THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA

[Set up by an Act of Parliament]

 

 

13- CA (Exams)/Observer Empanel /May-June -20231st February 2023

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

EMPANELMENT OF MEMBERS TO ACT AS OBSERVERS AT THE EXAMINATION CENTRES FOR THE CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS EXAMINATIONS

MAY/JUNE 2023.

 

It is proposed to empanel members to act as Observers for the forthcoming May/June -2023 Chartered Accountants Examinations scheduled as under:

 

Intermediate, Final and PQC Exams	from 2nd MAY to 18th MAY 2023 (Excluding 5th May 2023)
Foundation Exams	24th, 26th, 28th and 30th JUNE 2023

 

Eligibility criteria for empanelment:

 

Members who fulfill the following criteria are eligible for empanelment, to act as Observers.

 

i) He/she should not be more than 65 years of age as on the date of empanelment, i.e.15^th February, 2023.

ii) His/her name should have been borne on the Register of Members as on 1^st November 2020 and continues to be so;

iii) Neither he/she nor his/her relatives* or dependant* is / will be appearing in the ensuing Chartered Accountants Examinations for students / Post – Qualification Course Examinations in MAY/JUNE 2023 in any examination centres in India or Abroad. However, applying or appearance in ISA – AT will not be considered a disability for observership for CA Examinations.

 

[* the term "relative" or “dependant” for the purpose shall include, in relation to an individual, the wife, husband, son, daughter-in-law, daughter, son-in-law, grandson, granddaughter, brother, brother's wife, brother's son, brother's daughter, sister, sister's husband, sister's son, sister's daughter, wife's brother, wife's  sister and husband's brother and husband's sister]

 

iv) He/she is not coaching students for any of the examinations / test conducted by the Council of the Institute in any institutions / organization including Regional Councils / Branches of the Institute and also private coaching.

v) He/she has not been convicted by any court of Law and no disciplinary proceedings are pending against him/her, either by the ICAI / Disciplinary Directorate or by any other organization, both in India or abroad.

vi) He/she is not associated with the Institute as an elected/co-opted member of the Council / Regional Council / Managing Committee of any Branch of the ICAI.

vii) He/she shall abide by the Guidelines for Observer and / or any other instructions.

viii) He/she is not a covid patient / or having symptoms of the Covid and will not take any assignment of Observer’s duty if detected on duty dates.

 

Honorarium

The honorarium of ` 3000/- per day / per session and ` 350/- as conveyance reimbursement for ‘A’ class cities and ` 250/- for other cities per day (to cover cost of local travel) will be paid.

 

 

The list of A class cities is as under:

 

Ahmedabad	Bangalore	Chennai,	Delhi/New Delhi
Hyderabad/Secunderabad	Jaipur	Kanpur	Kolkata/Howrah
Lucknow	Mumbai	Nagpur	Pune

 

All other cities are ‘B’ class cities.

 

Duties of Observer:

A member will be allotted duties in the city of his professional address only as per Institute’s records.

 

(To avoid any hardship in allotment of Observer assignment, Members are advised to update their professional Address/City in ICAI through the SSP Portal in accordance with the examination cities, if not updated)

 

The main duty of the observer is to ensure that the Question Paper Packets meant for the day of the exam, with the right code of the day are collected from the bank, (where they are kept under safe custody) opened and distributed to the candidates. Accordingly, Observer is required to be present in the assigned branch of the Bank/Examination Centre from the time when the code key is opened in the bank till the conclusion of the examination, i.e. till the answer books are pooled, reconciled, packed and handed over to the designated courier agency (including answer sheet of physically handicapped candidates, if any) for dispatch to the Examination Department.

 

Once the duties are assigned for acting as an Observer in a particular examination centre, he/she should attend to the said assignment and submit his/her report on daily basis in the prescribed format at the Portal immediately after the conclusion of exam. Bill is required to be submitted immediately after completion of all the Examination.

 

In case any member is unable to perform his / her assignment, the same may be declined in the portal and communicated to the Examination Department well in advance, so that alternative arrangement can be made. If a member neither informs the Examination Department nor discharges the duties assigned, he/she would be liable for such action under the provisions of the Chartered Accountants Act 1949 and the Regulations framed thereunder, as deemed fit.

 

Kindly note that giving false/misleading declaration regarding conflict of interest / involvement in coaching and any unauthorized absence from the Exam Centre during the exams will lead to action under disciplinary provisions in accordance with the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and the Rules and Regulations framed thereunder.

