The All India Council for Technical Education is the statutory body entrusted with the regulation and planning of technical education, including engineering, management, and similar programmes. To start a new engineering college offering B.Tech courses, institutions must obtain prior approval from AICTE. The stem clearly refers to this approval requirement, so AICTE is the correct answer. Option B completes the sentence accurately.
Option A:
AICTE specifies norms regarding infrastructure, faculty qualifications, intake capacity and other essentials for technical institutions. Its prior approval ensures that minimum standards are met before programmes are launched, which aligns perfectly with the context of the question.
Option B:
NCERT is concerned primarily with school education and curriculum development, not with approving institutions of technical higher education. Therefore, Option A is not appropriate here.
Option C:
NAAC assesses quality for accreditation but does not grant approval to start individual technical programmes or institutions. Approval processes and accreditation processes are conceptually and institutionally distinct, so Option C is incorrect.
Option D:
The National Board of Accreditation evaluates specific programmes for quality but generally functions after programmes are already running. It does not replace AICTE’s role in initial regulatory approval, making Option D unsuitable.
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