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IIM-Lucknow to help train SC, ST candidates
Friday September 07, 2012 08:10:03 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: IIM-Lucknow
has begun an exercise to enhance competitive skills of reserved
category candidates and expand the pool of applicants by helping
them train for the Common Admission Test (CAT).
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) officials here said an urgent
need was felt to improve representation and opportunities for
socio-economically deprived students at the institutes.
After discussions, a workable roadmap was evolved. It was decided
that in the pilot phase, around 40-60 promising students (from
Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes categories) amenable to
management studies would be chosen from colleges around Lucknow.
They would be coached for two to three months by an external
agency with expertise in training candidates for CAT.
The insititute would pay for all expenses as a part of its CSR
initiative.
But the institute said it would neither have any no role in the
selection and training of candidates nor in any CAT-related
process.
For CAT 2012, the institute has selected Team Satyam as its
preferred vendor to select and prepare a batch of 50 SC/ST
candidates and groom them for admission into post-graduate
programmes in various IIMs.
However, Team Satyam is not associated with IIM with regards to
CAT, a faculty member told IANS.
"This special exercise for SC/ST candidates in no way ensures
their admission to the post graduate programme in management of
any IIM or at any other programme of any business school which
accepts CAT scores."
IIM-Lucknow Director Devi Singh said the exercise would help all
IIMs get quality students from deprived categories.
It would also act as an incentive for students from these
categories to dream big, he said.
The project will initially be restricted to Lucknow but the
candidates can be from anywhere in India. Based on the results and
feedback, it might be extended to other cities next year.
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