Starting now, private colleges in India will no longer require approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to run their Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses.
Starting now, private colleges in India will no longer require approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to run their Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that MBA and MCA course are no longer in the council’s ambit.
Justice BS Chauhan and V Gopala ruled that MBA is not a technical course within the definition of the AICTE act. According to the ruling, “approval from the AICTE is not required for obtaining permission and running an MBA course by the appellant colleges”.
The court held that MCA was a technical course but ruled that the AICTE had no business laying down standards for the course as the UGC act is already in place for the same. The AICTE’s role was advisory and it could only impose uniform standards of education in affiliated colleges of a university by putting a note to the UGC, the bench said.
The verdict has left AICTE red-faced which previously made it mandatory for colleges running MBA/MCA courses affiliated to any university to seek its prior permission. At present, 3,858 Management Institutes (with 3.7 lakh seats) and 1,937 MCA colleges (with 1.9 lakh seats) across India have been approved by the council.
In what could be bad news, the move could also lead to further mushrooming of private institutions offering the courses in India as there would be no quality check measures in place. Several colleges are currently in the process of acquiring approval. The decision will make the process invalid as those colleegs can go ahead with the courses without prior ground inspections. Several controversial institutions who either failed to get AICTE approval owing to poor infrastructure or didn’t apply fearing rejection, will get newfound freedom with this decision. In fact, hotel management and other applied courses may go the same way.
Expressing his dissent, SS Mantha, chairman of AICTE said, “We will file a review petition this week. Something that is being done for several years cannot suddenly become wrong after a decision. There could be tremendous exploitation and unstructured growth. We don’t want that to happen.”
AICTE
The AICTE was formed in 1945 to regulate technical schools. The body was given statutory power by AICTE act of the parliament in 1987. It currently controls engineering, pharmacy, architecture, management, MCA, applied arts and crafts, town planning and hotel management institutes across the country.
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