New Delhi, January 08: In a bid to end corruption in giving approval to institutes, the AICTE has decided to shift to online registration process and relax land requirements for new institutes.
The AICTE will also issue unique identification number (ID) to faculty members of the AICTE-approved institutions, a mechanism that will help check the trend of certain faculties working in multiple institutions.
The bio-metric impression of each faculty member will be taken to track his movement.
The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) will also put in place a mechanism to help students lodge their grievances against the institutes.
AICTE will revamp its process for approval of institutions by shifting to online mode from this month.
It will not allow running of any course other than MBA and MCA in distant mode, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said.
The web portal launched by Sibal will act as a single window system for processing of the applications of the institutions for approval.
“We are putting in place a new system under which the inspection raj regime in AICTE will be over. We are moving to a regime of self disclosure in which the institutions will disclose their facilities, faculty and courses. Each student can directly interact with us through the portal if he has any problem about the institute,” Sibal said.
The aspiring institutions will have to submit their applications and provide documents online, a process which will be functional from 10th January, he said.
There will be relaxation in land requirement norms for setting up of new institutes.
The present norms stipulates three and five acres of land as requirements for setting up of new institutes in mega and metro city respectively.
This will be relaxed to 2.5 and four acres respectively, Sibal said.
The National Board of Accreditation (NBA), which gives accreditation to technical education courses, will be made an independent body.
At present it is functioning as a wing under the AICTE.
This is being done as NBA wants to be a member of Washington Accord, which is a grouping of 12 countries for recognition of each other’s engineering education.
The AICTE has also decided to increase the initial slab on intake for engineering and management institutions.
Now, new engineering institutions can give admission to maximum 300 students while management institutes can take 120 students.
Earlier, the slab was 240 and 60 respectively.
The existing engineering and management institutes will also have to be registered with the AICTE within a month.
—Agencies