pondicherry univ
Professor Gurmeet Singh today assumed office as the Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry University, a central institution here.
Singh is the seventh Vice-Chancellor of the university, a press release said.
He was with the Department of Chemistry in Delhi University prior to this appointment.
The university did not have a full-fledged Vice-Chancellor for nearly two years and Anisa Basheer Khan, a senior faculty was the acting VC.
Union HRD Ministry last week issued a notification appointing Singh as the new VC.
About University:
According to Wikipedia, Pondicherry University is a central university in Puducherry, India. Founded in 1985 by the Government of India, the university is a collegiate university with a jurisdiction spread over the Union Territories of Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It has 50,000 students in its 90 affiliated colleges including 10,000 students in the distance education mode. The current strength of students studying on-campus stands at 6,500. It has introduced innovations like the Choice-based Credit System and on-line admission for postgraduate studies.
