27-668: The All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ) is a statutory body, and a national-level council for technical education, under the Department of Higher Education . Established in November 1945 first as an advisory body, which was given statutory status by an Act of Parliament in 1987, the AICTE is responsible for proper planning and coordinated development of the technical education and management education system in India . It
54-466: A State Statistics Handbook that consolidates key statistics across sectors for every Indian State/UT. While the State data on crucial indicators is currently fragmented across different sources, this handbook provides a one-stop database of important State statistics. NITI Aayog has taken initiative on blockchain usages in e-governance and has conceptualized the tech stack as 'India Chain'. India Chain
81-621: A chief executive officer, four ex-officio members, and three part-time members. On 29 May 2014, the Independent Evaluation Office submitted an assessment report to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the recommendation to replace the Planning Commission with a "control commission." On 13 /8/ 2014, the Union Cabinet scrapped the Planning Commission (India), to be replaced with a diluted version of
108-589: A new body called Heera (Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency (HEERA)) This has been done in a bid to simplify the excessive regulations that exist due to both these bodies. According to the draft of law backed on the ideas of NITI Aayog and the Prime Minister Office, the National Council for Teacher Education was also planned to be subsumed by HEERA. Department of Higher Education (India) Department of Higher Education
135-488: A series of lectures started with first lecture delivered by Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam . He delivered lecture on subject called "India and the Global Economy" at Vigyan Bhavan , New Delhi . The Prime Minister spoke about the idea behind this lecture series and stated that his vision for India is rapid transformation, not gradual evolution. On 31 August 2017, NITI Aayog developed
162-613: 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. The AICTE has its new headquarters building in Delhi on the Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110 067, which has
189-446: Is obsolete. It cannot make India competitive in today's global economy." NITI Aayog has started a new initiative on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi called NITI Lectures: Transforming India . The aim of this initiative is to invite globally reputed policy makers, experts, administrators to India to share their knowledge, expertise, experience in policy making and good governance with Indian counterparts. This initiative will be
216-725: Is the bureau head who is assisted by technical officers and other supporting staff. The multidiscipline technical officer and staff of the Council are on deputation (the tenure staff uses their addresses ending in aicteindia.co.in) or on contract from government departments, University Grants Commission, academic institutions, etc. Growth of Technical Institutions in the Country Growth of Seats in different Programs in Technical Institutions In 2016, three important initiatives were taken up by AICTE. First one
243-483: Is the department under Ministry of Education , that oversees higher education in India . The department is empowered to grant deemed university status to educational institutions on the advice of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India, under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956 . The department is divided into eight bureaus , and most of the work of
270-557: Is the name given to NITI Aayog's ambitious project to develop a nationwide blockchain network. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, blockchain and big data hold potential to take India to new heights The vision is to link IndiaChain with IndiaStack, the digital infrastructure that forms the backbone of the Aadhaar project. The NITI Aayog initiative on the blockchain system will enforce contracts quicker, prevent fraudulent transactions, and help farmers through
297-476: The All India Council for Technical Education, 1987 , the AICTE is vested with statutory authority for planning, formulation and maintenance of norms and standards, quality assurance through school accreditation , funding in priority areas, monitoring and evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards and ensuring coordinated and integrated development and management of technical education in
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#1732775532144324-595: The National Advisory Council (NAC) of India which was established by the UPA government. On 1 January 2015, a Cabinet resolution was passed to replace the Planning Commission with the newly formed NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). The Union Government of India announced the formation of NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015. The first meeting of NITI Aayog was chaired by Narendra Modi on 8 February 2015. Finance Minister during that time made
351-666: The Union Minister of Education formally communicated his intentions of closing down AICTE and related body, the University Grants Commission (UGC). This later led to reforms in the way the AICTE approves institutes, and to establishing the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) as an independent body. On 6 June 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the AICTE along with the University Grants Commission would be scrapped and replaced by
378-747: The country. NITI Aayog launched the Behavioural Insights Unit (NITI-BIU) in partnership with the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in November 2019. It is an independent unit under the office of the CEO of NITI Aayog, aimed at enhancing the design and delivery of public policy in India. NITI-BIU has worked with various Government ministries to leverage behavioural science to improve policy outcomes. It
405-464: The country. In the words of the Act itself: To provide for establishment of an All India council for Technical Education with a view to the proper planning and co-ordinated development of the technical education system throughout the country, the promotion of qualitative improvement of such education in relation to planned quantitative growth and the regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in
