IIM-Calcutta Director Uttam Kumar Sarkar Resigns Over Difference with Board Chair; Check Details Here

New Delhi: The Director of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), Uttam Kumar Sarkar, has resigned due to differences with the Board chairperson, making him the second institute head in two years to leave the institute before completing a term of five years. Sarkar was appointed director on August 18, 2021, and still had almost three years left of his term.

Sarkar learnt to have resigned from IIM Calcutta on August 23, and his resignation letter was circulated among all Board of Governors (BoG) members last week. “The resignation hasn’t been accepted yet and is likely to be discussed at the next Board meeting scheduled for this week, on September 8,” as per the sources.

It further stated that “There are projects that are stalled, and it can be frustrating for an institution head (to see them making no headway). For instance, the hostel expansion (project) has been stalled, which has come in the way of increasing the institute’s student capacity.”

Although Sarkar, in his resignation letter stated that he is resigning from his position due to some personal reasons, but sources in the institute pointed to Sarkar’s unhappiness with Chairman Srikrishna Kulkarni’s interfering in the institute’s affairs and in the implementation of it’s key projects.

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