Which of the following statements are correct about the National Assessment…
2013
Which of the following statements are correct about the National Assessment and Accreditation Council ?
1. It is an autonomous institution.
2. It is tasked with the responsibility of assessing and accrediting institutions of higher education.
3. It is located in Delhi.
4. It has regional offices.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
Answer: B. 1 and 2 — Concept. A body in the Indian higher-education system is described by three independent attributes: its legal status (an autonomous body set up under a parent…
- A.
1 and 3
- B.
1 and 2
- C.
1, 2 and 4
- D.
2, 3 and 4
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Correct answer: B
Concept. A body in the Indian higher-education system is described by three independent attributes: its legal status (an autonomous body set up under a parent regulator, versus a department of government), its functional mandate (the task it was created to perform), and its organisational geography (where its headquarters sits and whether it maintains field or regional offices). A "codes" item of this kind is never solved by recognising the body; it is solved by testing each numbered statement against the attribute it claims, and then keeping only the code whose every listed statement survives.
Apply that test to the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), statement by statement.
Statement | Attribute claimed | Finding |
|---|---|---|
1. Autonomous institution | Legal status | NAAC was set up in 1994 as an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission, with its own General Council and Executive Committee, so it stands as an autonomous body rather than a government department. |
2. Assesses and accredits higher-education institutions | Functional mandate | NAAC was created precisely to assess and accredit universities and colleges as whole institutions, awarding an accreditation grade on the CGPA scale after a peer-reviewed institutional assessment; programme-level accreditation is a different body’s work. |
3. Located in Delhi | Headquarters | NAAC has always been headquartered at Bengaluru, Karnataka; the regulator it reports to (UGC) is in New Delhi, and conflating the parent regulator's address with the accrediting body's is the usual trap here. |
4. Has regional offices | Field presence | NAAC works out of its single Bengaluru campus and deploys visiting peer teams for on-site assessment; it does not run a network of standing regional offices of its own. |
Cross-check by elimination. Run the surviving statements against each code:
Any code that carries statement 3 imports the Delhi location, which fails against the Bengaluru headquarters — that removes the codes "1 and 3" and "2, 3 and 4".
Any code that carries statement 4 imports a standing regional-office network, which NAAC does not maintain — that removes "1, 2 and 4".
The code "1 and 2" carries only the legal-status claim and the mandate claim, both of which survive the test.
Result. The correct code is "1 and 2" — NAAC is an autonomous institution and it is charged with assessing and accrediting institutions of higher education, while it is headquartered in Bengaluru and has no separate regional offices.