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A committee has suggested Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairperson of Aditya Birla Group, to be in the race for the post of chairman of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad . The committee has also recommended Deepak Parekh, Chairperson of HDFC and R. Seshasayee, Chairman of Infosys. The names have been forwarded to Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry for approval.
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The post of the chairperson has been lying vacant since AM Naik, Chairman of L&T stepped down in the month of January. There has been a long delay in the appointment of a new chairperson. In March, the institute had appointed Pankaj Patel, Chairman of Cadila Healthcare as interim chairman.
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In August, IIM-A had set up a new search committee to suggest names for the post of chairperson. The committee comprises of Kiran Karnik, Nasscom President, Sanjay Lalbhai, Chairman, Arvind Ltd, D. Shiva Kumar, Chairman, PepsiCo India.
