National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)

• The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has put on hold grading process for around 30 institutes in the country that saw inexplicable jump in grades between two accreditation cycles, separated by five years.
• In March 2023, NAAC was pulled up by the Comptroller and Auditor General for glaring “discrepancies” in its assessment process, pointing to the poor standards that NAAC follows.

ABOUT NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (NAAC)

• National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was established in 1994 as an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission (UGC)
• Headquarters- Bengaluru.
• It conducts assessment and accreditation of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) such as colleges, universities.
• The NAAC functions through its General Council (GC) and Executive Committee (EC) comprising educational administrators, policy makers and senior academicians from a cross-section of Indian higher education system.
  • The Chairperson of the UGC is the President of the GC of the NAAC, the Chairperson of the EC is an eminent academician nominated by the President of GC (NAAC).