“Today the Vice-Chancellor (Rajendra Khimani) and Registrar (Nikhil Bhatt) along with a few other representatives of the Council came with the invitation… I feel fortunate and proud to join an institute established by a great personality like Mahatma Gandhi. I am honoured to get a chance to take forward and strengthen Gandhi’s principles and ideology,” the Governor told.
Governor Acharya Devvrat to be 12th Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith
Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat has agreed to become the next chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith, the 102-year-old deemed university founded by Mahatma Gandhi. As per media reports, sources in the Gujarat Vidyapith trustees' body said the governing council had decided to extend the invitation to Devvrat on October 4.
“Today the Vice-Chancellor (Rajendra Khimani) and Registrar (Nikhil Bhatt) along with a few other representatives of the Council came with the invitation… I feel fortunate and proud to join an institute established by a great personality like Mahatma Gandhi. I am honoured to get a chance to take forward and strengthen Gandhi’s principles and ideology,” the Governor told The Indian Express.
Devvrat, 63, will be the Chancellor of the university for the next five years. Vidyapith’s move to offer chancellorship to Governor Devvrat, who is known for his “passion” in natural farming and cow-rearing, had sparked a row over the definition of a Gandhian.
On October 4, the Council unanimously accepted the resignation of veteran Gandhian Elaben Bhatt as Vidyapith Chancellor and passed a resolution to invite Devvrat to the post. Earlier too, citing ill-health, Elaben had resigned from the post of Chancellor she has been holding since 2015. On the date of taking over, Devvrat said, “They (Gujarat Vidyapith) want me to join Gandhi’s mission. When they want it is up to them.”
Sources revealed that Vidyapith is likely to announce his official date of joining after the University’s annual convocation secheduled to be held on October 18. While the Governor is the Chancellor of 20 state universities, Gujarat Vidyapith is a deemed-to-be university under UGC Act 1956.
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