TISS gets full-time VC appointed for 5 yrs by Centre after 22 months
His five-year appointment comes 22 months after Prof Manoj Tiwari, director of IIM-Mumbai, was handed additional charge in Sept 2023.
Prof Badri Narayan Tiwari, until recently director of the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Prayagraj, established a Kumbh study centre and an ethnographic museum. His earlier stint at JNU, where he was part of the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, sharpened his engagement with themes of social justice and subaltern narratives.
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TISS, long nurtured under the stewardship of the Tata Trusts, has been subject to central oversight since 2023.
Prof Badri Narayan Tiwari's scholarly compass —spanning democracy, popular culture, Dalit assertion, and anthropological history—experts said, aligns closely with the ethos TISS has long embodied.
Tiwari was appointed full-time vice-chancellor for five years by the Centre which took over administrative control of TISS following the 2023 directive bringing all institutions with over 50% govt funding under its jurisdiction.
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But the institute's foundations were quietly strengthened during the interim stewardship of Prof Manoj Tiwari. In his dual role as director of IIM-Mumbai and acting vice-chancellor, Prof Tiwari ensured that the long-pending Memorandum of Agreement was formally drafted, placing the institute on firmer administrative ground. He also initiated a sweeping accreditation drive across departments, a move that helped elevate the institute's national ranking.
Perhaps more tangibly, he is credited with unlocking and disbursing Rs 14 crore in arrears, some of which were pending for years. It was under his watch that TISS admissions were aligned with the CUET, marking a shift towards uniformity in the higher education landscape.
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