Plight of CA Students !

The Chartered Accountants (CA) institute of India, requires a student to complete 3 / 3.5 years of compulsory internship with a CA, so that he gains practical knowledge of the business before being certified as a CA in his exams.

Recently, the Chartered Accountants (CA) institute of India came out with a notification, binding all students with the following regulations:

1) CA student under going internship with a CA, cannot take a transfer to another CA, within the same city.

2) The distance between the 2 offices must be minimum 50 Kms

3) The only other reasons permitting the transfer are; medical reasons, or transfer of working parent to another city.

These regulations have been brought into practice for one and only one reason:

TO STOP INTERNS UNDERGOING DUMMY INTERNSHIP BY REGISTERING THEMSELVES WITH A CA AND NOT ATTENDING WORK AND MAKING MERRY UNOFFICIALLY.

LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR...I AGREE THAT THIS MENACE MUST BE STOPPED.

But because of this notification, the freedom of an intern is severely affected .

Now the big question is........ IS THIS FAIR??

A simple argument in this matter is :

The starting point of any dummy internship starts when a CA mutually agrees with a student to give him a fake registration and undergo dummy internship. so instead of pointing the fingers at interns and making their life difficult, why cant it be made difficult for the CAs who wilfully carry out such acts?

The reasons why an intern would like to change his place of work are:

1) Exposure to different work than the work offered by his current CA (principal)

2) Difference of opinion on how to things should be done.

3) Better stipend package in order to remain motivated and not feel exploited.

4) Traveling problems.

5) Need for change. ( mental fatigue )

6) Growth issues.

7) Change to firms that carry out performance appraisals and conducts seminars for knowledge addition.

The list goes on.......

Also, an intern cannot take a transfer in his last 12 months of internship. Many interns are qualified CA's in the last 9 months of their internship. So is it fair to make CA's work as interns? Again, the freedom of taking a transfer has been denied.

so is this a fair ruling...??

I have used my freedom of speech...

Now, Can you shed light and help me strengthen / weaken this thought of, my already made up mind?? ;-)

I pray that the governing body will review its decision and come up with a better solution for this menace, so that the interests of the student community are not hampered.