CA Articleship Stipend in 2026: What Regulation 48 Guarantees Today, and the Hike ICAI Has Proposed
The legal minimum stipend for a CA article is still Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 a month in the largest cities, unchanged since 2015. ICAI has gazetted a draft raising it to Rs 5,000 and Rs 6,000 — but it is not law yet. What you can claim today, and what changes when it is notified.
Bharat Pabari
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Bharat covers the CA-student and CA-career beat at TaxSocial — the ICAI course structure from Foundation through Final, articleship and industrial training, the BAA certificate, exam form windows and deadlines, and what the ICAI campus placement numbers actually show once you read them year against year. He works from ICAI announcements and official notifications rather than coaching-centre summaries, and writes for students still deciding between options as much as for those already mid-course.
