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The Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM) has reaffirmed that it is simply a School of Excellence of the Bharathidasan University (BDU) arsenic defined by the varsity’s statutes.
This has been communicated to the Registrar of BDU by the Director of BIM recently, citing decisions arrived astatine a gathering of the BIM Board of Governors held connected November 15, 2025.
The connection comes successful the midst of caller controversies raised successful the media implicit BIM’s ineligible presumption and its narration with the Bharathidasan University.
According to the communication, the Board unanimously approved the points agreed betwixt representatives of BDU and BIM held astatine the bureau of the Secretary of the Department of Higher Education successful Chennai connected November 12, 2025. It decided to marque definite amendments successful the Memorandum of Association and the Rules of the BIM (Tiruchi) Society to redefine definite parameters of the narration betwixt the 2 institutions. Sources said that the projected changes were to beryllium implemented with contiguous effect.
As per the amendments, the vice-chancellor (V-C) of BDU oregon a elder module subordinate nominated by the V-C, volition beryllium a subordinate of the Board of Governors of BIM (Tiruchi) Society, according to the minutes of the meeting, signed by BIM manager and subordinate caput Asit K. Barma, and notified arsenic approved by BDU registrar (in-charge) R. Kalidasan.
The V-C volition nominate 1 module subordinate each to BIM’s Academic Council and the Board of Studies. A halfway radical would beryllium formed with 4 module members (two from BIM nominated by the director, and 2 from BDU nominated by the V-C) to enactment connected procedural requirements.
The roster of admitted students and exam results for BDU-affiliated programmes offered by BIM are to beryllium shared with the university. The required admittance interest volition beryllium paid arsenic per BDU norms. The introspection results of the students admitted for programmes (affiliated with Bharathidasan University) offered by BIM volition beryllium shared with the university.
The BIM has requested the assemblage to o.k. the BIM’s alteration of code and summation of the caller field coming up astatine Kalamavur and summation the pupil intake for BIM’s existing MBA programme astatine the caller field from 120 to 180. It besides sought support for caller MBA and Executive MBA programmes to beryllium offered astatine BIM-BHEL field and let BIM to proceed arsenic a probe centre with the unviersity.
BIM would besides marque the indispensable amendments to its by-law, said the minutes.
BDU would retreat a writ entreaty it had filed against BIM successful 2022, related to the issuance of grade certificates submitted by the second for the years 2018-2019 and 2019-2021.
