Mail to The HRD minister, Arjun Singh cced to the editors of the newspapers

Hey people.. following is the mail we sent to the HRD minister and the editors of the major newspapers in India regarding the IIM admissions...
Please mak a note of sending a copy of the same (or with modifications) as soon as is humanely possible!

Subject: Plight of students due to the delay in IIM results (for 2007 -2009 batch)

Dear Mr. Arjun Singh

With regards to your statement “None of the students will suffer”, we would like to draw your notice to a number of difficulties that are being faced by the currently shortlisted candidates for the IIM academic year 2007-09 (approximately 3000). The same are being listed below for your perusal.

Scrapping of the preparatory courses that are conducted prior to commencement of the academic calendar for the IIMs for 2007-09. This will hugely inconvenience a large number of students who will be joining the IIM programs and severely affect their performance in the later stages of their academic life in the IIMs.
Many of the IIM aspirants are working people, and in case of a successful admit from the IIMs, they will need to provide a notice period to their companies. This period is usually two months and failure to inform the company of the same will lead to at least a loss of income, and at most an inability to receive an experience letter from the company. This will adversely affect their career prospects.
Inordinate delay in the results will cause many students to opt for courses offered by other B-schools. This will both affect the quality of students joining the IIMs, as well as result in many deserving candidates losing an opportunity in moving up the waitlist and getting a seat.
The IIM academic calendar will be affected as a result of the delay in announcing the results, and this will ripple over to a delay in the summer internship calendar, as well as the final completion of the academic process. This will adversely affect the careers of the MBA students.
On receipt of a successful admit from an IIM, a candidate has to make significant changes in his/her life, including relocation to the city hosting the IIM and managing the live(s) of his/her dependent(s) and it is adversely affected due to the delay. This problem becomes much more pronounced in the case of married.


We request you to kindly go through the afore mentioned problems, faced by candidates for the IIM academic year 2007-09, due to the delay in the announcement of the results for the same. We further request you to please go through our problems while discussing the matter with the supreme court and act on it as soon as possible.

Thanking you.
Yours faithfully,
(your name)

And we made it a point to send it to the following e-mail addresses.
arjuns@sansad.nic.in The HRD minister
thehindu@vsnl.com, db.dutta@deccanherald.co.in, editor@bhaskar.com, webmaster@jagran.com, ttedit@abpmail.com, editor@ibnlive.com, tss@timesgroup.com The Editors!

Thanking u all for doing the same.. lets make a difference!