Monday, November 26, 2012

Rajayapal appoints new VCs for Kumaon, Sanskrit varsities

Dr Pankaj Trimbak Chande has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Uttarakhand Sanskrit University and Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar has been appointed as VC of Kumaon University by the Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi on Saturday.

Qureshi appointed them by using his powers under the Universities Act 1973, Prof Bhatnagar of JNU as the Vice Chancellor of Kumaon University and Dr Chande of Kavikulkguru Kalidas Sanskrit University (Maharashtra) as the VC of USU, Haridwar. As the tenure of  Vinay Kumar Pathak as VC of Uttarakhand Open University ended on Saturday, the Governor has, till the appointment of a new VC or till further orders (Whichever happens first) authorised Prof HP Shukla (English department of UOU), Haldwani, to carry out the duties of the VC.


Prof Bhatnagar has done PhD in Department of Biochemistry from National Sugar Institute, Kanpur in 1978 and worked as Professor in between 1989-1997 in JNU. In 2010 he associated as Faculty in US-India Joint Research Training Programme, Seattle, Biomedical Research Institute Seattle WA, USA. He worked as scientist (wiessenchaftliecher angeschtelter) Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany in between 1979-82; Pool Officer, Department of Biotechnology, VP Chesh Institute of Delhi University in between 1982-83; Associate professor of Biochemistry, PG Institute of Medical, Education and Research, Chandigarh in between 1983-85; visiting assistant Prog, Lab Connective Tissue, Biochemistry, CHU, Caen, France in between 1985-86; Visiting associate NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA in between 1986-87 and Senior NRC Associate USAMRID, Fredrick MD, USA in between 1987-89.

Dr Chande has completed three term of five years each as senior most Vice Chancellor in India and former president of Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi and currently working in Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, Maharashtra.

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