Bengaluru: In a major push to provide autonomy to affiliated colleges across the country, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani announced here on Tuesday that affiliated colleges that have obtained the highest grade from NAC in the past 10 years will be given autonomous status.
Inaugurating a conference organised by the Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI) here, Ms Irani said, “I am in a position to declare that the colleges that make the cut if should get an NOC from the affiliating state Universities and they would be given the autonomous status.”
She said, “Karnataka Higher Education Minister T.B. Jayachandra has supported the move. The decision will give greater push for higher education.”
She said AICTE has done away with the licence-raj system while giving approvals to engineering colleges. “If an institution gets accreditation for five years, the same approval will be extended for another five yars,” she said.
