Thyagarajan selected as Anna varsity’s syndicate nominee for V-C panel
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Anna University’s syndicate has selected S.P. Thyagarajan, Chancellor of Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (deemed to be college), as the nominee for the Vice-Chancellor search panel.
Mr. Thyagarajan, who additionally served as former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Madras stated, “It is a challenging assignment.”
“In Ramachandra University I had established an engineering faculty. Besides, I am a biotechnologist. With the National Education Policy looking to establish a multidisciplinary system you want that kind of expertise,” he defined. He is Professor of Eminence and Dean (Research) at SRU.
The tenure of Anna University’s present Vice-Chancellor ends on April 11. In a departure from the norm, for the primary time, all bureaucrats and ex-officio members had been current on the syndicate assembly, sources stated.
It is known that the Vice-Chancellor had proposed the identify of Ashok Jhunjhunwala, institute professor on the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, but it surely was struck down by the syndicate. Mr. Surappa stated he had really helpful his identify as Mr. Jhunjhunwala was a famend educational.
Sources stated one of many points positioned for dialogue was an MoU with a building firm PST Engineering Construction signed by the earlier Vice-Chancellor M. Rajaram throughout his tenure in violation of the college statutes. The MoU additionally permitted the corporate to sponsor six candidates for engineering programmes. The matter, nonetheless, was not taken up for dialogue.
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