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IIM-A final list likely today

Manas Dasgupta

Official communication from Ministry to be issued by 11 a.m.

AHMEDABAD: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, is expected to announce the final list of admission for the general seats by Friday evening if the official communication from the Union Human Resource Development Ministry was available by morning.

An official spokesman of the IIMA said the entire system had been "alerted" by Thursday evening and barring any technical problem, the final list would be posted on its website "within hours of receiving communication from Delhi."

The IIM-A was informed by the Ministry late on Thursday night that the official communication, allowing the IIMs to go ahead with the admission minus the OBC reservation quota, would be issued by 11 am on Friday. "Even if the communication was received by noon, the final list of admission will be on the website within a couple of hours barring any technical faults," the spokesman said.

IIM-A director Bakul Dholakia, currently out of station, has reportedly expressed happiness over the development breaking the impasse created over the admissions affecting the next academic year. All the IIMs had been asking the Ministry to allow them to go ahead with the admission process minus the reservation quota to avoid disruption of the next academic year, but only got a firm "no" from the Centre.

The list for the 250 seats in the general category was ready with the IIM-A as it was originally scheduled to announce it on April 12. It was delayed till April 21 and then further suspended indefinitely at the behest of the Ministry.

The list for the six per cent reservation quota and the consequent expansion of the intake capacity by 30 seats had been kept separately and would be announced as and when the Supreme Court cleared the stay on the implementation of the OBC reservation, the spokesman said.

Decks cleared

Bangalore Staff Reporter reports:

Decks have been cleared for the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) to issue call letters to General Merit, SC/ST and Physically Disabled category candidates short-listed for its Post Graduate Management Programme.

The call letters are likely to be despatched from Friday, although IIM-B officials said they would wait for official confirmation.

An IIM-B spokesman said the shortlisted candidates can confirm their selection through the IIM-B website (www.iimb.ernet.in) .

The Institute is likely to give the candidates two weeks to report, almost a week less than what they would normally have to decide.

Further delay in the admission process could have jeopardised the preparatory classes for the weaker candidates, so critical to ensure parity in the tough management classroom.

Once the admission process restarts on Friday, the classes would remain unaffected.

The preparatory classes are usually conducted in the first week of June. Among the final selected candidates, those with lower scores in the Verbal Ability, English and Quantitative Analysis sections of the Common Admission Test (CAT) are identified and given special classes.

The voluntary classes are designed to bring the relatively weaker candidates on par with the rest of the class, before the course formally starts in July, explained a top IIMB official to The Hindu .

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