Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 1: What The Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM) has been saying and fighting against all odds for years is now what the Supreme Court says.
The apex court’s landmark judgment on Thursday ruled that private colleges conducting MBA (and MCA) courses do not come under the purview of the All India Council for Technical Education Management (AICTE) and hence need not take any permission from the self-claimed regulator.
The Supreme Court bench comprising of Justices BS Chauhan and V Gopala Gowda held that “MBA course is not a technical course within the definition of AICTE Act” and “… approval from the AICTE is not required for obtaining permission and running MBA course by the appellant colleges.” With respect to institutes conducting MCA courses, the bench said that though MCA was a technical course, the AICTE had no business to lay down standards as for this purpose the Parliament had already enacted the UGC Act.
The Association of Management of Private Colleges along with a few private institutes in Tamil Nadu had filed appeals against the AICTE order that forced them to seek the technical education regulator’s approval for conducting an MCA course. The colleges had objected in the appeal that the AICTE Act being an enactment of Parliament could not be amended in year 2000 without being placed in the Parliament. The apex court accepted the argument, hence culling AICTE’s power to control the private players illegally.
IIPM Think Tank’s Honorary Director Prof Arindam Chaudhuri also reiterated, “We are extremely proud of the world class education and faculty we have set up in these four decades, which is comparable to the best in the world, miles ahead of the extremely low standards set by the UGC-AICTE combine. The standard of education they have created in the nation is shameful.”
Coincidentally the SC verdict collided with yet another milestone for IIPM. After the IIPM Director, Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri became the world’s highest followed Management Guru, Economist and Teacher on Facebook with his near 3 million fans, it is now IIPM’s turn to become the highest followed B-School on earth.
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