432-614: The department is handled through over 100 autonomous organisations under these bureaus: Others: NITI Aayog The NITI Aayog ( lit. ' Policy Commission ' ; abbreviation for National Institution for Transforming India ) serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of the Republic of India , and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development, and fostering cooperative federalism and moving away from bargaining federalism through
459-415: The development of a transshipment terminal with a greenfield international airport, townships and solar and gas-based power plants, and has faced substantial backlash from indigenous Shompen and Nicobarese communities who fear displacement. The proposed plan is expected to impose significant ecological pressure on the island, its wildlife and its surroundings. The Student Entrepreneurship Programme (SEP) 1.0
486-497: The efficient disbursement of subsidies. This project is the first step to a larger system of record keeping and public good disbursement. NITI Aayog is developing a job portal to connect employers with workers who have returned to their home states due to nationwide lockdown. The NITI Aayog has developed a Rs 75,000 crore vision for the industrial development of Great Nicobar Islands in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The plan entails
513-416: The following observation on the necessity of creating NITI Aayog, "The 65-year-old Planning Commission had become a redundant organization. It was relevant in a command economy structure, but not any longer. India is a diversified country and its states are in various phases of economic development along with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this context, a ‘one size fits all’ approach to economic planning
540-983: The involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach . Its initiatives include "15-year road map", "7-year vision, strategy, and action plan", AMRUT , Digital India , Atal Innovation Mission, Medical Education Reform, agriculture reforms (Model Land Leasing Law, Reforms of the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act, Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index for ranking states), Indices Measuring States’ Performance in Health, Education and Water Management, Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan , Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Skill Development, Task Forces on Agriculture and up of Poverty, and Transforming India Lecture Series. It
567-597: The offices of the chairman, vice-chairman and the member secretary, plus it has regional offices at Kanpur, Chandigarh, Gurugram, Mumbai, Bhopal, Vadodara, Kolkata, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram. In its 25 April 2013 judgment, the Supreme Court said "as per provisions of the AICTE Act and University Grants Commission (UGC) Act , the council has no authority which empowers it to issue or enforce any sanctions on colleges affiliated with
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#1732775532144594-562: The technical education system and for matters connected therewith. The AICTE is composed of the e-Governance, Approval, Planning and Coordination, Academic, University, Administration, Finance, and Research, Institutional and Faculty Development Bureaus. There are 10 additional Board Studies dealing with technician, vocational, undergraduate engineering, postgraduate engineering and research, architecture, town and country planning, pharmacy, management, applied arts and crafts, hotel management and catering technology education. For each bureau, adviser
621-547: The universities as its role is to provide only guidance and recommendations." Subsequently, AICTE was getting approval from the Supreme court to regulate technical colleges on a year to year basis till January 2016, when AICTE got blanket approval for publishing the Approval Process Handbook and approve technical colleges including management for the session 2016-17 and in all future sessions." According to
648-433: Was a responsibility given by MHRD to evolve a national MOOCs platform SWAYAM. Second one is that of launching a Smart India Hackathon-2017 challenging the young bright talented students of technical colleges to solve the 598 problems of 29 different Government departments. Third one is that of launching of an AICTE's Student Start up Policy by Hon. President on 16 Nov, during visitors conference from rashtrapati Bhavan. In 2009,
675-436: Was conceived under the guidance of Amitabh Kant , and the founding team includes Archna Vyas from BMGF, Pavan Mamidi from CSBC, and Pramath Sinha , the founder of Ashoka University. The BIU was inaugurated in the presence of Bill Gates, the founder of BMGF. The NITI-BIU has launched several initiatives since, in partnership with various state governments: The NITI Aayog comprises the following: . Ex-officio chairperson
702-700: Was established in 2015, by the NDA government, to replace the Planning Commission which followed a top-down model . The NITI Aayog council comprises all the state Chief Ministers , along with the Chief Ministers of Delhi and Puducherry , Lieutenant Governors of all UTs, and a vice-chairman nominated by the Prime Minister. In addition, temporary members are selected from leading universities and research institutions. These members include
729-746: Was launched in 2019 while the SEP 2.0 launched in 2020 aimed to convert the grassroot innovations of Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) students into end products. The SEP 2.0 which was launched in 2020 provided the opportunity to the students of ATL to work with Dell volunteers and to get mentor support, end user feedback, manufacturing support and launch support of their products in the market. The scheme would be launched and run by "Atal Innovation Mission" (AIM) under NITI Aayog in association with Dell technologies. In September 2021, NITI Aayog in association with [oyo] launched an initiative to provide free tech-driven learning programmes to engineering aspirants from 112 districts of
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