The students went on strike after they felt that all option are closed for them. Even their plea to meet the chief minister, Nitish Kumar, was turned down. They were not even allowed to give petition to the chief secretary, R J M Pillai.

While talking to Bihar Times the students, who wished not to be quoted, said that they have been cheated of Rs five lakh paid as fee at the time of the admission last year. “When we took admission we were told that faculty members from IIMs would be teaching us. Yes they did come and teach us for a few days, but all of them were forced to leave by the director Mukund Das,” they complained.

Students said that some faculty members were not given an office to sit, not a single session to take and was thus forced to leave CIMP.They alleged that due to the dictatorial attitude of Das all the prominent faculty members have left and in their place wives of the IAS officers of Bihar are teaching.

“Would you believe that those who got 75 percentile in MAT in their students’ days are teaching those, who secured much more than 90 percentile in the CAT,” one of them told Bihar Times.

CIMP was inaugurated by the Vice President, Hamid Ansari, on June 11, 2008 with much fanfare. It was then claimed by the government that it would be as good as an IIM. “The Nitish Kumar government has fleece us of Rs five lakh. Our career have been ruined. We were told that this institute would be on par with the IIM. It is worse than L N Mishra Institute or the Management Department of A N College. We do not have our syllabus yet,” another student said.

The students accused the director of indulging in Bihari-bashing. “He used the expletives like Bloody Bihari for us in front of the top executives of the IBM, Tata etc when they were recently on the campus,” they alleged. Seventy per cent of those who got admitted last year are from Bihar.

The CIMP students claimed that the freshers, who joined the institutes only 10 days back also sympathize with the agitating seniors “as we are fighting for the larger cause.”

One of the students said that he qualified PO exam but chose to join CIMP for the betterment of his career. But now he finds his career ruined. All of them said in one chorus that the director had threatened them several times that he would see how you people get job.

On the other hand the human resources development secretary of Bihar, Anjani Kumar Singh, said that “the government and CIMP will not bow to such threats. We will do those things that improves academics in the institute and they will be done as fast as possible.”

Singh told the students in reply to the e-mail sent by them to him urging him to break the deadlock. Anjani’s reply further said that “Resorting to hunger strike and similar activities will be of no help. This will only deteriorate the situation which will neither help you nor the institute.”

The earlier mail of the HRD secretary also said that “I have already discussed your problems with the Director. We will be having more faculty and specialization. Sincere students who want to study will get all support but politics and indiscipline will not be entertained.”

However, the students put all the blame on Singh and Das for the present state of affairs in the institute. They claimed that they have full support of the students of all the IIMs.

They appealed to aspiring candidates not to be hoodwinked by this false propaganda of the state government about opening premier institutes. “Originally I am a Bihari but have my schooling and college studies outside as my parents used to live outside. I was carried away by this false impression created by the media about Bihar and took admission here,” one of them told BiharTimes. The IAS people would never allow this state to progress, he concluded.

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