Urban Development to snatch Architecture Education from HRD.

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The NDA government is set shift Architecture education from Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry’s purview to the Urban Development Ministry. HRD Ministry had already opposed the proposal in a meeting held at the Cabinet Secretariat last month.

The move was communicated by the Cabinet Secretary’s office to the two ministries. The change will be formally notified through an amendment to the Allocation of Business Rules 1961, which enlists responsibilities of each ministry under the Union government.

The Architects Act, 1972 under the Department Of Higher Education in the AOB rules will be deleted through a gazette notification, sources said. This law provides for registration of architects, maintaining standards of architectural education, recognition of qualifications and standards of practice to be complied with by practising architects. With the transfer of the Architects Act, HRD Ministry will no longer be in-charge of regulating architectural education through the Council of Architecture (CoA).

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The decision has been justified on the ground that architecture education will be best served under a ministry that deals directly with the subject. This comes at a time when the CoA is locked in a fierce turf war with the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). The latter is backed by the HRD Ministry.

According to the HRD Ministry, the CoA, on several occasions, has interfered in architectural education beyond its mandate and encroached on the role of AICTE, which is expected to maintain standards of technical education, including architecture. The CoA, the ministry has maintained, was set up through the Architects Act only to provide for the registration of architects and related matters.


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