The Governor is also the Chancellor of the state run universities.
Bihar Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar appointed six new vice-chancellors (VC) of different universities in the state after consulting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The appointments were made from the panels submitted by the search committee, according to a statement issued by the Raj Bhavan here on Tuesday.
“Those who have been appointed as VCs are: Sanjay Kumar Choudhary (Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga), Laxmi Niwas Pandey ( Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University, Darbhanga), Bimlendu Shekhar Jha (B N Mandal University, Madhepura), Dinesh Chandra Rai (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur), Pramendra Kumar (Jai Prakash University, Chapra) and Sharad Kumar Yadav (Aryabhatta University, Patna)”, said the statement, as reproted by The Print.
Prof. D. C. Rai appointed as Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University new Vice-Chancellor
Prof. D. C. Rai, Department of Dairy Science and Food Technology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University.
BHU has congratulated him and said on X, "Congratulations to Prof. D. C. Rai, Department of Dairy Science and Food Technology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, on being appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur."
After doing his B.Sc. (Agriculture) degree from Gorakhpur University (1984), Prof. Rai did his M.Sc. (Dairy Science) from BHU (1986) as Gold Medallist. He completed his Ph.D. in Dairy Technology from BHU (1992). He has got 30 years of rich experience in teaching and research. With 174 research/technical papers published in National and International journals, 3 Edited Books, 5 Co-authored books/manuals, 33 chapters in edited books, 14 technical articles, Prof. Rai has so far supervised 25 Ph.D. and 52 M.Sc. students.
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