IIT’s finally agree to get accredited

After evading for years, IITs have agreed to get themselves accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), the premier accreditation body in the country. However they  have been given the freedom to carry out the review themselves and submit the report to NBA , considering their high academic standards.

HRD minister M M Pallam Raju said IIT’s agreeing for accreditation would help India become a part of the Washington Accord, an international agreement among accrediting agencies of 14 nations that recognizes engineering degree programmes of each other.

India is now a provisional member of the Washington Accord. One of the main criteria for any country to be part of the Accord is that its engineering degrees should be accredited. So far, IITs were lukewarm towards fulfilling this condition.