Exams for Company Directors

NarendraModi, who has become the Prime Minister for the second term is looking tooverhaul the nation's corporate governance system that allowed a string offrauds to mar his first stint in office.

Injeti Srinivas, the top bureaucrat in-charge of corporate affairs said that independent directors on company boards will soon have to clear an exam before they can be appointed. He further said that the government is also seeking a ban on Deloitte Haskins & Sells saying that it failed to warn of mounting risks at a major shadow lender and the banking regulator suspended an EY affiliate this month after finding problems in one of its audits.

Srinivassaid that they want to demolish the myth that independent directors don't haveany fiduciary duty and that they want to propagate corporate literacy to makethem aware of their duties, roles and responsibilities.

He said, theexamination will be an online assessment covering the basics of Indian companylaw, ethics and capital market norms among other areas.