Jagadesh Kumar is appointed as the new UGC Chairman, know all about JNU’s Vice-Chancellor

University Grant Commission: Prof. Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar took over the place of D. P. Singh as the new chairman of UGC on 4th February. D.P. Singh has previously been the UGC Chairman from the year 2018 and served till 2021. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has congratulated the to-be UGC Chairman, as he had been working as the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

D.P Singh resigned on 7 December upon turning the age of 65 leading to the vacancy for the post of Chairman of UGC. The post of vice-chairman of the higher education regulator is also vacant. Education secretary K Sanjay Murthy temporarily held the position after Singh left the office.

All about Jagadesh Kumar: the new Chairman

Jagadesh Kumar was one of the professors of IIT Delhi in the Department of Electrical Engineering before joining JNU as the Vice-chancellor. He took over the position of VC in January 2016 from Sudhir Kumar Sopory.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) became a statutory Organization of the Government of India by an Act of Parliament in 1956. It was built for the coordination, judgment, and supervision of the norms of teaching, examination, and research in university education.

Jagadesh Kumar was given the responsibility of being the Organising Chairman of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012 where he had the responsibility of overseeing the test centers across India. Even though he has been carrying out his responsibilities he got into quite some controversies after being appointed as JNU’s Vice-Chancellor.

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