Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24: Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, presently Professor and former Head of the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has been appointed as new Vice Chancellor of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra.
As per the University’s Statute, N. N. Vohra, Governor, who is Chancellor of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, has appointed Prof. Jain as Vice Chancellor for a period of three years. Prof. Jain was selected from among a panel of four recommended by a Search Committee headed by Dr. Sudhir S. Bloeria, Vice Chancellor, Central University, Jammu.
The Committee had Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, IIT, Kanpur, Dr. Prem Kalra, Director, IIT, Rajasthan, and Prof. S. C. Saxena, former Director, IIT, Roorkee and Acting Vice Chancellor, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, as its members.
Prof. Jain, born at Dholpur in 1951, did his B. Sc. from Rajasthan University, Jaipur, in 1970; M. A. (Economics) from Rajasthan University, Jaipur in 1972 and Ph. D (Applied Economics/Econometrics) from IIT, Kanpur in 1979.
Prof. Jain has served as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor, IIT Delhi, from March 1985 onwards. He had also served as Assistant Professor, ISEC, Bangalore, from February 1980 to February 1985 and as Assistant Director, ICSSR, from June 1979 to February 1980.
He has held several administrative positions during his career which include Chairman, IPR Cell, IIT Delhi, (from 2003 onwards); Chairman, Economics & Entrepreneurship Group, DMS, IIT; and Coordinator, Inter-Disciplinary Entrepreneurship Programme, IIT, Delhi. He has also served as Executive Director of the National Institute for Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development, Noida, under the Ministry of MSME.
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