![]() ![]() Will Indian society at large be able to hold IIMs accountable once the new IIM Bill becomes a law? The recent track record at these institutions and especially at IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA), the crown jewel among IIMs, suggests that IIMs, emboldened by the autonomy on offer, will further abdicate their responsibilities as public institutions.Īs has been widely reported in various news outlets including The Wire, IIMs suffer from a grave social diversity deficit – of the 512 IIM faculty members where data is available, only two belong to the SC group, and IIMs currently do not have anybody from the ST group on their faculty. The Lok Sabha has already passed the IIM Bill, 2017, and it is widely expected that the Rajya Sabha will follow suit. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the preeminent management institutes in the country, are at the cusp of being granted a level of functional autonomy that is unprecedented for public institutions of higher education in India. IIM Ahmedabad responded to an RTI request asking for minutes of board meetings saying that “information sought by has no relationship to any public activity or interest and hence cannot be provided.”
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