Aicte Admission Norms For Unaided Tech Colleges

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), in an interim policy pronouncement, has stipulated that unaided technical education colleges, whether minority or non-minority, should join the central or state's common entrance test for filling seats.

Consequent to the Supreme Court judgement, delivered on October 31, 2002, in the TMA Pai Foundation V/s state of Karnataka, the council, in a policy resolution stated that all self-financing AICTE- approved institutions must join the test to ensure a transparent admission process.

The decision will put a break to the plans of some of the minority institutions which are toying with an idea to conduct their own entrance tests and makes it mandatory that these institutions should make admissions based on Eamcet alone.

 

The guidelines have also stipulated that the present 50 per cent management quota for minority institutions shall be replaced by new per centage to be fixed by concerned state government according to its local needs.

The council asked the state governments to declare the list of minority technical education institutions based on minority population and their educational needs to enable such institutions to avail the benefit of minority management quota.

As a major step to curtail the malpractices of some of the minority institutions, the council stated that, in fixing the quota for minority students in minority institutions, the state governments shall be guided by the per centage of minority students actually admitted by the institution in the last 5 years.

It made clear that admission, even against minority seats should be done as per inter-se-seniority determined in all India or state level test. The council has prescribed a 15 per cent maximum limit under the management quota in case of non-minority technical education institutions with effect from academic year 2003-04.

In the event of the management quota not being filled up, the vacant seats may be reverted back to general seats to be filled up through state counselling along with other candidates. The council has also reminded that the Supreme Court judgement ordered that no institution should charge capitation fee.

Since the objective of setting up an institution is by definition charitable, it is clear that the institutions cannot charge such a fee.