{"id":33105,"date":"2018-10-30T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33105"},"modified":"2018-10-30T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:26:27","slug":"parliament-gives-nod-to-iim-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parliament-gives-nod-to-iim-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament gives nod to IIM bill\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/parliament-gives-nod-to-iim-bill\/article21955766.ece\"><strong>Parliament gives nod to IIM bill<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parliament on Tuesday unanimously passed a Bill to grant the Indian Institutes of Management the power to grant degrees instead of post-graduate diplomas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bill features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As per the IIM Bill, 2017, a Board of Governors will appoint the Director of each IIM.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill also allows students to acquire doctoral degrees from the IIMs.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill, passed by the LokSabha earlier, was passed by the RajyaSabha on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Doctoral degrees<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier, fellowships of the IIMs were not regarded as Ph.D.s, which led students to complete their diplomas and go abroad if they wanted to earn a doctoral degree.<\/li>\n<li>The hope is that the passage of this Bill will pave the way for more research at these prestigious institutions.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill also confers on the 20 IIMs the status of institutions of national importance, granting them greater functional autonomy by restricting the role of the government in them.<\/li>\n<li>Till now, the Centre had a role in the appointment of the chairpersons and directors to their Boards and also fixing the pay of the directors.<\/li>\n<li>As per the IIM Bill, 2017, a Board of Governors will appoint the Director of each IIM.<\/li>\n<li>A search-cum-selection-committee will recommend the names. And the director will be eligible for variable pay as determined by the Board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament gives nod to IIM bill\u00a0 Context Parliament on Tuesday unanimously passed a Bill to grant the Indian Institutes of Management the power to grant degrees instead of post-graduate diplomas. The Bill features As per the IIM Bill, 2017, a Board of Governors will appoint the Director of each IIM. The Bill also allows students&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parliament-gives-nod-to-iim-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parliament gives nod to IIM bill\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704709795},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}