The Indian Institute of Planning and Management will not be offering direct admissions to its management programmes any longer, according to information on its admissions page.
In what appears to be an impending shut down of the institute’s mainstream programme, the institute’s website says the move would lead to the IIPM only offering courses in “technical collaboration” with other institutions with which it has a tie-up.
In September, 2014, the Delhi High Court had restrained the institute from using words like MBA, BBA, management course, management school or business school in relation to courses conducted by it.
An IIPM admissions executive told The Hindu that the process involves the setting up of an ‘IIPM 2.0’ in which it will have a tie up with Ishan Institute of Technology to offer a regular two-year programme.
But when The Hindu made an enquiry regarding the “technical collaboration” with Ishan Institute of Technology based in Greater Noida, their admissions in-charge Anupama said that calling it a technical collaboration was only a smokescreen to conceal the truth that students presently enrolled in IIPM’s management programmes were unhappy to continue there and were looking to switch over to other institutions to continue their education.
She said that their institute was a separate one and did not have any linkages with IIPM. The regular two-year programme at Ishan Institute comes at a total cost of Rs. 4,95,000. This means present students at IIPM will have to pay the fees over and above what they may have already paid IIPM.
‘Not shutting down’Director IIPM Arindam Chaudhuri, however, denied that the institute is shutting down. In a text message sent to The Hindu , he clarified: “IIPM is not going to shut down. The institute is now going to work through knowledge partnership as IIPM 2.0 as announced on May 11 through an advertisement.”
(With inputs from Kritika Sharma Sebastian)