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Related Section(s)(1) With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, there shall be established a Council by the name of the All India
Council for Technical Education.
(2) The Council shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to contract and shall by the said name sue and be sued. (3) The head office of the Council shall be at Delhi and the Council may, with the previous approval of the Central Government, establish offices at other places in India. (4) The Council shall consist of the following members, namely:-- (a) a Chairman to be appointed by the Central Government; (b) a Vice-Chairman to be appointed by the Central Government; (c) the Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of the Central Government dealing with education, ex officio; (d) the Educational Adviser (General) to the Government of India, ex officio; (e) the Chairmen of the four Regional Committees, ex officio; (f) the Chairmen of,-- (i) the All India Board of Vocational Education, ex officio; (ii) the All India Board of Technician Education, ex officio; (iii) the All India Board of Under-graduate Studies in Engineering and Technology, ex officio; (iv) the All India Board of Post-graduate Education and Research in Engineering and Technology, ex officio; (v) the All India Board of Management Studies, ex officio; (g) one member to be appointed by the Central Government to represent the Ministry of Finance of the Central Government; (h) one member to be appointed by the Central Government to represent the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Central Government; (i) four members to be appointed by the Central Government by rotation to represent the Ministries and the Departments of the Central Government, other than those specified in clauses (g) and (h); (j) two members of Parliament of whom one shall be elected by the House of the People and one by the Council of States; (k) eight members to be appointed by the Central Government by rotation in the alphabetical order to represent the States and the Union territories: Provided that an appointment under this clause shall be made on the recommendation of the Government of the State, or as the case may be, the Union territory concerned; (l) four members to be appointed by the Central Government to represent the organisations in the field of industry and commerce; (m) seven members to be appointed by the Central Government to represent,-- (i) the Central Advisory Board of Education; (ii) the Association of Indian Universities; (iii) the Indian Society for Technical Education; (iv) the Council of the Indian Institutes of Technology; (v) the Pharmacy Council of India; (vi) the Council of Architecture; (vii) the National Productivity Council; (n) four members to be appointed by the Central Government to represent the professional bodies in the field of technical and management education; (o) not more than two members to be appointed by the Central Government to represent such interests not covered by the foregoing clauses as the Central Government may deem fit; (p) the Chairman, University Grants Commission, ex officio; (q) the Director, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi, ex officio; (r) the Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, ex officio; (s) the Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, ex officio; (t) Member-Secretary to be appointed by the Central Government. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4),-- (a) the first Chairman shall be the Minister of Human Resource Development of the Central Government; (b) the first Vice-Chairman of the Council shall be the Minister of State for Education of the Central Government; (c) the first Member-Secretary of the Council shall be the Educational Adviser (Technical) of the Central Government. It shall be the duty of the Council to take all such steps as it may think
fit for ensuring coordinated and integrated development of technical education and maintenance of standards
and for the purposes of performing its functions under this Act, the Council may--
(a) undertake survey in the various fields of technical education, collect data on all related matters and make forecast of the needed growth and development in technical education; (b) coordinate the development of technical education in the country at all levels; (c) allocate and disburse out of the Fund of the Council such grants on such terms and conditions as it may think fit to-- (i) technical institutions, and (ii) Universities imparting technical education in coordination with the Commission; (d) promote innovations research and development in established and new technologies, generation, adoption and adaptation of new technologies to meet developmental requirements and for overall improvement of educational processes; (e) formulate schemes for promoting technical education for women, handicapped and weaker sections of the society; (f) promote an effective link between technical education system and other relevant systems including research and development organisations, industry and the community; (g) evolve suitable performance appraisal systems for technical institutions and Universities imparting technical education, incorporating norms and mechanisms for enforcing accountability; (h) formulate schemes for the initial and in-service training of teachers and identify institutions or centres and set up new centres for offering staff development programmes including continuing education of teachers; (i) lay down norms and standards for courses, curricula, physical and instructional facilities, staff pattern, staff qualifications, quality instructions, assessment and examinations; (j) fix norms and guidelines for charging tuition and other fees; (k) grant approval for starting new technical institutions and for introduction of new courses or programmes in consultation with the agencies concerned; (l) advise the Central Government in respect of grant of charter to any professional body or institution in