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4. ICAR ACCREDITATION
BOARD
4.1 Objectives
- To assist the people,
prospective students, educational
institutions, professional societies,
potential employers, government and other
concerned agencies in identifying those
institutions and their programs which meet
the minimum norms and standards prescribed by
the Council.
- To provide guidance for
the improvement of existing agricultural
education institutions/programs and also to
develop new institutions / programs.
4.2 Functions
- To advise the Council in
evolving the norms and standards for
accreditation of institutions and programs of
agricultural education including veterinary
sciences and agricultural engineering.
- To assist the Council in
matters pertaining to approval, recognition,
inspection and funding of agricultural
educational institutions.
- To evaluate the academic
programs and the institutional set-up in
which these programs are conducted.
- To periodically assess
the curricula of various degree programs
offered by the SAUs and other approved
institutions and suggest modification, if
required.
- To decide the equivalence
of qualifications.
- To lay down norms and
standards of courses, curricula,
instructional facilities, teaching staff
qualifications, requirements of admission ,
and if warranted de-recognize
degree/institution.
- To provide guidance on
university governance, and personnel and
financial policies
4.3 Sectoral
Committees
- Accreditation Norms and
New Institutions & Programs
- Curricula and Equivalence
- Governance and Personnel
& Financial Policies
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