What are the Systems, structures and Process needed for setting up Entrepreneurship Development cell at AICTE approved Government Engineering and MBA Institute? Where to look for know hows, mentoring and funding?
Entrepreneurship Development cell
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Darshan Bhambiru
To Get specific Detail do check the aicte Website and the various respective sections there.
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The AICTE was constituted in 1945 as an advisory body in all matters relating to technical education. Even though it had no statutory powers, it played a very important role in the development of technical education in the country. It had four regional committees with offices at Chennai, Mumbai, Kanpur and Calcutta. All the new schemes and proposals for starting new institutions/Programmes were approved by the corresponding Regional Committee and subsequently vetted by the Council.
On November 27 the government told Parliament that all private and public limited companies with a turnover of over Rs 100 crore for the past three consecutive years will now be allowed to set up technical colleges.
In response to a related query on the subject, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said that the decision had been taken by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in view of the lack of skills among the passouts who graduate from the engineering colleges.
A PIB press note said that the new rule would be applicable from next year. “The AICTE has allowed from 2013-14 private limited or public limited companies/industries having a turnover of at least Rs 100 crore per year for previous three years to establish new technical institutions in engineering and technology, pharmacy, architecture, town planning, hotel management and catering technology,” Tharoor said in a written reply.
There are several reports by industry based organizations commenting on the lack of adequate skills in the technical education imparted to the students and hence less employability. Therefore, AICTE has reviewed the curriculum and has come up with model curriculum to involve industry best practices. The model curriculum is available on the AICTE website.
AICTE has further proposed scheme of setting up of research park with the industry in certain good institutions where AICTE will fund up to one crore of a rupees along with matching grant from the industry. It is expected that the institute will provide about 350 to 500 Sq. Mtr. of area within the campus to the industry to set up research extension facility within the institute. This facility would provide the students to work on live projects and faculty to participate with the industry experts for the same whereas the industry also would benefit from the faculty expertise.
AICTE also promotes entrepreneurship development with the industry. Further AICTE funds industry institute partnership cell to be set up within the institutions. Further AICTE promotes innovation promotions within the institutes based on the requirement of the industry through its students of technical institutions and funds such projects.
The entry, initially has been allowed to benign companies defined under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 — and in only 241 districts where currently no AICTE Institution exists — giving profiteers a fair hint to wait and watch.
Besides, the corporates have been allowed to set up campuses through PPP or through build-operate-transfer mode under agreement with public sector. Like all other companies, the educational institutions set up by the benign companies will be regulated by the ministry of corporate affairs.
Till now only registered Trusts and Societies were allowed to establish technical education institutions in the country — this was to keep business corporates at bay.
The announcement of this crucial decision was made by the Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on behalf of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on December 30, 2011.
“We will henceforth allow companies registered as non-profit entities under Section 25 of the Companies Act 1956 to establish technical institutions to allow good corporates to set up institutions. However, no joint venture can apply for this,” Sibal had announced.
Corporate houses have been demanding such a provision for a long time, saying it is much easier to function as a Section 25 company than as a trust or society.
Announcing a major relaxation in the AICTE norms the minister had declared that in rural sector, only 10 acre will be required to set up an engineering institute while in urban sector only 2.5 acre — obviously indicating a vertical construction module for the technical education institutions.
The AICTE has also modified the approval norms under which institutes could offer stand-alone postgraduate programme. Under the existing norms PG courses were allowed only on campuses that offered undergraduate programmes. However now the AICTE has allowed stand-alone PG institutes as well.
Sibal said B.Sc students could seek lateral entry to a second-year B.Tech degree programme provided they had mathematics at Class XII or at the BSc level.
Approval process Handbook aicte 2013 PDF format
AQIS GUIDELINES AND PROCESS HANDBOOK – aicte
Guidelines and Scheme Details – aicte
List of other Documents could be found here – Click on the Individual links and the respective PDF file could be downloaded there after.
Hope this helps to get you started !! Since you are from the Educational background as an Assistant Professor at Government Engineering College, asking amongst your Peers, Colleagues or Seniors in the field should help locally in Jhalawar as well, to get the necessary basic information to get to the more specific parts . Cheers!!!
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Hitesh Sharma
Thanks Darshan for your valuable insights.