Tag: Dheeraj Sharma

Dheeraj Sharma, the director of IIM Rohtak, has allegedly received significantly more variable pay than his salary and the government has written to the institution seeking a response while flagging objections from its Internal Audit Wing (IAW). According to the Indian Express report, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has flagged objections of its IAW about ₹3.2 crore variable pay paid to Sharma for the period of three years. The institute paid the amount for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21. The probe by the IAW found that the amount paid to Sharma, who is reportedly facing scrutiny for allegedly misrepresenting his educational ... Read more

The IIMs, India’s premier management schools, are centrally-funded. But for decades, many of them had been clamouring for more autonomy. That year, their wish was partly fulfilled—Parliament passed the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bill, effectively freeing the elite B-schools from government interference. Javadekar said that from then on, the IIMs would be “board-driven, with the chairperson and director selected by the board”. But the truce between the government and the IIMs started unravelling sometime in 2018. And today, the same government that had imposed faith in the autonomous running of the IIMs in 2017 now swung the other way. ... Read more