Diversity deficit: Why are there still such few SCs, STs and OBCs at IIMs?

Out of the 642 faculty members across ten IIMs, only four belong to Scheduled Castes and a solitary faculty member belongs to a Scheduled Tribe

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) suffer from an acute social diversity deficit in their faculty composition. New data that we have obtained since we first published faculty diversity data at IIM adds even more ballast to the arguments made at the time. Out of 642 faculty members covered by this data, only two are from the Scheduled Castes (SC) group, and only one from the Scheduled Tribes (ST) group (and only 13 belong to the Other Backward Classes or OBC group). As a public institution, this bleak picture severely undermines the legitimacy of IIMs. In this sequel, we chronicle