India, Aug. 18 -- Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday introduced a bill in Lok Sabha seeking to include IIM Guwahati as the 22nd IIM in the schedule of Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017, thereby declaring it an institution of national importance.

Pradhan introduced the 'Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025' in the lower house of Parliament, amid uproar by the Opposition over the issue of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.

According to the draft of the bill, the central government, Assam government and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) had signed a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) that includes a Special Development Package (SDP) for Assam, under which setting up ...