Though we send lots of mails to the Institute but the Institute is not caring about the students and it is always trying to insert new rules only for the benefit of the members.

So we are kindly requesting you to address our problem and suggest the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India to bring back the old transfer rules.

Yours faithfully,

ALL INDIA CA STUDENTS