 

How to empanel:

 

A member who fulfills the above-mentioned eligibility criteria, desirous of empaneling himself/herself for the assignment, may do so, online at http://observers.icaiexam.icai.org.

 

Applications by any other mode will not be entertained. The activity schedule of the portal is as under:

 

Opening of the window for empanelment	15th February 2023 (Wednesday)
Closing of the window for empanelment	10th March 2023 (Friday)
Hosting of the details of Self Selection of observer assignments	15th - 20th April 2023 (Tentative)

Examination Department

Details of the cities in which the MAY/JUNE 2023 examinations will take place are as under.

 

The cities/ places where the examinations will be held are given below:

WESTERN REGION:

(Covering States of Goa, Gujrat and Maharashtra and U. T. of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu)

 

CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE
Ahmedabad - I	Himatnagar	Nadiad	Ratnagiri
Ahmedabad - II	Ichalkaranji	Nagpur - I	Sangli
Ahmedabad - III	Jalgaon	Nagpur - II	Satara
Ahmedabad - IV	Jalna	Nagpur - III	Sindhudurg
Ahmednagar	Jamnagar	Nanded	Solapur
Akola	Junagadh	Nandurbar	Surat - I
Amravati	Kolhapur	Nashik - I	Surat - II
Anand	Khamgaon (Buldhana)	Nashik - II	Surendranagar
Aurangabad - I	Latur	Navi Mumbai	Thane - I
Aurangabad - II	Mapusa (Goa)	Navsari	Thane – II
Badlapur	Margao (Goa)	Palanpur	Thane – III
Beed	Mehsana	Palghar	Vadodara – I
Bharuch	Mumbai - I	Panvel	Vadodara - II
Bhavnagar	Mumbai - II	Parbhani	Vapi
Bhiwandi (Maharashtra)	Mumbai - III	Pimpri-Chinchwad	Vasai – I
Bhuj	Mumbai - IV	Porbandar	Vasai – II
Chandrapur	Mumbai - V	Pune - I	Wardha
Dhule	Mumbai - VI	Pune - II	Yavatmal
Gandhidham	Mumbai - VII	Pune - III
Gandhinagar	Mumbai - VIII	Pune - IV
Gondia	Mumbai - IX	Rajkot

 

@ Ahmedabad is divided into four Zones, namely Zone I to Zone IV. The possible location of centres in the zones is as under:-

 

Zone I - Thaltej, Gurukul, Sola, Bopal, Bodakdev, Chandkheda, Gota, Vastrapur, Satellite, Memnagar Zone II - Navrangpura, Naran pura,Nava Vadaj

Zone III- Shahibag, Paldi, Khanpur, Kalupur, Ellis Bridge

Zone IV – Isanpur, Juhapura, Sarkhaj, Naroda, Vasna, Maninagar, Ghodasar

% Aurangabad is divided into Two Zones, namely Zone I & Zone II. The possible location of centres in the zones is as under:-

Zone I - North of Jalna Road Zone II - South of Jalna Road

 

+Mumbai is divided into nine Zones namely Zone I to Zone IX. The possible locations of the centres in the respective zones will be:

Zone I - Chruchgate, Charni Road, Mazgaon

Zone II - Parel – East, Dadar-East, Matunga, Wadala, King Circle, Sion, Chembur Zone III - Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar, Bhandup, Mulund

Zone IV - Dadar – West, Bandra West Zone V - Santacruz, Vile Parle, Andheri

Zone VI - Jogeshwari (W), Goregaon (W), Malad (W) Zone VII - Jogeshwari (E), Goregaon (E), Malad (E) Zone VIII – Kandiwali (W), Boriwali (W), Dahisar (W) Zone IX - Kandiwali (E), Boriwali (E), Dahisar (E)

 

@@ Thane is divided into three Zones. The possible location of the centres in the respective zone will be:- Zone I – Thane City, Kalwa

Zone II – Dombivili, Kalyan

Zone III – Ulhasnagar, Ambernath, Badlapur

 

*Nagpur is divided into three Zones. The possible location of the centres in the respective zone will be:- Zone I – Wardhman Nagar, Gandhi Bagh, Mahal, Nandanwan

Zone II – Dharampeth, Bharat Nagar, Sitabuldi, Dhantoli

Zone III– Hanuman Nagar, Manewada, Trimurti Nagar, Wardha Road

 

