Why should readers engage with and worry about whether such a report should be implemented? Because as citizens, we must realize that it is our money and our institutions and our children’s future that are being messed with. Many of us came from modest backgrounds, and had the benefit of a great education in good universities and institutions, run by educationists who cared about our education. We need to extend that same benefit to our next generation. We need role model institutions of good governance leading to good quality, to inspire several other institutions and create a positive movement in citizen driven improvements in education. 

One of the subtitles of the report is “IIMs: From great teaching institutions to thought leadership”. Thought leadership requires an enabling environment, and if that is the goal of this report, then thought leadership should begin right there. Another subtitle of the report is “negotiating the Big Leap”. Let us make it the big leap forward, not the big leap backward.

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The writer is a management consultant and author of ‘We are like that only: understanding the logic of consumer India’.