Equal Opportunity
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) was established in January 2010 to address the needs of students with disabilities on the IIMB campus. It is the single point of contact for students with disabilities. These disabilities include visual/hearing impairment, locomotor disabilities, and intellectual disabilities, and other disabilities such as Thalassemia. Our goal is to provide students with disabilities an environment where they can learn and perform to their full potential. ODI works with Programme Offices and faculty to ensure that students’ learning experiences are excellent both inside and outside the classroom.
Please read our Equal Opportunity Policy for more details: Equal Opportunity Policy
Contact us at odi@iimb.ac.in
For Students
Once a student accepts an offer of admission, we send a Reasonable Accommodation Form to help us organize reasonable accommodations before the term begins. All students with disabilities are required to submit the form. The accommodations are provided throughout their stay at IIMB.
After we receive student accommodation forms, we conduct individual need assessment interviews. The assessment is done well before the term begins and is conducted by a specialist external organization. Information obtained during the assessment include:
- Nature of disability and its impact on education
- Any medications students are taking, physiotherapy, etc.
- Previous support at their schools and colleges
- Access to assistive technology
- Appropriate academic and non-academic support (for example, accessible classrooms, accessible hostel rooms and furniture, exam accommodations, in-class support, etc.)
- Based on the assessment report, the requirements of students are shared with concerned departments. We also send emails to teaching faculty before the commencement of each term about students’ needs during classes and exams.
Academic accommodations are legally mandated modifications and adjustments to ensure that a student with a disability gets an equal opportunity to benefit from the educational process. Accommodations are determined on a case-by-case basis and depend on a student’s disability and its functional impacts.
Academic accommodations may include:
- Modifications to the curriculum (for example, three-year PGP track)
- Provision of accessible course materials
- Scheduling of classes in accessible classrooms with appropriate seating
- Other modifications that enable students to perform to their potential and live independently on campus
Students are required to inform ODI as soon as possible of any problems or delays in obtaining academic accommodation and services.
Course Design
Course materials, including textbooks, handouts, documents, and exams, are provided to students in accessible formats such as MS Word, PDF, etc. Our office will attempt to obtain copies of handouts, textbooks, etc. from faculty and the Programme Offices to prepare the accessible course materials. To ensure timely delivery of these materials, we request students to contact ODI as soon as they register for a course. Students are ultimately responsible for ensuring that ODI has a copy of the course material.
ODI will attempt to procure an accessible/digital copy of the textbook from the publisher. If an accessible/digital copy is not available, we will ask the student to provide a physical copy of the book for conversion to accessible text.
Please note that the accessible materials are intended to be used by the eligible student only and not to be duplicated and shared with friends, peers, posted online, etc. In case of any breach, the student will no longer be eligible to receive the material in accessible formats.
For students who are unable to take notes due to their disability, ODI assigns peer note-takers who are enrolled in the same class/course. Students should make requests for peer note-takers as early as possible.
To ensure smooth note-taker assignments, we request students to adhere to the following:
Tutors are provided to students who require additional academic support in a specific course(s). Most of our tutors are current IIMB students.
For tutoring support to be effective, we request students to:
- Request a tutor as soon as possible
- Fix an appointment with the tutor to decide a mutually convenient meeting place and tutoring timings
- Be on time for tutoring sessions
- Provide advance notice to tutor of any schedule changes
- Prepare specific questions in advance of the sessions
- Submit the tutor’s timesheet to ODI at the end of term
Reasonable exam accommodations allow students with disabilities to represent their knowledge and perform to their potential. Accommodations are determined on a case-by-case basis and may include, but are not limited to:
Placements are facilitated by the Office of Career Development Services (CDS) and the Students’ placement committee. Students are advised to meet the CDS head/representative of the placement committee if they need more clarity about the placement process or if they want to apply to specific companies. The placement committee approaches recruiters from specific companies when desired by the student.
- ODI maintains the list of companies that have hired students with disabilities in the past.
- ODI An email is sent to CDS about the needs of students during the placement process.
- We organize an annual interaction session with alumni. In this session, students receive counseling and career guidance to make informed career choices.
ODI is committed to imbibe a culture in the Institute that provides students with a disability what they need when they need it and as a matter of right, not as a favor. During Orientation Week, we conduct a session on ‘Disability Awareness and Inclusion’ for students; a similar session is conducted once a year for faculty and staff. Any discrimination against Persons with Disabilities or rude/insensitive behavior is taken very seriously.
ODI also conducts various events and speaker series in association with student clubs to raise awareness among the IIMB community.
Any discrimination against Persons with Disabilities or rude/insensitive behavior is taken very seriously.
In terms of infrastructure, most of the campus is accessible, and IIMB’s Estate Office continuously works towards making the entire campus friendly towards those with disabilities. Lecture rooms and faculty blocks are wheelchair accessible. A few hostel rooms have been modified to ensure students using a wheelchair can access them easily. In case an escort needs to stay with the student, accommodation is provided for the escort. Caretakers are also assigned based on individual needs. We provide motorized wheelchairs for students with locomotor disabilities.
Forms
IIM Bangalore Diversity &
Inclusion Grievance Redressal Committee
We have multiple identities arising from our gender, religion, caste, language, differential ability, sexual orientation, etc. and discrimination can potentially be based on any of these. Reflecting international best practice, IIMB looks at diversity and inclusion in an integrated way cutting across these.
Reflecting this perspective, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee was formed in August 2019 with the following charter:
- Disability Services (with the support of ODS)
- NSR-Predoc Programme (with the support of Doctoral Programme office)
- Oversight and facilitation including for compliance of social diversity
- Counselling Services
To enable a strong grievance redressal mechanism for any individual (faculty, staff member or student) who feels that s/he has been discriminated against on any of the grounds listed in the first paragraph above, the Institute has constituted the following grievance redressal committee from among the D&I committee members:
- Prof. Anil Suraj, Chair, D&I Committee (Chair)
- Prof. Sushanta Mishra (Member)
- Ms. Komala Devi M. (Member)
The grievance redressal committee may co-opt other members as and when required. Particularly in the case of grievances received from students, the committee may co-opt a student member in consultation with the Dean (Prog) / Chair of the relevant Programme. In discharging its duties, this committee may follow procedure in a manner that is respectful of individual dignity and privacy, and maintain confidentiality of information. The committee will submit its report(s) and recommendations to the Director, IIM Bangalore. The D&I Grievance Redressal Committee can be reached at digrc[at]iimb[dot]ac[dot]in
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Alumni Speak

