The new version of the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill proposes a bigger, common regulator that will govern all areas of higher education barring medicine.

The new version of the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill proposes a bigger, common regulator that will govern all areas of higher education barring medicine.

The draft HECI Bill suggests the Commission will replace the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education and will also take over the job of regulating the education of law and architecture from the Bar Council of India and the Council of Architecture, respectively.

The professions of law and architecture, however, will continue to be regulated by the respective councils. 

AICTE acts as a regulator for engineering, pharmacy, management and other technical education colleges.

....