CHENNAI: Eminent educationist and prior vice-chancellor of Anna University M Anandakrishnan expired on Saturday morning when undergoing therapy for Covid-19 at a private hospital at Chennai.
He was 92.
Anandakirshnan additionally served as chairman of both IIT-Kanpur and led the Tamil Nadu Curriculum Framework Committee (2017) which pumped country board syllabus from Class I to XII.
He had been a towering figure in higher education and also had played an integral part in just about all significant education reforms in Tamil Nadu for the last few decades.
He boldly criticised that the sheriff’s office and the state authorities for corrupt practices at the consultation of vice-chancellors.
He functioned as Anna University vice-chancellor from two-terms by 1990 to 1996 after retiring from the United Nations.
He served at the UN at a few degrees such as deputy director of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
“This is an excellent loss for specialized instruction in Tamil Nadu along with the nation.
We’ve dropped an academician with maximum calibre and ethics,” stated former vice-chancellor of Anna University E Balagurusamy.
“He had been battling against corruption in high education and explained the corrupt practices at the consultation of vice-chancellors.
As a vice-chancellor of Anna University, he released solitary window admissions for technology classes from Tamil Nadu,” explained Balagurusamy.
Anandakirshnan also functioned as the adviser to the chief minister of Tamil Nadu on information tech and e-governance before the IT boom from the nation in 2001.
It had been founded on the suggestions of a committee led by Anandakrishnan the Tamil Nadu government spanned entry tests to specialist classes in 2006.
Anandakrishnan was created in Vaniyambadi on July 12, 1928 and finished his BE at College of Engineering, Guindy at 1952.
He also did his masters and PhD at University of Minnesota, US.
He began his career in Central Road Research Institute in 1962 and joined as faculty of IIT- Kanpur in 1963 at which he functioned until 1974 before moving into the US, after into the UN.
He received numerous awards, such as Padma Shri in the President of India in 2002 along with also the Order of Scientific Merit from the President of Brazil in 1996.
He’s survived by spouse Jayalakshmi along with four sons.
Chief Union M K Stalin condoled the passing of Anandakrishnan.
“He played a very significant part in cancelling entry evaluation during the previous DMK’s program.
His analysis started eyes of high education to rural students and assisted them combine engineering and medical classes,” Stalin said in his condolence message.
Stalin lauded Anandakrishnan’s job in simplifying Tamil use in net and standardizing the Tamil keyboard by running a Tamil Internet conference.