Click to play videoBangalore/Ahmedabad: The Supreme Court stay on all quota proceedings as regards admissions to government institutions has had a ripple effect across the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management.
On Thursday, all IIMs deferred the admission process for the 2007-2008 academic session by nine days.
"We will defer the admission, but not for long. We will announce the admissions by April 21," said IIM-A Director Bakul Dholakia.
However, even this short delay will mean uncertainty for thousands of management aspirants across the country.
Every IIM has decided to admit the same number of students as they did the last year because of the OBC quota confusion after the Supreme Court's stay.
This could mean that the cream of the applicants could end up in any of the 70 other management schools, the admissions to which are also conducted through the Common Admission Test (CAT).
“Most of them will not take chances and take admissions by April 15 to other institutes. If they find themselves on the list of the coveted IIMs they will then abandon those colleges. In the process they stand to lose Rs 2 lakh to Rs 10 lakh,” said Director IIM-Bangalore, Prakash Apte.
The wait will be longer for those on the OBC list. The quota would have meant 17 OBC seats in IIM-Ahmedabad and 19 in IIM-Bangalore.
Though the HRD ministry is hopeful of getting the Supreme Court stay vacated, the IIMs are upset that they were not consulted by the HRD policy makers in Delhi.
(With Deepa Balakrishnan and Meghdoot Sharon)
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