As for the quotas, student numbers for the two-year MBA will swell to about 462 from the current 300 once they are implemented.
Move is with an eye on the possible implementation of quotas
MUMBAI: The current Supreme Court stay notwithstanding, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are bracing for an increase in student and faculty capacity, should the proposal for 27% quota in centrally funded educational institutions be implemented. Creating additional infrastructure is clearly a focus for now.
Leading the way are IIM Calcutta and Bangalore.
Indushekhar Vasisst, chief administrative officer, IIM-B said, “We have been told by the human resource development ministry to prepare for a ‘post-quota implementation’ kind of situation and are hence enhancing the capacity of our classrooms and faculty units.”
“With the government showing determination to impose the quota, we have to be ready to take in more students and thus more faculty members. Therefore, we have already drawn a roadmap and will start the construction early next year,” said Vasisst.
The institute is looking to add 6 classrooms, 3 examination halls and 36 faculty-housing units. It also plans to add 240 rooms to its existing student dormitories, besides building an auditorium and a sports centre.
Vasisst, however, declined to divulge the cost involved.
IIM-C, too, has lined up a massive expansion project starting January. With an initial investment of Rs 50 crore, the institute is looking to add 370 hostel rooms, 18 classrooms, 100 rooms for the faculty, as also a management development programme centre, which would offer highly specialised courses for executives with some amount of work experience.
Dinesh Varma, chief administrative officer, IIM-C said, “The additions are being made also keeping in mind the increase in student numbers due to the new course for executives on manufacturing that we have just started jointly with IIT Kanpur and Madras.”
As for the quotas, student numbers for the two-year MBA will swell to about 462 from the current 300 once they are implemented.
The current outlay of Rs 50 crore could increase to about Rs 100 crore, going into 2010, Varma said, adding, the institute will look for sponsorship for funding the additional amount.
Among others, IIM Indore plans to build a 120-room hostel for students enrolled in the two-year post graduate programme (PGP) in management and an 18-room hostel facility for its PhD or fellowship programme in management (FPM) students.
S P Parashar, director, IIM-I said, “We have always believed in the spirit of expanding
facilities for the betterment of quality education. The quota debate has made it clear that
we have to get started and increase our capacity.”
The institute has just completed construction of about 16 faculty houses and an almost equal number of faculty offices.
The Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Kozhikode IIMs, too, are adding capacity, though their
expansion programmes are not as huge as those at Bangalore and Calcutta.
The institutes are looking to add more dormitories and hostel rooms, besides sports
centres.
An administrative official from IIM Kozhikode said it plans to raise the number of seats on its MBA programme to about 240 next year from the current 180, whether or not quotas are implemented.
It is in the process of constructing a few extra hostels to accommodate the
additional heads.
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