Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw appointed 1st Chancellor of Gati Shakti University

Manoj Chaudhary has been appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of Vadodara’s Gati Shakti University, which is headed by the Ministry of Railways of the Central Government. 

President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw as the first Chancellor and Manoj Chaudhary as the first Vice-Chancellor of Gati Shakti University in Vadodara, Gujarat. 

Gati Shakti University is headed by the Ministry of Railways of the Central Government. Manoj Chaudhary is a professor of electrical engineering and corporate relations dean at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. “It is necessary to create a university producing a talented, well-trained , focused cadre for handling the complexities of transport sector. This is also an effort to enlarge PM GatiShakti National Master Plan,” said the first Chancellor of Gati Shakti University. 

Gati Shakti University was granted the central status by the Union Cabinet in July 2022. In August this year, the Central Government introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to convert the National Rail and Transportation Institute, into Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, an autonomous central university. The Central Universities (Amendment) Bill was introduced by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan which seeks to expand the scope of the university from beyond the railways to cover the entire transport sector to support the ambitious growth and modernisation in the field. 

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