Admission kicks off at IIMs after Govt's approval

The offer of admissions for the ensuing academic session shall be limited to the approved intake, reports Chetan Chauhan.

Updated on: Apr 27, 2007, 19:18:44 IST

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Even as HRD Minister Arjun Singh announced that 27 per cent OBC quota was irrevocable, the Indian Institutes of Management on Friday initiated the process for admitting successful candidates following the ministry's directive to allow admissions on the last year's format. In all, 1350 students would be admitted in IIMs on basis of their Combined Aptitude Test (CAT) results.

HRD ministry, in the directive to 64 centrally funded educational institutes, said in light of the hearing slated for May 8, the offer of admissions for the ensuing academic session shall, until further communication, be limited to the approved intake that existed during academic session 2006-07 as per the policy of reservation prevailing for that session. The ministry issued the direction after it was given a go ahead by UPA-Left parties coordination committee.

Hours after receiving the communication, IIM Lucknow became first IIM to announce the list of successful candidates. "We have posted the list of candidates to be admitted on the institute's website and have also informed the students through email," said Director of the IIM, Devi Singh.

IIM Ahemdabad which was first to raise the voice against HRD ministry's directive to put admissions on hold put up an announcement about the admissions on its website. Its director Bakul Dholakia told HT that they have just received the communication and the broad announcement would be available on the website by Friday night.

The students will, however, be required to individually check whether they have got admission in IIM A by entering their CAT reference number. "The link for the students to check whether they have got admission will be available on the website by evening," Dholakia said.

But, IIM Kolkatta is expected to take a day to notify the successful candidates. "We have got the communication from the ministry and are looking into it. Within a day the students will be informed," he said. HRD ministry officials expected that by Monday all IIMs would finalise the admission process.

When asked about the suggestion of Left Parties that the government should introduce a tougher law on reservations in Parliament, Singh said the government have several options available but would wait for court's hearing on May 8. "We shall explore every Constitutional and legal procedure to ensure reservation in admissions," Singh told reporters on Friday morning.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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