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Director’s post lying vacant in 14 out of 20 IIMs: HRD ministry tells Lok Sabha
As many as 14 of the country’s 20 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) don’t have a director, the government on Monday informed the Lok Sabha.
As many as 14 of the country’s 20 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) don’t have a director, the government on Monday informed the Lok Sabha.
In a written reply, minister of state for human resource development, Mahendra Nath Pandey, said that the posts of director were lying vacant in the IIMs in Bangalore, Amritsar, Kozhikode, Sirmaur, Rohtak, Bodh Gaya, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Raipur, Nagpur, Udaipur, Visakhapatnam, Tiruchirappalli and the newly set up Jammu.
Pandey said seven new IIMs -- Amritsar, Sirmaur, Bodh Gaya, Sambalpur, Nagpur, Visakhapatnam and Jammu are being looked after by directors of the mentor IIMs till the appointment of regular director.
“For other IIMs, the tenure of the outgoing director has been extended or the senior most professor of the institute has been given additional charge of the post of director,” said Pandey.
He said that except for IIM Kozhikode and Jammu, the search-cum-selection committee has recommended a panel of names for the post of director, which are under consideration of the government.
“For IIM Kozhikode and IIM Jammu, advertisement for the posts has been issued,” he said.
The minister also informed about the government’s proposal to upgrade/set up 20 world class teaching and research institutions, to be named as ‘Institutions of Eminence’.
“As per the draft Guidelines, all public educational institutions including IIMs are eligible to apply for Institutions of Eminence. The selection process for Institutions of Eminence shall start only after the Guidelines and Regulations are notified,” he added.
The 20 ‘world-class’ universities were proposed in last year’s Union Budget. Pandey said that 10 of them will be in the public sector.
