APPENDIX 2
MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE
 NANDA COMMITTEE REPORT
 

1. Governance

Membership of IIM Societies to allow for deferential subscription so as to include persons belonging to user groups, academics, professionals and scientists. Societies must act as promoters of major policies towards achieving relevance and excellence (29)

Chairman of the Board should be one who is a successful manager with proven commitment and interest in organisations, it distinguished academic with administrative experience, or an administrator with experience in educational management, who is committed to the furtherance of management education and research and has adequate time to spare (29).

A locally-based member, interested in management education and training and is able to devote his time to attend meetings and the work connected with the Institute, be nominated by the Chairman as the Vice-Chairman of the Board (30)

A Managing Committee, of not more than 10 members, chaired by the Vice-Chairman, to meet between Board meetings at the instance of the Director, to attend to routine administration and more importantly, to review of academic work. (30)

An academic committee be constituted to advise the Board of Governors in all academic matters including research, quality in academic matters, identifying potential faculty members and promoting specific areas of research (31)

2. Objectives

Should include training and education of

i) managers for public utilities and services

ii) management teachers

3. Activities

Increase PGP intake to 180 at Calcutta and Bangalore (5)

Intake to FPM be at least 15-20 per year. Provide single as well as married accommodation to all FPMs (17)

(Number in parenthesis refers to para number in "Summary and Recommendations" of the Nanda Committee Report, 1981.)

Increase MDPs, new programmes to be original, novel, based upon national needs (19)

Adequate funding for research to be provided without soliciting project funding and consultancy research to be both basic and. applied (24 & 25)

IIMs should act as mother institutes and foster the growth of other management institutions in the country (37)

Faculty development programmes to be started by all IIMs (46)

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Urgent necessity to develop expertise in international management, and offering of educational and training programmes in International management to be encouraged (47)

Foster a climate for research. Special funding for the purpose of exchange of research faculty with other institutes in the country and with Universities abroad. (26)

Add to Indian teaching materials each year so that country benefits (8 and 23)

4. Faculty Development

Institute should draw up systematic training programmes for their newly recruited faculty members, devise methods of assessing periodically the training needs of faculty members, plan and send them for such training (21)

Assess faculty work load and see that maximum targetted amount of time is devoted to teaching and research (22)

5. Finance and Autonomy

Government control should be progressively reduced as each Institute becomes more and more self-reliant (38)

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