IIM Calcutta releases code of conduct for teachers and officials
IIM Calcutta approved this code last month at a meeting of the board of governors, the institute’s highest decision-making body.
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta has released a code of conduct for teachers and officials that says “members of the institute are not expected to publish anonymously, pseudonymously or in the name of any other person or organisation, materials that may bring disrepute to the institute”. According to the code, the teachers of the institute will try to “avoid criticism of the institute in any media (print, audio, TV, social, etc) that may bring disrepute to the institute”.
IIM Calcutta approved this code last month at a meeting of the board of governors, the institute’s highest decision-making body. The code states “No member of the institute community shall engage or participate in any demonstration which is prejudicial to the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of state, public order or decency.” According to the reports, the B-school in the month of April circulated among teachers a draft code of conduct that articulated the institute’s resolve to gag dissent. Stating that the code is the suppression of their freedom of speech, teachers wrote back to the institute about their opposition to the draft code. They also cited examples of universities abroad that encourage freedom of expression.
According to Telegraph, the draft had said, among other things: “No member shall in any Radio/TV broadcast, social media, electronic media, print media or in any document published anonymously, pseudonymously or in his/her own name or in the name of any other person… which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any current or recent policy or action of the institute.”
Reports suggest that as many as 60 of the 76 teachers of IIM-C had written to the Union education ministry in December, expressing the fear that the board was mulling restrictions on their freedom of expression. Teachers at the B-school also expressed that the final code did not deviate much from the draft and was in sync with recent efforts to destroy the atmosphere of plurality on campuses.
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