Elated with the Supreme Court judgement declaring that the private colleges conducting MBS, MCA courses do not come under the purview of the All India Council of Technical Education Management’s (AICTE), the IIPM Director Arindham Chaudhari has criticised the body for approving outdated curriculum, old-traditional style of teaching with a zero personality development.
He said the judement was a rightful blow to the AICTE that has illegally stifled the spread of education in various ways. “We are extremely proud of the world-class education and faculty we have set up in these four decades which is comparable to the best in the world, miles ahead of the extremely low standards set by the UGC-AICTE combine. The standard of education they created in the nation is shamful,” he said, adding that if one does the reality check of the AICTE approved institutes there’s hardly any global exposure in today’s shrinking world.
A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice BS Chauhan and V Gopala held that the MBA course is not a technical course within the definition of the AICTE Act and approval from this body is not required for obtaining permission and running MBA course by the appellent colleges.
With respect to the institutes conducting MCA courses, the division bench said that though MCA was a technical course, the AICTE had no business to lay down standards as for this purpose, the Parliament had already enacted the UGC Act.