++ MBA is not a Technical Degree - Supreme Court ++ it declared that the business management studies ought to be part of humanities. “We hold that MBA course is not a technical course within the definition of the AICTE Act,” a Bench comprising Justices BS Chauhan and V Gopala Gowda ruled while allowing the appeal in the Association of Management of Private Colleges vs All India Council for Technical Education and others. (Civil Appeal No. 1145 of 2004). The Apex Court also ruled that the AICTE did not have any control and supervision over affiliated colleges of their respective universities. “The applicability of bringing the university as defined under clause 2 (f) of the UGC Act includes the institution deemed to be a university under Section 3 of the said Act and therefore, the affiliated colleges are excluded from the purview of technical institution definition of the AICTE Act,” the AICTE had no business to lay down standards as for this purpose the Parliament had already enacted the UGC Act. Moreover, the role of AICTE was advisory and could only impose uniform standards of education in affiliated members of a university by putting a note to the UGC, the bench said. The case has come as a second big blow after the Bharathidasan University & Ans vs AICTE & Ors case delivered on September 24, 2001. The landmark case had sliced off all universities and deemed universities from the ambit of the AICTE Act triggering off a rat race for the deemed university status in the country.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:35:44 +0000
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