Over a month before he resigned in July, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur Director Ram Kumar Kakani wrote to the Ministry of Education seeking guidance on a matter that “raised significant concerns about administrative autonomy and operational integrity”, The Indian Express has learnt.

Subsequently, records reviewed by this newspaper show, Kakani quit over differences with the chairman of the institute’s board of governors, citing “constriction of professional space” to discharge his duties.

In his resignation letter, Kakani wrote about a perceived dissonance between the spirit of the IIM Act, 2017, and the HR policies “in vogue” at the institute earlier. The resignation followed a sequence of events triggered by disciplinary action taken against a faculty member, which was

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