GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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01/07/2026 - 11:00
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30/09/2026 - 23:59
Time zone: IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
Created : 29/06/2026
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), in collaboration with MyGov, invites citizens across India to share their constructive suggestions and innovative ideas through the initiative "Have an Idea? Share it with ICAI".
This initiative provides a platform for citizens, professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders to contribute their valuable ideas for strengthening the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the Chartered Accountancy profession, and India's financial and economic ecosystem.
Participants are encouraged to submit their suggestions on areas such as strengthening the Chartered Accountancy profession, promoting economic development, enhancing transparency and good governance, leveraging technology and innovation, improving financial literacy, supporting entrepreneurship, and contributing towards the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047.
The objective of this initiative is to encourage meaningful public participation and harness diverse perspectives to help build a stronger, more transparent, innovative, and future-ready Chartered Accountancy profession while contributing to an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable financial ecosystem for the nation.
Share your ideas today and become a partner in shaping the future of the Chartered Accountancy profession and India's journey towards Viksit Bharat @2047.
5 days 11 hours ago
Title: CA Saathi – Compliance Helper for Small Businesses
Problem: Small shopkeepers, farmers, and MSMEs often struggle with GST, ITR, and TDS compliance. Professional fees are unaffordable for many, leading to missed deadlines, penalties, and exposure to unverified advisors.
Solution:
CA Saathi is a WhatsApp/mobile-based assistant available in Hindi and regional languages. It offers:
Deadline reminders for GST, ITR, and TDS in simple language.
Voice-based bookkeeping, where users say "sold goods worth ₹5,000 today" and the entry is recorded automatically.
CA connect, linking users to verified Chartered Accountants, including young CAs offering low-cost or pro-bono guidance.
UDIN QR verification to instantly check the authenticity of certificates.
Implementation: ICAI can pilot this through its regional branches in select Tier-2/3 towns, with CA students and members volunteering as mentors.
Impact: Better compliance and financial literacy among small businesses.
5 days 12 hours ago
Respected Sirs/Madams,
ICAI can introduce more free, simple and practical online courses for students, teachers, employees, small business owners and the general public on basic accounting, income tax, GST, personal finance and digital financial safety.
These courses can be available in regional languages, with free certificates after completion. This would improve financial awareness, employment skills and responsible financial decision-making among the public.
5 days 12 hours ago
. Better Study Material: Make CA Inter books larger, colourful and visually clear. Sections, examples, headings, illustrations and important points should be easily identifiable. 3. Exam-Oriented Content: Reduce unnecessary theory and focus on concepts that are important for exams as well as our future professional journey as Chartered Accountants. 4. AI & Technology Skills : Introduce courses on ChatGPT, Claude AI, Excel, Prompt Engineering, AI automation and other modern tools to prepare students before articleship. 5. Practical Learning: Add more real-world case studies, simulations and workflow-based learning to help students understand how concepts are applied during articleship and professional practice.s like tunnels, forests, and remote valleys where GPS and satellite systems fail. Solution: • Trackside Checkpoints: Low-cost RF receivers on signal posts detect RF transmitters installed on train engines. • Edge Processing: Trackside ESP32 microcontrollers process telemetry data
5 days 12 hours ago
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5 days 12 hours ago
The basic thought is simple: India's development will not come only from large companies. Millions of small businesses, first-generation entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs and young founders will also shape Viksit Bharat. Many of them have good ideas but limited knowledge of finance, taxation, cash-flow management and compliance. Viksit Bharat cannot be built only in boardrooms. It has to be built in every small business, every startup, every college and every entrepreneurial dream
My idea is simple, ICAI could create a “CA for Viksit Bharat” national initiative where CAs and CA students voluntarily conduct short financial-awareness and business-readiness programmes for young and small entrepreneurs understand the financial side of their businesses. If we can help people make better financial decisions, manage their businesses responsibly and grow sustainably, we are not just creating better businesses, we are creating a stronger economy.
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5 days 12 hours ago
I present you my idea of 'RailEdge AI' which solves train tracking failures in dead zones like tunnels, forests, and remote valleys where GPS and satellite systems fail.
Solution:
• Trackside Checkpoints: Low-cost RF receivers on signal posts detect RF transmitters installed on train engines.
• Edge Processing: Trackside ESP32 microcontrollers process telemetry data locally and relay it via cloud and cellular/RF mesh fallbacks
• Smart ETA Prediction: Machine learning models (XGBoost) analyze speed, historical delays, and section data for accurate arrival forecasts.
• Real-time Alerts: Pushes dynamic arrival updates to apps, station boards, and offline SMS alerts for non-smartphone users.
Impact: Delivers 100% route coverage at under 10% the cost of existing legacy systems, improving railway operational efficiency and passenger convenience.
With the help of my Idea RailEdge AI, we can save millions of money and invest into other sectors.
Proud to be part of SIH 2026.
5 days 16 hours ago
1. Chapter-wise Practice: Provide chapter-wise PYQs, RTPs, MTPs and MCQs in one dedicated section so students can easily practice without searching through multiple resources.
2. Better Study Material: Make CA Inter books larger, colourful and visually clear. Sections, examples, headings, illustrations and important points should be easily identifiable.
3. Exam-Oriented Content: Reduce unnecessary theory and focus on concepts that are important for exams as well as our future professional journey as Chartered Accountants.
4. AI & Technology Skills : Introduce courses on ChatGPT, Claude AI, Excel, Prompt Engineering, AI automation and other modern tools to prepare students before articleship.
5. Practical Learning: Add more real-world case studies, simulations and workflow-based learning to help students understand how concepts are applied during articleship and professional practice.
5 days 18 hours ago
Respected Council Members,
As a CA student spending days on audits and tax filings, the gaps between textbooks and ground realities become very clear. A few honest, practical suggestions from our training desk to strengthen ICAI toward 2047:
MSME Help Desks: Small traders in Tier-2/3 towns want to be compliant but find procedures intimidating. ICAI branches should hold weekend clinics where trainees, guided by seniors, teach basic bookkeeping, digital invoicing, and GST basics to local businesses.
Exposure to Municipal Audits: Training heavily favors private firms. Partnering with local urban bodies to place articles on short accrual-accounting rotations allows students to directly help curb leakages in public spending.
Real Audit Tech: Update IT training with hands-on practice in bulk GST 2B-vs-3B reconciliation, automated bank parsers, and data tools firms actually use.
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6 days 1 hour ago
ICAI may consider including eligible corporates and MNCs within the practical training/articleship framework and recognising relevant prior corporate experience.
Professionals starting CA at a later stage often have substantial experience in Finance, Accounts, Audit, Taxation, Controls, Risk Management or Compliance. ICAI could introduce an Experience Credit System, where prior experience is assessed based on tenure, role, responsibilities and relevance. Candidates may receive proportionate credit against the prescribed training period, subject to a maximum limit.
Implementation could include employer-certified experience letters, salary records/Form 16, job descriptions and an ICAI verification/assessment process. Any remaining training period can be completed with ICAI-approved corporates, MNCs, CA firms or other eligible organisations.
This would recognise existing industry experience while ensuring that required practical training standards are maintained.
6 days 5 hours ago
My Comment related to CA foundation exams
In foundation only 15 to 20 percent student passes and remaining 80 percent student faces unsuccessful so ICAI get only relief to failur student like include exemption in CA foundation because student fail in one subject and repeat all 4 subject so ICAI get one relief of exemption so student only study those specific subject not all 4 subject again it is so irritating and hard in according to all 80 percent CA failure students
Please talk to your team and include exemption mode in CA final all failur student not get panic to study all 4 subject
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