IIM-A to grant no reservations for the Ph.D.admissions

IIM-A to grant no reservations for the Ph.D.admissions

Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad has released the notification for the Ph.D.admissions for the session 2020. The notification has drawn ire from the various corners as there is no provision of reservation in the notification. The admission process for the Ph.D.has commenced from September 10. IIM-A’s Ph.D.program is a full-time residential program. Siddharth Joshi, a Fellow of IIM Bangalore and Deepak Malghan, Associate Professor at IIM Bangalore, have written a letter to the IIM-A director Errol D'Souza and said  that the decision is a “clear violation of the IIM Act (2107) that granted unprecedented autonomy to IIMs". When contacted IIM-A about the issue, the official refused to comment on the issue and said "Executive committee is discussing the issue and will come out with a resolution soon". "IIMA has a long history of willfully striking reservation provisions in the doctoral program. We believe it is now time to make amends. IIMA is a public institution, and its actions in the Ph.D. program are in violation of the institute's implicit social compact," the letter from Prof Malghan and Siddharth Joshi said.They also said that "the argument that IIMA's doctoral program is a super-specialty program is just as fallacious"."Ph.D.programs at sister IIMs that are at least as rigorous as the one at IIMA (and some of them arguably more research-intensive than IIMA) have implemented reservations in their respective doctoral programs," they said.The last date to apply for the program is January 23, 2020 and the interview for the same will be held in March/April and admission decision will be made by the last week of April.

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