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1955: Bombay or Ahmedabad--Deciding on the location
When Mumbai almost stole IIM-A from Ahmedabad
Paul John, TNN | Oct 28, 2013
When Mumbai almost stole IIM-A from Ahmedabad
In 1955 the central government established the TT Krishnamachari committee to give its recommendations on establishing a management institute and the US’s Ford Foundation decided to help out. AHMEDABAD: India's business capital Mumbai almost stole the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) from the city not once but twice. The first attempt was made during its very inception in 1962 and the second in 2001 when the top B-school was looking to expand and build a new campus.
But Ahmedabad remained the institute's home, thanks to the determination of visionary technocrat Vikram Sarabhai, textile magnate and institution-builder Kasturbhai Lalbhai and first Gujarat chief minister Jivraj Mehta. This gripping tale is recorded in a recent book 'The IIM-A story—the DNA of an institution' by the B-school's member of the board of governors Praful Anubhai.
He says in the book that in 1955 the central government established the TT Krishnamachari committee to give its recommendations on establishing a management institute and the US's Ford Foundation decided to help out.
In 1957 a Harvard Business School committee led by Richard Merriam and Harold Thurlby was invited by the foundation and they recommended Mumbai as the location. The committee also insisted that it should be autonomous and based on the American model.
Bombay University staunchly contested autonomy for the institute and demanded that it be made part of the university. Meanwhile, Sarabhai, Lalbhai and Mehta were lobbying hard across the country to pull the institute to Ahmedabad. Bombay University's resistance became the trump card for the trio's success.
"The triumvirate was a powerful combination, rarely seen in public life. It is their hard work that made IIM a reality in Ahmedabad in 1962," says Anubhai.
"In 2001, IIM-A needed to expand and needed a new campus. City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), the apex planning body in Maharashtra, approached a committee formed by IIM-A which involved former professor Jagdeep Chhokar and me," Anubhai says. "We inspected a site on a hillock in Navi Mumbai which was earlier offered to the Indian School of Business (ISB)."
This move was scuttled by the Maharashtra government, which did not want an institute not reserving seats for locals. Anubhai also states that it was almost final that the new IIM-A campus would come up on Indian Oil Corporation ( IOC) land in Delhi, but the Union government was evasive on the issue, ensuring that the sanctity of the 'A' in IIM-A remained.
