Accreditation in INDIA

Accreditation for universities in India is required by law unless it

was created through an act of Parliament. Without accreditation, the

government notes "these fake institutions have no legal entity to

call themselves as University/Vishwvidyalaya and to award ‘degree’

which are not treated as valid for academic/employment purposes".

University Grants Commission Act 1956 explains,

"the right of conferring or granting degrees shall be exercised

only by a University established or incorporated by or under a

Central Act carlo bon tempo, or a State Act, or an Institution

deemed to be University or an institution specially empowered by an

Act of the Parliament to confer or grant degrees. Thus, any

institution which has not been created by an enactment of Parliament

or a State Legislature or has not been granted the status of a

Deemed to be University, is not entitled to award a degree."

Accreditation for higher learning is overseen by autonomous

institutions established by the University Grants Commission:

* All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
* Distance Education Council (DEC)
* Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
* Bar Council of India (BCI)
* National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
* National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)
* Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI)
* Medical Council of India (MCI)
* Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)
* Indian Nursing Council (INC)
* Dental Council of India (DCI)
* Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH)
* Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM)
* veterinary council of india (VCI)

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN INDIA

Higher Education

Higher education in India has evolved in distinct and divergent

streams with each stream monitored by an apex body, indirectly

controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and funded

by the state governments. Most universities are administered by the

States, however, there are 18 important universities called Central

Universities, which are maintained by the Union Government. The

increased funding of the central universities give them an advantage

over state competitors.

The Indian Institutes of Technology were placed 50th in the world

and 2nd in the field of Engineering (next only to MIT) by Times

Higher World University Rankings although they did not appear in the

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World

Universities.There are several thousands colleges in India, Which

provides technical education. The Indian Technical Education are

very strong these days. They are producing millions of engineers

every year.

International league tables produced in 2006 by the London-based

Times Higher Education Supplement(THES) confirmed Jawaharlal Nehru

University (JNU)'s place among the world's top 200 universities .

Likewise, THES 2006 ranked JNU's School of Social Sciences at the

57th position among the world's top 100 institutes for social

sciences.

The National Law School of India University is highly regarded, with

some of its students being awarded Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford

University, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences is

consistently rated the top medical school in the country[citation

needed]. Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are the top

management institutes in India.[citation needed]

The private sector is strong in Indian higher education. This has

been partly as a result of the decision by the Government to divert

spending to the goal of universalisation of elementary education.

Within a decade different state assemblies has passed bills for

private universities, and some of these universities are performing

very well these universities includes Gyanvihar university, Amity

university, Rai university and many more