Indian Institutes of Management - IIM Put on hold Admission Lists

Indian Institutes of Management - IIM Put on hold Admission Lists

Action follows stern directive from Ministry

New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will defer the release of their admission list till further directions from the Union Human Resource Development Ministry asked all Central educational institutions to keep the lists on hold in view of the Supreme Court stay on 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes.

Though they announced last week that they would not be able to defer the release of the lists beyond April 21, the IIMS on Friday decided to fall in line after receiving a strongly worded missive from the Ministry late on Thursday.

The IIMs earlier decided to go a head with admissions after April 21 “as per last year’s capacity” without implementing OBC reservation and increasing their intake if the stay was not vacated by then and if there was no further communication from the Ministry.

In view communication from the Ministry, the IIM directors – who were to meet in the capital on Friday to take stock of the situation – cancelled the meeting was called on Wednesday after the Supreme Court posted the hearing on the Centre’s application for clarification / modification of the interim order to April 23.

Required to Comply:

In its latest directive to the IIMs, the Ministry reiterated that all Central educational institutions – aided, funded or established by the Central Government as defined in the Central Governments as defined in the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admissions) Act, 2006 – are required to comply with its April 5 communication not to issue any admissions offers for the 2007 academic year till the 2007 academic year till further directions. “Any unilateral decision by any Central educational institution would be a violation of [April 5] Communication,” the Ministry pointed out.

Empathizing with the IIM contention that a delay in the announcement of the admission list would upset the academic calendar, the Ministry said: “The Central Government is equally concerned short term that may be faced by the institutions and some sections of students due to the delay in issuing offers of admissions, and is taking all steps necessary to facilitate admissions, and is taking all steps necessary to facilitate admissions of all section of students in the Central educational institutions at the earliest.”

Consequent to their decision to defer announcement of the admission lists, all the IIMs posted this information on their websites.

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Indian Institutes of Management - IIM Put on hold Admission Lists

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