Re: [Gen NB] Fwd: Latest update on PGDM recognition

To:
Dr. Anil Verma
Hony. Vice President
Akhil Bharatiya Chhatra Sangh

Dear Dr. Verma

Many thanks for your email on the subject of unrecognised degrees/diplomas of IIMA. IAC is pleased that you have supported our small efforts and we thank you for it. We also value your past association with IACs' mentor Shri "Anna" Hazare.

However, I am given to understand that the subject of the "fake" degrees of IIMA was already agitated before the courts and it was agreed by all IIMs (except IIMA) that the IIM Bill ought to be passed urgently  to overcome this problem.

If I recall correctly, even Prof Ashish Nanda the present IIMA Director found his IIMA PGP to be invalid for Harvard Business School's doctorate program. Apparently  he had to do a Harvard MA before being inducted into their PhD program. With this new SC decision against AICTE the game is severely loaded against IIMA, and it is atrocious that for the sake of protecting a few hi-fi (and immensely over-rated) plagiarist Professors and their exorbitant Consultancy incomes, the students, parents and alumni of all IIMs should be held to ransom like this by the IIMA's Board of Governors.

IAC would like to synergise our capabilities and forces with yours for such a matter with tremendous  public interest. I would be obliged if you could kindly arrange to contact me, or alternatively forward me your own contact particulars.

With best wishes

Sarbajit Roy

National Convenor

India Against Corruption

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:16 AM, IIMA <iimahd.ernet@gmail.com> wrote:

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Subject: Latest update on PGDM recognition
From:    anil@iimnews.host22.com
Date:    Sun, November 3, 2013 11:13 pm
To:      pgpofficer@iimahd.ernet.in
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To the PGP Officer
Institute of Management
Vastrapur Ahmedabad 380015

Attn : Shri Jatin Nagori Program Officer.

Please refer our letter to you dt. 17.08.2013 (no reply received) and follow up to telecons with your office last month in connection with Supreme Court directions in CIVIL APPEAL NO. 7749 OF 2012. We visited Ministry of Higher Education, New Delhi to confirm and obtain the copies of OM of approvals which you mentioned were given to IIM Kolkatta and IIM Ahmedabad by Ministry.

We were informed there that no such records as described by you can be located in their files and Ministry has already issued instructions to IIM Kolkatta not to repeatedly direct applicants to their offices to obtain the same. We also obtained certain relevant correspondence on this issue under RTI. When I am sending you the scanned copy by email it is being returned saying mailbox quota is exceeded and other error messages.

On behalf of the concerned parents whose ward wishes to apply for MBA, ABCS want to verify the the approvals and recognitions given to IIMs for their MBA program in terms of the above Supreme Court judgment.

Therefore kindly either send us the scanned copy of the Govt O.M. treating IIM's PGP certificate as equivalent to MBA, or  send me your personal / non-official email ID, like Gmail, Yahoo etc to my email so I can email you the RTI REPLY from the Ministry which is of extreme concern to us and I am sure will be to the parents who have approached us also.

The relevant part of the Supreme Court Judgment advising extreme caution on part of students while seeking admission is extracted below.

"An educational institution is expected to be aware of the  law. The students who take admission are not young in age. They  are graduates.They  are expected  to  enquire  whether   the   institution   has recognition  and affiliation.  If we allow ourselves to say so,  the institution  had  given admission in a nonchalant manner.   Possibly, its functionaries harboured the idea that they had incomparable fertile  mind. The  students  who  had taken admission possibly immersed with the idea that ignorance is a bliss. It is also  necessary  to  state  that  the  institution  had  the anxious enthusiasm to commercialize education and earn money forgetting the  factum that  such  an  attitude  leads  to  a  disaster. The students  exhibited tremendous anxiety to get a degree without bothering for  a  moment  whether their effort, if any, had the sanctity of law. Such  attitudes  only  bring nemesis.  It would not be wrong to say that this is not  a  case  which  put the institution or the students to choose between Scylla and Charybdis. On the contrary, both of them were expected to be Argus-eyed.  The basic motto should have been "transparency". Unfortunately,  the  institution  betrayed the trust of the students and the  students,  in  a  way,  atrophied  their intelligence.The  institution decidedly  exhibited  characteristics of carelessness.  It seems that they had forgotten that  they  are  accountable to law.  The students, while  thinking  "vision  of  hope",  chose  to  play possum. The law does not countenance either of the ideas.  Hence, the  plea propounded  with  anxiety,  vehemence  and  desperation  on  behalf  of the appellant is not acceptable and, accordingly  we  unhesitatingly repel  the same."

Dr. Anil Verma
Hony. Vice President
Akhil Bharatiya Chhatra Sangh
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Posted By IIMA to Gen NB on 11/03/2013 08:46:00 pm