Recognising the need for providing assistance to the needy students and extending scholarships for meritorious ones, besides extending beneficial schemes like Insurance, the Council of the Institute has recently set up a Fund namely ‘Chartered Accountants Students Benevolent Fund’  [CASBF].  The beneficiaries of the Fund will be students registered with the Institute.  The formalities for the registration of the Trust and seeking exemption under Section 80(G) of the Income Tax Act are in hand. 

Esteemed Members of the Institute are requested to kindly contribute generously for the cause of the welfare of the students of our profession so as to help needy and meritorious students to achieve their life time dream of becoming a Chartered Accountant.  The contributions can be sent through cheque / demand draft in favour of Chartered Accountants Students Benevolent Fund payable at New Delhi at the following address

The Member Secretary

Chartered Accountants Students Benevolent Fund

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

ICAI BHAWAN

Indraprastha Marg,

New Delhi – 110 002 (INDIA)

The contribution will be duly acknowledged and the certificate for exemption under Section 80(G) will be issued separately in due course of time.

For any clarification, please address your queries to casbf@icai.in / mss@icai.in , Tel. No. 011-30110426, 30110553.

CA. Ved Jain

President, ICAI

03^rd September, 2008