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All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is a national-level Apex Advisory Body that was established in November 1945 with an aim to conduct a survey on the facilities and provisions available for technical education in the institutes. The council aims to encourage India’s development in an integrated and coordinated manner. It comes under the Department of higher education and received a statutory status by an Act of Parliament in the year 1987. AICTE takes complete care of the planning and development of technical education in the institutes of the country.

AICTE :-

The AICTE Act was constituted to provide for the establishment of an All India Council for Technical Education with a view to proper planning and co-ordinated development of a technical education system throughout the country, the promotion of qualitative improvements of such education in relation to planned.

AICTE as a body is responsible for accrediting all postgraduate and graduate programs, under specific categories of technology for Indian institutions. This is its major point of difference with UGC (University Grants Commission) as UGC only accredits non-technical education in India. It is primarily the accrediting authority for institutions, including schools and colleges giving diplomas, undergraduate and postgraduate education.

AICTE has its Eight sub Departments:

1. Administrative Bureau
2. Academic Bureau
3. Engineering & Tech Bureau
4. Finance Bureau
5. Management and Technology Bureau
6. Planning and Coordination Bureau
7. Quality Assurance Bureau
8. Research & Institutional Development Bureau.

Roles and Responsibilities of AICTE in Technical Education :-

1. AICTE approves the upgrades in institutes such as the launch of new courses, an extension of the existing institutes, and the continuation of approval after having a break in the preceding academic year.
2. The council permits the establishment of new technical institutes in the country that would offer technical courses at different levels such as Degree, Diploma, Post Diploma, PG, PG Diploma, and PG.
3. Further, the AICTE also has to give approval for changing the site or location for technical education in the country.
4. Further, the AICTE also gives permission for the closure of the institutes if they apply for it.
5. AICTE also helps to reduce or increase the intake, courses, first and regular shifts in the existing technical institutes.
6. AICTE India grants approval to the institutes that wish to convert Women's institutions into CO-Ed colleges and vice versa.

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