Lok Sabha passes Bill to empower President with administration accountability of IIMs
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NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha Friday handed a Bill in search of to entrust the administration accountability of the IIMs with the President, who will likely be a Visitor and have powers to audit their functioning, take away administrators and nominate a member within the choice committee.
Piloting the Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023, within the Lower House, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stated the federal government has no intention to remove the tutorial accountability from the institute however the Bill will solely guarantee its administration accountability because the Centre has spent over Rs 6,000 crore in organising the IIMs.
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Under the present dispensation, the President of India can also be a customer at IITs and NITs, however no questions are being raised on the tutorial autonomy of those institutes, Pradhan stated.
The Bill, which was launched on July 28, was handed by the Lower House by a voice vote amid disruptions by opposition members over the current violence in Manipur.
According to the Bill, which seeks to amend the IIM Act of 2017, the President will likely be a Visitor to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) with powers to audit their functioning, order probes and appoint in addition to take away administrators.
“The Visitor may appoint one or more persons to review the work and progress of any institute, to hold enquiries into affairs thereof and to report in such manner as the Visitor may direct. The board may also recommend to the Visitor an enquiry as deemed proper against the institute which has not been functioning in accordance with provisions and objectives of the Act,” it acknowledged.
Under the IIM Act, which got here into pressure in January 2018 and granted the premier B-schools better autonomy, the board of governors of every institute has 19 members which incorporates only one consultant every from the central and state governments.
The board nominates its remaining 17 members from amongst eminent personalities, school and alumni.
It additionally appoints the search panels for the appointment of latest administrators and chairpersons, and later, makes the appointments if it agrees with the search panels’ suggestions.
However, in keeping with the modification Bill, the search-cum-selection panel for the director’s appointment may have a Visitor’s nominee.
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha Friday handed a Bill in search of to entrust the administration accountability of the IIMs with the President, who will likely be a Visitor and have powers to audit their functioning, take away administrators and nominate a member within the choice committee.
Piloting the Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023, within the Lower House, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stated the federal government has no intention to remove the tutorial accountability from the institute however the Bill will solely guarantee its administration accountability because the Centre has spent over Rs 6,000 crore in organising the IIMs.
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Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan replies to the dialogue on The Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023 in #LokSabha.@loksabhaspeaker@EduMinOfIndia@dpradhanbjp@ombirlakota pic.twitter.com/0NjM7oShcngoogletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
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Under the present dispensation, the President of India can also be a customer at IITs and NITs, however no questions are being raised on the tutorial autonomy of those institutes, Pradhan stated.
The Bill, which was launched on July 28, was handed by the Lower House by a voice vote amid disruptions by opposition members over the current violence in Manipur.
According to the Bill, which seeks to amend the IIM Act of 2017, the President will likely be a Visitor to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) with powers to audit their functioning, order probes and appoint in addition to take away administrators.
“The Visitor may appoint one or more persons to review the work and progress of any institute, to hold enquiries into affairs thereof and to report in such manner as the Visitor may direct. The board may also recommend to the Visitor an enquiry as deemed proper against the institute which has not been functioning in accordance with provisions and objectives of the Act,” it acknowledged.
Under the IIM Act, which got here into pressure in January 2018 and granted the premier B-schools better autonomy, the board of governors of every institute has 19 members which incorporates only one consultant every from the central and state governments.
The board nominates its remaining 17 members from amongst eminent personalities, school and alumni.
It additionally appoints the search panels for the appointment of latest administrators and chairpersons, and later, makes the appointments if it agrees with the search panels’ suggestions.
However, in keeping with the modification Bill, the search-cum-selection panel for the director’s appointment may have a Visitor’s nominee.
