Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit will be the main lady Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University with the Ministry of Education (MoE) delegating her to the top post on Monday.
Pandit is presently a Political Science teacher at Department of Politics and Public Administration, Savitribai Phule University in Maharashtra.
The 59-year-old Pandit is additionally an alumna of JNU where she sought after her MPhil as well as PhD in International Relations.
“President Ram Nath Kovind, who is Visitor to the University, has endorsed the arrangement of Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit as JNU Vice Chancellor. Her arrangement is for a time of five years,” a senior MoE official said.
Pandit started her showing profession from Goa University in 1988 and moved to Pune University in 1993. She has stood firm on managerial footing in different scholarly bodies. She has additionally been an individual from the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Visitor’s candidate to focal colleges.
In her profession, she has directed 29 PhDs.
M Jagadesh Kumar, who was holding the charge of acting VC at JNU after his long term finished last year, was last week delegated as the executive of the UGC.
“It gives me delight to illuminate you that Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit from Savitribai Phule Pune University has been named as the following Vice-Chancellor of JNU. She is the principal female Vice-Chancellor of JNU. My good congrats to her. I’m giving over the charge to her today and wish her achievement in her new job,” Kumar said in an assertion.
