Guv appoints search panel to select VC for Nagpur university

Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao today said a search committee has been formed for selecting vice-chancellor of the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University.

The committee will be headed by Justice V S Sirpurkar, a former judge of the Supreme Court, a release from the Raj Bhavan said.

Dr P B Kale, director, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural Industrialisation, Wardha, nominated jointly by the academic council and management council of the university and Dr Sanjay Chahande, principal secretary, higher and technical education department, nominee of the state government, will be the other two members.

The post of vice-chancellor is vacant following the resignation of Dr V S Sapkal on March 30.