IIM-C Interviews held, results put on hold

The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta conducted interviews for Other Backward Class (OBC) category students as scheduled on Thursday but decided to hold the results in abeyance.

This follows the stay granted by the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday on the memorandum issued by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry according reservation to IIM aspirants belonging to the OBC segment in the postgraduate courses in the central institutes of higher learning.

Chairman of admissions in the institute, Subrata Mitra, said 20 interviews were conducted during the first-half of the day at the Joka Campus.

The candidates were told to sign an undertaking which said they understood the backdrop in which the interviews were taking place and that the entire process may become null and void depending on the apex court’s ruling and the subsequent instructions from the Ministry.

Mr. Mitra said all the IIMs have been in touch with one another and had decided to evolve their own process of conducting the admission process this year, in view of the exceptional situation that had arisen after the HRD memorandum.

On fears of legal hurdles delaying this year’s admissions, he said the academic calendar of the IIMs were fixed and he hoped that the classes would commence from mid-June as scheduled.