The recommendation is to not allow setting up of new technical colleges from next year. It will be applicable for at least two years ANIL SAHASRABUDHE, Chairman, AICTE
An expert committee set up by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has recommended that vacant seats in traditional engineering programmes be transferred to new-age courses.
The recently-constituted panel has said that vacant seats in traditional engineering programmes, such as mechanical, electrical, civil and electronics, be transferred to new-age courses such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud computing, machine learning, data science and analytics and robotics.
After refusing to initiate a blanket ban on setting up of new engineering institutes in the country, the committee has recommended that AICTE do just that, starting 2020.
The aim is to reduce the number of vacant seats and bridge the gap between the demand and supply of seats in various engineering programmes.
“The top recommendation is to not allow setting up of new technical colleges from next year, with a one-year warning starting now. The ban has been recommended for 2020, keeping in mind that the state must have already received applications and started work on it for this year,” said Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, AICTE.
He added that the council has forwarded the recommendations to their legal team before implementing it. “The ban, starting 2020, will be applicable for at least two years,” he said.
“Institutes with increasing vacant seats should be urged to convert current capacity in traditional courses into those under the new and emerging disciplines,” states the 41-page recommendation report of
The committee, headed by B V R Mohan Reddy, industry expert and chairman of the IIT-Hyderabad Board of Governors, was set up around four months ago.
This move came after rising vacancies forced the Directorates of Technical Education of six states to request AICTE to not approve any new engineering institutes in their states.
While the AICTE allowed the ban for the 2018-19 academic year, they wanted to lift the ban for 2019-20 and instead introduce a more permanent solution to the problem of seat vacancy.
However, by July 2018, AICTE officials were convinced that a blanket ban was not an adequate solution. “The Reddy Committee report has highlighted how a complete ban on new institutes is the only way to ensure that the gap between demand for and supply of engineering seats decreases. We will then identify key areas and implement a fiveyear plan to set up new institutes in those areas,” added Sahasrabudhe.
Source | Hindustan Times | 4th January 2019
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