A 56 year old glass ceiling is broken when Dr. Neelu Rohmetra was named to head IIM in Himachal Pradesh. IIMs got their first woman director since the first IIM was established in Calcutta in November 1961. After 56 years of IIMs history, a woman becomes the executive head of IIM that now number 20. Before Rohmetra, Keya Sengupta had helmed IIM Shillong briefly but as acting director.
The government on Friday appointed 10 heads of IIMs which includes Dr. Neelu Rohmetra of Jammu University appointed as director of IIM Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh. The IIMs that got new directors are in Bodhgaya (Bihar), Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Trichy (Tamil Nadu), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Sambalpur (Odisha), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Rohtak (Haryana), Ranchi (Jharkhand) and Bangalore (Karnataka). Of the 10 appointees, three are teaching at IIM Lucknow. The tenure of a new director will be for five years or until they turn 65 years of age.
Professor Neelu Rohmetra is currently the Rector of Kathua and Billawar Campuses of Jammu University Business School and is also the founder director of International Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and Human Resource Management (ICccR and HRM), University of Jammu.
Dr. Neelu Rohmetra is specializing in Human Resource Development, Organisation Behaviour, Change Management and Cross-Cultural Management . She has been working as Professor of Management for the last 12 years in the Jammu University Business School in which she joined as an Assistant Professor in Management Studies in 1989.
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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi has also approved appointment of Prof Ganesan Kannabiran as Director IIM Bodhgaya, Dr Chandrasekhar Mylavarapu as Director IIM Vishakapatnam, Dr Bhimaraya Metri as Director IIM Tiruchirappalli, Dr L S Murty as Director IIM Nagpur, Dr Mahadeo Prasad Jaisal as Director IIM Sambalpur, Dr Bharat Bhasker as Director IIM Raipur, Dr Dheeraj Sharma as Director IIM Rohtak, Dr Shailendra Singh as Director IIM Ranchi and Dr G Raghuram as Director IIM Bangalore.
Four IIMs (IIM Jammu, IIM Amritsar, IIM Udaipur and IIM Kozhikode) are still headless, without full-time director for over two years now. Six of the IIMs were set up in the initial years, seven between 2007 and 2009 and another seven in the past two years.
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