Tech courses just a click away

Once a student applies online, he or she can track the application online.

Published on: Jul 6, 2006, 03:56:00 IST

None | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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The admission process for technical studies just got a lot easier. Instead of making a mad rush from one institute to another, students can log on to the website of the All India Council for Technical Education (www.aicte.ernet.in). The site will soon get a new portal where students can download any information they need or even apply to any of the 9,000 technical institutions in the country.

That means students who clear the AIEEE examination will no longer have to physically submit admission applications or travel long distances to various institutes.

"We have taken up a massive task of interlinking all 9,000 institutes with the council's site to make the technical education system transparent and easy to follow," says R.A. Yadav, vice-chairperson of AICTE.

The portal will carry more than just admission information. Students can compare two or more institutes on the basis of facilities and teaching standards. "The idea is to provide a student with complete information about the institute before seeking admission," says Yadav.

Once a student applies online, he or she can track the application online. At the end, whether the student has got through, is on the waiting list or has been rejected will also be available on the net. To make the admission process transparent, AICTE wants institutes to give reasons for rejection. Students will also be able to pay their admission fees through credit cards.

There's more. The AICTE also intends to make the process of getting affiliation to new institutes, increasing student intake or allowing new courses online. The seven regional offices and the main headquarters will be interlinked for this.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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