AICTE approves 545 new technical institutes

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Nitesh Prakash

30 June, 2010

The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has approved 545 new technical educational institutions to offer professional courses including engineering, management and MCA, from 2010-11 academic session onwards.

THE ALL India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has approved 545 new technical educational institutions to offer professional courses including engineering, management and MCA, from 2010-11 academic session onwards. The institutes can start offering courses from the session commencing from July.

Out 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. At present 7,361 technical educational institutions are offering courses to nearly eight lakh students every year. A total of 2,176 new institutions had applied for approval from AICTE this year. Nearly 1,600 applications were rejected after the institutes were found lacking in several counts.

Some of the institutions did not meet the minimum requirement of land and infrastructure while other few applicant institutions did not pursue their request for approval.

AICTE has launched a new web portal which acts as a single window system for processing of the applications of the institutions for approval. The 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.

Good news for engineering course aspirants in the state who are seeking seats through the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA).

"It was decided at the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) general council meeting that was held at New Delhi on Monday to grant approval to all the existing 167 engineering colleges in Karnataka.In all, the colleges would offer about 36,000 seats in the counselling.“We tried our level best and I don’t think any of the institutions in the state will be in trouble. The council has published information about new engineering colleges too,” said an AICTE official.