President Ram Nath Kovind appoints 12 vice chancellors to central universities, the education ministry said on Friday.
Dr Tankeshwar Kumar has been appointed as vice chancellor to the Central University of Haryana. Prof Sat Prakash Bansal was appointed as vice chancellor to the Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Sanjeev Jain was appointed to the Central University of Jammu and Kshitij Bhushan Das to the Central University of Jharkhand.
In fact, Battu Satyanarayana was appointed as the VC of Karnataka University, Muthukaligan Krishan got the Central University of Tamil Nadu and Basuthkar J Rao to the Central University of Hyderabad.
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Kameshwar Nath Singh has been appointed as the VC to the Central University of South Bihar, Prabha Shankar Shukla to North Eastern Hill University,
Alok Kumar to Guru Ghasidas University, Syed Ainul Hasan to Maulana Azad National Urdu University and N Lokendra Singh to Manipur University.
A total of 22 vice chancellor posts are vacant in central universities. The ministry of education filled up 12 VC posts and 10 posts are vacant.
