CA Exams postponement New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court has said that it will pass an order in the matter relating to the postponement of CA Exams-2021 on Wednesday.
While indicating that the apex court is in favour of giving the CA aspirants an opt-out option, the bench led by Justice AM Khanwilkar said it would take up the matter on June 30.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) had informed the top court that since there is a dip in the number of COVID-19 cases, it is in the best interest of 3.74 lakh candidates that CA exams are held as scheduled in July instead of postponing it for later.
The bench said ICAI, represented by senior advocate Ramji Srinivasan, should provide detailed plans on how it intends to secure the exam halls from infection.
The ICAI should have a “competent authority” with medical experience to chalk out the objective standards by which candidates could opt out of the July exams and try again in the November 2021 examination cycle, the bench said.
The court also asked the counsel if alternate methods other than the RT-PCR certificate can be adopted to assess whether a candidate is medically unfit to appear for the exams -scheduled to start from July 5- due to COVID-19 related difficulties.
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