The post of director in upwards of 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), including Bangalore and Nagpur, are lying empty, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.

Alternate IIMs where such post is lying empty are Kozhikode, Amritsar, Sirmaur, Rohtak, Bodh Gaya, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Raipur, Udaipur, Visakhapatnam, and Tiruchirappalli.

"Nonetheless, the Directors of the mentor IIMs are taking care of the six new IIMs (Amritsar, Sirmaur, Bodh Gaya,Sambalpur, Nagpur, and Visakhapatnam) till the arrangement of standard Director," Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Mahendra Nath Pandey said in a written answer.

For other IIMs, the tenure of the outing director has been expanded or the senior most Professor of the Institute has been given extra charge of the post, he included.

The Search-cum-Selection-Committee has proposed a board of names for all IIMs - with the exception of IIM Kozhikode and IIM Udaipur . For IIM Kozhikode and IIM Udaipur advertisement for the posts has been issued, he said.