**Nashik – is divided into two zones. The possible location of the centres in respective zone will be:-

Zone –I – Nashik City, Pimpalgaon, Panchvati, Meri, Mhasarul, Gangapur Road, Cidco, Ambad and Satpur Zone –II- Nashik Road, Upnagar, Odha Dwarka, Devlali Camp

 

++ Vasai is divided into two zones. The possible location of the centres in respective zone will be: - Zone I – Mira Road, Bhayander

Zone II – Vasali, Nallasopara, Virar

 

Navi Mumbai: Vashi, Sanpada, Nerul

 

$ Surat is divided into two zones. The possible location of the centres in respective zone will be: -

Zone I – Ring Road, Bhatar, Vesu, Piplod, Athwalines, Althan, Adajan, Rander, Ghod Dod Road, Nanpura, Magdalla & Dumas Road

Zone II - Varachha, Mota Varachha, Kamrej, Sarthana, Katargam, Parvat Patia, Amroli, Dabholi, Ved Road, Singanpore & Sumul Dairy Road.

# Vadodara – is divided into two zones. The possible location of the centres in respective zone will be: - Zone - I –Raopura,Ajwa-Waghodia Road, Karelibaug, Sama, Fatehgunj & Makarpura

Zone-II- Sayajigunj, Alkapuri, Akota, Vasna, Gorwa, Gotri

 

$$Pune - is divided into Four zones. The possible location of the centres in respective zone will be: -

Zone – I - Katraj, Dhankawadi, Padmavati, Satara Road, Bibwewadi,Swargate,Sarasbaug, Sahakarnagar, Zone-II - Bhavani Peth, Rasta Peth, Nana Peth, Camp, Koregaon Park, Kalyani Nagar, Nagar Road, Magarpatta, Hadapsar, Wanowarie, NIBM Road, Kondhwa

Zone - III–Parvati, Tilak Road, Sadashiv Peth, Shukrawar Peth, Ravivar Peth, Budhwar Peth, Laxmi Road, Dandekar Bridge, Shastri Road, Sinhagad Road, Null Stop, F.C Road, S. B. Road, Shivaji Nagar, Shaniwar Peth, Law College Road, Mangalwar Peth, Somwar Peth

Zone –IV - Kothrud, Karve Nagar, Vanaj, Chandni Chowk, Pashan, Aundh, Baner, Wakad

 

SOUTHERN REGION:

(Covering States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and U. Ts. of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry)

 

CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE
Adilabad	Cuddalore	Karur	Raichur
Adoor	Davangere	Kasaragod	Rajamahendravaram
Alappuzha	Dharmapuri	Khammam	Salem
Anantapur	Dindigul	Kolar	Shimoga

Bagalkot	Eluru	Kollam (Quilon)	Sirsi
Belgaum	Ernakulam	Koppal	Sivakasi
Bellary	Erode	Kottayam	Srikakulam
Bengaluru - I	Gadag	Kozhikode	Theni
Bengaluru - II	Guntur	Kumbakonam	Thiruvananthapuram
Bengaluru - III	Hassan	Kurnool	Thrissur
Bengaluru - IV	Haveri	Madurai	Tiruchirapalli
Bengaluru - V	Hosur	Mahabubnagar	Tirunelveli
Bengaluru – VI	Hubli	Mallapuram	Tirupati
Bengaluru – VII	Hyderabad - I	Mandya	Tirupur
Bengaluru - VIII	Hyderabad - II	Mangalore	Tiruvallur
Chennai - I	Hyderabad - III	Mysore	Tiruvannamalai
Chennai - II	Hyderabad - IV	Nagapattinam	Tumakuru
Chennai - III	Idukki	Nagercoil	Tuticorin
Chennai - IV	Kadapa	Nalgonda	Udupi
Chennai - V	Kakinada	Namakkal	Vellore
Chennai - VI	Kalaburgi (Gulbarga, Karnataka)	Nellore	Vijayapura
Chennai - VII	Kalpetta	Nizamabad	Vijayawada
Chennai - VIII	Kancheepuram	Ongole	Villupuram
Chikkaballapur	Kannur	Palakkad (Palghat)	Visakhapatnam
Chitradurga	Karaikudi	Pondicherry	Vizianagaram
Coimbatore	Karimnagar	Pudukkottai	Warangal

 

@@ Bengaluru is divided into Eight Zones, namely Zone I to Zone VIII. The possible location of centres in the zones are as under:-

