« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  Mock Test Papers Series - I & II for Students appearing in CA Foundation January 2027 Examination.  Income Tax Rules 2026: CBDT Introduces Revised Form 161 for Penalty Waiver, Clarifies Misreporting Categories and Taxpayer Relief  ITR Filing and Income Tax Audit Deadline Extended: 5 Critical Things Taxpayers Must Know  Filing Belated ITR for AY 2026-27? Know Which Losses You Can Carry Forward and Which You May Lose  CBDT Extends Tax Audit Report Deadline to October 21, ITR Filing Last Date to November 21 for AY 2026-27  CBDT Extends AY 2026-27 ITR Filing Deadline for Tax-Audit Cases: New Dates and Key Compliance Details  Foreign Assets Missing From Your ITR? Income Tax Department Opens One-Time Disclosure Window  Tax Audit Deadline September 30: Why AIS, TDS and GST Figures May Not Match Your ITR and What Taxpayers Should Do  Tax audit deadline September 30: Common mistakes taxpayers should avoid  Your ITR says ‘verified’, but the refund hasn’t arrived? 5 reasons why your money could be stuck  Missed the ITR Deadline but TDS Refund Is Due? Here’s How You Can Still Claim Your Money «  Sikkim seeks amendment to Companies Act... SC affirms ruling on Morgan PE... » ICSI looks to offer more services September, 03rd 2007 The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) is looking forward to expanding the conventional roles of chartered accountants to non-statutory areas like labour law audit and certification, secretarial audit of hotel and banking industries, and others.   The chief thrust is on labour law, and we are already in talks with the various state governments like West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa and are about approach Assam for the same at the level of the labour commisioner, said Mukesh Chaturvedi, secretary of the Eastern India Regional Council (EIRC) of ICSI. EIRC will take up this issue in all the north-eastern states, he added.   EIRC has four regions and six chapters under its purview, including Patna in Bihar, Ranchi and Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, Dhanbad in West Bengal, Bhubaneshwar in Orissa, and Guwahati in Assam.   The ICSI headquarters in New Delhi will take it up to the labour ministry in the central government.   The ICSI is a statutory body under the Company Secretaries' Act enacted by the Parliament.   Company secretaries already represent clients before the Company Law Board, Income Tax Tribunals and Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), besides Foreign exchange Management Act (Fema) cases.   We are also working as business strategists and advisors to our clients as practising company secretaries, and our track record with respect to maintaining accordance with various compliances is also commendable, commented Chaturvedi.   With the opening up of the economy, several opportunities in the non-traditional domains have presented themselves before the chartered accountants, and they have been increasingly gaining significance in these areas, said Subrato Ray, chairman, EIRC, ICSI. The institute has been organising seminars at regular intervals to discuss these issues, he added.   Around 40 public sector firms are looking at recruiting company secretaries in Ranchi, and there is dearth of them in the region, Chaturvedi said.   The demand for qualified company secretaries is high in both the government and private sectors, he added.   Thereby, to meet the demand, ICSI has come up with a new course for graduates in any stream as well as students who have qualified for the chartered accountant foundation course, to take up a company secretaries' training.   Around 1.5 lakh students take the exam every year, and the success rate has been as high as 35 per cent.   The institute has plans to touch the remote parts through internet, and training the rural and small town youth in e-filing under MCA21.