President Ram Nath Kovind approves appointment of Vice Chancellors of 12 central universities

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday approved appointment of Vice Chancellors of 12 central universities. Read full story

Post Published By: DN Bureau

Updated : 23 July 2021, 2:12 PM IST

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday approved appointment of Vice Chancellors of 12 central universities. 

With these appointments, 12 of the 22 vice-chancellor posts have been filled. These universities had vacant VC positions from a long time and a decision was made considering all the guidelines mentioned by the University Grants Commission.  

Here is the full list of appointment of Vice Chancellors:

1. Central university of Haryana: Tankeshwar Kumar
2. Central university of Himachal Pradesh: Sat Prakash Bansal
3. Central university of Jammu: Sanjeev Jain
4. Central university of Jharkhand: Kshiti Bhushan Das 
5. Central university of Karnataka: Battu Satyanarayana
6. Central university of Tamil Nadu: Muthukalingan Krishnan
7. Central university of Hyderabad: Basuthkar J Rao
8. Central university of South Bihar: Kameshwar Nath Singh
9. North-Eastern Hill University: Prabha Shankar Shukla
10. Guru Ghasidas: Alok Kumar Chakrawal
11. Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU): Syed Ainul Hasan
12. Manipur University: N Lokender Singh