After lawyers and CAs, engineers may have to register
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 01 December 2009, 22:00 IST
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After lawyers and CAs, engineers may have to register
New Delhi: Just like lawyers, chartered accountants and architects, engineers will now have to register themselves with the proposed Indian Council of Engineers. HRD ministry has mooted the Engineers Bill, 2009, that stipulates mandatory registration/certification of professional engineers. The Bill also proposes setting up the Indian Council of Engineers that will maintain a national and international register of professional engineers and associate professional engineers and will regulate the engineering profession, according to Times of India. Prepared by HRD ministry's technical bureau, the Cabinet note for the Bill is being circulated for inter-ministerial consultation. The Cabinet note says regulating engineers will lead to public accountability and innovation in the profession. It claims that creating such a register will help Indian engineers globally and create certified quality standards. An official said, "It is not fair to say that all engineers come out with same kind of capability. There are many engineering colleges churning out poor quality engineers. It is also a fact that as the number of engineering colleges have gone up so have cases of engineering mishaps." The move to regulate engineers has been debated within HRD ministry since 1996 but somehow a law has never been drafted. On factor against such a Bill has been that at a time when the HRD ministry is in the process of deregulating higher education and emphasising on quality control, regulation of engineers might result in the creation of yet another body doling out registration. HRD minister Kapil Sibal says, "The Bill has come at the request of various engineering associations who want some semblance of regulation. They had come to me and demanded that a law should make registration of engineers mandatory. If engineers are involved in doing public work why should they be not liable in case of any mishap."

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