The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has decided that the new draft regulations for technical institutions brought by the University Grants Commission (UGC) will not apply to the autonomous institutions. The government was facing resistance from private colleges since the UGC came with the draft guidelines last month for the oversight of technical institutes.
The draft guidelines were announced by the UGC on 5 December and updated on 23 December to regulate all technical colleges after the Supreme Court on 25 April took them out of the regulatory purview of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). As per the draft, independent B-Schools, which follow their own curriculum and set their own course fees, were also required to obey the guidelines and seek affiliation to universities that function under the UGC and adopt their syllabus.
Their inclusion provoked protests from administrators of these institutes, who argued that the quality of their courses, including the Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme, would be compromised and the career prospects of their students harmed. “We have withdrawn our guidelines to regulate PGDM schools,” UGC chairman Ved Prakash said. “Though we have made some progress, we have now decided to keep all diploma programmes out of our regulatory purview. Business schools providing PGDM will no more come under our supervision.”
“They will run as they used to be earlier,” Prakash said about the functioning of these B-Schools, reported Live Mint.
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