Appointment of director of IIM without 'graduate degree', govt kept asking for the certificate for five years

  • There is hardly five months left in the tenure of the director of IIM Rohtak, but till now the government has not even been able to get a graduate degree certificate from him.
  • According to records, the Ministry of Education twice this year wrote to the director of IIM Rohtak, Dheeraj Sharma, asking him to verify the educational certificates, but there was no response from there.
  • Let us you, Dheeraj Sharma was accused of disqualification and the government took his side in the court.
  • The first letter was written by the ministry on February 18. This was sent as a reminder of the previous letter.
  • Sharma's appointment was challenged in the Punjab-Haryana High Court. The petitioner submitted that he was unfit for the post and that his educational qualification was not fit.