AICTE brings management, computer application courses brought its ambit, removes cap on intake for well-performing engineering colleges

AICTE Handbook 2024-27: Existing institutions can increase the intake of students and add additional courses, as per the new plan.

Policy for grant of autonomy to polytechnic colleges has also been introduced.Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh/ representational image

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) today issued the approval process handbook for the 2024-27 academic session. AICTE Chairman, TG Sitharam, while announcing the changes in the approval handbook, said the programmes/ courses in Computer Applications (like BCA) and management (BBA/BMS) have been brought “under the umbrella of AICTE to ensure coordinated development in technical and management education.”

AICTE member secretary Rajive Kumar said that while the council is already regularising computer application and management courses at the postgraduate level, there is no regulation of these courses at the UG level. “These courses were running without any proper regulation. Therefore, it has been decided to bring them under AICTE to ensure quality,” he said.

Moreover, the cap on increasing the intake of students has been removed for “well-performing” engineering institutions from 2024. These institutions will now be able to get approval from AICTE for three years at once. At present, every technical education institute has to reapply for approval every year.

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AICTE will allow the institutions to offer courses in engineering and technology programmes with at least three core branches and one engineering course. Those intending to collaborate for twinning programmes will be permitted to do so with industries and research organisations in specialised and emerging areas in flexible modes and timings.

The handbook is applicable for the next three years.

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Existing institutions can increase the intake of students and add additional courses, as per the new plan. The technical education regulator will allow an increase subject to the fulfilment of infrastructure availabilities, its readiness and filled faculty positions.

At present, colleges are allowed to have a maximum of 240 seats in one branch. The upper limit was introduced following a mismatch between demand and supply.

Sitharam also has announced that from now on all the existing institutions can run vocational courses to create a skilling ecosystem. He further added that the AICTE-approved institutions should devise a mechanism for earning credits through skilling-based courses offered by Skill India and other leading skilling platforms.

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