IIM results dawdling: 21st might be the D day

The 6 IIMs have deferred the admissions for the academic session 2007-2008 till 21st April. IIMs have reiterated that they are not in a position to implement the quota if the government fails to solve the impasse. The Centre is most likely to go the Supreme Court this afternoon in the OBC quota case. All the IIMs were supposed to declare their result on/before 12th April but the confusion started when the Union HRD Ministry sent out a letter to all centrally-aided institutes, including the IIMs and IITs, asking them to withhold declaration of entrance examination results till the Supreme Court decided whether or not to lift the stay on implementation of OBC quotas in this academic session. Part of the latter as published in news paper/portals and shown on TV channels "You are advised not to issue any offers of admissions in institutes under your control for the ensuing academic session until you receive further communication in this regard from the central government." Earlier the IIMs have sent a letter to the MHRD to clarify the matter and tried their best to publish the list on time. If the HRD ministry and the IIMs do not come to a decision soon, it’s the students who will stand to lose out the most. Unworried by the situation all Private management schools are going ahead with their admissions and selected students have been asked to pay the first installment of fees, making students more confused. XLRI has fixed the deadline to pay its first fee installment on 20th april and the amount is around 2 lakh. For other institutes the amount varies from Rs 10,000 to Rs 4 lakh . Though Institutes refund a part of the first installment in case of a student pull out and joins an IIM, the amount is always much less than what students required to pay while confirming their offer latter.