CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -By doing so, AICTE has accepted the recommendations of a government committee, headed by IIT-Hyderabad chairman B V R Mohan Reddy that had advised the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to stop setting up new colleges from 2020 and review the creation of new capacity every two years after that.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was in this period that the National Policy on Education-1986 made a specific mention of the need to make AICTE a statutory body and stated: Even earlier, the Education Commission of 1964.

Detailed explanation-3: -In accordance with the provisions of the AICTE Act (1987), for the first five years after its inception in 1988, the Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India was the Chairman of the Council.

Detailed explanation-4: -Welcome to AICTE All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was set up in November 1945 as a national-level Apex Advisory Body to conduct a survey on the facilities available for technical education and to promote development in the country in a coordinated and integrated manner.