10. Functions of the Council.—It shall be the duty of the Council to take all such steps as it may think
fit for ensuring coordinated and integrated development of technical education and maintenance of standards
and for the purposes of performing its functions under this Act, the Council may—
(a) undertake survey in the various fields of technical education, collect data on all related matters
and make forecast of the needed growth and development in technical education;
(b) coordinate the development of technical education in the country at all levels;
(c) allocate and disburse out of the Fund of the Council such grants on such terms and conditions as it
may think fit to—
(i) technical institutions, and
(ii) Universities imparting technical education in coordination with the Commission;
(d) promote innovations research and development in established and new technologies, generation,
adoption and adaptation of new technologies to meet developmental requirements and for overall
improvement of educational processes;
(e) formulate schemes for promoting technical education for women, handicapped and weaker
sections of the society;
(f) promote an effective link between technical education system and other relevant systems
including research and development organisations, industry and the community;
(g) evolve suitable performance appraisal systems for technical institutions and Universities
imparting technical education, incorporating norms and mechanisms for enforcing accountability;
(h) formulate schemes for the initial and in-service training of teachers and identify institutions or
centres and set up new centres for offering staff development programmes including continuing education
of teachers;
(i) lay down norms and standards for courses, curricula, physical and instructional facilities, staff
pattern, staff qualifications, quality instructions, assessment and examinations;
(j) fix norms and guidelines for charging tuition and other fees;
(k) grant approval for starting new technical institutions and for introduction of new courses or
programmes in consultation with the agencies concerned;
(l) advise the Central Government in respect of grant of charter to any professional body or institution
in the field of technical education conferring powers, rights and privileges on it for the promotion of such
profession in its field including conduct of examinations and awarding of membership certificates;
(m) lay down norms for granting autonomy to technical institutions;
(n) take all necessary steps to prevent commercialisation of technical education;
(o) provide guidelines for admission of students to technical institutions and Universities imparting
technical education;
(p) inspect or cause to inspect any technical institution;
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(q) withhold or discontinue grants in respect of courses, programmes to such technical institutions
which fail to comply with the directions given by the Council within the stipulated period of time and
take such other steps as may be necessary for ensuring compliance of the directions of the Council;
(r) take steps to strengthen the existing organisations, and to set up new organisations to ensure
effective discharge of the Council’s responsibilities and to create positions of professional, technical and
supporting staff based on requirements;
(s) declare technical institutions at various levels and types offering courses in technical education fit
to receive grants;
(t) advise the Commission for declaring any institution imparting technical education as a deemed
University;
(u) 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;
(v) perform such other functions as may be prescribed.
11. Inspection.—(1) For the purposes of ascertaining the financial needs of technical institution or a
University or its standards of teaching, examination and research, the Council may cause an inspection of any
department or departments of such technical institution or University to be made in such manner as may be
prescribed and by such person or persons as it may direct.
(2) The Council shall communicate to the technical institution or University the date on which any
inspection under sub-section (1) is to be made and the technical institution or University shall be entitled to
be associated with the inspection in such manner as may be prescribed.
(3) The Council shall communicate to the technical institution or the University, its views in regard to the
results of any such inspection and may, after ascertaining the opinion of that technical institution or
University, recommend to that institution or University the action to be taken as a result of such inspection.
(4) All communications to a technical institution or University under this section shall be made to the
executive authority thereof and the executive authority of the technical institution or University shall report to
the Council the action, if any, which is proposed to be taken for the purposes of implementing any such
recommendation as is referred to in sub-section (3).