New Delhi: Deputy Chancellor Jnu M Jagadesh Kumar was appointed as Chair of the Grant University (UGC) commission on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Education, Kumar has been appointed as head of higher education regulators for a period of five years.
“The central government has appointed M Jagadesh Kumar as the head of the UGC for a period of five years or until he reached the age of 65, which was earliest,” said a senior Moe official.
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Kumar currently holds allegations as VC JNU’s acting after a five-year tenure of expiration last year.
He is also the chairman of the National Assessment and the Accreditation Board.
The ministry has not appointed his replacement in JNU.
In his appointment, Kumar told Tii: “As chairman, UGC, this is a great opportunity for me to work for young thoughts of our country in higher education institutions.
My direct focus will be the implementation of the speedy from the national education policy, allowing ecosystems Research and innovation in Heis and make higher education more inclusive and accessible to technology.
I hope to work with students, teachers and heads of higher educational institutions throughout the country.
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From the peace of the lines 2016 and locking his office several times until then the Minister of HRD was trapped for more than six hours in the JNU meeting venue in 2019, Kumar’s term because the University VC had been damaged by controversy.
Kumar, who was guarded by the Chanselir deputy in January 2016, had his first brush with controversy as a VC only a week after his appointment when students locked horns with administration on the holding of the Afzal Teacher.
During his tenure in JNU, the university launched its management program and technique and also passed the proposal to establish a medical school.
The University has ranked second best in research by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).
It is considered broad to his knowledge in the field of electronic engineering and related areas, Kumar obtained MS (EE) and PhD (EE) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology India (IIT).
He had previously worked as an assistant professor at IIT-Kharagpur and Associate Professor at IIT-Delhi.
