Can you please help me in getting the history of the Indian Institutes Of Management?

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are a group of 13 public, autonomous institutes of management education and research in India that provides the courses of the management in the country .

The establishment of IIMs was initiated by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, based on the recommendation of the Planning Commission of the country.

They were established with the objective of providing quality management education to the students of the country. The IIMs primarily offer postgraduate, doctoral and executive education programmes.

Each IIM in the country is autonomous and exercises independent control over its day-to-day operations. However, the administration of all IIMs and the overall strategy of IIMs is overseen by the IIM council that is being set up by the Govt.

The IIM Council is headed by India's Minister of Human Resource Development and consists of the chairpersons and directors of all IIMs and senior officials from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India.

The institute at Calcutta was established first, on 13 November 1961, and was named Indian Institute of Management Calcutta or IIM Calcutta. It was set up in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management, the government of West Bengal, the Ford Foundation and the Indian industry.

The Institute at Ahmedabad was established in the following month and was named Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Like MIT Sloan in the case of IIM Calcutta, Harvard Business School played an important role in the set up of the IIM Ahmedabad

In 1972, a committee headed by Ravi J. Matthai took note of the success of two established IIMs and recommended the setting up of two more IIMs to the Govt.

Based on the committee's recommendation, a new IIM was established in Bangalore (IIM Bangalore) the next year.

In 1981, the first IIM Review Committee was convened to examine the progress of the three existing IIMs and to make recommendations to the Govt. The committee noted that the three IIMs were producing around 400 PGP graduates every year and that they had reached their optimum capacity. This committee proposed the opening of two more IIMs to the Govt to meet the rising demand of management professionals in the country .

It also recommended expanding the Fellowship programmes to meet the growing demand of faculty in management schools in India. The fourth IIM (IIM Lucknow) was established in 1984 based on the committee's recommendation by the Govt.

Two more IIMs were established in Kozhikode (IIM Kozhikode) and Indore (IIM Indore) in the year 1996. Since 2007, seven new IIMs have been set up, taking the total number of IIMs to 13.

List of the IIM in the country-

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Indian Institute of Management Indore
Indian Institute of Management Shillong
Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
Indian Institute of Management Raipur
Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
Indian Institute of Management Kashipur