law: All India Council for Technical Education Act, 1987
  CHAPTER
  
  III
  POWERS
  
  AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL
  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 for 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
  
  
  (b) coordinate the development of technical education I 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 over-all 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 institution 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;
  (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.