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