The Faculty Council of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), Tuesday, a petition before the Supreme Court for impleading itself as co-respondents in the case of PIL against cut costs, for HRD on the Union in all Department of IIMS Government of the European Union.

Hearing on PIL is scheduled to begin on 16 April.

The IIM-C Faculty decided to representation, whoever may be made by the Board of Governors of the Institute. Prof. Asish Bhattacharyya, Dean (planning and management) of IIM-C and spokesperson of the Faculty, said the Business Line, there is a clear difference between the opinion of the Faculty and some members of the Board of Governors Tax on the issue of interface and the exercise of autonomy of the Institute.

The Faculty Council felt that the independence of representation should be addressed to bring the case before the Court of art.

“The Faculty feels that some members of the Board of Governors can not exercise their independent judgement in the interest of the institute. It is therefore responsible for the faculty, for the interests of the Institute, its teachers and students present and future, “Spokesman.

The Faculty Council, in its application at the end of court, said that “autonomy have so far by the Institute in the pursuit of excellence, not by any political or bureaucratic influence, it would be possible to l ‘Institute, to achieve their current status.

The Faculty is therefore every interest in ensuring that these non-interference in its affairs under way should continue, so that the Institute could be the target, without distraction. ”

Prof. Bhattacharyya also stressed that for the question of standing was concerned, has always questioned, the respondents in the previous hearings, the Institute of the Faculty was better placed than the Alumni Association of the IIM - C. He said, however, were Alumni of transition assistance of the Faculty.

The IIM-C Board of Governors In the meantime, was unable to formalize its response to the Apex Court directive last week for a model to 16 April.

According to some sources, the technical problem of convening a meeting of council is therefore a period of 15 days.

The director of IIM-C and the chairman of the Governing Council understood to have discussed issues related to the Institute’s response to the edge Court directive also as a form adoption of the resolution drafted by the presidency.

The fate of the planned meeting between the Faculty and the president on 15 April seems uncertain, given the evolving situation. Informed sources suggested that IIM-C could try for some time by the Court of art for its presentation, but is optional.

How IIM, Ahmedabad, the Supreme Court today for some cases, pressure on IIM-C, for a formal presentation.

Faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta are occupied, legal advice five days before the Supreme Court against the European Union human resource development ministry, said Ashis Bhattacharyya, IIMC’s din of the planning and management.

The Tribunal is currently head PIL consultation has been suggested that the HRD with the Ministry’s decision to bar tuition annual R-IIMS lakh from 1.5 to 30 RS 000 The Faculty IIMC appears in SC On 16 April.

The Faculty IIMC was against the tax bar because she thought it would have on the autonomy of the university.

IIMC faculty members and institutions in Bangalore and Ahmedabad felt the Boards of Governors decides on tuition fees of these institutions, which are not MHRD.

The PIL in SC was filed by some ex-students and academics from the Faculty of IIMA the Faculty IIMC decided to party. In search of the rights of the expertise of the Faculty IIMC are not subject to lawyers only in the city. “We started talking about some jurists high level in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, man, regularly take up cases of the SC,” a senior Faculty said.

“The SC, after consulting the PIL, on 8 April has sought the opinion of the IIMS. But IIMS Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode Calcutta at the offices of governors, a resolution supporting the tax cut, despite l ‘opposition of the Faculty. And it review committees have been searched, “said the panel members.

THE faculty council of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) on Monday decided to move the Calcutta High Court challenging the validity of the 164th meeting of the board of governors, which took place on March 26, 2004.

Prof Asish Bhattacharyya, Dean (Planning & Administration) and spokesperson of the faculty council, told newspersons that the validity of the said meeting was being called into question since four members had been replaced or substituted just before the crucial meeting to decide on the fee cut issue.

The council has also recommended that the Director of the institute provisionally maintain the fee structure for the forthcoming session, which begins in May.

