[Assam] 545 new technical institutes given approval to offer courses.

[Buljit Buragohain]

545 new technical institutes given 
approval to offer coursesPTI,  Jun 29, 
2010, 08.49pm IST


NEW
 DELHI: The All India 
Council of
Technical Education, which has revamped its approval system, on Tuesday 
allowed
545 new technical educational institutions to offer professional courses
including engineering, management and MCA, from 2010-11 academic session
onwards.



 The approval by the AICTE executive council will see the
total seats in various streams go up by one lakh and the number of 
technical
institutes in the country touching 7906, official sources said.



 Out
of the 545 approved institutes, nearly 60 per cent are in management 
followed by
30 per cent in engineering and the rest in architecture, pharmacy and 
hotel
management, the sources said.



 At present 7,361 technical educational
institutions are offering courses to nearly eight lakh students every
year.



 A total of 2,176 new institutions had applied for approval from
AICTE this year. Nearly 1,600 applications were rejected after the 
institutes
were found lacking in several counts, sources said.



 "Some of the
institutions did not meet the minimum requirement of land and building 
while
another few applicant institutions did not pursue their request for 
approval,"
they said.



 The institutes can start offering courses from the session
commencing from July.



 The AICTE had given approval to 1131 new
institutes last year.



 Incidentally, the AICTE, which has been in news
for wrong reasons, has revamped its approval system from this year. It 
shifted
to online registration process and relaxed land requirements for new
institutes.



 AICTE has launched a new web portal which acts as a
single window system for processing of the applications of the 
institutions for
approval.



 The aspiring institutes had applied through the web portal
and a committee from AICTE inspected the institutes. On the basis of 
report of
the committee, the executive council gave approval to these institutes.

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