Zone I - Banashankari 1st Stage, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Basavangudi, Chamarajpete, Jayanagar Zone II - JP Nagar, Kanakpura Road, Vasanthapura

Zone III - K.R. Puram, Indiranagar, Jeevan Bheemanagar, Ramamurthy Nagar Zone IV - Yelahanka, RT Nagar, Hebbal Kempepura, Ganga Nagar

Zone V – Mission Road, Richmond Road, Race Course Road, Benson Town, MG Road

Zone VI – Malleshwaram, Rajaji Nagar, Sheshadripuram, Magadi Road, Basaveshwaranagar, Vijaynagar Zone VII - Kengeri Satelite Town, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Nagarbhavi, Ullal, Sundakatte

Zone VIII – Soldevanahalli, Jalahalli

 

# Chennai is divided into eight Zones, namely Zone I to Zone VIII. The Zone numbers given to different areas (i.e. possible locations of centres in the Zones) are as under:

 

Zone-I: George Town, Broadway, Rayapuram, Washermanpet, Tondiarpet Zone-II: Nungambakkam, Gopalapuram, Triplicane

Zone-III: Guindy, Adyar, Besant Nagar, Tirunvanmiyur Zone-IV: Royapettah, Mylapore, Mandeveli

Zone-V: Arumbakkam, Anna Nagar, Kilpauk, Ambattur, Villivakkam Zone-VI: Kodambakkam, T. Nagar, West Mambalam, Saidapet Zone-VII: Vadapalani, Ashok Nagar, K.K. Nagar, Porur

Zone-VIII: St. Thomas Mount, Pallavaram, Nanganallur, Chromepet, Tambaram

*Hyderabad Centre is divided into four zones namely Zone I to Zone IV. The possible locations of the centres of respective Zones will be:

Zone I - Koti, Abids, Nampally, Charminar, Himayatnagar, Malakpet, Narayanaguda, Chikkadapalli, Nallakunta, Vidya Nagar, Domalaguda, Basheerbagh, L.B. Nagar, Gunfoundry, Baghlingampally,Begum bazar.

Zone II - Secunderabad, West & East Maredpalli, Uppal, Malkajgiri, Tarnaka, Safilguda, Sainikpuri, A S Rao Nagar, Alwal, Osmania University area, Ramanthapur.

Zone-III: Begumpet, Ameerpet, Khairatabad, Banjara Hills, Jubilee Hills, Masab Tank, Mehdipatnam, S R Nagar, VengalaRao Nagar, Rajendra Nagar.

Zone IV- Sanathnagar, Kukatpally, Erragadda, Qutbullapur, Miyapur, Nizampet, Bachupally, Chanda Nagar, Serilingampally, Gachibowli, Patancheruvu, IDPL X Road, Chintal.

 

 

EASTERN REGION:

(Covering States of North East States, Orissa, West Bengal and U.T. of Andaman & Nicobar Islands)

 

CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE
Agartala	Gangtok	Kolkata - III	Sambalpur
Asansol	Guwahati	Kolkata - IV	Shillong
Balangir	Hooghly	Kolkata - V	Silchar
Berhampur (Brahmapur) (Odisha)	Jharsuguda	Kolkata - VI	Siliguri
Bhubaneswar	Jorhat	Port blair	Tinsukia
Cuttack	Kharagpur	Raniganj
Dibrugarh	Kolkata - I	Rayagada
Durgapur	Kolkata - II	Rourkela

 

^Kolkata is divided into six zones namely Zone I to Zone VI. The possible locations of the centres in the respective Zones will be:

Zone I - Dunlop, Sinthee, Cossipore, Tala , Shyambazar, Bagbazar , Shovabazar, Jorasanko, Kumartuli , Burrabazar, Posta, Chitpur, Belgachia, Dumdum , Madhyamgram

Zone II –Dalhousie , Lal bazar, Bowbazar, Janbazar, Taltala, Entally, College Square, Raja bazar, Sealdah, Beliaghata, Phoolbagan, Kankurgachi, Maniktala, Ultadanga, Salt Lake, Newtown

Zone III- Chowringhee, Park Street, Bhowanipore, Ballygunge, Garfa, Haltu, Kasba, Topsia, East Kolkata Township (EKT), Anandapur, Kalikapur, Panchasayar, Mukundapur

Zone IV- Dhakuria, Jadavpur, Santoshpur, Bijoygarh, Regent Estate, New Alipore, Tollygunge, South City, Golf Green, Regent park , Garia, Ranikuthi, Naktala, Bansdroni, Poddarnagar, Kudghat

Zone V- Diamond Harbour Road, Behala, Taratala, Barisha, Parnashree Pally, Sarsuna, Khidirpur, Metiabruz, Garden Reach, Ekbalpur, BNR Colony

Zone VI- Howrah

 

CENTRAL REGION:

(Covering States of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, M.P., Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and U.P.)

