Chapter introduction Preamble

SI	Regional Committees
Chairman
a.	Central Regional Committee	Prof. Bakul H. Dholakia
b.	Western Regional Committee	Prof. A.A. Ghatol
c.	South Western Regional Committee	Prof. Prakash G. Apte
d.	Eastern Regional Committee	Prof. N.R. Banerjea
e.	North Western Regional Committee	Dr. Anil Wilson
f.	Northern Regional Committee	Prof. S.S. Katiyar
g.	Southern Regional Committee	Prof. D. Viswanathan
h.	South Central Regional Committee	Prof. Y.V. Rao

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   National Board of Accreditation
   

The Clause 10(u) of the AICTE Act specifies the following as one of the functions of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE):
“Set up a National Board of Accreditation to periodically conduct evaluation of technical institutions or programmes on the basis of guidelines, norms and standards specified by it and to make recommendation to it, or to the Council, or to the Commission or to other bodies, regarding recognition or de-recognition of the institution or the programme.”
In pursuance of this function, the All India Council for Technical Education (referred in this report as ‘Council’) has constituted the National Board of Accreditation (referred as ‘NBA’) in the year 1994. The functions of the National Board of Accreditation are:
I. To make recommendations with regard to issues of quality assurance and quality management in technical education in India.

II. To prescribe guidelines, norms and standards for the purpose of accreditation of technical education programmes / institutions.

III. To advise the Executive Committee/Council regarding de-recognition of an institution or a programme based on the evaluation conducted as per the prescribed procedure for the purpose.

IV. To advise and assist the Executive Committee/Council on policies and parameters pertaining to the accreditation process.

V. To advise the Executive Committee/Council on formulation of schemes for Promotion of Qualitative Improvements in Technical Education.

VI. To carry out any other function assigned by the Executive Committee/Council.

The National Board of Accreditation shall make suitable recommendations in the discharge of the above functions to the Executive committee / Council in accordance with the procedure prescribed from time to time.

Current composition of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) is given in Appendix-3.5.

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