Shourya Gupta
Companies worked in : Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd
Awards : IIMB PGP Alumni 1998 Batch Scholarship
My message to students is to reflect on the things that your disability does not hinder you from doing well, and not to lament the things that it does. No impairment should take away the human spirit's ability, perseverance, or courage. It is up to you to achieve prosperity and happiness. Resolve to be cheerful, and your joy will serve as an invincible ally in the face of adversity. So , make the most of your Journey at IIMB . Take it all and use it to make a positive difference in your life

Himanshu Mittal
Companies worked in : Deloitte India
Awards : live the Dot ( excellence award)
Never feel down on yourself and don't let other's also to make you feel down. There is nothing in this world which a person without disability can achieve and we cannot. Always challenge the status quo and break the barriers created by society.

Pavel Gupta
Companies worked in : Interned with Citi Bank in 2015 (during Summers). Did not sit for final placements and have been running my own startup NeenOpal (www.neenopal.com) for the last 4.5 years since graduating.
Awards : NA
I am grateful to IIMB for having played a critical role in helping me find my co-founders to start NeenOpal right after ending college. IIMB is the best place to explore different avenues and groom yourself to take on the challenges that life will throw at you. Do not get obsessed with securing the top grades or be a part of the rat race on campus to land up a consulting or banking job (there is a whole world out there that has so much to offer other than these 2 domains).

Rachit Maheshwari
Companies worked in : Wipro Limited
Awards : NA
The Office of Disabilities (ODS) at IIM Bangalore goes the extra mile in ensuring that students with disabilities have a smooth and enjoyable experience during their stay at the institute. My advice to the students would be approach the ODS for help without any hesitation regarding any queries or concerns that they may have.
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Sl.No. | Authors | Title of Paper | Name of Journal | Details of Publication |
1 | Subhadip Mukherjee and Rupa Chanda | Differential effects of trade openness on Indian manufacturing firms | Economic Modelling | Vol. 61, February 2017, Pg. 273–292 |
2 | Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Manaswini Bhalla, Kalyan Chatterjee, and Jaideep Roy | Strategic Dissent in the Hotelling-Downs model with Sequential Entry and Private Information | Research in Economics | Vol. 71, Issue 1, March 2017, Pg. 51-66 |
3 | Damodaran A and Larry Chavis | Nurturing UNESCO’s ‘aged’ infants in India: lessons in heritage policy | International Journal of Cultural Policy | Vol. 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pg. 1-16 |
4 | Ayona Bhattacharjee, Jong Kook Shin, Chetan Subramanian and Shailender Swaminathan | Healthcare investment and income inequality | Journal of Health Economics | Vol. 56, December 2017, Pg. 163-177 |