Friday, January 4, 2019

COMMITTEES FOR 4 VARSITIES FORMED

Retd judge to head VC search panel of TN Open University

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:04.01.2019

The state government has announced the formation of search panels to shortlist candidates for the posts of vice-chancellor to TN Open University and TN Teachers Education University in Chennai, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) in Tirunelveli and Thiruvalluvar University in Vellore.

Justice (retd) K Kannan, chairman of Railway Claims Tribunal (RCT), principal bench New Delhi, and a retiree of the Punjab and Haryana high court, was named the convenor of the TNOU VC search committee. The other members are K Skandan IAS (retd), former additional chief secretary and former director of Anna Institute of Management and Srikanth Mohapatra, vicechancellor of Odisha state open university.

For Thiruvallur University, S C Sharma, director of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in Bengaluru, was appointed the convenor of the search committee. He is joined on the panel by Vishwanath Shegaonkar IAS (retd), former principal secretary to the government, labour and employment department and Sudhindra Nath Panda, director of National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai.

For MSU, S P Elangovan IAS (retd), former chairman and managing director of TN Transport development finance corporation, was named the convenor of the search committee. Padmashri M Anandakrishnan, former vice-chancellor of Anna University and Ved Prakash, former chairman of University Grants Commission, will join Elangovan on the search panel. The governor-chancellor does not have a nominee only on MSU’s panel. As per the official gazette notification dated December 19, 2018, the convenor is the government’s nominee.

For TN Teachers Teachers Education University, M Jagadesh Kumar, vicechancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, was appointed the convenor of the search committee and will be joined on the panel by Ramesh Kumar Khanna IAS (retd), former additional chief secretary and former vice-chairman and CEO, TN Maritime Board and T Balakrishnan, former vicechancellor Periyar University, Salem.

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