IIMs seek time to implement quota Bill

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have announced that they need at least three years' time to implement the new quota system regarding reservation for the other backward castes (OBCs).

IIM-Lucknow Director Devi Singh, refusing to comment on the ongoing protest against the UPA government's move to introduce reservations in professional education, said it was time to look forward and find ways to implement the new quota norms.

The 18th annual conference of Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), which started here today at the IIM-L campus, may not have made a direct mention of the controversy, but the directors were confident that recruitment of additional faculty would be a way out to meet government's decision.

''I would not like to comment on the quota protest. But I feel we should find ways to implement it,'' IIM-L Director Devi Singh said.

Following the new quota norms, IIMs have made it clear that they require new faculty and infrastructure adjustments.