Advocacy for IIM FPM and Faculty Recruitment
The Global IITIIM Alumni Network, a subsidiary network of GEN, represents a worldwide network of alumni of various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), currently working across world in different countries. Our members include professionally successful people from the historically marginalized communities of the Indian population who are under-represented in modern India in various sectors including bureaucracy, corporate and educational institutions. In early 2017, while Government of India decided to grant more autonomy to the IIMs, the Network did advocacy to ensure that the reservations for the marginalized communities are not impacted due to autonomy. The Network also found through several RTI (Request to Information) that reservations are not being strictly followed at IIMs for fellowship programs and faculty recruitment and held a series of discussions with IIMs. As a result, many IIMs including IIMB (IIM Bangalore, IIMC (IIM Calcultta) started including reservations in FPM. But IIMA was an exception, and the Network filed a court case against IIMA