Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) bad habit chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar was on Friday named as executive of advanced education controller University Grants Commission (UGC).
In a notice, the Union schooling service said that Kumar has been named for a considerable length of time from the date of the supposition of charge or until he turns 65 or till additional orders, whichever is the earliest.
Kumar’s name was shortlisted for the post alongside that of Nitin R Karmalkar, the bad habit chancellor of the Pune University, and Avinash Chandra Pandey, chief, Inter-University Accelerator Center, a body under the UGC. The arrangement comes in the midst of changes in the advanced education area with the execution of the National Education Policy 2020.
Kumar is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He was a teacher at IIT Delhi before he was delegated as the bad habit chancellor in 2016. Days before the finish of his JNU expression in January 2021, the instruction service conceded him an augmentation “until additional orders”.
Kumar’s residency as the bad habit chancellor matched with the 2016 rebellion charges against understudy pioneers for supposedly yelling enemies of India mottos, challenges inn expense increment, and an assault nearby by a concealed horde in January 2020, which left a few understudies and instructors harmed. He stayed in constant disagreement with understudies’ and educators’ associations over issues, for example, claimed seat cut in research courses, the manner in which gatherings of legal bodies were directed, and asserted abnormalities in workforce arrangements.
The arrangement interaction for another JNU VC is independently in progress.
