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Time of India
7 days ago
- General
- Time of India
Governor finally names search panel to select NU VC
Nagpur: After over 10 months, Maharashtra governor CP Radhakrishnan has set up the search panel for the appointment of Nagpur University (NU) vice chancellor. The announcement comes as the NU VC's post has been operating under additional charge for more than a year. The NU Management Council had already named IIT Jodhpur director professor Avinash Agarwal as its nominee to the panel in September last year. The governor's office hasn't disclosed the name of the search panel chairman, though NU sources said a retired professor from a South Indian university is likely to lead the committee. The principal secretary of higher education, or a principal secretary nominated by the govt, will be the third member on the panel. The advertisement for the VC post will now follow, calling for applications from desirable candidates. Once the advertisement is published, it will take at least two months to name the new NU VC as the application period, scrutiny, shortlisting, and interviews will take time. Finally, the panel will recommend five names to the governor, who is the chancellor of public universities. However, the uncertainty over the continuation of deans still persists. Earlier, the chancellor allowed the continuation of the deans beyond April 30, the final cut-off in case of the death of a VC. This was extended till June 15. Now, it remains to be seen whether the deans will get another extension or the posts are allowed to fall vacant in anticipation of the new VC's appointment. The governor's decision follows a series of administrative changes at NU. In March this year, governor Radhakrishnan relieved Gondwana University vice chancellor Prashant Bokare of the additional charge of NU, handing over the responsibility to additional divisional commissioner Madhavi Khode Chavre. This move raised questions about the sudden removal of Bokare, who served eight months in the role. Bokare had first held the NU VC position from March 11 to April 11 last year after the suspension of then-VC Subhash Chaudhari. He was reinstated in July 2024 following Chaudhari's second suspension, and continued after Chaudhari's demise in September 2024. Under the Maharashtra Public Universities Act, the additional charge of a VC can be held for up to one year. For the first time since 2014, a bureaucrat was assigned the VC role at NU, after then divisional commissioner Anup Kumar held the position following the termination of VC Vilas Sapkal.
Time of India
02-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Gadchiroli's Gondwana University to tie up with Australian varsity for new mining courses
Nagpur: In a historic step, Gondwana University (GU) will sign a MoU with Australia's Curtin University on May 7, to start various three-year diploma courses in mining from this July session. As Gadchiroli takes strides towards becoming the next steel city of India, GU is laying the foundation to provide qualified manpower for the mining industry. With a promised Rs25 crore donation from Lloyds Metal and Energy Ltd, work has already started on the residential facility which will have an annual intake of total 90 students for three diploma courses. Dr Prashant Bokare, vice-chancellor of Gondwana University said, "We will have an intake of 30 students each for diploma in mining technology , steel technology and computer science (related to mining). Approval for the courses has been received from Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE) and the curriculum will be prepared with academia-industry partnership." The curriculum will be jointly designed by Lloyds Metal, Gondwana University and Curtin University. Curtin University runs Western Australia School of Mines (WASM) which offers 17 courses and graduation and post-graduation level specialisations in mining, apart from opportunity to do advanced research in this niche field. "All our enrolled students will spend six months at WASM. We will then train them for six months at Lloyds Metals. The remaining two years will be in-classroom learning. So, the three years diploma will be a comprehensive academic and experience-oriented course," Bokare said. The entire project's cost is around Rs200 crore, of which the state govt will fund half. "For the share from the private sector, Lloyds Metal has already committed Rs25 crore. The company's MD B Prabhakaran immediately gave the green signal after hearing about the initiative," Bokare said.
