AICTE releases approval process handbook

AICTE releases approval process handbook

PUNE: The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has released the approval process handbook for the academic year 2020-21 on Wednesday. 

The 315 pages revised handbook has mentions of several additions and amendments including a timely salary of teaching faculty, the teacher and student ratio and permission of new courses among other topics.

FACULTY SERVICES
In the past two years, several faculty members of different engineering colleges had approached AICTE complaining on the pending salary issues. The council in its revised handbook has instructed the institutions to use the mechanism Electronic Clearing Service through nationalised banks to ensure the timely and complete payment of the salary. 

AICTE has also underlined the permissible maximum limit of approved intake for adjunct faculty or resource person in academic programmes like design (20 per cent), architecture (25 per cent) and planning (30 per cent) at the colleges, as per the guidelines.

For other programmes, the limit is set up to 10 per cent approved intake of adjunct faculty, but only if there are conditions like relieving/retirement of faculty members or delay in faculty recruitment-- the institution can avail the facility, stated the council. 

TEACHER-STUDENT RATIO
The teacher and students ratio for engineering and technology in undergraduate (UG) course has remained same 1:20 as like previous year, while for postgraduate (PG) course it has been set to 1:15. Pharmacy will have 1:15 in UG and 1:10 for MPharm and 1:15 for DPharm courses.

In the integrated planning course, faculty requirement is 1:16 for the first three years and 1:10 for the next two years. However, institutions deemed to be universities/ institutions having accreditation/ autonomy status shall have faculty:student as 1:15 and maintain a better cadre ratio in order to achieve excellence in technical education.

EMERGING COURSES
In order to maintain the quality of education, 60 per cent of the eligible courses in any technical institution should be accredited for the next three years’ time, otherwise, the council has stated extension of approval (EoA) will not be issued. Also, in view of the national perspective plan, the council will permit the existing colleges, those intending to introduce new courses-- can start courses in emerging areas only.

AICTE Chairman Anil Sahasrabudhe in his visit to Pune had also mentioned that colleges with enrollments less than 30 per cent will have a reduction of seats by 50 per cent. 

Institutions having course(s) where admission has been consistently less than or equal to 30 per cent of the initial approved intake for the past five years, the council will reduce 50 per cent of the approved intake in such course(s) for the academic year 2020-21.

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