IIMs open to meeting MHRD midway on one-year post-graduate programmes

Responding to a query, IIM Bangalore director G Raghuram said that the matter needed to be discussed, "especially if the MHRD, through the IIM Act, has given autonomy to the IIMs".

The government’s move to stop offering one-year post-graduate degree programmes at Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) may spiral into a tussle between the two, with the premier B-schools uniting to hold on to their autonomy.

IIMs are planning to meet officials of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) and present them amicable options. For instance, they are considering options like either going back to offering one-year post graduate programmes as diplomas, instead of degree MBA, or adding an additional component of research after completion of one-year. The outcome depends on the kind of dialogue that the IIMs will have