USTM VC takes charge as President of the Association of Indian Universities
Prof Gauri Dutt Sharma, the Vice Chancellor of
the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) has become the President of
the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) yesterday evening at a splendid function held at
the AIU headquarter in New Delhi.
Prof GD Sharma is a distinguished scientist and a reputed academician of the country who
held various positions such as former Vice Chancellor of Bilaspur University; Founder Vice
Chancellor of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Viswavidyalaya; former Vice Chancellor of Nagaland
University and the former Pro Vice Chancellor of Assam University. Being a renowned
intellectual from the field of life sciences, he has been the editor of seven Journals; has more
than 261 research publications to his credit, apart from being a member of different Academic
Societies in the country and abroad. Prof Sharma has taken over the charge from the outgoing
President of AIU Prof Suranjan Das, Vice Chancellor of Jadavpur University.
Speaking on this occasion, Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor of USTM stated, “It is a proud
moment for the entire family of the northeastern universities as a Vice Chancellor of a
university from the North East has been selected and given the responsibility of leading the
Indian universities as the President of AIU”.
The Association of Indian Universities was established in 1925 as the Indian universities
board was renamed AIU in 1967. It is the biggest and the second-oldest university association
in the world. It has 954 University members including 20 foreign universities. It gives
equivalence to degrees of foreign universities and recognition to private boards, on behalf of
the Government of India. Its earlier presidents were Dr S Radhakrishnan, Dr Zakir Hussain,
Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, etc. It organizes five zonal and one annual meeting cum
conference on higher education. Besides it organizes sports at regional, national, and
international levels including Khelo India for youths and similar youth cultural festivals,
research innovation, etc.
Yesterday’s function was attended by Dr (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal, Secretary General, AIU, Prof.
Vinay Kumar Pathak, Vice President Designate & VC, CSJM University, Kanpur, Prof
Najma Akhter, VC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, Prof ADN Bajpai, VC, ABVV, Bilaspur, Dr
Neelima Gupta, VC, DHSGU, Sagar, Prof. Paramjeet Singh Jaswal, VC, SRM University,
Sonipat, Lt. General V K Sharma, AVSM (Retd.), VC, Amity University, M.P, Prof S P
Singh, VC, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Dr Kuldeep K Raina, VC,
Siddhartha Ramiah University, Bangalore, Prof. P S Aithal, VC, Srinivas University,
Mangalore, Prof. Savita Senger, VC, Jharkhand Rai University, Ranchi, Prof D
Chattopadhyay, VC, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata, Prof. Kamboj, VC, CCS
Agriculture University.
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