Rajya Sabha passes IIM Bill 2025; Assam to get its first IIM in Guwahati

Indian Institute of Management (Amendment) Bill 2025 was passed in the Rajya Sabha, today. Under the bill, a new IIM will be established in Guwahati, Assam. The approval from both the houses comes two days after Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, introduced the IIM Guwahati Bill in Lok Sabha on Monday.

Presently, there are 21 IIMs that are declared as institutions of national importance and each those are specified in the schedule to the IIM Act.

The Assam government, earlier, had requested for establishment of an IIM in the state in accordance with the geographical location of the state and its all-round development. "Assam is one of the very few states with more than three crore population which does not have an IIM," the bill noted.

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Taking to his official X account, Pradhan termed it as a historic milestone in Assam’s development as an educational hub. “With the passage of The Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025 in the Parliament, Assam gets its 1st #IIM in Guwahati,” the minister wrote on X.

Additionally, he also congratulated Assam CM Himanta Biswa and stated that IIM Guwahati will address regional disparities in higher education, facilitate world-class management education and research.

Paras Raorane tops CAT, but didn't get IIM.

In an interview with the Careers360, Paras Raorane, a mechanical engineer with two years of working experience, told that despite securing 99.6 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) last year, he did not receive admission offer from any of the top management institutes in India.

Raorane also stated that MBA aspirants have to clear the myth that alone CAT performance can't get them admission to top IIMs in India. However, some of the real factors for admission carry CAT marks, and working experience, position, and company or organisation.

The interview holds similar weightage of importance as the CAT scores and other marks, he added.

IIM Ahmedabad , recently, raised its CAT cut-off score for all categories for the academic session 2026-28. Candidates belonging to general category will now have to score 95 percent overall and 85 in each section to be eligible for admission to IIM Ahmedabad.