The government today decided to establish a National Board of Accredition as an independent body of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). It will pave the way for India's full membership of the Washington Accord. <br/><br/>This was announced by the Human Resource Development Minister Mr Kapil Sibal while talking to reporters in New Delhi on Thursday. He said, it has also been decided to co-opt foreign experts on the academic boards and provide 25 per cent flexibility to management institutions in allocation of seats in different disciplines of post graduate diploma of management. The Minister added only MBA and MCA courses will be considered through distance mode.<br/><br/>Mr Sibal also launched two portals to bring in transparency, accountability, efficiency and speed in the decision making by AICTE and National Board of Accreditation. <br/><br/>Talking to reporters after the launch, he said the portals will facilitate a citizen friendly interactive mode with the responsive public grievance redressal mechanism. He said that the AICTE has taken a number of initiatives to make the decision making process more transparent. This, he said includes processing of applications online from Sunday and permission to new engineering and management institutions to admit students between 120 to 300. The other decisions include opening up of new campuses of the AICTE at Gurgaon and Guwahati for speedy disposal of case from Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and North East and the reduction in land in Metro and Mega cities to enhance for facility of technical education. AIR correspondent reports that the HRD Minister is keen to establish a system where there is no file work and every decision is take online.