icai council to make changes in the evaluation processes live virtual classes to make ca education system robustinstitute of chartered accountants of india icai in its recent council meeting has firmed up on a number of decisions to initiate strategic reforms to curb malpractices and strengthen its education systemca education is largely dependent upon the chartered accountant act 1949 which does not allow reevaluation of answers in any given exam reevaluation will soon be introduced for all the ca exams as icai is considering bringing together a scheme of amendments in the chartered accountant act 1949 for which dialogues with the university grants commission ugc ministry of corporate affairs mca and ministry of hrd have already been initiated to provide best practices being followed by universities across the nation naveen gupta president icai told education timesgupta added that in case stepwise marking is not followed in any question by the evaluator then the question would be treated as not evaluated and would be subjected to fresh evaluation earlier students did not have an option of raising such queries due to ca act guidelines which restricted the reevaluation processthe council has also approved changes recommended by the board in the syllabus at foundation intermediate and final levels the updated details will soon be uploaded on the icai website added guptathe institute in partnership with tata consultancy services tcs has also adopted software as a service saas model for precise digital evaluation through this analytical reports will be generated to enable the examination committee to undertake prompt quality control checks applicants shortlisted for empanelment as examiners and existing examiners would be required to undergo an online crash course in the subject before undertaking assignments of evaluationlive virtual classes for ca students were earlier available only in the regional branch offices which restricted the students to access learning material as per the ease of their schedule students will now be able to access live virtual classes on their laptops mobile phones on a moderate fee with the institutes direct to students approach easy access to study material on a digital platform will reduce the students dependency on coaching centres said gupta