17 IIM-Ahmedabad staff members write to Board, reiterate demand for panel

On October 12, the institute’s Students’ Affair Council (SAC) had besides written a missive to the Director reiterating the request for constitution of a high-powered committee to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the student’s death.

“This is not simply a procedural request but a motivation work to grant Akshith’s memory, safeguard the well-being of our students, and uphold the values of integrity and excellence that specify IIMA”, the missive mailed to the BoG Chairman said.

The mail, a transcript of which is with The Indian Express, sent to the BoG president Pankaj Patel connected October 17 has been signed by 17 elder module members of IIMA and is garnering much enactment from different module members connected the Faculty Committee Members (FCM) group.
The missive urged the Chairman to represent an outer committee comprising “individuals with unquestionable integrity and applicable expertise to undertake an impartial investigation/inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Akshith’s death”.

Referring to the earlier module meeting, demanding an outer sheet to probe the incident, the caller message said, “the gathering held connected September 29, 2024, provided an unfastened level for some students and module to explicit their concerns”. “The students, successful particular, voiced their heavy anguish, frustration, and disappointment with however the IIMA administration handled the behaviour of TRBS. The overwhelming sentiment was that their concerns were not fixed the attraction and attraction they deserved,” said the letter.

Akshith Bhukya was besides the coordinator of The Red Bricks Summit (TRBS) and the IIMA had cancelled the yearly absorption lawsuit pursuing his death.

Terming it to beryllium “the astir captious action”, that inactive “remains unaddressed”, the module members stated that “we powerfully judge that lone an autarkic enquiry conducted by individuals of impeccable integrity and applicable expertise tin supply a comprehensive, impartial knowing of the circumstances starring to this tragic event”.

“Without specified an inquiry, the probe risks being incomplete, and the underlying issues that whitethorn person contributed to Akshith’s decease could stay unexamined,” said the letter.

The module members stressed that “only a comprehensive, autarkic enquiry tin uncover these deeper, much analyzable issues”. “While we admit the ongoing constabulary investigation, it is important to admit its inherent limitations. A constabulary probe is confined to determining whether transgression negligence occurred, but it cannot adequately code the broader organization and systemic failures that whitethorn person contributed to the situation of overwhelming unit successful which Akshith recovered himself”, the missive stated.

“What the IIMA assemblage urgently needs are answers that transcend the purview of transgression law: Were determination organization lapses, deviations from established norms, oregon failures successful providing capable enactment systems that exacerbated the pressures connected Akshith?” the missive said.

Meanwhile, 1 of the module members told The Indian Express connected information of anonymity: “There are increasing concerns, some wrong the IIMA assemblage and successful the nationalist domain, which suggest that Akshith whitethorn person been subjected to immense unit which mightiness person intensified and worsened by inconsistent administrative decisions and unclear connection from the administration.”

The missive said it is “necessary to holistically analyse whether administrative oversights, insufficient intelligence wellness resources, oregon systemic mismanagement played a relation successful this tragedy. Such an enquiry would not lone assistance america larn from this devastating nonaccomplishment but besides guarantee that corrective measures are taken to forestall specified an occurrence successful the future.”

“It is not conscionable astir healing the wounds near by Akshith’s death; it is astir restoring assurance successful IIMA arsenic a nurturing and accountable institution. The spot of our students, faculty, and the broader assemblage depends connected our quality to face hard truths with transparency and integrity,” said the letter.

The module members said that they are yet to determine connected the further people of enactment arsenic determination has been nary effect to the message yet.As reported by The Indian Express earlier, the IIMA constituted an ‘Assessment, Review and Reform’ (ARR) committee and its Terms of Reference (ToR) connected October 11 done an authoritative email.

Apart from reviewing the large pupil events involving outer and administrative interfaces, the ARR volition besides look into interaction connected students’ life, personally and professionally.