Prof Bhattacharyya said that the council has suggested that since the board of governors has not been able to take a decision on fee reduction as directed by the Union HRD Ministry, the continuation of the same fee structure was advisable in view of smooth functioning of the institute as per the curriculum.

In the just concluded two-year session, IIM-C had charged a total of around Rs 2.5 lakh. The payments were obtained in various stages. The initial payment was around Rs 48,000.

“We have also suggested to the Director, who was present at the council meeting today, that fee received in excess of what might be finally decided by the board of governors or the Supreme Court be refunded with interest to the students.”

Prof Bhattacharyya also said that it has been the practice at IIM-C that before every session the faculty would recommend the fee structure and the board would take it up for approval. The council has also suggested that the Director, in the absence of clarity, might keep aside the Central Government’s proposed grant of Rs 4 crore for 2003-04 on account of non-Plan expenditure.

“The fund has not come in yet. But if it comes, the council advises that it should not be used until the matter is resolved by the Supreme Court or through a process of dialogue.” Meanwhile, the IIM-C faculty council has requested the Ministry that it be included in the process of dialogue on the fee revision issue.

The council has decided to form a three-member committee consisting of two faculty members and one alumnus for the proposed dialogue.

Calcutta: It’s management practices rather than a me-combat. Faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, want the status quo on tuition fees will be maintained at least for the next academic year.

Faculty members say that the Institute of authorization to issue letters of a fresh cargo of students from next week, in which tuition fees must be clearly indicated.

The decision of the IIM-C’s Faculty meeting on Monday, is a clear defiance framed by resolution YC Deveshwar, president of the IIM-C’s Board of Governors.

The President of the European Union has HRD ministry bar annual fee of 1.25 lakh RS RS 30000

“Given that tuition fees should be clear to new students, the Council may decide that the fees issue and negotiate director Shekhar Chowdhury. We also proposed that the segregated funds, where money may be filed. If the fee is to bar the Apex court, we students money back with interest “, Ashish Bhattacharya, IIM-C-dean of planning and management said.

The director is expected to inform the Board of Governors of the Council decision. The Council also approved the decision of the ability to move high court on Tuesday.

It is responsible for the HRD ministry of the decision on their own people to participate in the 164 Board of Governors’ meeting, on March 26 are available in some members of origin. A new teams up with a Alumnus and two members the ability to ensure that the HRD ministry has initiated a dialogue with members of the Faculty in the bar fees discussion. “The Supreme Court, the ministry believes that discussions with the IIMS to solve the problem of honoraria. In case of IIM-C, the Board of Directors and members have the option of opposing view and, therefore, we ask that the Ministry held separate discussions, “Bhattacharya added.

The Council said that the RS 4 crore kitty sent by the Observatory at low tide on any deficit are not currently used. “We believe it is in a separate account and can not handle now. We will wait until the Supreme Court to take a decision on the question that we decide how it is used,” said Bhattacharya.

NOW that the IIMs have more or less ruled out a legal recourse against the HRD Ministry’s directive to impose a fee cut in their PGP (Post-Graduate Programmes) courses, the country’s premier business schools are busy considering various options to make up for this revenue loss.

“One of the options before us is to increase the number of Management Development Programmes (MDPs),” said Prof Prakash G. Apte, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

In an exclusive interview with Business Line today, he said that the board of governors would meet in the next four days. “IIM-Bangalore will work out its finances then. We have not yet received the break-up for the planned and non-planned grants.”

But would increasing the number of management development programmes not impose a huge load on the already over-burdened professors who are handling various PG courses, executive education programmes and consultancy assignments?

(IIM-Bangalore, for instance, has about 70 professors for 700 students (400 in the PGP, 300 in the PGP in Software Management and 40 PhD students) and this year, the institute has conducted about 45 MDPs.)

Prof Apte said that they might even consider reducing the number of offerings for the students so that more staff time is available for corporate training programmes.

