New Delhi, Sept. 28: A global forum of IIM alumni has urged the President, Prime Minister and all MPs to bring amendments for reservation to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in the faculty of the B-schools.

The Global IIM Alumni Network, which wants the amendments included in an IIM Bill pending in Parliament, has citied RTI-secured data to claim the IIMs have violated repeated central advisories on faculty quotas despite being under the administrative control of the Union HRD ministry.

"Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology follow affirmative (action) policies. They provide handholding to students from under-represented sections. But the IIMs have never done that. The present IIM Bill is silent on reservation in faculty. We demand specific provisions for (such) quotas and their proper implementation," said Arun Khobragade, a representative of the network.

The network submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the MPs yesterday. According to the memorandum, there are only two SCs, no STs and 13 OBCs among the 512 faculty members in the top 10 IIMs, including those in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta.

The network also wants the bill to specifically provide for quotas in programmes for Fellows - equivalent to PhD - and executive courses. The IIMs already provide reservation in their regular diploma (MBA) courses.

The bill, pending in the Rajya Sabha after being passed by the Lok Sabha, primarily seeks to designate the IIMs "Institutions of National Importance" so they can award MBA degrees instead of diplomas.