IIM-A board to take decision on implementing govt order

Updated on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Ahmedabad: Indian instiutute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) board will take a final decision on the implementation of new government order on pay structure that has been opposed by the faculty members, sources said.

The IIM-A faculty council during its meeting held on Saturday last had opposed the new government order on pay revision and urged the IIM-A director Dr Samir Barua to delay its implementation by a month.

'IIM-A board meeting has been convened on September 25, and the issue of implementing the new government order on pay revision shall be taken up for discussion then,' a top official at IIM-A  said.

The council termed the new order which puts 40 per cent cap on the promotion of professor to senior grade, and also caps the number of domestic and international conferences a professor can attend annually, as 'infringement on academic freedom of the institution.'

The faculty council has also decided to take up this issue with other IIMs before deciding on future course of action.

 

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