T.T. Ram Mohan, a professor at IIM-A, rebuts some of the points raised in a column by V. Ranganathan, a professor at IIM-B. I have to ask you to go to Ram Mohan’s post for the quota-related debate, but here’s an extract from the end of the post:
The IIMs need to be realistic about their objectives. They need to set objectives that are meaningful in the context in which they operate. They certainly could use more funds and they need to think of ways to mobilise these. But it is not clear that having to operate within the government framework is a constraint on raising more funds.
It is convenient to suppose that there is some government devil that is keeping the IIMs from soaring to greater heights, that greater funding or greater financial autonomy will propel the IIMs into the big league. The reality, alas, is rather more complex.
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