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• All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

  • The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was set up in 1945 as an advisory body and later on in 1987 given statutory status by an Act of Parliament. The AICTE grants approval for starting new technical institutions, for introduction of new courses and for variation in intake capacity in technical institutions. The AICTE has delegated to the concerned state governments powers to process and grant approval of new institutions, starting new courses and variations in the intake capacity for diploma level technical institutions. It also lays down norms and standards for such institutions. It also ensures quality development of technical education through accreditation of technical institutions or programmes. In additional to its regulatory role, the AICTE also has a promotional role which it implements through schemes for promoting technical education for women, handicapped and weaker section of the society promoting innovations, faculty, research and development, giving grants to technical institutions.

  • The technical institutions under the AICTE include post-graduate, under-graduate and diploma in the whole spectrum of technical education covering engineering/technology, pharmacy, architecture, hotel management and catering technology, management studies computer applications and applied arts and crafts.

  • The AICTE has its headquarters in New Delhi and seven regional offices located at Kolkata, Chennai, Kanpur, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Bhopal and Bangalore. A new regional office at Hyderabad has been set up and is to be operationalised soon. The jurisdiction of the regional offices is as follows:

    Sl. No.	Region	Head Quarters	States
    1.	Northern	Kanpur	Bihar, UP, Uttaranchal
    2.	North-Western	Chandigarh	Chandigarh, Haryana, New Delhi, HP, J&K, Punjab, Rajasthan
    3.	Central	Bhopal	MP. Gujarat
    4..	Western	Mumbai	Maharashtra, Goa, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli
    5.	South-Central	Hyderabad	AP, Chhattisgarh
    6.	South –Western	Bangalore	Kerala, Karnataka, Lakshadweep
    7.	Southern	Chennai	TN, Pondicherry
    8.	Eastern	Kolkata	WB, Orissa, Andaman & Nicobar, Jharkhand, Assam and seven smaller North Eastern States

  • The Council discharges its functions through a 21 member Executive Committee. The Council is assisted by 10 Statutory Boards of Studies, namely, UG Studies in Eng. & Tech., PG and Research in Eng. and Tech., Management Studies, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Pharmaceutical Education, Architecture, Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Information Technology, Town and Country Planning.(http://www.aicte.ernet.in.)

• Council of Architecture.

  • The Council of Architecture (COA) has been constituted by the Government of India under the provisions of the Architects Act, 1972 enacted by the Parliament of India, which came into force on 1st September, 1972. The Act provide for registration of Architects and matters connected therewith. The COA is consulted before any architectural qualification is notified as recognized under the Act by the Central Government. The Council has prescribed the minimum standards of architectural education required for granting recognized qualifications by notifying Council of Architecture Minimum Standards of Architectural Education Regulations, 1983 with prior approval of the Central Government.

  • The Central Government, in exercise of its power as conferred in section 44 of the Architects Act, 1972, made Rules, namely COA Rules 1973, published in the Extra Ordinary Gazette of India Part II, section 3, sub-section (i) on 20.02.1973. These Rules have been amended several times in the past. The Council of Architecture Rules 1973, has recently been amended by notifying the Council of Architecture (Amendment) Rules, 2009 on 1st July, 2009.
    (http://www.coa.gov.in)