Public Notice The Honble Supreme Court of India in its judgment and orders delivered on April 25,

2013 in Civil Appeal No. 1145 of 2004 and Civil Appeal No. 5736-5745 of 2004 has ruled that

colleges affiliated to a University do not come under the purview of the definition of Technical

Institution as defined under Section 2(h) of the AICTE Act, 1987. However the Supreme Court

of India in its subsequent judgments on April 17, 2014, May 9, 2014 and December 15, 2014

Making prior approval of AICTE compulsory and mandatory for conduct of a technical course

including the MBA/ Management course by an existing affiliated Technical College and also

new Technology College which will require affiliation by a University for conduct of its

Technical Courses/ Programmes for the academic year 2014-15 and 2015-16. Under the

circumstances, it has become imperative for the AICTE to evolve a suitable methodology to

ensure the timely processing of approvals for the existing Technical Institutions for A.Y. 2016-17

so as to adhere to the Academic calendar as per the judgment of Honble Supreme court of

India in C.A NO. 9048 OF 2012 dated December 13, 2012 .Therefore, AICTE has posted

Approval Process handbook 2015-16 on its website with a view to soliciting

comments/suggestions from the existing Technical Institutions as well as other stakeholders on

the following points:

1. Difficulties being faced in filling up the Applications online.

2. Difficulties being faced in understanding the Regulations/Procedures/Norms of AICTE.

3. Changes proposed to be made in the Approval Process for improvement of the system for granting approvals for maintaining better transparency/accountability.

4. Any other suggestions not covered above.

You are requested to send your comments/suggestions to aphsuggestions2016-

17@aicte-india.org by 04.09.2015.