New Delhi: In a collective response to the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), directors of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have scraped the recommendations made by the Bhargava panel.

R. C Bhargava, Chairperson Maruti Udyog, heads the Bhargava panel appointed by the MHRD.

IIM directors have collectively expressed their views against the recommendation to form a Pan - IIM board to co-ordinate between all the seven IIMs and the new IIMs that will come up.

"Mentoring of new IIMs and extensive IT usage, also recommended in the report, have, however, been accepted as worth implementing," said an official.

The panel has also suggested reconstituting and downsizing the IIM board, and consultancy and executive training to be balanced with the core activity of teaching.

The 40-page Bhargava Committee report has 22 recommendations. The panel has also suggested government role in the IIM board. It also recommends that IIMs cannot expect to become fully independent of the government.

In its written reply to MHRD IIM-Bangalore has said, "This is not a Vision of Excellence that will make IIMs 'thought leaders'. This is a vision of heavy handed regulation and control."

Other IIMs had argued that the move to create a pan-IIM board would affect their autonomy.

The only recommendations that have found some favour with the IIM directors is that of extensive use of IT at IIMs besides a conditional mentoring formulae for new IIMs.

Now, IIMs are ready to offer all types of support for setting up six new IIMs in the country likely to be operational from this academic session.

Earlier existing IIMs did not favour the idea to mentor upcoming IIMs in the country.