IIM Rohtak Director yet to present his UG degree to Centre

Reports further inform that it is surprising that Sharma’s MBA degree (from Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University) and PhD degree (from Louisiana Tech University, US) are there with the education ministry but not his undergraduate degree.

The Education Ministry is yet to receive a copy of the undergraduate degree of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Rohtak director Dheeraj Sharma even as his five-year term ends after five months. On February 18, the ministry wrote a letter to Sharma and sent a reminder on June 28 asking for a copy of his degree, according to The Indian Express. The media house reported that the controversy rose to gain eyeballs in 2019 after a Right to Information activist and a Delhi-based lawyer challenged Sharma’s appointment in a petition filed with the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The petition alleged, “Sharma completed BCom in the year 1998 from Delhi University. But as per the MBA certificate, in 1998, he was studying in the second year of his full-time MBA course in Dr B R Ambedkar University, Agra, and joined the MBA Programme in 1997, even before completing his BCom degree from Delhi University.”

Reports further inform that it is surprising that Sharma’s MBA degree (from Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University) and PhD degree (from Louisiana Tech University, US) are there with the education ministry but not his undergraduate degree.

Petitioner has also alleged that Sharma does not have the required work experience to hold the post of a post. Before being appointed as the director of IIM Rohtak, he was a professor at IIM-Ahmedabad. The petitioner has called his promotion as professor in IIM-A too flawed stating that he didn’t complete the required 10 years of teaching

“Details of experience furnished by Sharma in his CV make it evident that in 2014, at the time of his promotion at IIM-A, he had not completed four years’ experience as an associate professor at IIM-A or any other institute and that makes him ineligible for the post of professor,” the petition states.

In order to defend Sharma’s appointment, the government filed an affidavit by submitting copies of his MBA and PhD degrees but not his undergraduate degree. And now neither of the two are willing to comment on the situation. Shiksha.com tried reaching the director and other officials of IIM Rohtak but none is willing to comment on the matter.

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