Apropos Jayajit Dash's report, "A year on, IIM-Sambalpur toils without full-time faculty" (October 4), even the established IIMs are facing problems finding suitable candidates to fill faculty posts, to say nothing of the six new IIMs.
Teaching is not a sought-after career option these days because it is not lucrative enough. By opening the new IIMs, the government might have given students a brand name, but whether they would eventually be employed by the best companies is the million-dollar question.
Brand name apart, infrastructure, regular industry interface and years of sustainable work and intake of quality students make an institute a sought-after one. IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Bangalore or Lucknow did not achieve their elite status overnight.
The need of the hour is to employ full-time faculty in these new IIMs by making their salaries lucrative. The administration of these IIMs could ask for help from the alumni of the established IIMs.
Bal Govind, Noida
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