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AICTE - All India Council for Technical Education

In accordance with the provisions of the AICTE Act (1987), for the first five years after its inception in 1988, the Minister for Human Resource Development, the Government of India, was the Chairman of the Council. The first full-time Chairman was appointed on July 2, 1993, and the Council was reconstituted in March 1994 with a term of three years. The Executive Committee was re-constituted on July 7, 1994, and All India Board of Studies and Advisory Boards were constituted in 1994-95. Regional Offices of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Government of India, located in Kolkata, Chennai, Kanpur, and Mumbai were transferred to AICTE, and the staff working in these offices were also deputed to the Council on foreign service terms w.e.f. October 1, 1995.

These offices functioned as secretariats of regional Committees in the four regions (North, East, West, and South). Three new regional Committees in southwest, central, and northwest regions with their secretariats located in Bangalore, Bhopal, and Chandigarh, respectively, were also established on July 27, 1994. One more regional committee in the South-Central region with its Secretariat in Hyderabad was notified on March 8, 2007.

Our Vision

“To be a world-class organization leading technological and socio-economic development of the country by enhancing the global competitiveness of technical manpower and by ensuring high-quality technical education to all sections of the society.”

Our Mission

A true facilitator and an objective regulator;

Transparent governance and accountable approach towards the society;

Planned and coordinated the development of Technical Education in the country by ensuring world-class standards of institutions through accreditation;

Emphasis on developing high-quality institutions, academic excellence, and innovative research and development programs;

Networking with/ or a network of institutions for optimum resource utilization;

Dissemination of knowledge;

Technology forecasting and global manpower planning;

Promoting industry-institution interaction for developing new products, services, and patents;

Inculcating entrepreneurship;

Encouraging Indigenous technology;

Focusing on non-formal education;

Providing affordable education to all;

Making Technical Education in India globally acceptable;

Initial Set-up

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was set up in November 1945 as a national-level apex advisory body to conduct a survey on the facilities available for technical education and to promote development in the country in a coordinated and integrated manner. And to ensure the same, as stipulated in the National Policy of Education (1986), AICTE was vested with:

Statutory authority for planning, formulation, and maintenance of norms & standards

Quality assurance through accreditation

Funding in priority areas, monitoring, and evaluation

Maintaining parity of certification & awards

The management of technical education in the country

Role of National Working Group

The Government of India (the Ministry of Human Resource Development) also constituted a National Working Group to look into the role of AICTE in the context of proliferation of technical institutions, maintenance of standards, and other related matters. The Working Group recommended that AICTE be vested with the necessary statutory authority for making it more effective, which would consequently require restructuring and strengthening with the necessary infrastructure and operating mechanisms.

The All India Council For Technical Education Act 1987

(No 52 of 1987 as passed by both the Houses of Parliament)

The AICTE Act was constituted to provide for the establishment of an All India Council for Technical Education with a view to proper planning and coordinated development of a technical education system throughout the country, the promotion of qualitative improvements of such education in relation to planned quantitative growth, and regulation & proper maintenance of norms and standards in the technical education system and for the matters connected therewith.