All India Council for Technical Education caught in a cleft

Every year on August 1, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the country’s technical education regulator, gets busy sorting applications and granting approvals to edu-preneuers to set up new institutions. This year, however, a Supreme Court verdict has left the AICTE wondering if it can begin the process at all. AICTE’s confusion is only adding to the woes of India’s technical education sector. Technical education, a segment which has one-fourth of all Indian students enrolled and contributes five points to the 19 per cent gross enrolment ratio, does not currently know the direction it is headed.

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