IIPM..Indian Institute of.......whatever...!!

It is while going through The HIndu I’ve seen the acronym IIPM for the first time and I burst into laughter, because it always carries a hilarious joke with it-“DARE TO THINK BEYOND IIM’s.” I went through the full page advertisement and googled it a bit. I went through many forums and meanwhile I got the carrers360 case which exposes the IIPM scam. IIPM is an institution which uses advertisements as prey and hunts unaware middle class. It claims as No.1 institution for MBA, gives dazzling pictures of its association with foreign institutions, shahrukh khan and with mind blowing placements. When careers360 contacted many companies IIPM claimed, they said they never visited IIPM for placements.

 IIPM got a warrant against a web post and filed a defamatory case against it. Though it is squashed by uttarakhand high court later, I wonder how a “so called business school” is criticizing premier government institutions in public, that too with full page advertisements in major newspapers of country and get away with nothing. What more ironic is it is using our legal system so effectively that it is operating with 9 branches with none of them have approval from either UGC or AICTE.

The story is other way round from IIPM. They offer courses for BBA/MBA/MCA etc. In my point of view anything either bachelor or a master refers to a degree. Now as cat is out of box, IIPM says that it offers diplomas and students have a chance to get degrees from institutions like Berkley and IMI Belgium. Carrers360 worked background of these institutions. Berkley clarified that it no relationship regarding degrees and the advertisements are issued without their consent. So it is a big LIE!

While a degree from Berkeley is a lie, the IMI Belgium part is actually a joke.IMI itself is not recognized in its home country Belgium and cannot offer any degrees. And our IIPMers are daring to think beyond Belgium government to get degrees from it. Belgium officials also clarified that holders with IMI degree can be PROSECUTED as it is fraud. I think IIPM should give an explanation to this.

The best part of IIPM started on February 15^th. DoT ordered Internet Service Providers to block some 73 URLs containing anti-IIPM material. They include articles from The Indian Express, The Economic Times and The Wall Street Journal. It may not be very big surprise but those 73 URLs contain one from UGC website. It is a public notice that IIPM is not a recognised body and cannot award any degrees. Order is issued by a guy named Subodh Saxena which may in turn came from a judicial order. How come a government officer/judicial authoritarian blindly give an order to block a notification of government itself issued in concern of public interest…!!

We have the three great arms of Indian democracy jointly failed here. The legislative which blindly gave an order to block some URLs without specifying any reason. The judiciary which ordered that executive. And last comes the legislative body which did a grave mistake by allowing such an institution to run in the first place. Forgot to mention the Fourth Estate.-Our media is the best part of this idiotic institution. As IIPM carried advertisements in those channels/news papers they can’t say anything against it. It doesn’t even come as scrolling news. These are the guys who host manufactured debates for ridiculous reasons. They can debate even if some guy farts but cannot bring such institutions to criticism.

IIPM charges some 7-10 lakhs per course is acting a looter from the middle class. I think even students who passed out of IIPM can’t proudly say that they are from IIPM. But I still believe in our government system. There are heck lots of laws to control everything but our inability to use them is a serious threat for ourselves. I am not speaking about any complex laws, take the simple section 420 of IPC for cheating (at least 99.99% of our population knows about it). It is enough to book these kinds of institutions.

 I always remember a facebook update of my friend when I think about Arindam chaudhuri. When Obama visited India in 2012, our self proclaimed management guru posted some crap video blog about titled “Why Obama is of no use to India”. My friend reframed it as “Why Arindam chaudhuri is of no use to India…??” A question we should all think of…!!