the field of technical education conferring powers, rights and privileges on it for the promotion of such profession in its field including conduct of examinations and awarding of membership certificates; (m) lay down norms for granting autonomy to technical institutions; (n) take all necessary steps to prevent commercialisation of technical education; (o) provide guidelines for admission of students to technical institutions and Universities imparting technical education; (p) inspect or cause to inspect any technical institution; (q) withhold or discontinue grants in respect of courses, programmes to such technical institutions which fail to comply with the directions given by the Council within the stipulated period of time and take such other steps as may be necessary for ensuring compliance of the directions of the Council; (r) take steps to strengthen the existing organisations, and to set up new organisations to ensure effective discharge of the Councils responsibilities and to create positions of professional, technical and supporting staff based on requirements; (s) declare technical institutions at various levels and types offering courses in technical education fit to receive grants; (t) advise the Commission for declaring any institution imparting technical education as a deemed University; (u) set up a National Board of Accreditation to periodically conduct evaluation of technical institutions or programmes on the basis of guidelines, norms and standards specified by it and to make recommendation to it, or to the Council, or to the Commission or to other bodies, regarding recognition or de-recognition of the institution or the programme; (v) perform such other functions as may be prescribed. (1) For the purposes of ascertaining the financial needs of technical institution or a
University or its standards of teaching, examination and research, the Council may cause an inspection of any
department or departments of such technical institution or University to be made in such manner as may be
prescribed and by such person or persons as it may direct.
(2) The Council shall communicate to the technical institution or University the date on which any inspection under sub-section (1) is to be made and the technical institution or University shall be entitled to be associated with the inspection in such manner as may be prescribed. (3) The Council shall communicate to the technical institution or the University, its views in regard to the results of any such inspection and may, after ascertaining the opinion of that technical institution or University, recommend to that institution or University the action to be taken as a result of such inspection. (4) All communications to a technical institution or University under this section shall be made to the executive authority thereof and the executive authority of the technical institution or University shall report to the Council the action, if any, which is proposed to be taken for the purposes of implementing any such recommendation as is referred to in sub-section (3). In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "Commission" means the University Grants Commission established under section 4 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956); (b) "Council" means the All India Council for Technical Education established under section 3; (c) "Fund" means the Fund of the Council constituted under section 16; (d) "member" means a member of the Council and includes the Chairman and Vice-Chairman; (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (f) "regulations" means regulations made under this Act; (g) "technical education" means programmes of education, research and training in engineering technology, architecture, town planning, management, pharmacy and applied arts and crafts and such other programme or areas as the Central Government may, in consultation with the Council, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare; (h) "technical institution" means an institution, not being a University, which offers courses or programmes of technical education, and shall include such other institutions as the Central Government may, in consultation with the Council, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare as technical institutions; (i) "University" means a University defined under clause (f) of section 2 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956) and includes an institution deemed to be a University under section 3 of that Act. (1) The Council may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make
regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and the rules generally to carry out the purposes
of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such regulations may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) regulating the meetings of the Council and the procedure for conducting business thereat; (b) the terms and conditions of service of the officers and employees of the Council; (c) regulating the meetings of the Executive Committee and the procedure for conducting business thereat; (d) the area of concern, the constitution, and powers and functions of the Board of Studies; (e) the region for which the Regional Committee be established and the constitution and functions of such Committee. (1) The Council shall establish the following Regional Committees,
namely:--
(i) The Northern Regional Committee with its office at Kanpur; (ii) The Southern Regional Committee with its office at Madras; (iii) The Western Regional Committee with its office at Bombay; (iv) The Eastern Regional Committee with its office at Calcutta. (2) The Council may, if it considers necessary, establish such other Regional Committees as it may think fit. (3) The Regional Committee shall advise and assist the Council to look into all aspects of planning, promoting and regulating technical education within the region. (4) The region for which the Regional Committees may be established and the constitution and functions of such Committees shall be prescribed by regulation. |
