The Indian Institute of Management Act, 2017 (
IAST: ) is an Indian legislation. The Act declared the
Indian Institutes of Management
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are central government-owned-public business schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of busines ...
as
institutions of national importance and enabled them to offer
degrees and further make substantial changes in their administration.
Premise
The
bill
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was approved by the
Union Cabinet
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on 24January 2017.
The Act was introduced as a bill in
Lok Sabha
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by the
Minister of Human Resource Development
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,
Prakash Javadekar
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, on 9February 2017. The bill was passed by the
Lok Sabha
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on 28July 2017, and by the
Rajya Sabha
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on 19December 2017.
After receiving the
President's assent, the bill became an Act on 31December 2017.
Provisions
The Act declares
Indian Institutes of Management
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are central government-owned-public business schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of busines ...
as
institutions of national importance and grants them the power to give degrees.
Board of governors
The Act provides for the creation of a boards of governors, which would act as the principal executive body for each IIM, and would appoint onedirector for each IIM, whose pay is 225,000 in
seventh pay commission but who is entitled to a variable pay.
The board of governors would have a maximum of nineteenmembers including onechairperson of the board; a nominee each from
central and
state
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governments; twomembers of the faculty; foureminent personalities from fields including education and industry, oneof whom has to be a woman, and; the director of the institute.
Academic council
The Act provides for the creation of an academic council for each IIM, which is the principal academic body under the act and which would decide the: (a) academic content; (b) criteria and processes for admissions to course; and (c) guidelines for conduct of examinations.
The academic council would comprise: (a) the director; (b) deans in charge of academics, research, student affairs and other such functions of the institute; (c) chairs and coordinators of various areas, programmes, faculties, centres, departments and schools of the institute; (d) all full-time faculty members at the level of professor and; (e) members, by invitation of the board — on the recommendation of the director — who are eminent in the fields of industry, finance, management, academics and public administration.
Coordination forum
The Act provides for the creation of a coordination forum, which would discuss matters pertaining to all IIMs.
The coordination forum would comprise: (a)
Higher Education Secretary (''
ex-officio
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''); (b) twosecretaries in charge of management education of state governments in which the institutes are located, by rotation, each year (''
ex-officio
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''); (c) fourchairpersons of institutes, to be nominated by the chairperson of the coordination forum, by rotation for twoyears; (d) the director of each institute (''
ex-officio
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''); (d) fiveeminent personalities—of whom onehas to be of a woman—in the fields of academia and public service.
The bill also proposes to incorporate many other changes like audit of institutes by the
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.
Aftermath
Even after the commencement of the Act, not all IIMs granted degrees in the first year of its commencement.
IIM Lucknow
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,
IIM Ranchi,
IIM Rohtak and
IIM Ahmedabad
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granted postgraduate diplomas,
whereas
IIM Bangalore
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are central government-owned-public business schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of busines ...
,
IIM Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established, and has been recognized as an Institu ...
,
IIM Indore,
IIM Udaipur,
IIM Visakhapatnam granted degrees.
In March 2018, IIMs were told at a meeting with HRD ministry that the Act only empowered them to grant degrees for courses with duration of twoyears or more. Further, the ministry told the institutes that, for them to confer degrees not mentioned in the
University Grants Commission Act, 1956
The University Grants Commission Act, 1956 is an Act of the Parliament of India
The Parliament of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of Ind ...
, the institutes would have to seek the government's permission. IIMs were also asked to chalk up their action plan and outline their long term strategy.
References
{{Indian Institutes of Management
Acts of the Parliament of India 2017
Act