Thursday, November 21, 2013

ICAI Asked to Set Up Scribes Panel for Sightless

Taken from Times of India.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday directed The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to prepare within six months its
own panel of scribes to assist disabled students, including the visually impaired, in writing chartered accountancy exams conducted by
it.
Justice V K Jain said that the institute should either empanel appropriate persons to function as scribes or engage the panel ofscribes prepared by other universities such as JNU and Delhi University that maintain their own panels. The court's order came on a petition filed by a visually impaired chartered accountant student
Reena Bhatia, who sought direction to the institute to prepare a panel of competent scribes to be provided to differently-abled candidates
during their exams.
ICAI had told the court that it has not maintained it own panel of scribes as it did not had its own campus and had to conduct
examination at as many as in 377 centres spread over 96 cities throughout the country as well as in four cities outside the country.
On this, the court directed ICAI to prepare a panel of the scribes to differently abled person at least in the "major cities where
examinations are held by it".
Source: Times of India.


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