AICTE To Tread e-Governance Path

To ensure transparency in the functioning of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), whose top brass is facing corruption cases, the government will make it mandatory for the agency to display information online about progress in the applications of institutes for approval or accreditation.

The government is set to launch an e-governance system in the AICTE under which the representatives of institutes will not have to come to the agency's office to track their cases.

Under the e-governance project, any institute can know online the status of its application pertaining to approval for new courses, increasing intake of existing programmes or accreditation to its programmes.

"The purpose is to bring transparency in the system. By this e-governance system, every institute will be able to track the progress in their applications online. They need not come to the AICTE office. This will help reduce corruption," a source said. (PTI)

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