AICTE OKs 545 technical institutes
All-India Council of Technical Education has given approval to 545 new technical educational institutions to offer courses from 2010-11 academic session. The decision was taken at a executive council meeting of the body.
The sanction comes after the AICTE revamped its approval system. The 545 new technical educational institutions will offer professional courses including engineering, management and MCA, from 2010-11 academic session onwards.
Sources stated that this approval has added up to one lakh seats in various streams while the number of technical institutes in the country has increased to 7,906. Of the 545 approved institutes, nearly 60 per cent are in management followed by 30 per cent in engineering and the rest in architecture, pharmacy and hotel management, sources said.
Sources stated that a total of 2,176 new institutions had applied for approval from AICTE this year of which nearly 1,600 applications were rejected. “These institutes were found lacking in several counts. Some of them did not meet the minimum requirement of infrastructure,” sources stated. The AICTE had given approval to 1,131 new institutes in 2009.
Incidentally, the AICTE, which has been in news for wrong reasons, has revamped its approval system from this year. It shifted to online registration process and relaxed land requirements for new institutes.
AICTE had recently launched a web portal which acts as a single window system for processing of the applications of the institutions.
Aspiring institutes had applied through the web portal and a committee from AICTE inspected the institutes. On the basis of report of the committee, the executive council gave approval to these institutes.
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