 

CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE	CITY/CENTRE
Agra	Dhanbad	Kishangarh	Rewa
Ajmer	Durg	Kota	Sagar
Aligarh	Firozabad	Lucknow I	Saharanpur
Allahabad (Prayagraj)	Gaya	Lucknow II	Samastipur
Alwar	Ghaziabad	Lucknow III	Satna
Banswara	Gorakhpur	Madhubani	Sikar
Bareilly	Gwalior	Mandsaur	Sirohi
Beawar	Haldwani	Mathura	Sitamarhi

Begusarai	Haridwar	Meerut	Siwan
Bhagalpur	Hazaribagh	Moradabad	Sriganganagar
Bharatpur	Indore - I	Motihari	Udaipur
Bhilwara	Indore - II	Muzaffarnagar	Ujjain
Bhopal - I	Indore - III	Muzaffarpur	Varanasi
Bhopal - II	Jabalpur	Nagaur
Bikaner	Jaipur - I	Neemuch
Bilaspur	Jaipur - II	Noida
Bokaro steel city	Jaipur - III	Pali-Marwar
Bulandshahr	Jaipur - IV	Patna
Bundi	Jamshedpur	Purnea
Burhanpur	Jhansi	Raigarh (Chhattisgarh)
Chhindwara	Jhunjhunu	Raipur
Chittorgarh	Jodhpur	Rajnandgaon
Churu	Kanpur	Rajsamand
Darbhanga	Kashipur	Ramgarh
Dehradun	Katni	Ranchi
Deoghar	Khandwa	Ratlam

 

% Indore is divided into three Zones. The possible locations of the centres in the respective Zone will be as under:

 

Zone – I : Vijay Nagar, Nanda Nagar, MIG/LIG Colony, Patnipura, Scheme No.54, Scheme No.74, Scheme No.78, Shalimar Township, Mahalaxmi Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Kanadia Road, Saket, Telephone Nagar, Goyal Nagar, Bengali Square, Khajrana, Dewas Naka, Malviya Nagar, Nehru Nagar

 

Zone – II : Chawni, South Tukoganj, Geeta Bhavan, Chhoti Gwal Toli, MTH Compound, Sneh Nagar, Kanchan Bag, Bhawankuwa, M.Y. Hospital Road, RNT Marg, Malwa Mill, Janjir Wala Square, Nasia Road, Naulakha , Sapna Sangeeta, Khatiwala Tank, Palsikar Colony, Sanchar Nagar, Agrawak Nagar, Juni Indore, Jail Road, Joara Compound, Rajwada, Devas, Mhow

 

Zone – III : Rajendra Nagar, Annapuran Road, Vaishali Nagar, Gumasta Nagar, Sudama Nagar, Usha Nagar, Raj Mohalla, Mahesh Nagar, Bada Ganpati, Aerodrome Road, Kalani Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Banganga, Marimata Chouraha, Lokymanya Nagar

 

^ Bhopal is divided into two Zones. The possible locations of the centres in the respective Zone will be as under:

 

Zone – I : Shamla Hills, Jahangirabad, Hamidiya Road, Rayal Market, Malviya Nagar, T.T.Nagar, New Market, Jawaharchok, P & T Colony, Neelbad, Ratibad, Karond, Jumerati, Nishatpura, Indrapuri, Shubhash Nagar, Rachna Nagar, Kasturba Nagar, M.P. Nagar, Govindpura, Aishbagh, Kabirpura, Kolar, Misrod, Piplani, Arera Colony, Anand Nagar, Minal Residency, Sakti Nagar, Habibganj, Awadhpuri

 

Zone – II : Gandhi Nagar, Airport Road, Lalghati, Sehore, Phanda, Khajuri, Krishna Nagar, Sanjeev Nagar, Santi Nagar, Kuravar, Chandukhedi, Kohefiza, Halalpura, Abbas Nagar, Moti Masjid, Idgah hill

 

@ Jaipur is divided into four Zones. The possible locations of the centres in the respective Zone will be as under: