IOC whistleblower: IIM-L seethes

Prashant Srivastava / TNN / Nov 24, 2005, 01:10 IST

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The anger is triggering the question of whether IIM graduates should opt for the public sector or govt jobs.

LUCKNOW: On the surface there is bereavement and condolences, but below it a storm of anger and dismay is brewing.
Not just in IIM Lucknow, which lost an alumnus to the gun-wielding goons of the oil mafia, but also across the IIM fraternity faculty and alumni included.
And the anger is triggering the question of whether IIM graduates should opt for the public sector or government jobs.
To them S Manjunath's death doesn't make sense. He was the happy-go-lucky kind. A do-gooder with a song on his lips and honesty to live by. And above all, he was only doing his job.

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"Is it actually worth it for our students to work in an environment like this?" asks a shocked IIM Lucknow director, Devi Singh.
He says it is instances like these that will make the student community think twice before taking up assignments in Uttar Pradesh.
If hatred for the "system" is another fallout, it does not seem an overreaction, for the sales officer in Indian Oil Corporation was trying to check rampant malpractice of selling adulterated oil in the state.

Manjunath's mentor Debashis Chatterjee says, "Politicians don't have a right to stand on podiums and give long speeches on brain drain." He adds the student community and the academia has starting debating whether to let this pass.
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The sole point of discussion among students on Wednesday revolved around the huge difference between working in Manhattan and Uttar Pradesh. "Should we work at the expense of our lives?" they asked.
"People say IIM graduates never do anything for the country, never join PSUs. Look what happened to one who did," said a student bitterly.
IIM Bangalore placement officer G K Nagaraj offers perspective: "The top one-third of batches here do not even look at PSUs. Last year seven PSUs made 20 offers, of which 11 were accepted."
Dean student affairs Rajeev Srivastava, who remembers Manjunath as a very confident and upright student, says students and alumni of other institutes are coming together to form a mass movement against the "stinking" system.
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He shared e-mails received from close friends of Manjunath Rajeev Kumar, Akhil Krishna and Sameer Bhattacharya who are working in different corporate positions in the country.

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