On whether the institute would recruit more teachers, he said: “Yes, that would be one option,” but expressed doubt about finding the right kind of talent in the industry.

But this too would require Government permission. And what about additional funds for the salaries? With the cut in allocation in this year’s Interim Budget - from Rs 79.73 crore last year to Rs 45 crore in 2004-05 - the IIMs would have to tread this path carefully.

Meanwhile, the Government is also insisting that the IIMs increase intake of students.

This might be one way of boosting their revenues, but Prof Apte said: “We can take about 40 more students, provided we have the right infrastructure like hostel rooms, mess, etc.”

After dumping taxes in the six IIMS, the HRD ministry has its eyes on other B-schools in the country.

The ministry is governed by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) to follow the recommendations of the UR Rao Committee and the state fee committees, once their reports, Slash and costs of all schools B.

Among the prominent institutes, which is perhaps in the line of fire of the line Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (New Delhi), Jamnalal Bajaj Institute (Mumbai), Symbosis (Pune) and XLRI (Jamshedpur). There are over 600 institutions managing the AICTE, all may have to reduce their costs, less than Rs 40,000 per year, ministry officials sources said. Currently, fees range from 60000 to R RS 1.5 lakh.

The UR Rao Committee has already, with its recommendations, which were used by the ministry to justify its decision to reduce taxes on IIMS 80 per cent. A Ministry said government sources charges committees its recommendations to the AICTE within two months.

The Indian Institute of Management (IIMS), and finally the international debut. IIM Bangalore, is completing plans for the establishment of an offshore campus in Singapore or in one of the countries in Southeast Asia, Prakash Apte G IIMB director told The Times of India.

The Institute works outside, the modus operandi of the university campus next few years, but it is still a reflection on programmes.

The proposal will probably be raised during the meeting between the Ministry of HRD and directors of the six IIMS in New Delhi next week, Apte said. HRD officials to attend two days of higher education here at the conference said Tuesday there were several proposals IIMS and IITS to offer various programs and proposals for expansion.

“In the coming weeks, meetings, we accept the new programs offer IIMS. We want new issues, launch programs more integrated and strengthening of credit in new areas of sharing, Sudeep Banerjee, Additional Secretary, MHRD , Said.

IIM, Ahmedabad, the oldest of six IIMS, is also concerned with offshore centres tie-ups with American universities, like Wharton, Stanford, Columbia and providing years Post-Graduate programme in the areas of management for frameworks.

But IIMB is not interested in tie-ups. “We seek the possibility of a real campus, no tie-ups with universities,” said Apte.

The Ministry of HRD approach should be a shot in the arm assertions IIMS foreigners on board. “We give considerable autonomy for the institutions working for them, agreements with others, which we support,” said Banerjee.

Autonomy is something that even the IIMS to erflehen. The Big Three - IIM A, B and C - said the HRD does not require the ministry, the plan or no plan, because it enough-Corpus Fund. “As regards small and IIMS recently, we must maintain with the block grants.”

Basic Science Education is an area of the thrust of this house. The government is currently considering an RS-800 crore training and scientific research package. In addition to the renovation of scientists, research institutes, they used to finance three committed sciences, research institutes and teaching.

Marked interest basic research and the declining number of scientific personnel in the country were a source of concern for the government. As part of their budget debts, the HRD has tried to ministry, an RS-600 crore package as a support base for research, RS 100 crore for the two Indian Institute of Science Education & Research in Calcutta and Pune, and another for Rs 100 crore Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Given that the interest shown by the clock and the scientific committee for the promotion and rejuvenation of education scientific basis, the ministry is confident that the budget package. It would be in agreement with the government’s emphasis on basic research, science, which led to an allocation of Rs 100 crore during the last budget IISc, Bangalore, to ensure that it reaches the standards world-class.

In addition to the care of the budgetary authority sought for some institutions, the government of the injection of new efforts in the search for life in basic research, science will cost Rs 600 crore per annum. Of which, RS 400 crore for infrastructure development in universities and Rs 150 crore for setting up 10 centres for basic research science.

