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National Board of Accreditation (NBA)
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
NBCC Building, Eastern Tower, 4th Floor
Pragati Vihar, Lodhi Road,New Delhi-110003
E-mail: haidertabassum@gmail.com
Phone: 011-24369633
URL: www.nba-aicte.ernet.in
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Accreditation Process:
Full details are online. In summary, the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) was set up by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in September 1994 in order to assess the qualitative competence of educational institutions from the Diploma level to the Post-graduate level in Engineering and Technology, Architecture, Pharmacy, Town Planning and Management. The NBA is also concerned with assessing and assuring the quality of the various constituent elements of the educational institutive infrastructure, physical resources, human resources, supporting systems like library resources, computational resources, and avenues for moulding and developing the student's personality and learning characteristics.
The NBA does not accord accreditation, to the institutions as a whole, but at the programme level, e.g. the four-year under-graduate engineering degree course (after 10+2) in Mechanical Engineering (or any other branch).
For NBA, accreditation is a "process of quality assurance, whereby a programme (e.g. B.E./B.Tech.) in an approved Institution is critically appraised at intervals not exceeding six years to verify that the Institution Programmes meet the norms and standards prescribed by AICTE, established by an Act of the parliament in 1987. Accreditation provides quality assurance that the academic aims and objectives of the Institution are known to be honestly pursued and effectively achieved by the resources currently available, and that the institution has demonstrated capabilities to ensure continued effectiveness of the educational programme, over the period of accreditation."
NBA is provisional Member of Washington Accord. More details on current accreditation guidelines for undergraduate engineering programs are available as a PDF.
