Business schools impacted by the norms laid down by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) regarding admissions, fee and curriculum have moved the Supreme Court by filing a writ petition against the council.
B-schools represented by the Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI) and the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) filed the petition last week against the new AICTE norms relating to fee, curriculum and admissions of the post graduate diploma in management (PGDM) programmes.
?The petition has been filed with the Supreme Court and will come up for hearing on March 7. We approached the court because we got no respite from the minister. We requested him for a second meeting but didn?t get any response,? said H Chaturvedi, alternate president, EPSI and director of Birla Institute of Management Technology.
The EPSI has more than 250 management schools as its members while 500 B-schools are a part of AIMS.
The writ petition challenges the AICTE?s norms on three grounds. The first one relates to the Gazette Notification in the AICTE?s Approval Process Handbook 2011-12 which ?not only takes away the autonomy of the petitioners but also excessively interferes with the management and the affairs of the petitioner institutions which are private unaided educational institutions imparting education to the students.?