Government plans quota for faculty at IIMs

NEW DELHI: The Human Resource Development ( HRD) ministry on Thursday indicated that all the Indian Institutes of Managements ( IIMs) will have to bring reservation for faculty recruitment and that they are not exempted from the quota regime through any government order.

The position on the issue has so far been that IIMs were among the few institutes that were exempted from faculty quota in 1975 through a government order. Accordingly, the IIMs are among the few educational institutes that still do not implement reservation for SC/ST and OBC categories in faculty posts at IIMs.

Highly placed sources in the ministry, however, claimed that this exemption from the quota regime did not apply to IIMs as they are not among the technical or research institutes to which that exemption was applied. Ministry sources said that as per the Constitution, all central universities and centrally-funded institutes have to follow the reservation rules and no exception can be made for IIMs either.

HRD minister Prakash Javadekar had after a meeting with all IIM Directors in Shillong on September 20 stated that the government has “no plans to make changes in reservations”.