All India Council for Technical Education Act

The State of Tamil Nadu permitted a private trust to start a self‑financing engineering college and granted it provisional affiliation. Later a High Power Committee found the college non‑compliant with conditions, leading the State and the University to issue show‑cause notices and cancel the affiliation. The trust cha…

The petitioners sought a writ directing AICTE to issue a Letter of Approval for starting Anant Institute of Business Studies for the 2017‑18 academic year, alleging they had applied within the prescribed time and that AICTE’s delay caused loss. The Court examined the AICTE Act and its regulations, which fix 30 April of…

The Supreme Court was asked to clarify several questions that arose from the T.M.A. Pai Foundation judgment concerning private unaided professional colleges. The petitioners, mainly minority and non‑minority unaided institutions, contended that they could fix their own fee structures, admit students by their own method…

The Supreme Court, hearing numerous interlocutory applications in the T.M.A. Pai Foundation matter, clarified that the fee structures it had fixed for the academic years 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96 are confined to those years only and are not refundable. It ordered that the fee order of 11 August 1995, applicable to 1…

The I.I.T.T. College of Engineering, an unaided private institution, obtained AICTE approval for several engineering courses but faced repeated denial of university affiliation for its Information Technology (IT) program due to infrastructural deficiencies. The college admitted students to the IT course, leading the un…