The 10 centres networking created in key departments of universities in different parts of the country to promote collaborative research, access to modern facilities and implementing training in the border regions. Of these two centres are in physics, chemistry natural sciences, life sciences, material sciences, mathematics and science. These centres are widely supported on a long-term, to ensure that international standards.

The RS-400-crore package of measures aimed at improving the infrastructure of science seeks an increase of five times the number of doctorates in science, the modernization of research laboratories and a starter-Fonds . Credits have been requested for the promotion of a formal relationship between universities and national institutions, including CSIR laboratories through joint research projects and training.

The government is the result of the proposal by Mr Sharma of the task force created by the Department of Human Resources Development in 2005, to assess the state of scientific research and training in universities and determine areas and action.

New Delhi: more work default instructions for middle-class voters, this time of Ministers of the Union HRD Murli Manohar Joshi. In a step on the deployment inexpensive management training, Joshi Thursday, reduced the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) charges across the country by an astonishing 80 per cent.

IIM Costs differ in each of the six institutes in the country, but the average is close to Rs 1.5 lakh per annum. It is against the establishment of a low phenomenal R 30000 per year.

Officially, the IIMS not respond. Joshi, the chairman of IIM Ahmedabad, NO Narayanamurthy agreed on his move.

But IIM professors pointed out that it is a “ powder”in the eyes, because the real challenge before the government was to ensure equal opportunities in primary school. In the post graduate level, there was little merit candidate, was denied the opportunity to study the IIMS because of financial constraints, they stressed.

In the provision of the Ministry of Thursday, there were justified that the Supreme Court ruled against very high in the TMA Pai case. Thereafter, a committee, headed by former President, Professor ISRO UR Rao, said that “ it is unfair and would not be appropriate technical training to the situation prohibitive, but poor students. ” ‘The Rao Committee proposed that the “ Fees should be coupled with 30 per cent of Indian per capita income is Rs 6000 per annum.

The order, said Thursday that “ no other fees should be collected by students, in addition to taxes with the exception of charges, the background image to be paid by students would be separated. The revised tariff structure will come into force from the academic session 2004-05.”

Joshi, of course, is not IIMS want to deprive them of funds. Former Comptroller and Auditor General VK Shunglu, already under consideration CAT leak was asked to assess whether any of IIMS face any financial difficulties. It is unlikely that the three ancient and historical IIMS in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta that the face of every problem. It remains to be seen whether the fee structure currently is harder for IIMS in Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode.

The lines of IIM had a free hand, since the days of the Narasimha Rao government, when they were invited in large part to defend itself. Even the United Front government, which distrusts the structure of fees, was not involved. The IIMS, especially the first three, the board has a net gain of jobs, almost double the amount it deserves, in the form of royalties.

Calcutta: Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, came under the HRD scanner for the first time when ministry officials on Monday and requested that the Institute according to the records to verify whether it has participated with the admission test leak. But the Faculty IIM refused to surrender hard drives containing data.

“Both member of the team left its investigations and Tuesday morning. They had a three-hour conversation with me, and I told them what they wanted to know,” said Dinesh Kumar, Faculty and President CAT IIM-C.

But members of the Faculty are not happy about the visit. “The ministry sent a letter to the Institute last week, saying the two officials would be to study, and we were hands on their hard drive. That can not be allowed. At a meeting on Friday was voted Faculty unanimously, that officials could study longer, as she wanted, but they do not go hard, “said an officer Faculty.

The two officials were identified by visitors to department figures, the computer and check how the questions were formatted for the original CAT-examination. “They check in particular if we had destroyed most of the issue of paper use has been settled,” said a member of the Faculty.

Angewidert professors called the episode “Big farce”. “The ministry organizes the failure and attempts to transfer the debt and we try to prove we are not able to organize the review of our own” One of them said.